Tag: moodle
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Packt’s Moodle Books
This spring I reviewed the Packt publishing book Moodle 3 E-Learning Course Development – Fourth Edition Within a week after it being published I had already recommended it for a teacher/consultant to use it to setup there online training course in support of their book/program. Take a look it is pretty great. I have just…
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Replacing Surname with Last Name in Moodle 3.1.1+
This is a post recommending utilizing Moodle menus as opposed to writing your own code. If you prefer to customize your site in a manner that upgrading becomes nigh on impossible, please, do so without leaving a comment or reading further. I had an amusing time reading the posts of folks who have hacked the…
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error/invalidrestorefile Errors Trying to Restore a Course in Moodle
I am running Moodle 3.1 (Build: 20160609); however, none of that matters. I had errors restoring files as I reset my system for the next academic year which I do immediately before they send me packing for the summer season. I got it to work last Friday but on Monday decided to start again from…
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Setting Up Moodle to Use Google Mail: Postfix on Fedora 22
When I set up my Moodle Server, one of the things that I wanted to do was be able to send the emails to the students as well as logs and various system emails. Creating your Relay If you haven’t done so already, you need to install postfix first. # dnf install postfix Next you…
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Moodle “version 5.5.31 is required and you are running 5.5.5.10.0.X”
I received this error message upgrading an older Moodle installation this weekend to Fedora 21 and Moodle 2.8.2+. Information on the forums on moodle.org was less than gratifying with little or no work done to explain an answer, merely pontificate about this or that, or my favorite, ask for more information. Many folks posted less helpful…