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Installations 10000 plus

2011-02-04T08:07:04Z

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Please add your school info here, if you have a Moodle installation catering (or expecting to cater) for 10,000 or more users.
==Austria==
* [http://elearning.tuwien.ac.at/ Moodle (TUWEL)] user statistics September 25th 2009 - Vienna University of Technology (TU Vienna)

- 19.250 users (students & teachers)
- 13.400 students enrolled in courses
- 1.030 teachers enrolled in courses
- 5000+ active users per day

Our mission is „technology for people“. Through our research we „develop scientific excellence“, through our teaching we „enhance comprehensive competence“.

==Brazil==

* [http://www.escolatecnica.ufrgs.br Escola Técnica da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul] - Professional school in Brazil, with 1,200 students. Adopted Moodle in 2004 and has been using it since then.

==Canada==

* [http://www.athabascau.ca/ Athabasca University] - Canada's leading distance-education and online university: Canada's Open University, serving about 30,000 students per year. Athabasca has decided to adopt Moodle as a single platform instead of WebCT Vista (i.e. the top of the line version). You can read their [http://www.athabascau.ca/media/index.php?id=132 press release] for more info.

* [http://moodle.mala.bc.ca/ Malaspina University-College] - Malaspina U-C is located on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada. MUC was established in 1969, and has over 10,000 full-time Canadian students, plus 1,000 international students from more than 50 countries. MUC offers graduate and undergraduate degrees, diplomas and certificates, and a 5-level English Language program. MUC offers classroom-student support through Moodle, as well as a range of fully online courses through [http://pr.malaonline.ca/ Malaspina Continuing Education]. MUC switched from WebCT to Moodle in 2006.

* [http://www.usherbrooke.ca/ Université de Sherbrooke] - L'Université de Sherbrooke accueille plus de 37 000 étudiantes et étudiants, provenant de plus de 100 pays, dont quelque 9000 inscrits à l’Université du troisième âge. Plus de 85 % de la population étudiante de l’Université de Sherbrooke provient de l’extérieur de Sherbrooke. L’Université de Sherbrooke emploie 6700 personnes. Elle compte 10 % du corps professoral québécois.

==China==

* [http://english.bit.edu.cn/ Beijing Institute of Technology]

==Czech Republic==

* [https://moodle.czu.cz Czech University of Life Sciences Prague]
** 35,590 users in 911 courses (14,665 active users in last 15 days) / 18th October 2010
** Moodle 1.9.5
** integration with LDAP and Oracle
** Administration: [http://www.oikt.czu.cz/?r=1686 E-learning Support Centre, Division of IT, CULS Prague]

==France==

* [http://cursus.uhb.fr/ Université de Rennes 2 - Haute Bretagne] - 20,000 to 30,000 users in 1400 courses
** 8,000 different users connected every month
** 300 teachers actually involved
** integration with LDAP and Esup-Portail (based on uPortal) ;
** authentication via CAS

* [http://cours.univ-tlse1.fr/ Université Toulouse 1 Capitole] - 18,000 users in 800 courses, Moodle 1.9.7+
** 300 teachers actually involved
** integration with LDAP and Esup-Portail (based on uPortal)
** authentication via CAS

==Germany==

* [http://www.isis.tu-berlin.de/ Technische Universität Berlin] - 10,400 Users in 402 courses (updated: 07.June.2007)
** After a test period, the Information System for Instructors and Students (ISIS) was launched in september 2006.

==India==
* [http://www.amieindia.net AMIE India] is a website for [http://www.amieindia.net AMIE] students currently (as of September 2007) having 239 courses, 11246 users.

* [http://www.visveswaraya.org/ AMIE] a residential AMIE Institute in Kerala, India, listed in LIMCA Book of Records with 130 All India Ranks, is best ever for AMIE coaching & IIT & NIT higher studies.

==Ireland==

* [http://www.dcu.ie Dublin City University] 18,000 users in 3,600 courses.

==Italy==

* [http://www.aulaweb.unige.it/ AulaWeb - University of Genoa] AulaWeb is an university-wide installation of Moodle, organized in virtual instances, one for each laurea degree. In March 2007, it hosts more than 78 instances used by 10.500 students.

