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Yes, you are probably right Chris, but my initial concern was to get the question up. Just go for it, I am not in the position I can spend a lot of time doing this until the end of September now. Cheers.. | Yes, you are probably right Chris, but my initial concern was to get the question up. Just go for it, I am not in the position I can spend a lot of time doing this until the end of September now. Cheers.. | ||
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Hi Colin and others. This page has some great stuff in it. Be careful (or not :) ) with information that is very Moodle site specific. Getting content up is good. Placing content that does not work for a beginning administrator is not good. | |||
In general, we need to be careful about presenting examples as facts, especially to a beginning administrator. For example, the Moodle2 theme header in demo.moodle.org is 200px × 46px and is located /theme/moodle2/pix/moodle-logo.gif. This is different from the Formal White logo in both size and generic location. The warning about the height was spot on but it ignored another common error "all Moodle sites work just like my site". | |||
I do want to point out that placing FAQs in MoodleDocs is a big positive and having a FAQ and not putting it up is a negative. A collaborative project like MoodleDocs is all about taking good ideas (this is a FAQ) and tweaking them over time by the collective knowledge. I am talking about tweaking. | |||
Thanks to all the past and future contributors to this series of FAQ pages. --[[User:chris collman|chris collman]] 12:41, 5 August 2009 (UTC) | |||
Revision as of 12:41, 5 August 2009
If you have something to contribute please feel free.
If there is anything here you disagree with, please add in another perspective.
If the language is too opaque then make it more simple, which makes it easier to read.
Why am I just not getting how Permissions and Roles work?
This section really jumps around in my logic and needs more links. The intro is good because it addresses a problem I had/have :) But after that I would delete the rest. At a certain point the words revert to a description of a process, where authentication is mixed in with front page roles and terms of teacher, course creator and such and what happens when a user comes back from a course..... I think more links will help and maybe ask another question (or more) to focus upon why the mental block about permissions, contexts, capabilities, and roles. --Chris collman 12:37, 20 July 2009 (UTC)
Yes, you are probably right Chris, but my initial concern was to get the question up. Just go for it, I am not in the position I can spend a lot of time doing this until the end of September now. Cheers..
General comments on page
Hi Colin and others. This page has some great stuff in it. Be careful (or not :) ) with information that is very Moodle site specific. Getting content up is good. Placing content that does not work for a beginning administrator is not good.
In general, we need to be careful about presenting examples as facts, especially to a beginning administrator. For example, the Moodle2 theme header in demo.moodle.org is 200px × 46px and is located /theme/moodle2/pix/moodle-logo.gif. This is different from the Formal White logo in both size and generic location. The warning about the height was spot on but it ignored another common error "all Moodle sites work just like my site".
I do want to point out that placing FAQs in MoodleDocs is a big positive and having a FAQ and not putting it up is a negative. A collaborative project like MoodleDocs is all about taking good ideas (this is a FAQ) and tweaking them over time by the collective knowledge. I am talking about tweaking.
Thanks to all the past and future contributors to this series of FAQ pages. --Chris collman 12:41, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
