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[[Shirky: Ontology is Overrated|http://shirky.com/writings/ontology_overrated.html]] — Categories, Links, and Tags\n\nQuotable bits:\n<<<\n “My God. It’s full of links:\n the URL gives us a way to create a globally unique ID for anything we need to point to”\n\n “Great Minds don’t think alike:\n By forgoing formal classification, tags enable a huge amount of user-produced organizational value, at vanishingly small cost.”\n\n “Market Logic:\n If you find a way to make it valuable to individuals to tag their stuff, you’ll generate a lot more data about any given object than if you pay a professional to tag it once and only once.”\n\n “Signal Loss from Expression:\n With tagging, when there is signal loss, it comes from people not having any commonality in talking about things.\n With a multiplicity of points of view the question isn’t “Is everyone tagging any given link ‘correctly’”, but rather “Is anyone tagging it the way I do?”\n If there is no shelf, then even imagining that there is one right way to organize things is an error.”\n\n “Filtering done post hoc:\n In a world where publishing is cheap, putting something out there says nothing about its quality. It’s what happens after it gets published that matters. If people don’t point to it, other people won’t read it.”\n<<<\nStart using [[del.icio.us|http://del.icio.us/]] seriously!\n\n----\nJune 30 2005

From :\n[[Latin Sayings, Latin Phrases, Latin Quotes and Latin Quotations|http://www.yuni.com/library/latin_4.html]]\n\n* Me transmitte sursum, caledoni! - Beam me up, Scotty!\n* Mater tua criceta fuit, et pater tuo redoluit bacarum sambucus - Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries\n* Mihi ignosce. Cum homine de cane debeo congredi - Excuse me. I've got to see a man about a dog\n* Ne auderis delere orbem rigidum meum! - Don't you dare erase my hard disk!\n* Nill illigitimi carborundum - Do not let the bastards get you down\n

[[LimeWire's Live Wire|http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/07/issue/forward_limewire.asp?trk=nl]] \n\nInterview in [[Technology Review|http://www.technologyreview.com/index.asp]] with Mark Gorton CEO of filesharing app //limewire//\n\n!!!Supreme Court: MGM vs Grokster\ndecision Jun 27th 2005. Vital links:\n\n* [[TechnologyReview.com - Grokster Decision|http://archives.trblogs.com/2005/06/grokster_decisi.trml]] : brief announcement with two links\n* [[Waiting for Grokster|http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/06/wo/wo_060305hellweg.asp?trk=top]] : good overview of issues. No links.\n* [[EFF: MGM v. Grokster|http://www.eff.org/IP/P2P/MGM_v_Grokster/]] Electronic Frontier Foundation's comprehensive page on this issue. More links here than you know what to do with.\n* [[Open Source » Blog Archive » Grokster?|http://www.radioopensource.org/2005/06/27/grokster/]] Open Source radio show. Listen to [[this podcast|http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/ros/open_source_050627.mp3]]\n\nQ: What was the //Sony// or //betamax// rule about? (listen to the above podcast). How does the case ''add'' to the //Sony// rule? Take a look at [[sony v universal|http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=464&invol=417]]\n\nThe assertion is made: "mass use of copyrighted works" -- is this really the case?\n\nThe news as it happened. [[Grokster Loses - Unanimously - Inducement Test?|http://www.corante.com/importance/archives/2005/06/27/grokster_loses_unanimously_inducement_test.php]] June 27th [[Corante|http://www.corante.com/]] blog.\n\nJune 28th Corante [[Kicking the Sony Can Down the Road|http://www.corante.com/importance/archives/2005/06/28/kicking_the_sony_can_down_the_road.php]] : rather important overview of the whole issue. Key words:\n* innovation promoters\n* active inducement -- imputed inducement. What's the differentiation between these? What's is the author implying?\n* analysis of the Supreme Courts on the active inducement test is ... fact specific. What does //fact specific// mean in this context?\n* P2P Kool-Aid\n\n''Uncertainty'' : \nHow would this decision act as a roadmap detrimental to small innovative developers?\n\n Grokster and Bittorrent are Open Source apps. How does this decision affect the Open Source development community? [[Grokster and Open Source: Will Open Source Force the Court to Confront Sony?|http://www.corante.com/importance/archives/2005/06/28/grokster_and_open_source_will_open_source_force_the_court_to_confront_sony.php#26888]] \n\nLior Strahilevitz writes in [[Picker MobBlog: Is Grokster Erasing “Capable” from Sony?|http://picker.typepad.com/picker_mobblog/2005/06/is_grokster_era.html]]\n\n<<<\n//Sony// established a dichotomy. Defendants’ products were capable of substantial noninfringing uses and therefore not liable, or incapable of substantial noninfringing uses and therefore liable. Grokster does two things. First, it established a new middle-category (“maybe liable”), in which facts like how the product was marketed and designed will be decisive on contributory copyright infringement. Second, it shifts some products from Sony’s safe harbor into the liable category and the middle category. Products that lack plausible and likely non-infringing uses are potentially liable, according to all nine Justices.\n<<<\n\nIn [[kicking the sony can ...|http://www.corante.com/importance/archives/2005/06/28/kicking_the_sony_can_down_the_road.php]] Ernest Miller disagrees:\n\n<<<\nWhile Justice Ginsburg ignores the future potential for peer-to-peer, Justice Breyer revels in it. Lior Strahilevitz argues that Grokster may have erased the future potential from Sony (Is Grokster Erasing “Capable” from Sony?). I disagree, "capable" has always been rooted in reality. I could use a gun to hammer nails, but that does not mean that a gun is "capable" of being a hammer in the sense that "capable" is used in Sony.\n<<<\n\n ''Time is on our side'' Ernet Miller announces -- what reasoning does he have for his optimism? Why is this decision better than what could have happened (see previous paragraph)?\n\n\n----\nJuly 01 2005\n

Implement some of Textile2 . Eg\n\n* title attribute for links <a> and images <img>\n* equivalent to M.T's plugin 'smartypants'. This turns " " into “ and ” and [[c]] into copyright etc.\n* mechanism for floating graphics right or left with caption\n* date/time autoappended (optional) to a tiddler as in a regular wiki\n* definition list implementation\n* Trackback -- JS ping.\n\n----\nJune 30 2005

[[Picker MobBlog: Copyright and Product Design|http://picker.typepad.com/picker_mobblog/2005/07/picker_copyrigh.html]]\n\n<<<\nGoogle Video consists of three parts: a video viewer; a search engine; and an upload service through which content creators can make their videos available. The video viewer plays back files only if they are stored on Google servers. At least that’s how it worked for four days, until Jon Johansen of DeCSS fame—posted code to remove the restriction. (See c|net for more on that.) The technical link between the video viewer and the content service is interesting in its own right, especially since Google contemplates future fees in connection with video downloading.\n<<<\n\nInteresting.\n\nOther Grokster links:\n\n* In 1999 [[cypherpunk manifesto|http://bitconjurer.org/a_technological_activists_agenda.html]]\n<<<\nBitTorrent creator Bram Cohen declared himself a "a technological activist" who "further[s] my goals with technology. I build systems to disseminate information, commit digital piracy, synthesize drugs . . ." \n<<<\nDoes this give //intent// to Bittorrent as Wired (in [[BitTorrent Whiz Extolled Piracy?|http://wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,68046,00.html]] ) claims ?\n\n[[Bram Cohen: My Activist's Manifesto is a Parody|http://www.corante.com/importance/archives/2005/06/29/bram_cohen_my_activists_manifesto_is_a_parody.php]] comments about this as does [[Shocking Revelations About BitTorrent|http://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2005/06/shocking_revela.htm]] \n\n!!! Implications of Grokster:\n\nConclusion from [[Legal Theory|http://lsolum.blogspot.com/archives/2005_06_01_lsolum_archive.html#112006686207391975]] blog:\n"The Grokster decision may have been a minor tactical victory for content providers, but it is a stupendous strategic loss."\n\n<<<\nGrokster and the Future of P2P\nWhat are the implications of the Grokster decision for the future of P2P filesharing? Superficially, the fact that MGM prevailed in the Supreme Court might seem like a negative for P2P, I believe that quite the opposite is true. Why?\n\n * The first question that needs to be answered when evaluating the impact of Grokster is: What is the baseline? The thought that Grokster was a victory for content providers is a result of the assumption that the Ninth Circuit's decision provided the legal baseline, and that baseline essentially immunized P2P providers from legal liability. But that assumption was never correct. The Ninth Circuit decision was just one decision in one case, and the decision itself was largely a product of the poor litigation strategy of plaintiffs--who were trying to get the Ninth Circuit to eviscerate the Sony (substantial noninfringing use) decision. The Ninth Circuit did buy the plaintiff's argument that the choices were eviscerate Sony or let P2P run amok, but decided to let P2P run amok. In my opinion, that result was unstable and never could have been the long-term status quo. The real baseline was a state of uncertainty--with the NInth Circuit Grokster decision, the Seventh Circuit's Aimster decision, and many other possibiities unresolved.\n\n * The Supreme Court's decision in Grokster makes it clear that P2P companies are subject to liability if there is direct proof of intentional inducement of copyright violations. Good legal engineering of P2P communications and business models can easily insure that such proof will be unavailable. Therefore, the intentional inducement cause of action is likely to drop out of the picture from an ex ante perspective. Of course, ex post some of the existing P2P services may have residual legal problems, but that will only shift users from some P2P services to others.\n\n * Among the P2P services that are likely to flourish in a post-Grokster legal environment is BitTorrent. Of course, shifting users to BitTorrent is no victory for content providers--it is actually a defeat. It is not in the interest of content providers to encourage users to shift to more capable P2P engines. (For more on this, see Ernest Miller's post with many links.)\n\n * Of course, there is a certain air of unreality about all of this discussion, because, as we all know, the cat is out of the bag, the barn door is open, and the genie is out of the bottle!!! No change in the legal environment can possibly contain P2P, and even if it could, the fundamental architecture of the Internet is such that massively distributed file sharing cannot be subject to effective legal control. If not "P2P," then something else, piggybacking on email, IM, or something else completely different.\n<<<\n\nOther commentary:\n\n* [[Day Three of the Grokster Era|http://www.corante.com/importance/archives/2005/06/29/day_three_of_the_grokster_era.php]]\n* [[BitTorrent and Grokster: How Much Intent Does it Take|http://www.corante.com/importance/archives/2005/06/28/bittorrent_and_grokster_how_much_intent_does_it_take.php]]\n\n

