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WebDAV Connect

2008-03-18T15:06:00Z

Pieterjan Heyse:

How to connect your course files directories using WebDAV.

Use the URL that appears in the files listing, and follow the instructions appropriate to your system
http://www.webdavsystem.com/server/documentation/access

(This feature will be available after v1.9)

A small, non-comprehensive list of client apps, aside with their pro's or con's:

* Network folders in Windows (2K/XP/2K3/VISTA)
:Pro: Available on a lot of computers, ease of use
:Con: Auth problems, does not show displayname

* Netdrive (Webdrive) - Novell tool
:Pro: More robust than native implementation of WebDAV on microsoft platforms
:Con: Does not show displayname, Webdrive is not free (as in beer)

* Firefox plugin (http://webfolder.mozdev.org/index.html)
:Pro: Cross platform, works in Firefox
:Con: Read-only access :( (big con to me...), does not show displayname

* Red Drive Connect (http://www.jscape.com/reddrive/)
:Pro: Does show me the displayname, integrates in windows explorer as a folder at the same level of your other drives
:Con: Not free, but it is free (as in beer), I cannot upload any files using this tool, so not useable :(

[[Category: Teacher]]

WebDAV Connect

2008-03-18T14:58:02Z

Pieterjan Heyse:

How to connect your course files directories using WebDAV.

Use the URL that appears in the files listing, and follow the instructions appropriate to your system
http://www.webdavsystem.com/server/documentation/access

(This feature will be available after v1.9)

A small, non-comprehensive list of client apps, aside with their pro's or con's:

* Network folders in Windows (2K/XP/2K3/VISTA)
:Pro: Available on a lot of computers, ease of use
:Con: Auth problems, does not show displayname

* Netdrive (Webdrive) - Novell tool
:Pro: More robust than native implementation of WebDAV on microsoft platforms
:Con: Does not show displayname, Webdrive is not free (as in beer)

* Firefox plugin (http://webfolder.mozdev.org/index.html)
:Pro: Cross platform, works in Firefox
:Con: Read-only access :( (big con to me...), does not show displayname

* Red Drive Connect (http://www.jscape.com/reddrive/) <-- this is my winner atm.
:Pro: Does show me the displayname, integrates in windows explorer as a folder at the same level of your other drives, seems to be robust
:Con: Not free, but it is free (as in beer)

[[Category: Teacher]]

WebDAV Connect

2008-03-18T12:25:50Z

Pieterjan Heyse:

WebDAV Connect

2008-03-18T12:24:28Z

Pieterjan Heyse:

WebDAV Setup

2008-03-18T10:29:25Z

Pieterjan Heyse:

WebDAV access allows users which can edit course files to do so from a convenient WebDAV "Web Folder"/Mountpoint which acts like a local drive.

To set up WebDAV access in your Moodle installation:

* In Admin->Server->WebDAV Set webdavenable to Yes.
* The 'moodle/site:webdav' capability controls who can connect - by defauly the "Course Creator" role has it. Assign the role at the system level for users to be able to connect.
* If you want to restrict WebDAVaccess so it is only possible from the local LAN, use the webdavsubnet setting.

(This feature will be available after v1.9)

To use WebDAV your webserver must support this. There a 2 steps needed:
* Installing the DAV module in your webserver
In a commonly used server, apache, the module is called mod_dav. Using the Debian OS, "aptitude install libapache-mod-dav" does the trick.
* Disabling magic_quotes_gpc
When this module is installed, create an entry in your apache config file (under the <VirtualHost> entry for the applicable domain) like this: "php_value magic_quotes_gpc 0" to disable magic_quotes_gpc and your serevr should be setup correctly.

See Also
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[[WebDAV Connect]]
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Installations 5000 plus

2006-09-18T12:30:19Z

Pieterjan Heyse: /* USA */

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==Belgium==

* KSGWL, Wetteren, Oost-Vlaanderen, 5,000+ 100 courses over 10 moodle installations. Moodle runs on a single server, dual 240 2gig RAM. We do our own hosting at school. Currently we have 2400 active users.