==Jamaica==
*[http://ourvle.mona.uwi.edu The University of the West Indies] - 23,000+ users in 1600+ courses

==New Zealand==

*[http://campus.openpolytechnic.ac.nz/ The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand] - 35,000+ students, 6,500+ courses, single sign-on for library services using Ezy Proxy, single sign-on for webmail, using SquirrelMail, uses LDAP for interface with Sears Student Management System. Comments by [https://eduforge.org/wiki/wiki/nzvle/wiki?pagename=Comments%20by%20Ken%20Udas%2C%20Director%20of%20eLearning%20at%20the%20Open%20Polytechnic Ken Udas, Director of eLearning at the Open Polytechnic]

==Palestine==

*[http://eclass.alquds.edu Al-Quds University] - 12,000+ users in 900+ courses. Al-Quds University started using moodle in 2004.

== Philippines ==

* [http://eclass.adzu.edu.ph Ateneo de Zamboanga University] - with 10,000+ faculty, staff and students (started using Moodle since 2002)

== Portugal ==

[http://moodle.fct.unl.pt/ Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa] - 5000+ users in 400+ pages.

==South Africa==

* [http://www.ru.ac.za Rhodes University] in Grahamstown runs an instance of Moodle as its institutional LMS [http://ruconnected.ru.ac.za RUconnected] currently with more than 10 000 registered users, including more than 550 teachers.

== Spain ==

*[http://aulavirtual.uji.es/ Universitat Jaume I]. Official VLE since 2004. 13.600 real users (12.500 students and 1.100 teachers) and 1.300 active courses on February 2009. Moodle 1.9.x.

*[http://www.upc.edu La Universitat Politecnica de Cataluña] on september 2005 started a pilot Moodle installation with 3.000 Students. On september 2006 the migration from the old campus to Moodle will be complete with more than 30.00 students [http://atenea.upc.edu El campus Atenea 4] runs Moodle 1.4.5 y an will be updated to Moodle 1.5.3 in september 2006. [http://www.upc.edu UPC] has developed several applicatons adn bridges between its own informacion systems.
** Integration with the academic management informatio system "Prisma".
** [http://appserv.lsi.upc.es/palangana/moodle/course/view.php?id=18 Internalmail] (developed also in UPC) is used for as email internal system.
** Moodle integration with [http://bibliotecnica.upc.edu the upc library system].
** Adaptation of Moodle grades to spanish university grading system.
** And other stuff

*[http://www.urv.cat/ Universitat Rovira i Virgili] using Moodle for three academic years. At present version 1.5.4+ to be updated to 1.6.4+ in short. In march 2007, 22701 users registered and 3500 courses created aprox.
** Integration with the academic management information system
** Integration with the corporative LDAP user’s directory
** Average of 504 courses used regularly (logs at least once a week)
** Average of 3200 students login at least once a day
** Average of 7200 students login at least once a week
** 10500 users (teachers and students) accessed at least once during the last month (data from 26th march 2007)

*[http://www.ulpgc.es/index.php?pagina=campusvirtual&ver=inicio Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC)] - 24.000 users in aprox. 1800 courses. We started with Moodle 1.4 four years ago as a test pilot project for a small number of courses. Now offered as a basic service for all courses at ULPGC: 55 official EU titles and 5 more offered ONLY through Web.
** We are using version 1.6.3 with LDAP authentification
** Custom modules: ULPGCAssignment and ULPGCDialogUe, heavily modified Appointment/Scheduler
** Custom groupings/scopes for small team activities (e.g. group assignment)
** Regular-intense usage ranks by 60% of courses/students.

*[http://campusvirtual.ub.edu/ Universitat de Barcelona] - 60.000 users in 7.300 courses. Started in September 2006 as a project, UB Moodle site will be open for all next September.

*[http://campuvirtual.unex.es Universidad de Extremadura] - 15000 users in aprox. 700 courses.