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There's a very interesting conversation about Moodle and Sakai in the Comparisons and Advocacy Forum on [[moodle.org|http://moodle.org]] \nentitled [[IBM adopts open source educational software SAKAI|http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=22988]]. Here are some of the themes:\n\n* Martin Dougiamas' goals:\n<<<\nMy goal in the next year or two is to have enough income to support five staff in an office. One admin person and four programmers working full time with me on integrating/checking/developing Moodle code. A number of plans to acheive this are in progress.\n<<<\n* Allegations that Java scales and is easier to manage than php. \n<<<\nBecause Moodle needs PHP to work, it's not as scalable as typical internet programming Languages like Java and .NET. Moodle is good software to start gaining E-learning experience, but when things get bigger and more important, organisations tend to look at other, more scalable, software solutions.\n\nJoost J. Becking\neducational technologist & open source expert\n<<<\nThis statement was hotly disputed. [[Response|http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=22988#111257]]:\n<<<\nI would very much like to see proof for this kind of silly statement. It is not supported by any studies, benchmarks or my practical experience. And pretty much all of the industry agrees that the LAMP stack is a very scalable, stable and resilient one.\n\nAll of Yahoo, Google, Amazon and eBay services are implemented over different variations on LAMP, with some bits in C. \n<<<\n* Different ways of scaling Moodle. [[Making the case for php at Yahoo|http://public.yahoo.com/~radwin/talks/yahoo-phpcon2002.htm]]. New Zealand Open Polytechnic has 35,000 students currently online with Moodle.\n* U.M runs Sakai for 27,000 students on 27 servers. Recommended hardware configuration:\n<<<\nmedium production site (<2000 users)\nHardware: Pentium 3Ghz or higher dual processor, Linux Apache server, 4GB RAM\nPLUS Pentium 3Ghz or higher, Linux MySQL server, 4GB RAM\n<<<\n* Martin Langhoff tuning servers for optimum Moodle performance.\n* \n<<<\nJoan and Kathy won Blackboads bbionic prizes for best course, with the same course that was split into a Moodle version and a BB version, with the students preferring the Moodle versioncool.\n\nSee [[E-Learning Prize for HSU Duo|http://news.humboldt.edu/Article747.phtml]] & you know the of the "rest of the story" -- [[Blackboard compared to Moodle|http://www.humboldt.edu/~jdv1/moodle/all.htm]]\n<<<\n* Contrast in Open Source approaches:\n<<<\nIlias3 is developed in an old-style cathedral approach -- and I learned that when I tried to help them fix some problems. Moodle is a successful bazaar, and it has a strong leader in front. The leadership factor is key, because it acts as a catalyst (pun? nah!) for collaboration.\n<<<\n* Important post outlining cooperation between Sakai & Moodle by Jim Farmer from Sakai community relations.\n* leads to discussion of Sakai's licence and how it differs from GPL/BSD licence and problems therewith. These issues taken up by the Sakai team!\n\n----\nJuly 04 2005

!!! Monteze Snyder\n3 Management courses. Wanted 'Teams' of students able to upload:\n* Meeting Minutes (Calendar??)\n* Draft / Final documents\n* Articles, pdfs, web sites as resources\n* discuss progress in Forum?\n* keep in touch with Chat?\n\nHave created 3 separate categories. In each one is the central course moodle and then M will create a 'course' for each Team. She'll be able to link to each of these. Students will be able to paste in links as response to assignments.\n\n!! Assignment correction upload needed\n\n\n----\nJuly 05 2005

[[Moodle 1.5 Issues]]\nMoodleToDos\n!!! CS182Schedule\n!!! TdFblogStyles\n*GroksterStuff\n* MoodleSakai\n\n----\nJuly 05 2005

|! Week |! Day |! Date |! Class Topic |! Homework |! Resources |\n| 1 |Wed |8/24|Introduction. About me. About the course. Expectations. Timeliness. Note taking.| | |\n|>|>|>|>|>|! Intro Week |\n| 2 |Wed |8/31|Intro to blogging and blog styles. Use http://www.earlham.edu/~markp/CS182_wiki/#TdFblogStyles as example|do exercises in TdFblogStyles page for Friday (write up exercises as online assignment)| |\n|>|>|>|>|>|! Digital Media |\n| 3 |Mon|9/5|Intro to Digital Media. History of recorded music. The digital revolution. Napster. Copyright issues. |Reading assignment | |\n| 4 |Mon |9/12 |Lawrence Lessing's position. Is he right? |Lessing's Wired article to discuss | |\n| 5 |Mon |9/19 |P2P software. The 'Grokster' case. Who owns music? |Read P2P articles | |\n|>|>|>|>|>|! Social Software |\n| 6 |Mon |9/26 | | | |\n| 7 |Mon |10/3 | | | |\n| 8 |Mon |10/10 | | | |\n|>|>|>|>|>|! Future Internet |\n| 9 |Mon |10/17 | | | |\n| 10 |Mon|10/24 | | | |\n| 11 |Mon|10/31 | | | |\n|>|>|>|>|>|! Information Internet |\n| 12 | Mon |11/7 | | | |\n| 13 | Mon |11/14 | | | |\n|>|>|>|>|>|! FALL BREAK |\n| 14 | Mon |11/28 | | | |\n|>|>|>|>|>|! Wrap up |\n| 15 | Mon |12/5 | | | |\n

|! Week |! Day |! Date |! Class Topic |! Homework |! Resources |\n| 1 |Fri |8/26| Lab session - Intro to Moodle. | write intro into blog | |\n|>|>|>|>|>|! Intro Week |\n| 2 |Mon |8/29| Class discussion. Issues to cover in course | | |\n|>|>|>|>|>|! Digital Media |\n| 3 |Wed|9/7|Class discussion of reading assignment | | |\n| 4 |Wed |9/14 | | | |\n| 5 |Wed |9/21 | | | |\n|>|>|>|>|>|! Social Software |\n| 6 |Wed|9/28 | | | |\n| 7 |Wed|10/5 | | | |\n| 8 |Wed|10/12 | | | |\n| 8 |Fri|10/14|! Mid semester break| | |\n|>|>|>|>|>|! Future Internet |\n| 9 |Wed|10/19 | | | |\n| 10 |Wed|10/26 | | | |\n| 11 |Wed|11/2 | | | |\n|>|>|>|>|>|! Information Internet |\n| 12 | Wed |11/9 | | | |\n| 13 | Wed |11/16 | | | |\n|>|>|>|>|>|! FALL BREAK |\n| 14 | Wed |11/30 | | | |\n|>|>|>|>|>|! Wrap up |\n| 15 | Mon |12/5 | | | |\n| 15 | Wed |12/7 | | | |\n| 15 | Fri |12/9 | | | |

!!Mozilla Firefox\n\n* extensions

Schedule for August Moodle Sessions:\n\n|Mon |15th|afternoon|Bolling Lab|MoodleWorkShop: Getting Started|\n|Tues |16th|morning|Bolling Lab|MoodleWorkShop: Refresher, Acrobat|\n|Thurs |18th|afternoon|Bolling Lab| MoodleSession |\n|Fri |19th|morning|Bolling Lab|MoodleWorkShop: Getting Started|\n|Mon |22nd|12:00-15:00|Richmond Room| ! MoodleMilestones |\n|Mon |22nd|afternoon|Bolling Lab| MoodleSession |\n|Tues|30th|afternoon|tba|MoodleWorkShop: Advanced (gradebook)|\n----\nJuly 28 2005

Use Bolling Lab. Get ECS to install wireless access point for these sessions.\n\nThemes:\n# Getting Started: for new Moodle users. 2 hour hands on. \nSet up your course. Plan curriculum outline in weekly or topics format. Add resources -- upload files.\nOverview of Activities -- Assignment (file upload, online, offline), Forum, Glossary, Quiz\n# Refresher: for faculty having used Moodle 1.4 last year. New features and opportunities in v1.5. 1 hr hands-on.\n# Acrobat: Creating resources for easy use by students (1 hr hands-on):\n** best practices for scanning into Acrobat\n** converting Word , Powerpoint into Acrobat\n# Advanced: Using the grade book. Pedagogical possibilities of other Moodle activities. 1 hr hands-on.\n\n----\nJuly 28 2005

* I'll spend 3-4 hr block of time in a Lab to be available to any faculty who drop in to help with course creation on Moodle.\n* Take advantage of this time period to build your Moodle course with expert help present.\n* Bring your portable with you. We can also install Mozilla Firefox if necessary.\n* Scanners will be available for scanning printed resources.\n\n[Get Kevan/Aaron to install temporary wireless access point in Bolling Lab]\n\n----\nJul 28 2005

* had some InstallProblems -- mainly a consequence of using Postgres I think\n\nMoodle v1.5.2 is now (July 05) running on a Mac mini 1.4GHz, 1Gb memory & 80Gb drive called Macarius. [[Mark's Moodle on Macarius|http://ec281.lly.earlham.edu/moodle/]]\n\n!! Modifications\n# I used the [[Formal White with Nuvola|http://cdc.humboldt.edu/moodle/course/view.php?id=3&topic=5%20alt=Themes]] theme from Humboldt. Had a few problems with it though referenced in [[this exchange|http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=27151#132313]] with Barry Bandstra on the Moodle.org General problems forum. I have done a comparison of styles (using unix diff) from 1.5 where the boxes are present and the week/topic numbers valigned to 1.5.2 where .left and .right table cells are not background coloured and no borders or valign, but found no substantive differences. Strange.\n** changed the Earlham logo \n[img[large EIS Moodle logo|http://ec281.lly.earlham.edu/~markp/formal_white_changes/logo.jpg]] and the small logo [img[small EIS logo|http://ec281.lly.earlham.edu/~markp/formal_white_changes/logo_small.jpg]] and the header.html, fw_fonts.css, and favicon.ico have also been changed. All zipped up [[here|http://ec281.lly.earlham.edu/~markp/formal_white_changes.zip]]\n# New block called 'Marking' downloaded from [[here|http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=26658]]. Looks very interesting with useful features. [[this version|http://ec281.lly.earlham.edu/~markp/block_marking_1.5.zip]] of the zip file has had the updates to block_marking.php and marking.php mentioned in the above forum applied. Here's the README :\n<<<\nThe Marking block is a Moodle block add-on the provides a summary of activities\nawaiting grading. It includes a separate page that provides an alternate\ngradebook functionality ties to the marking block. This block is restricted to\nteachers and administrators.\n\nThis block displays marking information for newly submitted, resubmitted, \nand overdue (activities past their defined close dates) activities. The marking\npage provides the same information and easy access to the grading functions for\nthese activities.\n\nThis block can also display a list of students below a certain grade level.\n\nThe block can be configured to display a maximum number of students in each list\nand to set the grade level to display below.\n\nThis directory uses custom code for all activities it summarizes. There are few\ncommon activity library functions that can perform the same operations, and thus\nany new activities to be added will need new code.\n<<<\nI am going to fool around with this but I think it's a shoo in for EC's Moodle setup.\n# Course Menu block downloaded from Humboldt's [[courseware development centre|http://cdc.humboldt.edu/moodle/course/view.php?id=3&topic=1%20alt=Blocks]]. This is what the Course Menu block does:\n[img[course menu block|http://ec281.lly.earlham.edu/~markp/images/course_menu_screen.png]]\nCool, huh? Especially the control panel. I haven't made any mods and it's available [[here|http://ec281.lly.earlham.edu/~markp/block_course_menu.zip]].\nThe MyFiles block looks ''very'' interesting when it appears.\n\n\n----\nJuly 28 2005

