Moodle: To require a minimum time spent in a lesson The lesson dependency, time spent, is not being added up to determine if a student has spent the required time in the previous lesson. (previous or some other dependent-lesson) Also, in the first page of a lesson, if a person refreshes the page, it writes a new record wiping out credit for all the...
PHP Moodle
Moodle: an on line education/school application; programming and security issues, tec.
moodle lessons: grade errors
Unreliable grade tracking in lesson module Also, moodle has known for years that their grades (course >> grades) are unreliable and that their calculations of “time spent in a lesson” are wrong, but have still, as of now, (moodle 2.1.2, October 10th, 2011) not done anything about it. Lesson Grades and Time Spent are incorrect when a person starts a lesson and then returns...
moodle 2.0 installation problems and more
moodle developers are getting more demanding Good grief! Moodle 2.0 wrecks all your plug-ins and themes, demands PHP 5.2.8+ (PHP 5.3.3), DOM (not always included with 5.2.8). the lesson module is still as buggy as ever, … not to mention the sites that could but don’t need all the hassles, without a good reason – some fantastic new feature that they just HAVE to...
How to keep a moodle database clean and trim
If your database is becoming very large “Help, my moodle database is huge!” How to delete old records in a huge moodle database How to clean moodle database tables. How to keep a moodle database clean and trimmed How to delete old log table records from a moodle database For example, we cleared a 500+ meg(!) mdl_event table … moodle does not use it....
Open Source LMS, MOODLE, ATutor, Sakai, Canvas, and others
Because moodle has abandoned so many of its installed client base with the release of moodle version 2.0, it’s seems to be the right time to look at the alternatives. Moodle has only about 10% of the on-line education market. “Moodle has been in a downward spiral for a few years” – educhalk.org ATutor ver. 2.0 PHP 5 meg tar.gz Claroline ver. 1.10 PHP...
State required identity questions for on-line classes
U.S. State required security-identity questions for approval of online ‘certificated’ classes. State requirement for proof of identity while taking online classes State required proof of identity in an online classroom A few years ago, several states, including Nevada, Idaho, Florida and, N.Carolina, passed into law the additional, on-line education, requirement that “if a student can re-answer a set of personal questions asked at the...