*[http://www.juntadeandalucia.es/educacion/adistancia/semipresencial Andalusia Blended Learning ].VLE of [http://www.juntadeandalucia.es/educacion/permanente Lifelong Learning Service] of ''Junta de Andalucía''.Actually (2009/2010) 1600 courses and 25000 in aprox. Between them 1500 teachers. It's expected 35000 users next year. This VLE is complemented with [http://www.juntadeandalucia.es/educacion/adistancia/avep LifeLong Learning VLE] that offers and open access to educational materials developed for blended learning.

== Sweden ==

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[http://lnu.se/?l=en Linnaeus University] - 35.000 students and and 2.000 employees in 2011 - 23.000 Moodle users in 2.000 Moodle courses.

==Taiwan==

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[http://www.thu.edu.tw/english/enindex.htm Tunghai University]
*More then 17,000 registed Users
*16,000 users login in one day( Max. )
*3,000 courses per semester
*integration with novell ichan for single sign on
*integration with school support system

our moodle web site: [http://elearning.thu.edu.tw]

==Trinidad and Tobago==

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[http://myelearning.sta.uwi.edu The University of the West Indies]
St. Augustine Campus
*More then 22,000 registed Users
*Over 500 Courses per semester
*Over 1500 Teachers

Using Moodle since 2006.

==United Kingdom==

*[http://www.open.ac.uk/ The Open University (OU)] - the United Kingdom's only university dedicated to distance learning. They have around 150,000 undergraduate and more than 30,000 postgraduate students. As of October 2010, the OU's Moodle database contains over 700,000 users and 7,000 courses.

*[http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/ OpenLearn] The Open University's open content initiative. Website development began in May 2006 and the site was launched in October 2006, supported by a grant from The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. By April 2008, 5,400 learning hours of content will be available online. Currenly (early 2007) over 10,000 unique users.

*[http://www.gla.ac.uk/ The University of Glasgow] - A long-established (founded 1451) and high-profile research university in the UK, with 20,000 students (16,000 undergrad, 4,000 postgrad), 6,000 staff, 20,000 unique users of Moodle (as of Jan 2008). Uses LDAP for integration with Novell and a custom MIS system for user authentication. Their site is organised on a one Moodle site per faculty basis to facilitate both appropriate themeing and to simplify balancing across servers.

==United States==

*[http://moodle.cpcc.edu Central Piedmont Community College (CPCC) ] uses moodle for both curriculum and Corporate and Continuing Education. For curriculum it runs in parallel to Blackboard as faculty migrate to moodle over time. There are currently no plans to go moodle only, although many administrators favor this option. The server has 30,000 or so users on it, but the actual number of active users varies widely. It is used for both hybrid and full-online classes. Corporate and Continuing Education runs its own branded instance and uses only moodle for distance education. We have about 80,000 students total, covering the range from GED, adult-ed, curriculum, and other areas serviced by 7 campuses in and around Charlotte, North Carolina.

*[http://ilearn.sfsu.edu San Francisco State University (SFSU) ] uses moodle for more than three years now. We use moodle for our main campus and the College of Extended Learning (CEL). For curriculum, moodle used to run in parallel with Blackboard as faculty migrate to moodle over time (SFSU officially phased out Blackboard, as of 6/30/2007). The servers have total of 89K users (as of 09/05/2007), among these 89K users, 28K are considered as currently active. As for courses, we have total of 57K courses sitting on our database, and among them, around 53K are considered as active. We also have integrated Moodle with our SIMS/R system (see http://www.sfsu.edu/sims/overview.htm). We also have courses that have more than 1,300+ students in one course with lots of quizzes (20+) and quiz attempts. The student population in SFSU covers the range from undergraduate, graduate, and first professional students.

== Venezuela ==

* [http://moodle.unica.edu.ve Cecilio Acosta Catholic University (UNICA)] - with 10,000+ faculty, staff and students (started using Moodle since 2005)

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Development:Setting up Eclipse

2006-11-17T11:06:30Z

Dgrpa: Misspelled mouse. datalib.php -> dmllib.php

[http://www.eclipse.org/ Eclipse] is an IDE originally designed for Java, but now with plugins for many languages including PHP. It has lots of very powerful features, and it is the editor that someMoodle developers like to use. Other (more) popular choices are vim and emacs.

However, Eclipse is not the easiest program in the world to get started with, so I'm going to take you through it step by step. These instructions assume Eclipse 3.2, the current version at the time of writing. It should not change much between releases.

