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Definitely agree with this. Staff buy-in is the only way to generate this.... unless....... ...what about student buy in? Change can come from the bottom and it may be that if you can engineer a desire within the student body you might get staff buy in on the back of this. How does the school manage it's online reporting responsibility? Maybe you could sell the idea to the SLT through that aspect?

I've got two different servers running identical Moodle versions 2.4.6. One allows email self-authentication and one doesn't. The SMTP settings on both are identical, and point to an external mail server hosted by 1&1. The Moodle settings on both are identical. Can anyone suggest why this might not be working please. Thanks In Advance

It does, easily. Help here - https://wiki.mahara.org/images/d/d5/Mahoodle.pdf

I'd grab an old PC, reformat it and install a linux distro such as Ubuntu Server. From there I'd use the install information on MoodleDocs - Installing Moodle - MoodleDocs It's very easy to set up a basic Moodle. Tailoring it and using it on the other hand are what take the time and you need the buy in from the teaching staff.

Have you considered Mahara? Alternatively the newer version of Moodle has Open Badges which is quite a nice feature. HTH

I agree with Penfold - populate the (moodle)/question/type folder from the Moodle.org download section. It sounds like you're missing the whole folder though, standard questions included.

Thanks for this but I'm not sure why. The folder ,and all files within, have 755 permissions.

Hope this is the right mod you need to see. I've looked in /etc/apache2/mods-enabled and the userdir.conf looks OK to me, from what I can find. Both have 777 permissions which looks odd to me. Also they are gree rather than cyan in the listing which I think means they are the files themselves as opposed to symbolic links? userdir.conf contains this.... UserDir public_html UserDir disabled root AllowOverride FileInfo AuthConfig Limit Indexes Options MultiViews Indexes SymLinksIfOwnerMatch IncludesNoExec Order allow,deny Allow from all Order deny,allow Deny from all and userdir.load contains.... LoadModule userdir_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_userdir.so The file listed in there does exist and has 644 permissions. Again very confused why it would work for 23 students but not this one. Cheers Dave

Hi Guys, I was off earlier this week. Here's /etc/apache2/sites-available/default. I'm unsure as to how this might be affecting this individual user as all the other users (24 of them) all work. I'm a newbie with Apache so I'd appreciate an explanation as well as a solution if you can spare the time for that. Any advice greatfully accepted. Cheers Dave ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost DocumentRoot /var/www Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews AllowOverride None Order allow,deny allow from all ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/ AllowOverride None Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch Order allow,deny Allow from all ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit, # alert, emerg. LogLevel warn CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.log combined Alias /doc/ "/usr/share/doc/" Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None Order deny,allow Deny from all Allow from 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 ::1/128

Yes, the groups etc are correct - well same as the others that all work anyway ;-) Will check the config files on monday and post. Thanks Dave

OK We have a very odd error on an Ubuntu Server for students developing websites and programming using PHP/MySQL and vsftpd to upload. A student can upload his work. Going to the correct URL: http://10.10.1.50/~username Returns the error: You don't have permission to access /~username on this server. Searching the net gave a number of options including using chmod 777 which is silly but in desparation I tried it to no avail. The class has 22 students all of whom were created at the same time, all of whom work except this one user. No odd characters in file names, user name etc, member of all same groups and so on. I'm a little frustrated and confused to say the least. I did check the error log: [Thu Nov 08 15:26:03 2012] [error] [client 10.10.1.10] client denied by server configuration: /home/username/public_html/ [Thu Nov 08 15:37:02 2012] [error] [client 10.10.1.10] client denied by server configuration: /home/username/public_html Any Ideas? Thanks in Advance. Dave

I'm looking to set up, on the school website, a series of individual WordPress blogs. I'd like to have, for example four users with individual blogs: fred.bedrock.org wilma.bedrock.org barney.bedrock.org Betty.bedrock.org First question - Is it possible? Second - How? Cheers Dave