Sessions on:\n\n# Textile 2\n# Using Sage as RSS aggregator\n\n\n\n\n|! Week |! Day |! Date |! Class Topic |! Homework |! Resources |\n| 1 |Fri |8/26| Lab session - Intro to Moodle. | write intro into blog | |\n|>|>|>|>|>|! Intro Week |\n| 2 | Fri |9/2 | Lab session. Blogging within Moodle. Use comments and trackbacks. Copy & paste assignment answer into blog entry. Comment on another. Trackback from another.| | |\n|>|>|>|>|>|! Digital Media |\n| 3 |Fri|9/9|''Lab:'' doing research on the web. | | |\n| 4 |Fri |9/16| | | |\n| 5 |Fri |9/23 | | | |\n|>|>|>|>|>|! Social Software |\n| 6 |Fri|9/30 | | | |\n| 7 |Fri|10/7 | | | |\n| 8 |Fri|10/14|! Mid semester break| | |\n|>|>|>|>|>|! Future Internet |\n| 9 |Fri|10/21 | | | |\n| 10 |Fri|10/28 | | | |\n| 11 |Fri|11/4 | | | |\n|>|>|>|>|>|! Information Internet |\n| 12 | Fri |11/11 | | | |\n| 13 | Fri |11/18 | | | |\n|>|>|>|>|>|! FALL BREAK |\n| 14 | Fri |12/2 | | | |\n|>|>|>|>|>|! Wrap up |\n| 15 | Mon |12/5 | | | |\n| 15 | Wed |12/7 | | | |\n\n| 15 | Fri |12/9 | | | |

Definitions from [[Web Logs (sic)|http://weblogs.about.com/]]\n\n* Trackback\n<<<\nDefinition: It is a remote commenting system between blogs. This is used when an individual reads an entry in someone's blog and chooses to write about that entry in his or her own blog. When TrackBack is used, a ping will be sent to the originator of the post, so he or she will know who blogged about his or her blog entry.\n<<<\n* Pingback\n<<<\nThis is an automatic notification method used by web log owners/authors. This allows for links or continuation of discussions and alerts between sites or web logs.\n<<<\n* Permalink\n<<<\nIt is the common term referring to the permanent link of a particular blog entry or post. This enables easy referencing. It is often denoted with the symbol #. Permalinks may also be found either in the title, the date/time stamp, or a link graphic in the blog entry.\n<<<\n* RSS\n<<<\nThe acronym RSS means Rich Site Summary, or some may consider its meaning as Really Simple Syndication. It is a document type that lists updates of websites or blogs available for syndication. These RSS documents (also known as 'feeds') may be read using aggregators. RSS feeds may show headlines only or both headlines and summaries.\n<<<\n* Aggregator or RSS Reader\nStandalone app to manage large numbers of RSS feeds. May be a plugin to Firefox (eg Sage).\n* podcast\n<<<\n In a nutshell, a podcast is an audio file in MP3 format* and delivered online via RSS feed (webfeed) subscriptions. Podcast subscribers can listen to the show at his or her own leisure, which is the main attraction of this medium. As unlike Internet radio, there is no schedule to follow.\n\nYou need a podcast client/receiver to subscribe to a podcast. When you're subscribed, your client will check for new shows automatically when you ask it to. Then, you just listen to the podcasts on a computer or portable device (MP3 player, PDA or cellphone) when and where you want to.\n\nThe term podcast was derived from two words: iPod (an Apple MP3 player) and broadcast. This is attributed to the pioneers of podcasting who are iPod users. However, don't be deceived by this term, as you don't need an iPod to broadcast and/or listen to podcasts. Various non-Apple iPod tools and software may be used for podcasting and podcatching. Any computer audio software that support MP3 (Windows Media Player, QuickTime, etc.) and any portable device that supports media download and playback may be used to listen to podcasts.\n\nPodcasting is the term used to refer to the act of making and broadcasting podcasts. People who make and broadcast shows through podcasting are known as podcasters. \n<<<\n* blogroll\n<<<\n This is a collection of links to other web logs, which is found in nearly all web logs.\n\nThere are different ways and reasons blog owners create their blogrolls. The most common is to indicate the favorite links that they visit and/or read often. Another criteria may be link exchange ("I added you to my blogroll, so please add me to yours."). Some bloggers also add people and sites that they admire, but not necessarily read or visit.\n\nA blogger can create a blogroll either manually, via an automatic link manager, or both. One of the most popular link managers is Blogrolling.com. To use Blogrolling.com, all you need to do is sign up for their services, add your favorite links, and get the code to add to your blog where you want your blogroll to appear. You can easily add more, edit or delete blogs later. \n<<<\n

From [[Heritage Victorian colours|http://www.heritagepaints.co.uk/victorian_colours.html]]\n\n| Pale Olivine | Salmon | Buff | Mineral Red |\n\n[img[ |http://www.heritagepaints.co.uk/data_files/data5_93.jpg]] [img[ |http://www.heritagepaints.co.uk/data_files/data5_101.jpg]] [img[ |http://www.heritagepaints.co.uk/data_files/data5_96.jpg]] [img[ |http://www.heritagepaints.co.uk/data_files/data5_100.jpg]]\nPale Olivine: A warm but light green made from common earth pigments and which worked well with a wide range of warmer shades such as DH Salmon, Buff and Mineral Red.\n\n| French Grey | Yellow Ochre | Sage Green |\n\n[img[ | http://www.heritagepaints.co.uk/data_files/data5_99.jpg]] [img[ |http://www.heritagepaints.co.uk/data_files/data5_107.jpg]] [img[ |http://www.heritagepaints.co.uk/data_files/data5_103.jpg]]\nFrench Grey: This elegant shade was often employed in three part schemes with Yellow Ochre and Sage Green.\n\nOther good colours:\nLIGHT FRENCH GREY [img[ |http://www.heritagepaints.co.uk/data_files/data5_94.jpg]]\nA very pale grey that would look like a cool white when used with the stronger and brighter Victorian colours. \n\n!!! Victorian Colour Palette\n[img[ |victorian_colour_scheme.png]]\n\nGo to the [[heritage site|http://www.heritagepaints.co.uk/introduction.html]] to see examples of colour combinations from Georgian, Vitorian & Edwardian eras.