;Warning
:This is just a brain-dump, and since I already have Eclipse installed on all my computers I have not been able to test all the the steps. I would be very grateful if some people could try these instructions and make the necessary corrections.[[User:Tim Hunt|Tim Hunt]] 21:32, 12 August 2006 (WST)

==Prerequisites==

Eclipse is written in Java, so I recommend getting the latest Java runtime environment from http://java.com/ for maximum speed and reliability.

Eclipse is quite big, so I recommend lots of memory in your computer. I have used it on Windows, MacOS X and Linux with 1GB, in each case with 1GB of memory, and that is plenty.

==Installing Eclipse==

Go to http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/. Click on the link where it says '''Download now: Eclipse SDK 3.2''' It should have automatically detected which platform you are using. Choose a Mirror, and wait for the ~100MB download.

You will notice that what you have got is a zip file (unless your system automatically decompresses it for you).

On Windows, upzip it into '''C:\Program Files''' (all the files go into an '''Eclipse''' folder there). Then look in the Eclipse folder and drag Eclipse.exe to the Start menu/Desktop/Quicklaunch bar to make a shortcut for starting it.

On MacOS, unzip and copy the Eclipse folder into Applications. Go into the Eclipse folder and drag the Eclipse app to the Dock for ease of launching.

On Linux, unzip somewhere suitable, and make an easy way to launch it.

==The first time you run Eclipse==

The first time you lauch Eclipse it does a bit of setup stuff, for instance, it create a '''workspace'''. This is where it stores the things you are working on. The default location is sensible on all platforms, so use that.

For some reason, every time you start Eclipse, it asks you which workspace you want to use. I have never seen the need to have more than one, so I recommend turning on the checkbox that says "Don't ask me this again".

Another thing that happens the first time you run Eclipse is that you arrive at a welcome screen. This has links to various bits of help, which you can read if you like, but you probaly don't need to if you are following these instructions. So find the button on the welcome page that closes it and gets you to the main Eclipse screen.

==Installing the necessary plugins==

By default, Eclipse comes with the Java tools. For everything else you will need to install some plugins.

If you are sitting behind a web proxy, from the '''Window''' menu choose '''Preferences ...'''. Choose '''Install/Update''' from the tree view on the left, and enter the proxy information in the boxes on the right. If you aren't behind a proxy, ignore this step.

From the '''Help''' menu choose '''Software Updates -> Find and Install'''.

On the first screen of the wizard, make sure that "Search for new features to install" is selected, then click '''Next >'''.

The next screen is a list of upgrade sites to check. You need to add one to the list, so click the '''New Remote Site ...''' Button.

In the pop-up dialog, give the remote site a name like '''PHPeclipse Update Site'''; set the URL to http://phpeclipse.sourceforge.net/update/releases/; then click '''OK'''.

Back in the wizard, turn on just two things in the box "Sites to include in search":
* Your newly created '''Phpeclipse Update Site'''; and
* the one called '''Callisto Discovery Site'''.
Then click '''Finish'''.

It goes off sees what updates are available at those sites. As it does so, it may occasionally pop up a dialog asking you to choose a mirror. Each time, select a sensible one.

Eventually, you get to a new wizard for selecting and installing the updates you want. The ones you want (you may have to search the tree structure) are, '''PHPeclipse''' (from your newly created PHPEclipse Update Site) and all the '''Web Standard Tools (WST)''' (usually under Callisto Discovery Site --> Web and J2EE Development).

Next, and very importantly, you must click the '''Select Required''' button. Then you can click the '''Next >''' button.

Read and agree to all the license agreements. Then click '''Next >'''.

Click '''Finish''', and wait for the plugins to download.

Once the downloads have finished, a warning will pop-up telling you that all the plugins you downloaded are not digitally signed. The Eclipse Foundation build digital signing of plugins into their architecture as a security measure, and then did not sign any of their own plugins! Anyway, click the '''Install All''' button.

Finally, a window will pop up asking you to restart Eclipse. Do so.

==Setting the preferences for Moodle development==

Now go to the '''Window''' menu, and choose '''Preferences ...'''.