Thanks for the responses, I've taken out the echos I'd put in but it doesn't work still. I'm feeling very stupid at this stage and know there's something I've missed - but what it is I have no clue! <?php //Set Cookie if(isset($_COOKIE['Counter'])) { $Counter = $_COOKIE['Counter']+1; setcookie("Counter", $Counter ); } else { setcookie("Counter", "1" ); $Counter = 1; } ?> <?php // Print individual cookies echo "You have visited " . $Counter . " times "; ?>

Again feeling a bit of an idiot for having to ask this but I'm trying to work with Cookies and having problems. Code should work AFAICS but no; ------------------------------------------ <?php //Check and Increment Cookie if(!isset($_COOKIE['Counter'])) { echo "top section "; $Counter = $_COOKIE['Counter']+1; setcookie("Counter", $Counter ); echo "Setting Cookie to " . $Counter . " "; } else { echo "Cookie not set"; setcookie("Counter", "1" ); $Counter = 1; } ?> <?php // Print an individual cookie echo $_COOKIE["Counter"]; echo $HTTP_COOKIE_VARS["Counter"]; // Another way to debug/test is to view all cookies print_r($_COOKIE); ?> <?php // Print individual cookies echo "You have visited " . $Counter . " times "; ?> ------------------------------------- The page is available at: http://www.emsley.org.uk/poll/testcookies.php Any ideas would be gratefully received. Cheers Dave

I have sorted it by hiding the link to the actual book whilst still linking to pages within them. If you look at ICT Support section you'll see it launches other books which are not linked to the main page.

So the Academic year is ending and we got the thing up and running with Moodle. Many thanks to all who responded, whether for or against the responses were very valuable. For anyone interested in what we have ended up with: Shelley College Website Again Many Thanks. Dave PS it is the same link as the earlier post.

@Steve21 and anyone else using Python 3.2 tkinter has to have a lowecase 'T' so first line has to be: from tkinter import * @dhicks - not sure if I *have* to or not yet, just beginning to play around with it

PLEASE IGNORE THIS POST I'M AN EEJIT. The solution is to IMPORT FROM tkinter in the code!!! Note to Mods - please delete this thread to stop me looking like a right eejit.

I'm trying to get going with Python and looking at using Portable Python (3.2). Portable Python However it has no GUI support and I want to include tkinter. Snag is how? I cannot find anywhere that explains this well enough for me to follow. Thanks Dave

We're just getting this sorted out now; thought appreciated: New Website One issue I'm having is letting Guests onto a course without it opening the Login page. I want to be able to "hide" content from the front page on a course but link to it from other links/buttons etc on the front page. Is this possible?

Apache Conf file not php.ini - many thanks dayzd.

We have a school website hosted in school. It is http://www.schoolname.org/ This is stored in, for example, /var/www/ We also have moodle stored in /var/www/internal/ which the students and staff access via: http://www.schoolname.org/internal/ IDEALLY I'd like the moodle site to be http://moodle.schoolname.org/ I know this is doable. I know this involves editing php.ini. ....but I cannot for the life in me work out exactly what is required. Has anyone done similar? Cheers Dave

@secretlife. I like the idea you've used of implementing the pages via the book module. Could you let me know how you've hidden the book link that arrives on the frontpage by default please. Cheers

Thanks for your responses guys, and for sharing links. Still not sure if this is the best way for'ard but I'm feeling better about it seeing your examples. Cheers

I hope this is in the correct place, apologies if not. I'm looking to move from a website which is basically HTML based and therefore can only be updated by tech support staff to one based on Moodle and which can be updated by "some users". I know we could go joomla, drupal, etc but I'd prefer to explore the use of Moodle for this. As I see this there will be effectively 3 types of user: a guest user (ie anyone) will not need to log in and will see basic school information A parent will log in and see more information, and access some parent specific courses Students will log in and get access to their courses (as they do now) Has anyone any experience of this and already using their Moodle as the front end as well as their VLE? Would anyone be willing to post a link so I (as a guest) can see how this could look - obviously there's some theming to do. What are the key pitfalls we need to avoid? Any thought? Thanks in Advance Dave