There are a myriad of different styles of writing in the //blogosphere// [define] and this year's ''Tour de France'' is a good subject area to sample a set of different approaches to this exciting event.\n\nOne can start with the web sites that report the basic facts, with a description of the race, perhaps a cross section for the climbs and maybe a photo gallery:\n\n* [[The Official Tour de France|http://www.letour.fr/2005/TDF/LIVE/us/1000/index.html]] web site is one of these. Informative but basically boring.\n* [[Bicycling Magazine's|http://www.bicycling.com/tourdefrance]] site is rather more interesting although saturated with adverts (thank goodness for Adblock).\n* The [[BBC's cycling|http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/cycling/default.stm]] page is potentially more interesting with Tour Stage Reports, Tour de France Extras, Photo gallery, stage guide, and a message board. Here's a [[screenshot|graphics/bbc_cycling_71205.png]] of what it looked like on Tues July 12th. On this site we have a couple of different formats of personal writing to look at:\n \n## There's the [[Robbie McEwen column|tdf/robbie_mcewen_col.htm]] where he talking to a reporter presumably.\n## And then there's Your Tour Experiences where readers are invited to post their own experiences on the tour route. [[Here's a sample|tdf/tour_experience_stage10.htm]] from stage 10, Grenoble to Courchevel.\n## Finally, there's a [[message or bulletin board|http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mbfivelive/F2148575]] ([[screenshot|graphics/bbc_messagebd_stage10.png]])where readers can post comments and replies.\n\nQ1: Are any of the above references really a blog? For each reference, state how you think it is like a blog and how not.\n\nNow we come to the blogging world or //blogosphere// proper.\n \nThe [[Tour de France|http://www.tdfblog.com/]] blog is in classic blog format with a long central column subdivided into sections (individual posts) and headlines at the top ([[stage 10 archive|tdf/tdfblog_stage10.htm]] and updated a couple of minutes later [[stage 10 afternoon|tdf/tdfblog_stage10_later.htm]]. The three column layout has:\n* in the left column a list of other tdf blogs (aka //blogroll// -- we'll come to these later), other postings about the tour on different sites, links to all the recent comments made in the blog and then a list of all the top riders and references to them. \n* On the right hand column we have a long section for the sponsors (but not intrusive, unlike some other sites...) inclusive of a photo illustrating why beach volleyball has a popular following, a search fearure, link to books and media at Amazon (the author gets a cut when you buy one of these from amazon), recent posts, and an archive. \n\nFor each blog entry or posting there's a:\n# list of rider's names which are 'tagged' -- clicking on one of these gives all the entries that mention that rider -- \n# then there's a //permalink// (a permanent link to that particular posting), clicking on this will give you a page with the posting and comments and trackbacks,\n# there's a comments link where you can add your own comment relevant to the entry\n# a //trackback// link to a page of trackbacks. Intead of writing comments in other's blogs many bloggers prefer to comment in their own blog and then do a //trackback// to the originating blog which is sent a //ping//. Thus a trackback is a kind of reverse link.\n\nYou can see how comprehensive this blog is -- truely a masterpiece!\n\nOther tdf blogs:\n\n* The [[Jambon Report|http://www.dailypeloton.com/displayarticle.asp?pk=8284]] which can be hilarious. Here's a quote:\n<<<\nHe got onto his radio microphone and screamed, "Vai! Vai! Vai Lorenzo!," and man did Lorenzo vai (by the way, I think that's Italian for, "Lorenzo! The lycra on your buttocks, it is on fire! Ride quickly and perhaps you shall extinguish it!")\n<<<\n* [[Velogal|http://velogal.blogspot.com/]] is a ''real'' blog -- an on the spot account of covering the tour. It's blogs like these that really give you an idea of what the Tour is like from the inside. You really need to read these every day to feel the atmosphere. Here's the blog as on [[July 12:stage 10|tdf/velogal_712.htm]]. \n* 'Crazy Jane' also put a female slant on the Tour with [[le tour delicieux|http://crazyjaneski.typepad.com/le_tour_delicieux/]] . Here's a quote from her blog about stage 9:\n<<<\nThe future was looking so bright for Inigo Landaluze and Filippo Simeoni when their gap stretched to almost 10 glorious minutes before the peloton woke up and started to reel those little fish back in. Poor Señor Landaluze! He's been a pro for two years, with nary a victory to his name, and it's got to hurt to come so close, only to be swallowed up mere meters from the line by all those greedy sprinters. If only he and Simeoni hadn't horsed around in those final moments, neither wanting to lead out the other's sprint, they might have held on and saved us from another Robbie McEwen victory. Aye, me.\n<<<\n* [[Operation Gadget|http://www.operationgadget.com/]] has yet a different take on the Tour. Here, they talk about the Tour from the perspective of technology -- there are some interesting blog links too. Here's [[stage 10's account|tdf/operation_gadget_stage10.htm]]\n* [[Lantern Rouge|http://tdflr.blogspot.com/]] is another //blogger// hosted blog which focuses on the last rider of the Tour (take a look at [[cycloblog's glossary|http://cycloblog.com/index.php?static=glossary]] to understand the lingo). Again this one is authored by a woman (how come females are writing the most interesting tdf blogs?) and she has a good overview of of what the Tour de France is all about in her [[Quick 'n' Dirty TdF Guide|tdf/lanterne_rouge_stage11.htm]].\n* [[Fat Cyclist|http://spaces.msn.com/members/fatcyclist/Blog/cns!1pUmGvi9idWgOodsIbhHUOQA!324.entry]] -- this is totally hilarious even though it's hosted on msn! Try this TdF Personality Test:\n<<<\nQuestion 1. Who do you want to win the Tour de France?\n * Jan Ullrich: You love a comeback kid, a perpetual underdog, a likeable loser. If American, you voted Democrat. If you are a cyclist, you are more likely to be overweight than not, and use Jan as a shining beacon of what it's possible for a fat cyclist to achieve.\n * Ivan Basso, Alexandre Vinokourov: You fancy yourself a thinker, an analyst, but you're actually just a flibbertigibbet. You've looked at Basso's results from the past and think he's a good bet for the future. When Basso doesn't wind up in the top 10 after this year's tour, you will hardly notice, however, because you'll already have moved on to the next big thing.\n * Lance Armstrong: You are a pragmatist, and like to surround yourself with winners. If American, There is a 70% chance you voted Republican. If you are willing -- when confronted -- to vigorously defend Armstrong's character flaws, there is a 95% chance you are Republican.\n * Levi Leipheimer, Floyd Landis: You are a dreamer, and hold to those dreams even in the face of harsh reality. If American, you vote Libertarian.\n * Iban Mayo, Roberto Heras: You are an idealist, and tend to remember the old days as better than they actually were.\n * Someone else: You are simply obstinate.\n<<<\n* More conventional blogs:\n** [[Peloton blog|http://peloton.blogs.com/]]\n** blogger hosted [[TdF for the rest of us|http://tdf05.blogspot.com/]] and [[maillot jaune|http://maillot-jaune.blogspot.com/]] -- [[stage 10 here|tdf/MaillotJaune_stage10.htm]]\n** [[CYCLOBLOG|http://www.cycloblog.com/]]\n\n!!! To Do\nNow you can see the different styles of writing, find a Tour de France blog not in the list above and compare it with one of the blogs listed above.\n\n----\nJuly 13 2005

!! Good Stuff\n* Great documentation Moodle course from [[Humbolt Uni|http://learn.humboldt.edu/course/view.php?id=10&topic=all]] login as Guest.\n-- Have downloaded this complete course. I'd like to get this installed on Macarius (MoodleToDos) --\n-- Humbolt's [[Courseware Development Center|http://cdc.humboldt.edu/moodle/]] is triffic with a ton of useful [[add ons|http://cdc.humboldt.edu/moodle/course/view.php?id=3]]\n\n\n!!! Useful Tips\n* How does a student tell whether they have done the latest activity?\nAns: Go to Administration -> Activity Report : Outline Report. You'll see a list of all the Course Activities and your own submissions.\n(this reqires the teacher to enable Activity Reports for the course (in Administration : Settings)\n\n* MacariusMoodle\n* EISMoodle\n\n----\nJuly 28 2005

Modules worth taking a look at, if not installing on Macarius Moodle:\n\n# Get Book module from CVS [[moodle discussion|http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=24676#134463]]\n# [[Feedback (moodle forum discussion)|http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=27556]]. Apparently easier to use than questionnairre. 28th July version [[here|http://ec281.lly.earlham.edu:16080/~markp/feedback.zip]]. Test with Macarius Moodle and Postgres.\n# [[NewAssignment (moodle forum discussion)|http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=26443#134164]]. An alternative to ReviewAssignment which doesn't seem to have had an update since July to make it postgres compatible. 3rd Aug version [[here|http://ec281.lly.earlham.edu:16080/~markp/newassignment_for_1.5BETA1.zip]]. Install on Macarius and test with Postgres.\n# [[Bookings (moodle forum discussion)|http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=27570]]:\n<<<\nThis module is designed for booking rooms,items and also signing up for single events. I've had versions of this code before as sideblocks, but I think it works better as a module. I've used the new assignment with submodules as a template. Different types of bookings can be added later. This version has three types:\n\n 1. weekly timetable for rooms/equipment\n 2. yearly view of weeks (book a week at once)\n 3. appointment or single sign-up\n\nThis is an early version that needs testing, but it is already usable.\nGive it a try on a development moodle smile\nVersion 1.5\n<<<\n[[This version|http://ec281.lly.earlham.edu:16080/~markp/bookings.zip]] is from Aug 3rd. Definitely worth keeping an eye on....\n# [[Shared_Files (moodle forum discussion)|http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=23474]] looks interesting. Michael Avelar posted this on 12th May:\n<<<\nI have upgraded the Shared_files block to work with 1.5 and I am also integrating the MyFiles directory into the Wissywig editor. This allows each individual user to view their shared directory from the 'Insert Image' section and they can then link pictures from that directory. I have this working for the most part, but there are still a few bugs I need to work out. \n\n-Michael Avelar\n<<<\nAlso look at [[webDAV|http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=25707]] as a My Files mechanism.\n# This [[shared folders feature|http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=11692]] looks like it would solve the issue of sharing files from a Meta course to its children. However, it looks like it's only available via CVS, so I'd better try to get that working ...\n# [[Internal mail|http://appserv.lsi.upc.es/palangana/moodle/course/view.php?id=18]] from Catalonia looks interesting.\n# [[dfWiki (moodle discussion)|http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=25554]] looks ''very'' good. [[dfWiki home|http://appserv.lsi.upc.es/palangana/moodle/course/view.php?id=15]] and download [[the bugfixed version|http://ec281.lly.earlham.edu:16080/~markp/1.0_dfwiki_bugfixes.zip]] from 12th July -- install on MMM and test.\n\n----\nAugust 4 2005

Notes for Rowan to perhaps implement on the EC Moodle Site.\n\n[[Mark's Macrina Moodle|http://ec281.lly.earlham.edu/moodle]]\n\n* Theme used is Formal_white with my EC Moodle icons\n** changed fw_fonts.css to use Verdana as body text and Arial as header\n* changed Editor configuration to use Verdana. Try to install Apsell 0.6 but wouldn't work:\n\n<<<\n$ ./configure $$ make\nconfigure: WARNING: you should use --build, --host, --target\nconfigure: WARNING: you should use --build, --host, --target\nchecking build system type... Invalid configuration `4779': machine `4779' not recognized\nconfigure: error: /bin/sh ./config.sub 4779 failed\n<<<\n\n\n* Added course_ menu to the blocks (just copied into moodle/blocks)\n* modified themes/formal_white/header.html to not display grad-banner2.jpg. Will make my own and put this back.

Potential students:\n* Kevin Hunter (TA?)\n* Zach Ferraro\n* Colin Copeland\n* Jean Davidson\n* Shawn Smith\n* Tom Weiss-Lehman\n* ? nhlanhla Maduna

The full dope on scanning into Adobe Acrobat is [[here|http://www.earlham.edu/~markp/cms/user_guides/acrobat/scanning.php]]. Some quick tips:\n\n# ''Don't just use the default scanning mode''. You will probably scan in full color at 300 dpi and produce gigantic file sizes.\n# Make sure you choose manual operation (you may have to Cancel) with the following settings:\n** Image Type : Black and White document (you want to scan in grayscale not full color)\n** Resolution : 150 dpi (300 dpi is over the top -- 150 is fine for printing)\n# ''Before clicking Scan'' draw a box around the actual text to be scanned (include page numbers and header text) -- then you'll only scan what you need rather than the whole scan bed and the page background will get lighter because the contrast will be set better.\n\n!! File Sizes\n//Small is beautiful//\nSmaller documents will load faster over the network; bloated files cause students great problems becuase their network connections are often slower and more congested.\n\n|Scan at 150dpi Acrobat| size full color | size grayscale |\n| 13 pages | 65Mb | 4.5Mb |\n| 7 pages | 33Mb | 2 Mb |\n\n----\nAug 15 2005\n

!! Moodle Introduction\n# Create course. Need faculty to login to Moodle to provide account\n# Configure course. Administration : Settings. Weekly/Topics. Start date. Enrollment key. Grades.\n# Student self enroll. Propagate enrollment key on first day of class, or vis Webdb email list.\n# Convert syllabus in Word format into Acrobat pdf.\n# Upload file. Resource : Link to file or web site. Navigate to file.\n# Copy pieces of schedule into Weekly Outline.\n# Activity : Assignment. Offline/Online/Journal.\n\n----\nAug 15 2005