The Eclipse preferences are immense, with a tree view on the left, which selects which screen to display on the right. Don't panic, we'll guide you through it.

===General settings===

If you have strong feelings about fonts, choose '''General -> Appearance -> Colors and Fonts''' from the tree on the left. Then on the right look under '''Basic''' and change '''Text Font'''. All the other editor font settings will inherit from this, so this is probably the only one you have to change.

Under '''General -> Content Types''', select PHP Source File, and add '''*.html''' to the box at the bottom.

Under '''General -> Editors -> File Associations''', add '''*.php''' to the top box. With '''*.php''' selected in the top box, make sure '''PHP Editor''' is set to default in the bottom box. With '''*.html''' selected in the top box, select '''PHP Editor''' in the bottom box and click the '''Default''' button to change it, because in Moodle, most HTML files actually contain PHP code.

If you use a web proxy, enter the details under '''Internet -> Proxy Settings'''. (Yes, I know you have entered the somewhere else before. Now you have to enter them again here. I don't know why. You just do.)

===PHP Settings===

These are all hidden under the '''PHPeclipse Web Development''' bit of the tree.

Under '''PHPeclipse Web Development -> Browser Preview Defaults''', turn off both checkboxes.

Under '''PHPeclipse Web Development -> PHP''', on the '''Appearance''' tab, set '''Displayed tab width''' to 4.

Under '''PHPeclipse Web Development -> PHP''', on the '''Typing''' tab, turn off all the options except '''Pasting for correct indentation''', '''Insert spaces for tab''' and '''Close PHPdocs and comments''' and '''Remove trailing spaces on editor save'''. It would be nice to turn on more of these options, but most of the rest don't work very well.

Under '''PHPeclipse Web Development -> PHP -> Formatter''', on the '''New Lines''' tab, turn on '''Clear all blank lines'''.

Under '''PHPeclipse Web Development -> PHP -> Formatter''', on the '''Style''' tab, turn off '''Indentation is represented by a tab'''.

Under '''PHPeclipse Web Development -> PHP -> Templates''', I like to define a new template to help with debugging:
;Name
:dump
;Description
:Dump a PHP variable
;Pattern
<pre>echo '<pre>'; //DONOTCOMMIT
print_r(${cursor});
echo '</pre>';</pre>
You can do other useful things with templates too.

There is a really stupid bug. Under '''PHPeclipse Web Development -> Project Defaults''', you would like to add "." to the '''Include Paths''', but you can't using the GUI. You will have to edit one of the Eclipse config files by hand. So
# Note down the path to your Eclipse profile. On Windows it will be something like '''C:/Documents and settings/XXXX/workspace''', and on Unixy systems something like '''~/workspace'''.
# Close Eclipse.
# Open the file '''net.sourceforge.phpeclipse.ui.prefs''' that is in the directory '''(your workspace)/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.runtime/.settings''' in a text editor.
# Look for a line in the file that starts '''_php_include_paths=''' If it is not there, add it at the end.
# Change this line to say '''_php_include_paths=.'''
# Run Eclipse again.

===CVS Settings===

These are all hidden under the '''Team''' bit of the tree.

Under '''Team -> CVS -> SSH2 Connection Method''', you can set up a public/private key pair. If you do this, you won't have to keep typing your Sourceforge password when doing CVS operations. See http://sourceforge.net/docs/F02/ for the instructions of what you have to do at the Sourceforge end to make this work. That should make it clear what you have to do in Eclipse.

The rest of the ones in this section are personal preferences, but I recomment them because the default settings are very irritating.

Under '''Team''', set '''Perspectives''' to '''None'''.

Under '''Team -> CVS -> Annotate''' set '''Use Quick Diff annotate mode for local file annotations''' to '''Yes''', and '''Open perspective after a 'Show Annotations' operation''' to '''No'''.

Under '''Team -> CVS -> Label Decorations''', switch to the '''Icon Decorations''' tab and turn on all the settings, and then on the '''Text Decorations''' tab change both '''File Decoration''' and '''Folder Decoration''' to be just '''{name}'''.

