Posts Tagged ‘backup’
Process for Setting Up a Staging Moodle Site in IIS7 by Mari Cruz Garcia
This work by Mari Cruz García is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial 3.0 Unported License. Mari Cruz is an educational technologist at the University of Dundee and supports an online postgraduate programme there. According to her note to Moodlenews, I have elaborated a guide about how to set up a staging Moodle, [...]
Download it now: 10 things to do with a Moodle web-page
One of our most popular recent posts is "10 things you can do with a Moodle webpage" and in light of a few recent requests I am not sharing it as a backup file. Download the zip right here (or by logging into Joedle.com as the student/student user). If you make an improvement or add a new "thing you can do with a Moodle web-page" please [...]
The Worlds Largest Moodle Backup File (and how to avoid it)
Here's a quick tip to keep your Moodle from becoming out of shape and over weight, illustrated with a quick story. A few years ago I was in charge of managing 80 courses that were tailored for teacher professional development. The courses ran every 6 weeks or so which required a new version of the course to be restored (but always from the most [...]
Course converted from 1.9 to 2.0…but where did the files go?
There was a comment on the most recent ConversionThingy2 release post which had focused on the conversion of 1.9 backups to 2.0 MBZ files. The question from Kerry J at BrightCookie was What happens to the files that were formerly stored in the course files? Good news is that the files are restored and that they are available in the site Server [...]
ConversionThingy2 Video: how the conversion from ANGEL (#blackboard) to Moodle looks
Here's a quick video provided to Moodlenews by Peter Friesen, one of the people behind the Angel to Moodle converter known as ConversionThingy2. It's a very fast (38 second) video that highlights the steps, but it is abridged to speed up the actual conversion process (which varies depending on your course archive size). Looks simple and [...]
@digidoug shows how to restore last year’s Moodle course backup
Doug, (@digidoug) the author “Reflections on Distributed Learning” (http://distlearn.wordpress.com/), published a quick post that highlights the process of restoring a previous term or year's Moodle backup file. Here’s a link to the great post: http://distlearn.wordpress.com/2010/08/30/restoring-last-years-moodle-backup/ Doug also [...]
New at @Moodleshare: 11 more courses
Jon Fila at Moodleshare.com has been posting new courses on almost a daily basis. Over the last two weeks alone almost 20 new titles/short course modules have been added at http://courses.moodleshare.com. Titles include: Art history Moodling: Using Online Courseware for Ubiquitous Learning Sloodle Demo course Creative Writing [...]
Moodle Monday: Moving resources between courses by @timdalton
Today I needed to move a whole set of resources from one course to another. Last year we had a 'Learning to Learn' course on Moodle that all students followed during tutor time. However, the page grew over the year to a point where there were too many resources so this year we are creating a different course for each year group. So, what I need to [...]
2 dozen courses for download at demo.moodle.net RT @moodlehelen
Thanks to Helen Foster (@moodlehelen) for originally posting the details. Http://demo.moodle.net has around two dozen courses that you can download and use due to their CC licenses. Most of the courses are a product of the "Cool Course Competition" which occurred earlier this year (more info about the Cool Course Comp: [...]