!! Describing the Resource\nThere are three crucial components to describing a resource on Moodle:\n# ''Name:'' This is displayed in the Outline and what your students click on to read. It should be concise but descriptive; for example, an Acrobat resource of a book chapter (or part thereof) might have the chapter heading as its name.\n# ''Summary:'' It's crucial to provide adequate detail here for a number of reasons:\n## to model what you expect your students to produce in their own bibliographies\n## so that you can keep track of exactly what material you have made available\nExample:\n<<<\nAlgernon Snibble, 1886, From Mafeking Street to Kipling Road: Reminiscences from the East End\nIntroduction: East End communities in the good old days.\nAdobe Acrobat 6 pages, 2.5Mb \n<<<\nThis tells the student that she will need the Acrobat reader on her machine to access this resource and it's only 6 pages so she can probably read it on screen and not bother to print it out.\n# ''Location:'' If you have asked the secretary to name the file sensibly as above it'll be easy for you to find the correct file in amongst the hundreds of others that you'll end up with.\n\n----\nAug 12 2005

!! CourseSetup\n* Setting up\n* Login\n* Student Enroll\n* Course Configuration\n\n!! SyllabusOutline\n* Weekly or Topics Outline\n** when to use each\n** pros and cons of each\n* transferring syllabus into outline blocks\n** MS Word copy & paste\n* Resources\n** what are they?\n** uploading files [link to scan & convert]\n** advantages of Adobe Acrobat format\n** suggestions for describing resources in summary\n** web URLs. Display inside course or popup.\n* Student Instructions\n** students don't read resources unless you tell them to (in class & reinforce online). Intentionality.\n* Other types of resource\n** online web page. When might you want to do this.\n** Label - use to add new sections within an Outline block\n** Directory - use to make a folder of files available for download\n\n!! CourseWork\n* Moodle Activities - list and summarise\n* Assignment. Writing. Allows possibility of online grading and feedback\n** Online - short piece typed online or a link to a web URL with student's work\n** Offline - hand in paper copy. Online reminders & grading\n** Upload a file - type in paper online and upload. Grade and feedback\n** Upload and review - upload paper, teacher reviews, corrects and marks up, returns to student\n* Forum\n* Glossary\n* Quiz\n* Wiki\n\n!! CourseManagement\n* Useful blocks for management\n* RSS feeds\n* Uses for HTML block\n* Using the Calendar\n* tracking activity\n\n!! ReusingCourse\n* Backup\n* Unenroll students\n* hide/inaccessible\n\n

Notes for faculty who have support staff (ie secretaries) do scanning for them:\n* Only the PC version of Acrobat will scan in directly from the scanner. You cannot scan straight into Acrobat using a Mac. Thus the office will need to have a scanner attached to a PC in order to create Acrobat documents for Moodle.\n* The process involves uploading the scanned Arobat file into the Files section of your Moodle course. The secretary will need to have //full teacher access// to your course in order to do this. To grant Teacher access:\n** Click Administration : Teachers\n** Potential Teachers: type in second name or username of secretary and click Search\n** Click Add new teacher\n* Do supply //original material// rather than 2nd or 3rd generation photocopy! A scan from a book will be much clearer to read than a faded copy.\n* Clear detailed instructions. Cryptic notes scribbled on Postit! labels don't cut it. Your secretaries are not mind readers. Do them the courtesy of writing out chapters, page numbers to scan and precise notes about what to include or leave out. \n* Suggest filenames to use that will help you remember their contents, eg Snibble_86_chap7.pdf. Include this in your instructions. \n* Allow plenty of time to accomplish the task but do suggest a deadline.\n\nExample:\n<<<\nCharlene, would you please scan the following from "From Mafeking Street to Kipling Road: Reminiscences from the East End" by Algernon Snibble: \n# Introduction (pp 1-5) into snibble_86_intro.pdf\n# Chapter 7 (pp 96-108) into snibble_86_chap7.pdf\n# Chapter 9 (pp 130-145) into snibble_876_chap9.pdf\n\nPlease then upload these files into the Files area of my course Cheery & Violent -- An Eastender's View, HIST 550. \nI could do with this by August 31st and certainly no later than sept 2nd. I have added you as a teacher on this course.\n<<<\n\n----\nAug 09 2005

!Moodle Refresher\n!! Reusing Course\n* Backup\n* Unenroll students\n* Restore into new course\n\n!! Scanning Acrobat Resources\n* What faculty need to communicate to departmental secretaries who do their scanning -- MResourceScan\n* Scanning best practices -- ScanningHints\n\n!! Resources\n* the importance of describing the resource -- DescribeResource\n\n!! Course Management\n* Useful blocks for management\n* RSS feeds\n* Uses for HTML block\n* Using the Calendar\n\n!! Weekly/Topics Outline\n* Having your cake and eat it -combine weekly schedule with topics outline\n* Adding graphics\n* Hiding and revealing\n\n!! New to v1.5\n* Messaging. Students will ''love'' this.\n* Grade book. Online grading revolutionised.\n\n----\nAug 15 2005

!! Moodle Refresher Tuesday 16th Aug at 10:00 in Bolling PC Lab\ncovering everything in MRefresherDoc\n\nNew Moodle doc: MResourceScan\n* [[Moodle 1.5 Issues]]\n* NewMoodleModules\n* MoodleDocs\n* MoodleSchedule\n* MoodleMilestones\n\n----\nAugust 9 2005

* Scott Hess : pasting from MS Word Mac into Moodle\n* Dan Graves: Using iPhoto to make album of Beethoven pics. Displayt this in Moodle\n* Monteze - Review assignment

Note for faculty:\n\n* Backing up course.\nThere have been occasions where student data has got lost from a completed course. If student data is important to you or if you are updating your course on a frequent basis you should consider the practice of making a regular backup of your course. [[Here's how|http://www.earlham.edu/~markp/cms/user_guides/moodle/backup.php]] -- Note that, obviously, if you're wanting to save student submitted files or conversations you want to ''include'' the user data.\n\n* Install the Humbolt Backboard quiz conversion onto Macrina.\n\n!!! ECMoodleNotes\n\n-- change EC Moodle theme to Formal white with the Nuvola iconset from kdelook.org from [[Humbholdt|http://cdc.humboldt.edu/moodle/course/view.php?id=3&topic=5%20alt=Themes]]. Create 100px high and 50 px high logos and add. --\n-- Get Moodle 1.5 operational on Macarius--\n-- Install Humbolt documentation course --\n-- port over MGMT110 course--\n\n* Install MySQL on Macarius\n* --Dan Graves' Beethoven--\n\n----\n* email MITC (Alex) re planning grant meeting. Suggest place, date & time. Give list of potential participants & potential agenda. Decisions to take.\n\n----\nJuly 28 2005 mod Aug 30 2005

!!!Background\nCorinne Deibel and Lori Watson are both teaching sections of intro course, Principles of Chemistry. They have an application which comes with the textbook I think, called Diploma 6, which has a huge bank of questions allowing you to select questions and create multiple-choice 'exams'. To give an idea of size, there are 22 chapters each with between 50-60 questions, many of which have graphic components. Naturally Corinne and Lori wanted to make use of this resource and since the application had the facility of exporting exams to a welter of different formats including blackboard and WebCT we thought that all would be hunky dory.\n!!Problems\nBut our tests found that the question import in the quiz activity in Moodle was extremely flakey -- for instance we found that we could not import questions that had graphics, or questions with numeric comparisons in them, or more than 8 questions at a time. In short, the import process was so flakey as to be unusable.\nA common symptom would be that the first question would seem to import and then there would be an error : "Could not insert new question"\n!!Outside the box\nI came across what seemed to be a useful add-on from Humboldt Uni in [[Question types and quiz add ons|http://cdc.humboldt.edu/moodle/course/view.php?id=3&topic=2%20alt=Question%20Types%20and%20Q...]] section called Blackboard 6 Quiz Pool importer. I figured that this would likely only run on a Moodle install with the MySQL backend (EIS's uses Postgres) and so, rather than faffing around with my Moodle install on Macarius (which is also using Postgres) I turned to my iMac, Macrina upon which I had already got MySQL running, and after manfully wrestling with it I managed to install the latest version of Moodle 1.52 on this iMac. I also installed Humboldt's Blackboard pool importer.\n!!What happened\nI created an 'exam' using the Diploma 6 application on my Dell portable that contained questions with graphics and numeric values. I exported the 'exam' which produced a ZIP file containing the questions & answers (.dat), a nest of folders with the graphics and a 'manifest' file (.xml) with a description of what items were located where..\n\nI attempted to import this data file into EIS Moodle and got the familiar error 'could not insert new question' so I copied both the .dat file & the graphics onto Macrina. I created a new quiz and, surprise, surprise, I was able to import all the questions into the question data bank. After I had loaded up the graphic images into the Files section of the course I was then able to associate the graphic images with the placeholders in the questions themselves. Now I ''exported'' the exam in Moodle format (it produces an .xml file).\n\nI opened up a new browser window and logged into EIS Moodle and went to the testing course and the quiz. I now tried the import questions function and chose the Moodle formatted file I had just saved. It imported without a hitch! \n!!Conclusions\n* Importing questions in Blackboard format does not work reliably on EIS Moodle\n* Importing questions in Blackboard format works smoothly with Moodle on Macrina\n* EIS Moodle uses Postgres database, Macrina Moodle uses MySQL database, both are Moodle v1.5\n* Exporting questions in Moodle format works fine on Macrina Moodle\n* Importing questions in Moodle format works fine on EIS Moodle\n\nThus, Moodle has to use the MySQL database backend in order to seamlessly import quiz question files in Blackboard format.\n!!Suggested workaround procedure for Chemix\n 1. Create the quiz in you Quiz app. Export the exam in Blackboard format.\n 2. Unzip the file. You get a .dat file (the data) and a manifest.xml file (showing what's where) and a nest of folders with any graphics in them that you have used.\n 3. At this point you might as well go to the folder with the graphics, select them all, right-click and choose ZIP\n 4. Now import your quiz on Moodle Macrina (you should both remember that Macrina was St Basil the Great's sister ....)\n Login to [[Macrina Moodle|http://llya049.lly.earlham.edu/moodle]] as watsolo or deibeco with passwords the same as your username. You'll need to change this straight away.\n 5. There's a course there which you're techers on so go ahead and create a new quiz in this course.\n 6. Add a category if you need to -- you may want a separate category per batch of questions to keep them separate\n 7. Select import the questions and browse to the .dat file you just created.\n 8. They should all appear but will display screwey because the images have not been properly linked.\n 9. Now, I think you need to select all the questions you've just imported, and export as Moodle format\n 10. Save this .xml file on your local My Documents\n 11. Now go to [[EIS Moodle|http://moodle.earlham.edu]] and login and go to your course.\n 12. Open or create the quiz.\n 13. import the questions from the .xml file you have just saved.\n 14. in a separate tab open another view on the course and go to Administration: Files\n 15. Create a folder called graphics and upload the ZIPped file of graphics into it.\n 16. Select the file and click unzip to expand all the graphics files.\n 17. Now switch back to the quiz tab and click the Update icon for the first question with graphics. Select on each graphic placeholder in turn and click the Image icon.\n 18. Navigate to the graphics folder and find the appropraite graphic image. Double-click on it.\n 19. You will need to add a short 'alt' text before clicking OK\n 20. Repeat for each image in the question. Save when finished.\n 21. Repeat for each question containg a graphic.\n 22. When you have finished check that the quiz settings are what you want and Save then exit quiz.\n 23. Transfer to other course:\n 24. Do Administration:backup\n 25. Select quiz and deselect everything else.\n 26. Go ahead and do the backup. Rt-click on the filename and save the ZIP file to your local drive.\n 27. In the File section of the other course upload the ZIP file into the Files section.\n 28. Now restore into this course and move the quiz where you want it.\n\n----\nSept 06 2005

