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We could probably have done the same. It looked OK in the sales demo, but once we had access to the full product it was just one unbelievable let down. It had potential, it could have been so much better, but to me it always felt like they couldn't be bothered with it, developing it etc, which is a shame because Channel 4 have a huge library of educational TV. I personally still believe they should have put the full TV programs onto it, even if it's name implied it was only video clips.
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Unless that has changed vastly in the last 13 or 14 months, then it is nothing like a VLE. It is just a video repository, and a pretty poor one at that. We found Clipbank to have been a waste of money, staff nor the students bothered with it - they just wanted Youtube!
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I have had this with Robocopy before, try using the backup switch /B. Solved the problem for me.
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If you are using Moodle 2.x - which I'd imagine you are - and the menu you are wanting to add is just a basic drop down one, I believe Moodle can already do this. I have certainly seen one of the standard themes with a drop down in it, with the entries coming from within the Moodle admin area where you can specify them. I am not 100% familiar yet with Moodle 2.2 so I can't be too specific here though. I don't know if that would do what you want, if it does, all is good, but if not, as I said before it is fairly straight forward to add whatever you like into Moodle's themes.
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My advice would be to avoid Flash where possible for things like this - it is not the best way of achieving something like this. Obviously I haven't seen the menu you want to create in Flash, but I can't imagine why this couldn't be done using standard HTML elements with a bit of JavaScript. I have always found it simple enough to embed DIVS and UL's etc into Moodle then just link in additional JS and CSS files into Moodle's theme header area.
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No - you can run one on a subdomain of your domain. I have live@edu running as live.domain.com and Google Apps as just domain.com. I had to add some extra stuff into the Google CP to forward unknown email accounts email to Microsoft's MX servers, in addition to the normal DNS stuff. It was awhile ago when I set it up, so I can't remember exactly what I did.
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You could use something like Twitterfeed that posts to Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin and a few others. It takes any RSS feed you give it and processes it at set intervals - I never post directly on any of our social feeds. This obviously works well if you have no Social Networking access at work.
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How did you get them to close them down? I spent some time engaging with them and they refuse to do it. Also, finding a way to actually speak to or email anyone at Facebook is difficult!
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We have the same issue. Facebook won't close them either (I guess probably rightly so), but there is nothing to stop the admins of one of these unofficial pages posting a wall post saying that the school is closed due to the heating being broken etc, and then just how many people would take that as gospel?
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[pics] Sainsburys are awesome
InterwebsGuy replied to featured_spectre's topic in Jokes/Interweb Things
I've seen this a few times recently, I personally don't believe a child wrote that letter.. to me it sounds more like something someone would do for a bit of fun, and just sign it off as a young child. Nice to see Sainsburys have a sense of humour though. -
Appreciated Nick, thanks.
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That may well have been my bad when I recreated the config file. Cheers I am now getting a more useful error message when attempting to upload the same file saying it is too large. It certainly isn't the 2gb you have set in the web.config file!
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They shouldn't be! PDF's should definitely be fine. But I will check this too. Thanks
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Hi Nick I installed the version you linked me, now all I get when trying to access My Files is a blank screen: Firebug reports: GET https://domain.com/HAP/api/MyFiles/Drives 500 Internal Server Error 243ms then.. Cheers!
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Greatly appreciated, thanks.
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Hi Nick I am still getting the same response. The last entry in the event log was myself logging in and not this failing. Thanks for your help.
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Hi Nick, I have installed version 7.8 this morning and have been having a play with the My Files - it is looking good, much better than the legacy browsers. Anyway, I have found that certain files seem to fail on upload. These files are allowed file types, things such as flv's and pdf's - though I don't think there is any relation to the type of file. I was wondering if it were due to the size of the files as I have noticed it with 4mb pdf's and 100mb flv's, but, we do have the following in our web.config file that should stop this? I noticed that Firebug is reporting the following request as a 404 response: "NetworkError: 404 Not Found - https://domain.com/HAP/api/myfiles-upload/L/" Any ideas? On an unrelated note, if I was to make a suggestion, would it be possible for the My Drives on the left to be initially expanded to show the mapped drives?
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If you have changed the A/CNAME record to the IP address AWS will have provided you with for your website (I am assuming they do?) all requests to your domain.com will be sent to the AWS server - it should totally bypass your domain host. If it is not working like that, and a ping of your domain or whois does not show it pointing at AWS then they either don't allow it or you haven't done something right. I haven't any experience with AWS or your domain DNS host. If all else fails, move to another decent domain host by transferring it (to 123-reg or similar) by requesting a IPS tag change.
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We have just checked the perms and they do appear to be correct, which kind of makes sense as they have always been as they are and worked. @glennda - no, it is not similar to that, it is applying to folders that have been created previously. As I have just mentioned on ServerFault, shortly before we started to have this issue, a network cable was knocked out the back of the server causing a lost connection for a moment or two. I'm not sure how this could be related or cause this issue, but is probably worth mentioning. We are using folder redirection and then in addition a basic vbs script to map the drives in [My] Computer. Thanks for your input people so far.
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Hi Michael Thanks - I will investigate that, it is certainly worth having a look at. My first thoughts are it wouldn't be a perms issue, because it does work fine when the user moves to a different machine. However you can never rule anything out. Thanks for your input. Adam
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Morning guys, I have just posted the below on Server Fault regarding an issue we are having with some of our desktops and users. I was just wondering if any of our friends in the world of academia had also come across this problem? Cheers Adam ---------- We have an interesting issue with one of our server shares, or possibly, our Win 7 desktops. When our users try to save files in a sub folder, either via copy/paste or through an application, to a mapped drive on our DC they receive an error saying "Path not found". They can however browse this folder and open files from it. This is where the "Path Not Found" error doesn't seem to stack up in my opinion. Users can however save files fine in the root folder of the mapped drive, it appears only to affect sub folders. It seems to be random which users and machines this affects. The users can log on to a different machine and be able to save in sub folders fine, on the same mapped drive. Event viewer hasn't been much help either. Currently, the only solution we have found is to image the machines affected which solves the issue. Our servers are Server 2008 R2 with Win 7 Pro desktops. Any help/pointers/suggestions would greatly be appreciated. windows server 2008 - "Path Not Found" when attempting to write to a sub folder within a mapped drive - Server Fault
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Interesting, thanks - I might try that myself!
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Are you trying to push the Tweets to a Facebook Fan Page - not Profile? I was trying to do this a few weeks ago. It seems it isn't possible to push Tweets to a Fan Page, only a users Facebook account so Tweets would appear in that users Status feed. Unfortunately that is no good for us, meaning I will need to work on an API solution (Joy!).
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Moodle / HAP+ integrated authentication?
InterwebsGuy replied to Foresthippy's topic in Web Development
Thinking about it a little, this thread may interest @nickbro . -
Moodle / HAP+ integrated authentication?
InterwebsGuy replied to Foresthippy's topic in Web Development
This will probably be more difficult to implement than you think, made more difficult by the fact they use different languages. You ideally need some form of a Single Sign On mechanism, like a SAML based setup (Shibboleth etc). HAP doesn't support this and I can't see Nick being in a rush to make it support it either, it's a nightmare! You could probably bash something together using cookies and a database they can both access, but it's not going to be pretty and I wouldn't fancy using such a thing. Personally, I'd feel happier with HAP having to reauthenticate the user - its defintley something you don't want unauthenticated access too if Moodle was to be compromised.