===Web and XML settings===

Foreach XXX in CSS, HTML, Javascript, XML:

Under '''Web and XML -> XXX Files ->XXX Source''', choose '''Indent using spaces''' and '''indentation size''' 4.

==Checking out the Moodle code==

From the '''File''' menu, choose '''New -> Project ...''', then click '''Next >'''.

In the wizard that pops up, choose '''CVS -> Projects from CVS''', then click '''Next >'''.

Select '''Create a new repository location''', then click '''Next >'''.

Fill in
<div style="float: right; border: 1px solid orange; padding: 0 1em;">
For anonymous CVS access use
;Host
:moodle.cvs.sourceforge.net
;Repository path
:/cvsroot/moodle
;User
:anonymous
;Password
:(leave blank)
;Connection type
:pserver
</div>
;Host
:moodle.cvs.sourceforge.net
;Repository path
:/cvsroot/moodle
;User
:(your sourceforge username)
;Password
:(if you set up the SSH2 key thing in preferences, leave this blank, otherwise, type in your sourceforge password.)
;Connection type
:extssh
(CVS experts, if you are confused by that last one, know it is an Eclipse-specific thing.) Then click '''Next >'''.

On the next screen of the Wizard, choose '''Use an existing module'''. Wait a moment, then select '''moodle''' from the list. Click '''Next >'''.

On the next screen, make sure the option '''Check out as a project configured using the New Project Wizard''' is selected, then click '''Next >'''.

Click '''Refresh Tags''', then choose the branch you want. For now leave it set to '''HEAD'''.

Click '''Finish'''.

Now you will find yourself back at the start of the '''New Project''' Wizard. This is because of the option you chose three paragraphs ago. This time you should select '''PHP -> PHP Project''', then click '''Next >'''.

Make up a project name. '''moodle''' would be sensible.

Click '''Finish''', and wait while all the moodle files are checked out of CVS.

Once it has finished, it will probably ask you if you want to switch to the PHP perspective. Answer '''Yes'''.

If you also need the 1.6 stable branch, or another branch, repeat all the other steps with a few changes:
* This time you can choose '''Use and existing repository location''' instead of typing all the sourceforge CVS details again.
* Select the appropriate branch.
* Use a different project name.

==Let your development web server know where your files are==

Either by editing you web server's config files, or using a symbolic link. Make sure your webserver can see your new working set of files at a sensible URL, so you can test the code you are working on.

==Quick tour of some cool features, and remaining configuration changes==

I find the default workbench setup is pretty good. Here is a quick guide to some of the bits.

===Navigator===

To the left is the '''Navigator'''. This is a tree view of all your files. If you double-click on a file, it opens in the editor in the middle. Try opening '''course/lib.php''' now. You will notice that it comes up nicely syntax-hightlighted.

===Error highlighting===

In the middle of the file, just type any old text, for example "I like Eclipse". Obviously, this is not valid PHP syntax, and Eclipse will notice this, and put a red underline under it. Also, by the scrollbar is a ruler with a red mark in it to show the error.

You will see some yellow marks lower down the ruler. There are warnings. Click on one, and you will be taked to where that warning is in the file. Hover your mouse over the warning, and you will get a tooltip explaining what the problem might be.

Save the edited file. (Don't worry that it is broken, we'll clean up the mess later.) Notice that a red error marker is added to the file in the navigator, so you can see that there is a problem. Also, error markers are added to the course folder, and the whole project, so you could see there was an error even if the navigator tree was collapsed.

You will probably find lots of warnings that the config.php file can't be found. In the navigator, find the file '''config-dist.php'''. Do '''Copy''' then '''Paste''' and choose to call the new file '''config.php'''. Edit this new config.php as normal. You should fine that most of the include file warnings have gone now.

Notice also that there is another marker on each file icon. A little yellow cylinder on most files, but a white-on-brown star on the one you have edited. This is telling you the CVS status of each file. The brown stars are changes you have made but not checked in yet.

===Outline===

Over to the right is the Outline view. This shows a list of functions and classes defined in this file. By default, they are listed in the same order as in the file, but if you click on the '''az''' toolbar button, they are sorted into alphabetical order.

Click on the function name '''add_course_module''' in the Outline. You will see that the editor scrolls to the definition of that function.