==USA==

* Luther College, Decorah, IA, USA 6,000+ 300 courses this term (FALL-2005) Using Moodle on single-server for 1-1/2 years. We just discovered we only had 512 MB RAM installed, never even suspected because performance never suffered.

[[Category:Administrator]]

Installations 1000 plus

2006-09-18T12:29:49Z

Pieterjan Heyse: /* Belgium */

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==Australia==

*Monte Sant' Angelo Mercy College - [http://montenet.monte.nsw.edu.au MonteNet] is used as our colleges student intranet and e-learning portal. Currently running 1.6dev with a few extra custom features thrown in.

*Monte Sant' Angelo Mercy College - [http://compass.monte.nsw.edu.au Compass] takes moodle and uses it for a purpose that is a little outside the square. Compass is used as the staff intranet. Each course is refered to as a "Space" and is used by each departmentr to store meating minutes, agendas and teaching documentation. Communications tools such as forums allow to facilitate better teacher communication and the events are used to keep the teachers events online and targeted (e.g. year 9 teachers all know when excursions are on, all english teachers know when reports are due, etc).

==Croatia (Hrvatska)==

*Faculty of philosophy in Zagreb - [http://omega.ffzg.hr Omega sustav ucenja na daljinu] is used as our faculty-wide e-learning system. Currently running 1.6 dev with more than 2200 users and 150+ courses.

==Czech Republic==

*Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Brno - [http://www.phil.muni.cz/elf/ ELF], 16,000+ users total, 4,000+ active users in Spring Term 2006, 600+ courses; using Moodle from April 2003.

==Finland==

*Tampere Polytechnic or Tampereen ammattikorkeakoulu ([http://www.tamk.fi www.tamk.fi]), is a around 5000 student college or "a university of applied sciences" located at Tampere, Finland. Our moodle installation hosts around 2500 active students.

*Lahti Polytechnic or Lahden ammattikorkeakoulu is also a "university of applied sciences", located at Lahti, Finland. We have about 5400 students, and a Moodle installation called [http://reppu.lamk.fi Reppu] (Finnish word for "backpack"). We are approaching the 5000 active users mark.

==Netherlands==

* We are a 5000 people school, one server, 9 locations and using Moodle for almost three years now: https://studiewijzerplus.nl Every schoolyear we start again with counting the number of users and the automatic counter (thanks Penny!) is now pointing at 3103

== Russia ==
*Moscow State Institute of International Relations (University) - distance education programme [http://www.globalcompetence.ru Management of Global Processes]

==Spain==
*[http://www.cicei.com CICEI] - Center of Innovation for the Information Society. We have a production [http://cursos.cicei.com Moodle server] having currently 1,042 users in 72 courses covering a wide range of applications (as of February 6, 2006).

==Switzerland==

*[http://moodle.fri-tic.ch/ Centre fri-tic] - Center for ICT Integration of Canton de Fribourg. Currently running 1 moodle for teachers and students from k-12 to High school, with more than 2000 users and about 130 courses. The [http://www.fri-tic.ch/ Centre fri-tic] is also hosting 9 other moodle installations for specific schools.

==United Kingdom==

* [http://moodle.altoncollege.ac.uk/ Alton College] - a Beacon sixth form college with over 2,500 active users.

* [http://egglescliffe.org.uk/ Egglescliffe School and Sixth Form] - a specialist arts school with over 2,000 active moodlers and 345 courses whose usage was the basis of this [http://education.guardian.co.uk/elearning/story/0,,1583832,00.html Guardian article]

* [http://learn.gold.ac.uk Goldsmiths College, London] - over 2,500 active users. See also this [http://www.alt.ac.uk/altc2004/timetable/abstract.php?abstract_id=270 presentation at a 2004 conference].

* [http://www.thanet.ac.uk/ Thanet College] - a "medium sized general FE college", using Moodle as documented in [http://ferl.becta.org.uk/display.cfm?resID=13423 this Ferl case study]

* [http://www.westnotts.ac.uk West Nottingahmshire College] - an FE college in the East Midlands.

* [http://www.lifeintheuk.org Prepare: Life in the United Kingdom Test] - a free website dedicated to Life in the UK Test.

