[Moodle] Moodle award

[Laurie Savage]

I'm invstigating Plone for an Intranet Solution on a server I've high-jacked
for Info. Tech. It has a short, steep learning curve for the administrator
but is very interesting. I find it is a simpler and a better document
repository than Drupal or Mambo/Joomla. It has rather neat graphics
capacities and work flows that will lend themselves to collaborative student
tasks. Look at the nice URL in the Firefox screen-shot (not the domain, it's
not fixed). I don't have a publicly available site yet.

	Debian/Ubuntu: "sudo apt-get install plone-site"!

I gave up on Drupal because the Admin. Pages scroll too far and I could
never get the hang of its image handling although its collaborative tools
are good. Anyone interested in Plone could do a lot worse than having a
quick look at the "Introduction to Plone" and/or "Editing with Plone" videos
on http://plone.org/about/movies

Laurie

-----Original Message-----
From: moodle-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:moodle-bounces at edulists.com.au]
On Behalf Of Stephen Digby
Sent: Monday, 20 August 2007 1:12 PM
To: 'The Moodle Users' in Schools Mailing List'
Subject: RE: [Moodle] Moodle award

I have got around this by moving all our intranet INSIDE moodle folders.
i.e. ALL students software is within a meta course for student software, all
teacher references are within a moodle course for student references etc.
These course folders are also mapped directly for quick access while
students are at school.
This allows teacher and students to exchange links to the resources which
will work the same way at school as outside school.

Now building forums inside these courses that detail the resources so that
they are more effectively searchable through the forum search feature.

Had to hack a bit of moodle (the bit that tries to calculate folder sizes
when displaying directories) as it fails when it tries to calculate 11 Gb of
folders !!!!

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-----Original Message-----
From: moodle-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:moodle-bounces at edulists.com.au]
On Behalf Of victor rajewski
Sent: Monday, 20 August 2007 12:00 PM
To: The Moodle Users' in Schools Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Moodle] Moodle award

If the folder cannot be accessed from outside, then the folder can't be
accessed from outside, irrespective of whether there are
links to it. The only solution is to somehow provide external access to the
folder, either by allowing direct access to the server
(this can usually be locked down), or via some kind of proxy solution like
using apache and samba described below. Or using a VPN
for the whole thing - this would be just like being inside the school.

vik

On 8/17/07, Alan Oh <OH.A at wcc.vic.edu.au> wrote:
> Hi Vik. The moodle server is a linux machine, totally different to the 
> MyFolder server. MyFolder is a network folder available within the 
> school network but not available outside, unless a VPN is set up.
>
> Alan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: moodle-bounces at edulists.com.au
> [mailto:moodle-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of victor rajewski
> Sent: Friday, 17 August 2007 12:28 PM
> To: The Moodle Users' in Schools Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [Moodle] Moodle award
>
> On 8/17/07, Alan Oh <OH.A at wcc.vic.edu.au> wrote:
> > Ahem, I don't want to sidetrack the discusion about the Ultranet, 
> > but does anyone know if there is a way around this scenario:
> >
> > - The moodle server is inhouse
> > - I have a Windows file server containing a folder called "MyFolder"
> > that I did a webshare on. Ths folder has pictures, etc that teachers 
> > want students to access/view
> > - in moodle, I used "Link to a file or website" to link to "MyFolder"
> > - all works well....inhouse.
> > - when logged in to moodle from home, the MyFolder link fails.
>
> Is the windows fileserver which MyFolder is on accessible from the 
> outside world? Does it have the same address/domain name inside as it 
> does outside?
>
> Is your moodle server running on linux or windows; if windows, is it 
> the same server as the file share is on?
>
> vik
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