If you have already viewed Part 1 of this guide at matc-online.co.uk/2015/03/08/setting-up-moodle-on-c9-io-part-1/ then you should have Moodle code on your server but will not yet have Moodle running. This second part will show you the configuration that is required to have a working installation of Moodle installed on your C9 server.
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I wanted to set up a new development server but my own PC is starting to show it’s age and struggles with running a local server. It is also Windows based and I wanted to have something that was Linux based to get used to command line setup. Looking around I discovered some free cloud […]
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During the last couple of years I found that after showing staff the YouTube detect/embed feature of Moodle they would instantly create pages that contain too many videos. This seemed to be a particular problem for the Chrome browser which would jump around the page whilst loading. It would also cause a lot of bandwidth […]
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I have not done any coding for quite a while now but with the end of the academic year (in the UK) approaching it is time to look at Moodle 2.7 and upgrade some features. To test how much I have forgotten I decided to create a new module to fill a requirement that I […]
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I am looking into creating some bespoke criteria for Moodle and will be documenting the process as best I can. In Moodle a lot of things are modular and can be added to a standard Moodle installation by simply copying a folder of files into a particular location on the server. Unfortunately, at the moment […]
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When Moodle announced that version 2.5 would have badges I got very excited as I think that gamification within education is particularly interesting. Unfortunately when the badges arrived I was left a little disappointed by the implementation. There is nothing wrong with the implementation per se but the criteria that it shipped with were very […]
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As part of a fringe session I was asked to part present a demonstration on how to change the appearance of Moodle. JISC’s Discover-e 2013 “The V Factor”. Part was presented by Mark Ward from Burton and South Derbyshire College (BSDC) with details at moodlemark.com/?p=75 My section involved showcasing a tool that was added to […]
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A course format I created a while back has seen some increased interest recently so I have updated to support the latest versions of Moodle. The format is a modification of the standard Weeks format but where the lists weeks in chronological order this format lists them with the most recent week at the top […]
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I have been meaning to do this for a while and no-one else appears to have created this question type before. Initially this was going to be a multiple True or False question to create something like… But this seems a little restrictive as you may not want true or false but Yes/No or more […]
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The Lightbox Gallery is a third party Module for Moodle maintained by Netspot AU and available from https://github.com/netspotau/moodle-mod_lightboxgallery It is a great way of sharing images with students and uses a “Lightbox” gallery to overlay full size images on screen when you click on a thumbnail view of an image. Unfortunately the default version of […]
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