==United States of America==
*[http://www.glyphdoctors.com Glyphdoctors] is a site with over 1200 registered users (as of Feb. 2006) on a shared server host, [http://www.opensourcehost.com Open Source Host]. It will offer online courses in Egyptology and Egyptian hieroglyphs to the general public. Currently, there is one free public course available and a course in Egyptian hieroglyphs under beta testing with a small number of students.

*[http://cs1.mcm.edu/moodle McMurry University]has one Moodle instance, begun as a pilot project in June, 2005. McMurry is a small (1400 FTE) undergraduate-only institution affiliated with the United Methodist church. Currently the instance supports 1700 users (650 active), some 32 instructors, and approximately 50 active courses.

* [http://ahshornets.org Aiken High School]has over 2000 registered users in grades 9 - 12 (Feb. 2006).

* [http://academies.culver.org/moodle The Culver Academies] has over 1000 registered users in grades 9 - 12. The school has been using Moodle in the classroom since the 2002-2003 school year. Administratively we have a Moodle "course" for faculty-only announcements and materials.

* [http://online.warner.edu Warner Southern College] began using Moodle in early 2005 as an experiment to move from a simple webboard system into a full learning management system. The experiment went extremely well and a full transition to Moodle was accomplished in the fall term of 2005. Currently, Warner Southern College has one Moodle instance running with over 1200 registered users (500+ active students, 50+ instructors, 80+ courses and two system administrators) offering associate, bachelor and master of arts degree programs for both traditional site based and full online students. Warner Southern College is a small institution affiliated with the Church of God and accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.

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Development:UTF-8 problems

2006-07-05T09:05:16Z

Pieterjan Heyse:

[[UTF-8 migration]] > Problems

==Problems (and solutions!)==

* Password field(s) can be encoded in anything, and it is encrypted using a one way md5 hash. This means that we can not reverse the md5, thus if a string was encoded in an arbitrary language, we can not do the proper DB migration for that. Possible solutions:
**auto generate new password and send to all users?
**add to passwords one more field - like "original password encoding", fill it while upgrading, and then at user loging in, before compare with hash make translation of entered password to login's original password encoding (by engine like iconv). Upgrade system may time to time perform check, and when all "original encoding" become to UTF-8 - can remove this column and related code. This will be long but soft convertation life...--[[User:Ne Nashev|Ne Nashev]] 07:41, 26 March 2006 (WST)
* Exercise - password - md5
* Lesson, lesson_default - password - md5
* Workshop - password - md5
* Quiz module, the use of field "uniqueid" in attempts - uniqueid is used to link to quiz_states table which is in turn linked to many quiz tables. dev - linked using uniqueid? stable - linked using id??
* Locales: What happens with locales once we have converted lang packs. Currently the process is adding the .UTF-8 suffix to them, but is this the best solution. Would be better to add support for one windows locale and other unix locale? Solved. See [[Table of locales]].
* Upgrade not succesful: this SQL restarts the unicode db update "UPDATE `mdl_config` SET `value` = '0' WHERE `name` ='unicodedb'"
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[[Category:UTF-8|Problems]]

Installations 1000 plus

2006-02-14T10:53:11Z

Pieterjan Heyse:

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==Australia==

*Monte Sant' Angelo Mercy College - [http://montenet.monte.nsw.edu.au MonteNet] is used as our colleges student intranet and e-learning portal. Currently running 1.6dev with a few extra custom features thrown in.

*Monte Sant' Angelo Mercy College - [http://compass.monte.nsw.edu.au Compass] takes moodle and uses it for a purpose that is a little outside the square. Compass is used as the staff intranet. Each course is refered to as a "Space" and is used by each departmentr to store meating minutes, agendas and teaching documentation. Communications tools such as forums allow to facilitate better teacher communication and the events are used to keep the teachers events online and targeted (e.g. year 9 teachers all know when excursions are on, all english teachers know when reports are due, etc).