Get Plowshares backing for student reporter (Shawn Smith) to intervew teaching faculty about their Instructional Technology efforts. Produce podcast? Blog the news and podcast stack.\n\n----\nSept 09 2005

!!Background\nMonteze Synder has a lot of experience in conducting her courses with a strong online component. She is adept at web page creation and has been using the CHEF system hosted by MITC for the last two years. A major feature of this system for Monteze was the ability to return graded papers online to students since this was pedagogically beneficial to the student. She would markup the Word document with her comments in the context of what was written and then return this version to the student using the Chef system. For a number of reasons, she wanted to move to the Moodle system (since it was hosted locally) and naturally she desired to have a similar feature. This has not been a standard part of the Moodle Assignment activity in previous versions (up to v1.4) so when I discovered that indeed there was a 'ReviewAssignment' add-on to the Assignment module in version 1.5 I figured that our problem was solved since we were planning to migrate to this version before the beginning of the school year.\n\n!!Problems\nProblems quickly surfaced with this module; one could create an assignment using this feature but when it came to grading the student's assignment an error message appeared "nothing to display". I emailed the author of the add-on, Michael Penney, but got no reply and I didn't get any useful help from the Moodle web site (see [[Moodle 1.5 Issues]]). I suspected that this was an issue with the database code but unfortunately with the system manager on vacation I was unable to do anything more until he returned. Since then he has examined the code and found that indeed there are problems with it but he has been unable to produce a version that works with our Moodle configuration (postgres SQL database).\n!!Workaround\nThe workaround is the Wiki Activity. By setting the 'type' to 'Student' we get "Every student has their own wiki which only they and their teacher can view and edit." and since we can also allow uploading of binary files we can thereby distribute returned papers to individual students.\n!!!Procedure\n# Create the Wiki Activity. \nI would create this in the 'header' section so that it's always visible. Pull down Activity -- Wiki\n# Configure.\n** Name : Returned Assignment Papers (or similar)\n** Summary : How you want students to use this activity. "You will find all your papers marked up with comments and grade returned here. Just click on the link to download."\n** Type : Student (for 'private' wiki pages)\n** Print wiki name on aevery page : Yes (it doesn't really matter)\n** HTML mode: HMTL only (more straightforward than wiki markup format)\n** Allow binary files : Yes\n** Wiki auto linkiing options : Check Diable CamelCase linking (saves problems)\n** Student admin options : don't check any of these\n** Optional : leave blank\n** Group mode : no groups\n** Visible to students : show\n** Save\n# To use\n## Open the wiki activity and select the student's name from the Other Wikis: pulldown menu. You'll see it on the top left of the wiki screen as 'Student Wiki for Spiggy Topes'.\n## Now click the Edit tab and type in some instructions such as "Click on the attachments tab to find you latest graded assignment" into the HTMLArea box. Note that if you ''don't'' do this the uploading will fail). Click Save. You only need to do this the first time you use the wiki with that student, but you'll need to have some web content in each student's wiki.\n## Click on the Attachments tab. Make sure you're uploading into the right Wiki name (eg Returned assignment papers) \n## Browse for the file and click Upload.\n## Once the file has been uploaded successfully the student in question can access and download it. \n## There will be one wiki page created for each student, so Choose the next student's wiki and repeat the procedure.\n\nTake a look at [[Returned Assignment Wiki|https://moodle.earlham.edu/mod/wiki/view.php?id=6991]] in the Miscellaneous:Practice course (make sure to choose a wiki -- the only one present is Student Test account) and try it out.\n\n\n----\nSept 08 2005

Got this email from Joann Quinones:\n\nquinojo@earlham.edu wrote:\n>Hello Mark!\n>\n>On Moodle, for both my Major American Writers and Introduction to Native\n>American Literature course, I would like to create a sort of form where\n>students can rate the presentations they see in class, and add some\n>comments.\n>\n>It would look something like this:\n>\n>Overall Effectiveness 1(poorest) - 5(highest)\n>Quality of Material(sources) Presented: 1 - 5\n>Preparedness: 1-5\n>Quality of Questions asked: 1-5\n>\n>Comments: (and this is where they could fill in the space.\n>\n>\n>Is it possible to do such a thing?\n>\n>Thank you!\n>\n>Joann Quinones\n\nJoann,\n\nRight now we can't do this kind of thing on Moodle. However, I have set up a survey on 'SurveyMonkey' which may do what you want and which can be easily linked to from Moodle.\n\nThe only 'gotcha' is that it's limited to 10 questions a time and since I'm using 2 questions per student, then there's a limit of 5 students per questionairre. However, we can just create 4 questionairres and direct students to the correct one. In addition, there's no foolproof way of recording who has completed the survey apart from number of responses. With 17 students in the class, you'd want 16 responses per question but there's bound to be some sluggards who can't be bothered! The results are displayed as a web page -- obviously they are not going to be directly imported into Moodle but you can easily create an 'offline' assignment in which you enter the grade for each presentation.\n\nI think that the order of names should match the order in which students present their stuff in class (if this is what they're doing). If you're happy with this way of doing it (and let's talk on the phone) you can just email me a list of students in the order they present and I can adjust the names in each survey accordingly.\n\nI have set up a testbed in the [[Miscellaneous : Practice|https://moodle.earlham.edu/course/view.php?id=214]] course in Moodle. I have already made you a 'teacher' in this course .Go to topic 8 and see if it makes sense to you. Click on the survey link to test out the survey. Then take a look at the Grading Presentations offline assignment which is hidden from student view. This is where you'd enter the grades for each student. The only outstanding question is -- how do you get the results? Probably the best idea is for me to paste them in to a web page resource hidden from student view, as in Presentation Results in the same topic.\n\nTake a look at it and see what you think. I do think that this would work reasonably well. I'm assuming that your students will take notes during the class presnetation and then do the survey online afterwards?\n\nCheers\n\nMark\n\nScreenshots:\n\n[[Surveymonkey results screenshot|graphics/surveymonkey_results_rating.png]]\n\n[img[graphics/rating_topic_box.png]]\n\n\n\n----\nSept 07 2005

The 'big three' current issues:\n\n# ReviewAssignmentIssue\n# QuizImportProblem\n# AssessPresentations\n\n----\nSept 09 \n\nProblems with EC Moodle:\n* none of the user data seems to have been restored in courses from 2004-05. David Leeper was looking for uploaded documents from his Negotiation course (in 2004-05:Social Sciences) and there were none present. Also, In my Information Technology & Society course there are no uploaded docuemnts (and the student memebrs are missing). This would not be so bad, but the moodle.earlham.edu/old does not have the complete set of courses from 04-05 as I had expected.\n\n----\nAug 13 2005\n\nUser Stest does not work with moodle.earlham.edu\nCan login to webmail with stest but not Moodle. This means that there is no test student user account to experiment with and we have to 'borrow' accounts from real students.\n''Fixed''\n\n----\nAug 08 2005\n\nCurrent hot potato issue -- ReviewAssignment\n\nEmail to Michael Penney mmp5@humbolt.edu (author of Review_Assignment):\n<<<\nI have set up a test assignment called 'test', for want of something more creative, as assignment type 'upload & review'. Logging in as a student (or guest) I can upload a file in response to this assignment. I then go back in as the course teacher, open the assignment and I can see a link to View 1 submitted assignments. But when I click on this it says 'nothing to display'.\n\nNow I think that this has something to do with the fact that we are running postgres because we came across exactly the same problem in the main assignment module in v1.5. Rowan (the system manager) told me that it was because some part of the SQL code was MySql specific and did not work with postgres. Anyhow, this was fixed in v1.5.1. \n<<<\n\nNo response from Penney by 07/28. Submit this as a ''bug'' on moodle.org.\n-----\n\n!! Import Course Data / Backup & Restore\n\nSaw [[this posting|http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=27005#130993]] at moodle.org on the 'Latest Features' forum (strange place to place it ) about failure of Import to transfer resource files. When I searched the forums for more information I found [[this posting|http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=28163#134397]] from Worth Bishop gives more details of postgres problems. My initial response to this is in the discussion.\n\nI tested the problem out with two Moodle systems at my disposal:\n# ECS Moodle v 1.5.1 (php version unknown, postgres sql version unknown)\n# Mark's Moodle on Macarius v1.5.2 (php version 4.3.1.1, pgsql v 8.0.1)\n\nI backed up Environmental Scince and Sustainability course on ECS Moodle and restored it to both ECS Moodle and Moodle Macarius. I also did a course import on both platforms for the same course.\n\n| | #1 ECS Moodle v1.5.1 | #2 Macarius Moodle v1.5.2 |\n| backup |successful (Resources included, Forums included, Course Files: Yes)| not done |\n| restore |successful (copying course files : 65)|successful -- same as on ECS Moodle|\n| import |success reported - import complete. Nothing in Files copied. All resource links to files break.|same situation as with ECS Moodle|\n\nScreenshots:\n\n# Restore progress \n[img[ |graphics/restore_progress_all.png]] \n# Import progress\n[img[ |graphics/import_progress_all.png]]\n\nNotice how there is no mention of copying course files in the Import progress.\n\nConclusion\n * Backup / Restore functional on Moodle versions 1.5.1 & 1.5.2 with postgres\n * Import does not copy resource files\n\n\n\n----\nMoodleStuff\n----\nAug 04 2005

Meet to review and celebrate progress made with Moodle CMS at Earlham over the past academic year and look ahead to future opportunities.\nLunch meeting in the Richmond Room with lunch at 12 and finish at 3.\nPrize drawing -- webcam, USB thumb drives, software (Photoshop Elements v3).\n\nFormat:\n# A survey of the great strides that EC faculty have made with Moodle over the past year. This would be based on my presentation [[Moodle Milestones @ ITLAC|http://www.earlham.edu/%7Emarkp/ITLAC_05/index.html]] and would last 15-20 mins.\n# Celebrate achievements of faculty. They have accomplished a lot in the past year. 3 faculty to present how they have used Moodle in their courses taking about 10 mins each:\n * Sandrine Sanos (Humanities)\n * Julia May (Fine Arts)\n * Jennifer Ziebarth (Maths)\n# New Directions:\n * 20 mins showing new features of Moodle 1.5 (MHP) [new blocks, grade book, messaging, look & feel]\n * Lori Watson/Corinne Diebel showing how they are going to tackle their joint courses (10 mins)\n# Conversation/discussion about directions faculty are interested in and other possibilities.\n\n----\nAug 03 2005\n\nAttendees (23):\n* Janet Wagner\n* Jennifer Ziebarth\n* Welling Hall\n* Monteze Snyder\n* Mickey White\n* Susan Wise\n* Sandrine Sanos\n* Beth McMahon\n* Yuki Kuramoto\n* Julie May\n* Ron Parker\n* Ebru Celikel\n* Mark Stocksdale\n* Rowan Littel\n* Kathy Milar\n* Lori Watson\n* Amy Bryant\n* Meg Streepey\n* Atindra Sen (thumb drive)\n* Sara Penhale (webcam)\n* David K (headphones)\n* Wes Miller (ITAM)\n* Ed (ITAM)\n\nA good time was had by all.

