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Managed to resolve this problem by opening MySQL Administrator on the server, selecting the mdl_log table and running the Check Table option from the Maintenance button. I assumed that if a table was "faulty" it would be highlighted in red, as has happened to me previously and I could simply use the Repair function from the Maintenance button. This wasn't the case this time but the Check Table function brought up some irregularities which have been corrected by running the Repair option. Thanks for all your help.

Birch Road has now been gritted but there was a very hard frost last night (Sunday). We had 10 centimetres (4 inches) of snow on Saturday morning (I think, I'm beginning to lose track of the days).

Cycle to work? That should be interesting. You might want to pack some skis. Happy New Year.

I'm sure that the section in quotes is taken directly from another post, but there shouldn't be an apostrophe in "apostrophe's" Happy New Year. [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uifpUQmrf04]YouTube- OTB - Apostrophe Debate[/ame]

Thanks kmount, that's actually a reply to one of my posts on the Moodle forums which I hadn't seen as I was too busy getting my final dissertation ready for handing in. I haven't had a chance to check the dbs yet as I spent most of the first week of Christmas hols asleep/recovering from coursework.

Hi Liz, this could be an interesting collaboration. Welcome to Edugeek.

Thanks Zak. ^^Bump^^

You see the same thing with Microsoft, though on a larger scale.

What a dunce! Thanks Edu-IT

I've been trying to add the code for Google Translate to a custom HTML module but it doesn't appear to be working. Is there a way to add this functionality?

I've managed to get ActiveBook 9 compiled as a Scorm file and working, but I'm struggling to get 7 & 8 to do the same thing while working from the same instructions. One of the things I've found is not to use the /passive command when extracting from the CD, as you are required to extract material from the other 2 discs and will be prompted for them. I've spent half the morning struggling with 7 & 8 and think I'm going to give up shortly. Life's too short.

Two key features were missing from Assimilate; Parental Access and e-portfolios. There were a lot of other gaps in what this Learning Platform offered. No Mark Book, no ability for peer review, no learning journal, a very poor wizard for setting up courses (I think I counted 8-9 steps), the calendar only gave you the date, if you wanted the diary function you had to use Outlook (not integrated into Assimilate). There is a long list of stuff which I won't go into here, and I don't feel that if they started from scratch to incorporate all these features they'd have something fully tested and running by September 2010.

I attended a demonstration of the Assimilate Learning Platform yesterday as it's the VLE of choice of our BSF bid winner. There were all sorts of rumours flying about from those attending about how well it's been received in Manchester schools. If anyone wants to pm me with their thoughts on this subject I'd be grateful.

I have a problem with our Moodle (hosted in house Server2008+IIS7) in that I can no longer access the logs. This is the debug message I get - Error: Could not insert a new entry to the Moodle log line 1961 of lib\datalib.php: call to debugging() line 52 of course\report\log\index.php: call to add_to_log() Does anyone have a solution to this?

Thanks for that Witch. don't go through CP as we host the website ourselves, but it did give me a clue to the answer. In the MySql Admin panel (we use IIS7) I opened the Catalogs and then the schema for the website. Highlighting the faulty table I clicked the Maintenance button and selected the Repair option. There were some options which I wasn't sure of, Local, Quick Fix, Extended, Use FRM. I chose the first two, Local and Quick Fix. They worked (so far). I'm going home to change my underwear. I don't know, have a day off to do some study and come back to a mess.

This is what we see when trying to access the website today. Does anyone out there have any solutions? jtablesession::Store Failed DB function failed with error number 145 Table '.\fphsweb\jos_session' is marked as crashed and should be repaired SQL=INSERT INTO `jos_session` ( `session_id`,`time`,`username`,`gid`,`guest`,`client_id` ) VALUES ( '0b16b96d7612b11ad71c3c54f0bcac1c','1260258658','','0','1','0' )

I think it's to Shaun's credit that it all went so smoothly. If he ever applied for a job elsewhere he'd have 20,000 favourable cv's.

Sorry for ther delay craigg. I was at home yesterday studying and then the school suffered another substation power failure, fortunately I had an excuse for not coming in to school as I was waiting for the gasman to come and fix our central heating boiler. You should schedule the stats to run about an hour before you run the backup. My mistake, apologies for that. If you check the Moodle site for statistics you'll find that there are quite a few people who have problems running them.