==Belgium==

* KSGWL, Wetteren, Oost-Vlaanderen, 5,000+ 100 courses over 5 moodle installations. Moodle runs on a single server, dual 240 2gig RAM. We do our own hosting at school. Currently we have 800 active users.
==Croatia (Hrvatska)==

*Faculty of philosophy in Zagreb - [http://omega.ffzg.hr Omega sustav ucenja na daljinu] is used as our faculty-wide e-learning system. Currently running 1.5.3+ with more than 1900 users and 100+ courses.

==Finland==

*Tampere Polytechnic or Tampereen ammattikorkeakoulu ([http://www.tamk.fi www.tamk.fi]), is a around 5000 student college or "a university of applied sciences" located at Tampere, Finland. Our moodle installation hosts around 2500 active students.

*Lahti Polytechnic or Lahden ammattikorkeakoulu is also a "university of applied sciences", located at Lahti, Finland. We have about 5400 students, and a Moodle installation called [http://reppu.lamk.fi Reppu] (Finnish word for "backpack"). We are approaching the 5000 active users mark.

==Netherlands==

* We are a 5000 people school, one server, 9 locations and using Moodle for almost three years now: https://studiewijzerplus.nl Every schoolyear we start again with counting the number of users and the automatic counter (thanks Penny!) is now pointing at 3103

==Spain==
*[http://www.cicei.com CICEI] - Center of Innovation for the Information Society. We have a production [http://cursos.cicei.com Moodle server] having currently 1,042 users in 72 courses covering a wide range of applications (as of February 6, 2006).

==Switzerland==

*[http://moodle.fri-tic.ch/ Centre fri-tic] - Center for ICT Integration of Canton de Fribourg. Currently running 1 moodle for teachers and students from k-12 to High school, with a little less than 2000 users and about 130 courses. The Centre fri-tic is also hosting 9 other moodle installations for specific schools.

==United Kingdom==

* [http://learn.gold.ac.uk Goldsmiths College, London] - over 2,500 active users. See also this [http://www.alt.ac.uk/altc2004/timetable/abstract.php?abstract_id=270 presentation at a 2004 conference].

* [http://www.thanet.ac.uk/ Thanet College] - a "medium sized general FE college", using Moodle as documented in [http://ferl.becta.org.uk/display.cfm?resID=13423 this Ferl case study]

* [http://moodle.altoncollege.ac.uk/ Alton College] - a Beacon sixth form college with over 2,500 active users.

* [http://egglescliffe.org.uk/ Egglescliffe School and Sixth Form] - a specialist arts school with over 1500 active moodle users.

==United States of America==
*[http://www.glyphdoctors.com Glyphdoctors] is a site with over 1200 registered users (as of Feb. 2006) on a shared server host, [http://www.opensourcehost.com Open Source Host]. It will offer online courses in Egyptology and Egyptian hieroglyphs to the general public. Currently, there is one free public course available and several others under development.

*[http://cs1.mcm.edu/moodle McMurry University]has one Moodle instance, begun as a pilot project in June, 2005. McMurry is a small (1400 FTE) undergraduate-only institution affiliated with the United Methodist church. Currently the instance supports 1700 users (650 active), some 32 instructors, and approximately 50 active courses.

[[Category:Administrator]]

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Installations 5000 plus

2006-02-14T10:52:35Z

Pieterjan Heyse: /* Belgium */

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==USA==

* Luther College, Decorah, IA, USA 6,000+ 300 courses this term (FALL-2005) Using Moodle on single-server for 1-1/2 years. We just discovered we only had 512 MB RAM installed, never even suspected because performance never suffered.

{{Template:Large Installations}}

[[Category:Administrator]]

Installations 5000 plus

2006-02-07T12:50:42Z

Pieterjan Heyse: /* USA */

{{Template:Large Installations}}

==USA==

* Luther College, Decorah, IA, USA 6,000+ 300 courses this term (FALL-2005) Using Moodle on single-server for 1-1/2 years We just discovered we only had 512 MB RAM installed, never even suspected because performance never suffered.

==BELGIUM==

* KSGWL, Wetteren, Oost-Vlaanderen, 5,000+ 100 courses over 5 moodle installations. Moodle runs on a single server, dual 240 2gig RAM. We do our own hosting at school. Contact me for more moodle related info in Belgium.

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