# Change to Edit mode\n# Find the activity you want to duplicate. Rt-click on the up/down arrows used to move it, and select 'Copy link location':\n[img[duplicate_activity/copy_address_activity.png]]\n# Now paste this into the address field of your browser and change the word 'copy' to duplicate:\n[img[duplicate_activity/edit_address_bar.png]]\n[img[duplicate_activity/address_bar_duplicate.png]]\nPress [Enter]\n# The new duplicate activity, eg assignment, will be started up and you can change it's name and start and due dates. After you have saved the new activity you can move it to it's new location.\n# To create a new duplicate merely repeat the process (if you have not copied anything else you can merely paste back into the address bar, make sure that it reads 'duplicate' and then press [Enter]).\n\n\n\n----\nSept 13 2005

For writing assignments faculty want to be able to mark up a student's essay and then hand it back. This is easy to do with a paper copy but online it is more complex. \n\nThe Moodle plugin called ReviewAssignment was designed to allow faculty to return papers marked up in Word back to the students. However, there are [[problems with this|#ReviewAssignmentIssue]] in Earlham Moodle system with the result that it is non-functional. The workaround suggested in ReviewAssignmentIssue has apparently been functioning reasonably well; what follows is an alternative approach which some faculty may find suits them better.\n\n!!! Assess Assignment\nThe logic behind this is twofold:\n# students like to see their \n

Problems reported by students:\n\n!!! Printing\n\nMany printing problems with Acrobat pdf files, espeically in Biblio Lab in Lilly. I suspect that the printer is at fault here (small printer with insufficient memory).\n\n10-10-2005 Sara Penhale Wildman Sci Lib\nStudent having problems printing resource from [[Physiological Psychology|https://moodle.earlham.edu/course/view.php?id=137]] -- [[Kandell & Hawkins|https://moodle.earlham.edu/mod/resource/view.php?id=8336]] 8 page pdf 2 Mb -- should print fine, doesn't seem to print in entirety. Make sure student uses print icon within Acrobat. Student using IE -- may be an IE issue too. Suggest save to Desktop, open directly in Acrobat and print from there. \n

!! Instructions for playing MP3 music files within Moodle\n\nA. Upload MP3 music into the Files area of your Moodle course\n# Go to Administration : Files (or Course Menu : Control Panel : Files)\n# Click Upload File\n# Click Browse and find the MP3 file you want to upload. Click Open. The filename and complete path will appear in the box.\n# Click Upload this file\n# Repeat with other MP3 files.\n\nB. Create a Web page resource to contain the player\n# CLick Turn editing on\n# In the Topic block where you want the resource to be located: \nSelect Add Resource -> Compose Web page\n# Type in a meaningful name for the resource and a brief Summary of what it is\n# In the Text are you are going to make links for each MP3 file you want to play:\n\nC. Linking to the Music\n# In the text area type the text that you want students to click on to play the music, eg "Beethoven's 1st symphony"\n# highlight this text.\n# Now click the chain icon. A new window will pop up called "Insert Link"\n# Click Browse to go to the Files area. Another window pops up listing all the MP3 files you have present.\n# Just click on the music file you want to use. The window disappears and the filename gets inserted into the URL: field.\n# type a brief descritpion into the Target: field. Click OK\n# Click Save changes. You'll now see a music player to play that file.\n\nYou can click the Update icon to add more players to the resource:\n# at the end of the last link press [Return]\n# create your new link on the next line.\n\n\n----\nOct 11 2005\n\n

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* [[podcasting seminar|http://blogs.nitle.org/mane/2005/11/todays_podcasting_seminar.html]] at CET in Middlebury on Tues 8th Nov.\n* My [[podcasting and iTunes|http://www.earlham.edu/~markp/middlebury/pod_ped.html]] presentation\n* Alex Chapin (author of Segue) gave a brilliant (IMHO) presentation [[ipods in education|https://segue.middlebury.edu/sites/achapin-ipod]] . I particularly like the idea of [[faceted metadata'|http://www.searchtools.com/info/faceted-metadata.html]]. The [[ID3|http://www.id3.org/]] link is interesting too.\n* PodcastEquipment\n\n

I don't recommend the Logitech Premium [sic] USB headset 350 for use with Audacity on WinXP. There's an extremely aggravating tendency to mute the USB output or input at the WInXP level whever the levels are changed within Audacity. Maybe every USB headset does this, (the Plantronix USB headset does not, but then it does require it's own driver) but headsets that use the audio in/out seem to be more reliably controlled from Audacity. However, it's pain in the botty department to have to grovel around the back of the PC in the Lab and grope for the correct microphone in, headphone out sockets.\n

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* Rowan upgraded to 1.5.3+ in early Jan\n* I anticipated problems with Monteze's Wiki and so I backed up her courses (with and without users) and the Wiki activity with user files. However, no problems were observed.\n\n!!! Minor Issues\n# Both Scott Hess and Bob Feller (Math 180) reported that assignments had 'disappeared'. When I looked at the course with editing switched on, I noticed that the week's block had been hidden. Problem sussed with Unhide.

!!!Moodle Musings\n[[Moodle06]]\nPlayMP3\nStudentBugs\nMResourceScan\nNewMoodleModules\nMoodleDocs\n MacariusMoodle\nMoodleSchedule\nMoodleSakai\n!!!ToDos\n[[Moodle 1.5 Issues]]\nMoodleToDos\nQWImprove\nWebBrowserTips\n!!!Odds and Sods\nPodCastingStuff\nTechNewsBlog\n----\nCopyRight 2005\n\n----\nJuly 13 2005

!!!Problem displaying Word & Powerpoint in Internet Explorer XP\nIE's popup blocking will prevent a powerpoint or word download. A carefully concealed "Information bar" tucks itself away near the top of the browser. \n\n[img[graphics/Moodle_word_IE6_XP2_80.png]]\n\nEven though the 'click here for options' doesn't look like a pulldown menu or link you should pull down the menu & choose Download. Then you'll get something like:\n\n[img[graphics/Moodle_IE_screen_popup_300.png]]\n\n\nand you can open or save as you wish\n----\nFeb 15 2006

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Anything in cvs:/contrib named "xxxxx" can be downloaded like this:\nhttp://moodle.org/download.php/modules/xxxxx.zip

Email from Kevin Miles 3/1/06:\n<<<\nMark,\n 1. The student's name from whom Moodle snatched a paper is Hannah Rachel Bacon. You will note that the grade is next to her name but there is no hot link for her paper, but there was one there before. \n<<<\n[img[lost_assignment_80.png]]

How to change the resolution of an Adobe Acrobat file (eg from 300dpi to 150dpi).\nFrom Michell Funk 1/6/2006:\n<<<\nHi Mark,\nI've been up here in the social sciences office working on uploading moodle files for Cheri. When you finally tipped us off to our resolution problem with the moodle files, Cheri told me that last time you'd been up here (I have no idea when) you hadn't figured out how to change the resolution of previously-scanned .pdf files with acrobat. Luckily, I did figure out how to do this and I thought I'd pass it on in case others have similar problems. If you already knew how, I apoligise for the superfluous email.\n* With file open in Acrobat, File->Save As, using dropdown menu to save as a Post Script File.\n* Close the open file (without closing Acrobat) and \n* go to Tools->Distiller. In Distiller box, use Settings->Job Options to make sure resolution is set\nat 150 dpi. \n* Use File->Open dialog to choose your previously saved postscript file. Choose the name and location of the .pdf file and Distiller will do the rest.\n<<<

From Moodle Forum [[HTML editor|http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=35396#166236]] :\n<<<\nIs anyone having a problem with using the html editor in moodle in the finished and new release of Firefox 1.5, I upgraded today and now when I click on the icon in the html editor in moodle to go to fullscreen mode it opens a blank screen window rather than one with the editor.\n<<<\nI have exactly that problem with FireFox 1.5.1. \n[[Bug workaround|http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=35396&parent=174712]] :\n<<<\nI looked in Mozilla's bugzilla and found a bug report for this. It appears to be a problem in HTMLarea, but one of the comments in the bug report had a workaround. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=301869\n\nIn the file /lib/editor/htmlarea.php:\nIn HTMLArea.cloneObject = function(obj) \n\nThis:\nif (obj.constructor.toString().indexOf("function Function(") == 1) {\nyou should change into this:\nif (obj.constructor.toString().indexOf("function Function(") >= 0) {\n\nand\n\nThis:\nif (obj.constructor.toString().indexOf("function Array(") == 1) {\nyou should change into this:\nif (obj.constructor.toString().indexOf("function Array(") >= 0) {\n\nMake the same changes in lib/editor/popups/fullscreen.php. I've tested it with one of the lab computers that has Firefox 1.5, and everything superficially seems to work. I still have to re-upgrade my own machine back to FF 1.5 and live with it a while before I'm sure.\n<<<\n[[Some people|http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=35396&parent=175926]] report that the patch works but [[others|http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=35396&parent=201688]] report that it's broken in IE 6.\n----\nApril 17th 2006