===Code navigation===

In that function, hover the mouse pointer over the function name '''insert_record'''. After a while, the documentation for that function will appear in a big tooltip.

Hold down CTRL, move the mouse pointer over the function name '''insert_record''', then click. Eclipse should load '''dmllib.php''', and scroll you to where this function is defined.

In the main Eclipse toolbar, there are forward and back arrows like in a web browser. Click back now to get back to '''course/lib.php'''.

===Open resource===

From the '''Navigate''' menu, choose '''Open Resource...'''. In the dialog that pops up, start typing a filename for instance type '''moodlel'''. In the box in the middle of the dialog, you will see it list all the files in the project whose names start that way. At the bottom is a box which lists the different folders that contain a file with that name. This can be a very quick way of opening files with fairly unique names like moodlelib.php, without having to click through the levels of the navigator tree. Of course, it is not so useful for an index.php file! Click OK now to open moodlelib.php. (It would actually work if you just did CTRL + Shift + R, moodlel, Enter.)

===Multi-file search===

Scroll down moodlelib a little bit, and double click on the name of the constant '''MOODLE_INTERNAL''' where it is defined, so that the text is selected. Then, from the '''Search''' menu, choose '''Search...'''. Notice that the '''Containing text''' box has already been filled in for you with the text you just selected. Of course you can just type text into this box without selecting it first. Notice that you can do regular expression searches, but leave that turned off for now. In the '''File name patterns''' box type '''*.css, *.html, *.inc, *.js, *.php, *.xml'''. (This is the most useful general setting for working on moodle. Eclipse will remember this setting, so you only have to enter it once.) Click '''Search'''.

The search results will appear in a new view underneath the editor. That view has a toolbar with yellow up and down arrows. Click the down arrow a few times and it will take you to the first few matches in the code, opening the relevant files as necessary.

===Synchronize view===

I think this is my favorite feature. From the '''Window''' menu, select '''Show View -> Other...'''. In the dialog that pops up, select '''Team -> Synchronize''', then click '''OK'''.

This opens the Synchronize view below the editor. The view has a toolbar. Click on the first toolbar button, which pops up the Synchronize wizard.

On the first screen, there will probably only be one option: '''CVS'''. Make sure that is selected, then click '''Next >'''.

Under '''Scope''', choose '''Workspace''', then click '''Finish'''.

Wait while it talks to the CVS server. After a while, you will see that the Synchronize view lists course/lib.php, and something called '''.project.... That is, it is listing just the files you have edited, but not checked in yet.

'''.project''' is something that belongs to Eclipse that we don't care about. So select it and bring up the context menu, and choose '''Add to .cvsignore...'''. In the dialog that pops up, choose the top option, then click '''OK'''. Then you will find the Synchronize view shows you a '''.cvsignore''' file that you aren't interested in, so add that to .cvsignore too!

If you double-click on '''course/lib.php''' here, you will see that it opens the compare editor, which is a nice graphical display of the changes in this file.

If you select a file or files here, then bring up the context menu, you will see the option to '''Commit...''' the changes. (But don't do that now!). This is the easiest way to commit things in Eclipse.

However, our changes were rubbish, so we want to undo them. So open the context menu again, and choose '''Override and Update'''. This checks a clean copy of the file out of CVS, removing our changes.

Note that the easiest way to do an ordinary CVS Update is to select the top-level project-folder in the Navigator view on the left, open the context menu, and choose '''Team -> Update'''.

That's all the really important features. I sure you can learn everything else on your own. An you could always read the built in help!

===Creating a patch===

In the synchronise view, right click on an item (file or folder) and choose '''Create Patch...'''. Or in the navigator, right click on an item and choose '''Team -> Create Patch...'''.

This brings up a two-page wizard. On the first page you can select where you want the patch made. For small patches it can be useful to create them on the clipboard, but normally you will want to save them in a file.

On the second page, you can set some options, but normally you don't need to change the defaults which are '''Unified''' diff format, and Patch root set to '''Workspace'''. Well, sometimes it is helpful to change the second one to '''Project''' but it is not important.

There is a corresponding apply patch wizard that you can use to apply a patch to a project.

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