by Chris Richter | Sep 3, 2019 | Moodle, Moodle administrators
Someone will undoubtedly do something wrong or an issue will arise where you need to go searching through the log files. Moodle has its own log files. Site administration > Reports > Logs You can select from the different filters to decide what data you need....
by Chris Richter | Sep 1, 2019 | Moodle, Moodle administrators
WARNING: On your production server you should never have to do this unless there is absolutely no other choice. Use the log files instead. Warning: Do not do this unless you really know what you are doing. In Moodle On your staging server, turning on debugging helps...
by Chris Richter | Aug 20, 2019 | Moodle, Moodle teachers
A common dilemma for Moodle content is the size of images. If you set the image size at 100%, everything seems too big and the image takes over the screen. If you set a fixed size for an image then on a mobile device it causes a right scroll issue. To solve this...
by Chris Richter | Aug 19, 2019 | Moodle, Moodle developer, Moodle teachers
Sometimes you may want to embed a static page inside your Moodle course content. Why would you want to do this? You may have a notification that will be spread across many different courses that you want to change in only one location or you may want to...
by Chris Richter | Aug 18, 2019 | Moodle
There was a unique situation where I was asked to add a home button to the bottom navigation of a Moodle course but the restriction was, that I had no access to the Moodle Admin, no Generico plugin and could only function as an editor for the course. The question is,...
by Chris Richter | Aug 17, 2019 | Moodle
Let’s assume you have a collection of categories on your Moodle server and want each category to have it’s own colour scheme. This means, all category 1 courses have one colour for their main heading and all category 2 courses will have a different colour heading....
by Chris Richter | Aug 16, 2019 | Moodle
Do you have this issue with your Moodle navigation where long page names overlap with the navigation drop down list? All we need to do to fix this is apply a little bit of CSS and all will be forgiven. By looking at the HTML tags in the navigation you will find (for...
by Chris Richter | Aug 15, 2019 | Moodle
A very typical scenario is that you are a teacher in a Moodle course or content expert, but you do not have administration access to the Moodle platform but you really want or need to add a CSS style to something in your course content. You tried adding CSS to a page...
by Chris Richter | Aug 11, 2019 | Moodle, Moodle administrators
If you haven’t discovered what CRON is yet… Check this out first. How to run-cron-manually When you run CRON it runs a collection of tasks. You can see what these tasks are by going to the Scheduled tasks list. Site administration > Server >...
by Chris Richter | Feb 12, 2019 | Audio, Education, Video
Is it worth spending all the time editing and re-editing video or is it better to do the one take option? I guess it depends, but here are some good reasons to aim for a single take. Cost Time Actually that’s really it. What is ‘one take’ recording....