From my experience running stats is a hit and miss affair. We had ours running successfully for about 3 months and then they stopped. In the natural order of things you should set the stats to run about an hour before your cron job, but sometimes this has failed me. Running stats is very memory intensive and I have now stopped running them on our site for this reason. If you really want to gather some stats, set the time of the stats run to about 5 mins in the past, go to Notifications in the Site Admin panel and you should see a message which says "The cron.php job hasn't been run for 24 hours", or words to that effect, clicking this phrase will run the cron job. I can't guarantee that your stats will be compiled first time round. You may need a bucket load of patience, especially as this will be a first run. Good luck.

As a side issue on this I've recently been running a couple of surveys in school which are both paper-based (stuck in pigeon holes) and online. Replies to the paper-based surveys are about 4X the number of online replies. With the online survey you get a rush of answers at the time people read the email mentioning this, and then numbers fall off drastically; whereas paper-based surveys in pigeon holes are "live" issues for much longer. that is, they stay fresh in the pigeon hole until the allocated person empties it. Emails are immediately read and then (in most cases) forgotten. I agree that it's very 19th century or even older and does leave itself open to the sort of abuse I mentioned above, though the teacher didn't realize the irony of it all until it was pointed out.

Perhaps you can have a word with the teacher who wants us all to think carefully before printing out emails, and sent us the message by printing it out 150 times on good quality A4 paper and sticking the results in our pigeon holes.

Not sure if this is the right place for this. We have a 64 bit Win 2K8 server running IIS7 and we run Moodle and the school website through it. I was wondering if it was possible to also run Sharepoint Server alongside this as the staff intranet. Has anyone done this?

If you do a search for Uniservity on Edugeek you may find some more answers o help you out. The Uniservity platform has all but been abandoned in our LEA. The three schools who went with Fronter, the previous LEA 'best of breed' have been left to their own fate, and the current flavour of the month is Assimilate from Ramesys, and as this is part of the package from the winning BSF bid in our LEA I fully expect that this is what we'll eventually (09/2010) be going with.

get some sleep while you can. Congratualtions to you all.

I believe that one of the things it's done is to shift the focus of people and organizations away from the hierarchical systems of top down learning. Whereas once knowledge was power, and we still see this going on in various communities around around the world; the sharing of this knowledge (as on Edugeek, for example) leads to empowerment. This frightens a lot of people, and some have good reason to fear. It's the Emperor's New Clothes syndrome. We have seen it recently in the MP's expenses fiasco. Learning has changed. Schools are now buying into Learning to Learn, whereby you teach pupils the skills to learn over a range of areas, they can then transfer these skills to other areas of learning. I think most of us will be aware of the series of videos, [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL9Wu2kWwSY]YouTube - Did You Know?[/ame] which at one point says something along the lines of "We are currently preparing students for jobs which don't yet exist". How are we going to prepare them for these jobs? By teaching them the value of "transferable skills"; that learning is not necessarily linear, is not confined to school and does not cease at 16 or whenever you drop out of full time education. ICT plays a vital role in this as it makes "learning" available full time. It's also reordering the way we structure our lives between work (school in this case) and leisure. It's Saturday morning as I write this: Work or leisure? Am I learning, is what I'm getting at really. Yes I am, is my answer. Looking at the logs for our vle from yesterday (Friday) I see that at 23:10 one pupil was making entries to her learning journal, earlier in the evening others were looking at revision materials. Some were messaging each other and even discussing homework. All through the evenings the pattern is the same. Learning is no longer confined to school hours. As part of an essay I had to write a few years ago I studied my youngest daughter while she was doing her homework on the computer. Every now and then alerts would spring up from friends just chatting or asking questions, sharing knowledge. I wondered if she could learn in this fashion, and she answered me by getting four A's at A level (Maths, Further Maths, Chemistry & Physics). She wasn't doing the work for her friends, she was showing them where they could find the resources, a website, for example, where they could find the answers for themselves. Within this community we share things we've found in the general belief that these resources will help others. Why should we put in the hard work on a subject then say to others, ok, here you are, the answers are on a plate for you? Because we're enlarging the knowledge pool for everyone, and this has a lot to do with ego, the lack of it and the point I was making earlier about knowledge being power. I may not have mentioned ICT/IT too much in this passage but that is because it's almost so ubiquitous as to be invisible, but it's what powering a lot of this learning. Teachers are vital to this, they are the ones who shape the outlook of so many young people, and I feel they are beginning to understand the seismic shifts which are occurring in education, that they may not be the expert in their subject in lessons they once were. After all, I can call up a lecture from a professor at MIT at the drop of a hat. I think that's enough for one morning (must get a social life).