by Chris Richter | Sep 22, 2019 | Moodle, Moodle developer, Moodle teachers
This is one of the most useful plugins I have ever used. This plugin lets you create course templates, where you create a course that has the base information, content examples, standard activities, structure and grade book setup all ready for a content developer to...
by Chris Richter | Sep 20, 2019 | Moodle, Moodle administrators
DO NOT CHANGE ANY SETTINGS IN YOUR MOODLE CONFIG FILE UNLESS YOU REALLY KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING AS YOU COULD CAUSE ISSUES WITH YOUR MOODLE SERVER Hopefully you will not need to do this but there will probably come a time when someone needs to change the config.php...
by Chris Richter | Sep 6, 2019 | Moodle, Moodle administrators
This is something you should not have to do on production but you may need to do this on your staging server to check changes when testing plugins or new features. CRON is a command line function that calls certain tasks in Moodle to make database changes, move files...
by Chris Richter | Sep 6, 2019 | Moodle, Moodle developer
If you have experimented with the Moodle Web Services then you will find there are pockets of information that can be pieced together to help understand how the API’s work. Below is a list of links to pages and sites that I have found extremely useful when it...
by Chris Richter | Sep 4, 2019 | Moodle, Moodle administrators
When things go a little crazy and people are asking why icons are missing or why a theme change hasn’t come through, this could be a sign to clear the Moodle Cache. This is not the Browser Cache which can be cleared by various means in each browser....
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 dynamically...
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,...