jann

We have a YouTube education account and have various playlists all working brilliantly until this last few weeks, when now videos that are 'whitelisted' are bringing up the Education filter block page. If I create a new playlist and add the video again it works immediately, I thought it might be an anomaly but as it has happened over 10 times in quick succession across multiple playlists I'm wondering if others have had the same problem? Which of course is becoming quite a pain for the school as staff had just starting relying on it... Anyone else having this bother? Cheers

Can't comment on how easy appcelerator is, but I can highly recommend PhoneGap - super easy and quick to knock up an 'applike' site.

So you've got an image that gets overwritten each X seconds and you want to force a browser to update that element each X seconds without a page refresh? Have you pieced together a satisfactory solution from the replies so far, or still looking? Cheers, Jann

If you wish to do this without the bloat of jquery, you can do something along the lines of > https://tinker.io/6c478

Have you got a link to the block on Moodle.org Marci? Browsing through Plugins directory and unable to find your updated version, maybe a delay in the approval process... Cheers

I am unsure about the banners feature of Joomla as I don't use it myself. However, if I was looking to achieve this I would most certainly be using Fancybox which can quite easily display any media you wish with the extra requirements you mentioned.

We have a few console applications written in vb.net and I am interested in converting them to python. I don't seem to be able to find any documentation on running exchange cmdlets from a python environment and was hoping someone on here might have some knowledge on this matter or even if it is possible? Cheers.

Our main office has a range of 6-9 people working in there at anyone time - each having their own laser printer (apart from the 2 people on the front desk who share a printer). We have tried to encourage the removal of these and replace all of them with a high volume printer, trays for all the variations of items they print on etc - but this hasn't happened due to a lack of support from SLT (probably wanting to avoid friction with the admin staff). Your next question about usage - the admin staff in the office have an inflated allowance of 400-600 credits a week and we rarely have to give extra credits. How is the credit system managed - the allowances were decided upon after quite a lot of thought and has only been altered for SLT and a few vocal members of teaching staff. 25/60/400 is the approx allowance for students/staff/slt - admin. Toners - they are ordered by the IT support office and currently departments don't pay for them so as you can guess printing is seen as free and photocopying comes out of department budgets. However we 'encourage' the use of photocopying by restricting the number of copies you can print to 3 and duplicate print jobs are deined within 90 seconds. After over a year of use papercut is well worth the cost and both staff and students happily work within the sensible limits that have been set.

Why thank you and thanks to mk-2

25th birthday of Microsoft Windows possibly? version 1.0

You also need to consider the functionality gain / loss, we are currently evaluating what will give us the best utilisation - external (as we are now RBC hosted) or internal hosting. For example we use a website called turnitin for plagiarism detection which has an activity integration for moodle which we cannot use as our external host doesn't have the capacity to investigate installing it. Authentication and ability to browse / upload to moodledata is quite a challenge, plus updating filters / themes etc - the list goes on... However, the benefit is upgrades / backups are done for us, which when you think about what we are missing out on and the difficulty of doing these actions yourself it means we need to discuss swapping to internal hosting.

Does anyone know if compatibility mode can be turned on for a website like "vle.school.cumbria.sch.uk" rather than "cumbria.sch.uk" as this would help me partially resolve this issue. Thanks again.

Exploring Science 7 to 9 arrived in our school not long ago and the head of science has asked for the ActiveBook and Activity Pack for each year group to go on our CLEO hosted VLE. The zip files were uploaded soon after and the SCORM packages set up as advised by Pearson (new window), tested in Firefox and IE8 and then we discovered that their VLE material is not IE8 compatible (their fix is to use Compatibility Mode). This fix is not exactly ideal seems as currently I cannot turn compatibility mode on for solely our VLE URL (vle.school.cumbria.sch.uk) it uses cumbria.sch.uk - I don't know if this is possible?! I've seen plenty of threads for network installs for this software and a few for VLE installs but none with this issue, do you all just force compatibility mode on or have another workaround? Any help / suggestions would be appreciated! Thanks.

We have downloaded the unit packs from Pearson (EDEXCEL Business Studies), and the original point about delays in interacting with the components I am getting a long delay in both IE and Firefox.

I can only agree with you, however if anyone does have a suggestion of some other software we would appreciate it.