!!!HTMLeditorFirefox\nHTMLeditor is blank in fullscreen mode when using Firefox 1.5\nApril 17 2006\n----\n!!![[Internet Explorer Information bar]]\nFeb 15 2006\n----\n!!!Documents submitted into Assignment not opening for instructor when using Internet Explorer\nBill Glasser [LLC], Saoud Mawla [POLS: Topics in IR: The UN and the Quest for Peace]\n# Bill Glasser\n<<<\nSeptember 20, 2005\nReference: Moodle\nMark,\n\nThis e-mail is sent to summarize our discussions that took place yesterday concerning my issues with Moodle. As you recall I called advising that I was having problems accessing the attachments that were located in Moodle under the class that Linda Tyler Wolski and I as teaching together. I contacted Newell and he directed me to you for assistance.\n\nI was unable to open any documents/attachments in Moodle. When I went to the WebDB program I was able to access documents/attachments in this area but was till unable to access anything in the Moodle section. This also included PDF format files as well.\n\nDuring our discussion yesterday you advised me to download/install the Firefox program. Once this program was downloaded and installed on my hard drive I was able to successfully open all documents located in the Moodle section. Your assistance was very valuable to me as well as greatly appreciated.\n\nThanks again!\nBill \n<<<\n# Saoud Mawla\nGot phone call from Welling Hall to the effect that word documents submitted into Moodle cannot be opened. I visited Saoud's office at 11am. He was trying to grade a student assignment which was a Word document. He was using Internet Explorer running on Windows XP. The following error occurred when he tried opening the Word file:\n<<<\n"Internet Explorer cannot download //filename.doc// from moodle.earlham.edu.\nInternet Explorer was not able to open the Internet site. The requested site was unavailable and cannot be found. Please try again later."\n<<<\nI tried doing Rt-click and Save Target As and I got a similar error:\n<<<\n"Internet Explorer cannot download file from moodle.earlham.edu. The file could not be written to cache."\n<<<\n\n''Fix:''\nI installed Firefox (now at v1.08), configured it, opened Saoud's Moodle site and the document opened up without a hitch.\n\nI really don't know what is going on with I.E but it's strange.\n\n23 Sept 2005\n----\n\nSandrine Sanos [Holocaust, Film and Representation : HIST/JWST 240]\n<<<\nAlso, the reason I panicked about giving feedback is because when one\nclicks on grade, sometimes the feedback box does not open up. I have to\nlog out or give feedback to another student before returning back to the\none that did not work. A glitch to keep in mind for updated versions?\n<<<\nSept 21 05\n----\n!!!Add feed to RSS block not functional\nWelling Hall. (Sara Penhale has also reported this):\n<<<\nI just tried adding a UNICEF RSS news feed to one of my Moodle courses and was told that "guests are not allowed to post." I was logged on as myself.\n<<<\nThe problem & conclusion that it's a bug, and the fix is in [[this Moodle Forum conversation|http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=26964]]\n''Workaround''\nEmail the RSS feed URLs and titles to me and I'll add them to the list. The user can then add them to the RSS block.\n''Fix''\n<<<\nReading that thread, it looks like there are only three files involved\nin the fix and that they will work fine in any 1.5 version, so at some\npoint soon, I'll just download those files and copy them into place.\nProbably no need to plan for maintenance time, as I suspect the new\nfiles will just work.\n --rowan \n<<<\n\nSept 20 05\n----\n!!!Guest user won't login\nKumiko Sato via Mandy Brookins Blinn [OFFC : SICE2005 Off-Campus Study in Japan]\n<<<\nKumi Sato is the faculty leader for the Fall SICE program in Japan, and was using Moodle as a way to connect with participating students but also parents of those students.\n\nAt the beginning of the semester, parents and non participants could login as a "guest," but we've noticed the "guest" option isn't working any more. Did something change? Or can we go back to allowing guests to visit the site?\n\nThanks for your help,\n\nMandy \n<<<\nI did confirm (on Mac Firefox and Safari) that the course is set to Guest access but guests get a 'invalid login error'. When I reset the course to 'Guest with enrollment key' I still got the same error.\nInterestly, looking at the logs the last Guest access was on Mon 29th August from 159.28.20.169 (Earlham user), other recent guest users have come from Milton NSW, Australia (210.239.16.20), Jonesville, MI (68.41.165.18) an unlocatable place (63.89.176.61), Middletown New Jersey (12.222.128.153), and Iwate (prefecture), Tohoku-chiho (region), Japan (160.29.28.11)\n''Fix''\nRowan responded:\n<<<\nI reset it [guest user account on Moodle] to 'ldap' when I did everyone else a little while ago, and I didn't realize that Moodle treats "guest" as a real user. I need to know what to set it back to.\n<<<\nBy testing on Moodle Macrina I found that Guest was set to manual & then:\n<<<\nTha'ts exactly what I needed, and it seems to work now.\nUPDATE mdl_user SET auth = 'manual' WHERE username = 'guest';\n<<<\n\nSep 13 05\n----\nCarol Hunter [HIST : ]\nweek in outline view hidden (eye closed) -- no amount of clicking will open it.\n''Fix''\nI was able to go into the course and reveal the week.\n----\n!!!Courses part of meta-course cannot enroll students\nWendy Selignmann [LLC : Seligmann Wed 2:30 and Seligmann Wed 7:00]\nCannot enroll students into either of these courses. Cannot unenroll Lisa Castineda either\nI went in to Adminsitration:Students but was unable to enroll or unenroll\nSept 5-9 \n''Fix''\nThe problem was that the course was a part of the meta course before it had students enrolled and this membership seemed to prevent students from enrolling. I found a fix which invloves making a backup of the course, restoring this backup into a new course, deleteing the original and then renaming the new course back with the old name.\nSubsqeunt to this I looked at all the LLC courses and found several which were labelled 'no enrollment -- part of meta course' in the settings and I had to give the treatment to all these. \n''Note''\nDo not make the course Short Name too long because when duplicating the couyrse on restore a "_1" is appended to the name and if the result is too long the course will not restore.\n----\n!!!Bugginess in Assignment option settings\nJennifer Ziebarth [MATH : course unknown]\n<<<\nIt looks like Moodle isn't accepting late electronic submission of assignments, even though I've got an assignment where I've chosen "accept late assignments". \n<<<\nIt seems that there's an interaction between allow late submissions and allow resubmitting. I am using the online text assignment type (so it might be different with another assignment type), and I have found that when 'allow late submissions' is set to 'no' but allow resubmitting is set to 'yes' then students can submit their work *after* the deadline has passed, but then there's an indication in red of how late the submission was. So, I think we have:\n\n|>| !'Allow' submission setting | !Effective action |\n| !Late (p1 of assignment) | !Resubmit (p2) | |\n|No|Yes|Late submissions accepted, tardiness in red|\n|Yes|No|Late submissions not accepted apparently|\n|Yes|Yes|Late submissions should be accepted but are not|\n|No|No|Late submissions should not accepted|\n\n!!!Action\nTest this feature on Moodle Macrina.\n\n----\nMark Pearson [CS : Social Impact of Computer Technology]\nAll the assignments have a similar format -- the student merely pastes in the 'permalink' URL of the blog entry into the online assignment text input box when she/he has done the assignment writing in the blog. ''However'', for student Kerri Jones on assignments 'Formatting with Textile2' and 'What's a blog' when she pasted the URL into the text area and saved the URL disappeared from view. The code is still there but the link does not appear in the regular view and does not appear for me the teacher after the assignment has been saved. Also, I managed to link the blog URL to the button that saves the assignment text!\n\n----\nMark Pearson [CS : Social Impact of Computer Technology]\nIn the 'Marking Block' (which is incredibly useful) none of the links actually work. One would imagine that clicking on the link to the assignment in the Marking Status box would take you there, but it doesn't....\n\n----\nMonteze Snyder [MGMT: Intro to Organizations and Human Relations] Sept 12\nAssignment 'Dynacorp case analysis' is set to allow late submissions (yes) and allow resubmitting (yes). The due date was Sept 8th and it's Sept 12th. A student was able to resubmit a corrected paper a single time but he needed to add the bibliography and resubmit again. He was unable to do this since the submission button was just not present. \nThe help text on both allow late submissions and resubmissions is clear that with both these options set students should be able to resubmit papers multiple times after grading even if the due date has passed. \nOne more nasty glitch.\nWorkaround : change assignment due date to Sept 13th. Now the submission box is present and he can upload.\n\nSept 12\n----\nMon Sept 05 2005 mod Sept 12

We really need to accomplish two upgrades this summer:\n# Moving from Moodle 1.5.3 to 1.6\n(I need to evaluate some new modules and blocks with a faculty group)\n# Switch from Postgres to MySQL database backend.\nThis will enable us to cirumvent some of the [[issues|Moodle 1.5 Issues]] with v1.5.\n\nThere are at least two ways we can go about this:\n!!!Option 1 : Start Moodle v1.6 from scratch\nHow this would work:\n* Install and configure a fresh version of Moodle 1.6 and map to moodle.earlham.edu\n* Map the current moodle site to moodle.earlham.edu/05-06\n* MHP creates departmental categories (and courses?)\n* Faculty needing to migrate old content would have to use backup / download / restore (it would be useful if there were a comon area accessible by both moodle versions). In practice MHP would do a lot of this.\n\nAdvantages : new system, fresh database, potentially fewer hassles.\nDrawbacks : hassle copying old course into new system\n\n!!!Option 2 : Migrate all current year's courses into the new system\nHow this would work:\n* Install and configure a fresh version of Moodle 1.6 and map to moodle.earlham.edu\n* The data area would point to the same location as the current v1.5\n* Dump postgres database and reload into MySQL.\n* Retire the version 1.5 code\n\nPros : Faculty would see all the courses they created this year making them easy to reuse.\nCons : Student would still be enrolled. Need to unenroll names. Plus hide outdated courses. Wiki data may not transfer from old wiki version to new version with different format.\nFaculty have a tendency to 'reuse' an old course in situ instead of duplicating the course and modifying the copy. \n\n!!!Policy\n* Keep all courses in the same database from year to year? \n* Hide previous year's courses automatically?\n* Auto unenroll students?\n* I need a group of faculty to consult with about Moodle policies, module implementations, which directions to push etc

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HIstory of nonviolent movements:\ndone backup in last year's 0506 Moodle (v1.5). Upload zip and restore. Get error:\n<<<\nCourse restore: hist_130-20060725-1548.zip\n * Creating new course\n o History of Nonviolent Social Movements (Hist 130)\n o Category: History (HIST)\n * Creating sections\n * Creating categories and questions\n XML error: not well-formed (invalid token) at line 1000\n<<<\n----\nJuly 25 06