Talk:Administrator documentation

Course Formats

Perhaps there should be something on course formats. We do have several alternatives, such as the hybrid course format (did not Chardelle do that one? I use it in my 1.5) and accordion. There are a number that we could reference, similar to the way the "non standard" blocks are set up in this wiki. --A. T. Wyatt

Site stats

There should be a page explaining the site stats (also for teachers).--N Hansen 22:50, 18 February 2006 (WST)

Yes please - Site stats - we really need documentation for 1.6 features. --Helen Foster 05:51, 19 February 2006 (WST)

New User should like this page

I am sure everyone is sick of my new user soapbox. I think this is A GOOD EXAMPLE of an opening page for a new administrator user. The Teacher Documentation page could move in this direction. I do appreciate all the hard work everyone is doing here --Chris collman 00:44, 31 July 2006 (WST)

Oracle Documentation

There is next to zero documentation to help out those who want to (or are obliged to) use Oracle. I've managed to set up a moodle1.7 with an Oracle backend in it's default state, however, it's default state is not happy with 1.8's UTF8 requirement (Oracle is using something it calls "WE8MSWIN1252" encoding, not up to scratch for 1.8). This is more of a how-do-I with Oracle issue than a moodle thing. But I'd love to keep in touch with other admins using Moodle with Oracle on the b-side. See also my comments to Installing_Oracle_for_PHP. Bryan Cribbs 22:05, 28 January 2007 (CST)

is there a mailing list I can join? -bryan

Logs and Reports

I changed the primary administrator page -(yikes will Helen approve?) so instead of saying "logs" under "Other" it now says "Reports (administrator) and Logs". I created an "Reports (administrator)" page with links to the 4 sub catagories seen in 1.8. We could do that here but no other section uses the double bullet format, so I opted to link to another page. The "Logs" entry will still link to "Logs". Back in 1.5 teacher reports were called logs. There were and still are a lot of stubs around the subject of logs/reports.

So while I am researching this subject for myself, I figured we might as well start to bring MoodleDocs up to the 1.8 standard in this area for new administrators and teachers . Best --Chris collman 08:12, 8 September 2007 (CDT)

Hi Chris, thanks as always for your documentation contributions :-) You're right about Administrator documentation needing updating and improving. I'm going to take a look at it too. --Helen Foster 04:37, 11 September 2007 (CDT)

Hi Helen, ditto thanks to you. I seem to find myself in the Special pages in my hobby time. Orphans and broken and redirects and disambu's. Leads to interesting pages and links like I tried to correct. Best --Chris collman 12:28, 11 September 2007 (CDT)