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Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 19:36:34 -0800 (PST)
From: moodleadmin
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Subject: Re: Winter 2007 Moodle ready to go (?)
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Joe,

That's correct.  Only classes and associated instructors--not students.  I will probably do the first student load on Thursday, January 4th.

David

>>> On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 12:35 pm, Online wrote: 
> David,
> Just to be clear, you said classes and instructors.  Students are NOT in 
> their right now, are they?  (I don't see mine.)
> 
> Joe
>  
>  
>>>> moodleadmin 12/18/06 9:54 am >>> 
> OK, folks: Winter 2007 is now up in production.  Classes and instructors 
> have been loaded.  I haven't yet had a chance to make the quiz modifications; 
> I'll start on that later today. 
>  
> Some changes since the test instance: 
>  
> - The "child courses" link in the Administration block within metacourses 
> has been replaced by the Metacourses link--the same one that shows up on the 
> Admin block on the main page (for course creators).  This means that 
> instructors don't have any way to manage metacourses except for the 
> Metacourses form that I've written.  If the form proves buggy or unwieldy, 
> I'll just reactivate the Child courses link.  (I'm going to make clear to 
> faculty that the new form is in test mode.) 
>  
> - Administrators will see the Child courses link within the course 
> administration block.  That's so I can create and modify metacourses if 
> faculty are having trouble.  I will also make clear in my message to faculty 
> that they can contact me about any difficulty with metacourses. 
>  
> Also, the documentation for the metacourse form isn't finished yet.  I'm 
> disabling the link until it's ready, but it should be good to go by the end 
> of the morning.  I'll put it up on teach, in the same directory as the old 
> metacourse doc. 
>  
> I've left the format of the course names and short names as they were in the 
> test instance.  I do have one concern: the length of the breadcrumbs trail 
> will probably cause more instructors to complain about the problem of the 
> content portion of the page being shunted off the right-hand side of the page 
> ala Jennifer Love's problem--particularly in metacourses, which will by 
> default have longer short names due to including the CRNs (which may cause me 
> to revisit the naming convention for metacourses--we'll find out).  I will 
> mention this in my message, and suggest that those who may be having problems 
> can deal with it for now by using one of the other themes (like the stock 
> formal white), which don't suffer from the same issue.  If I have a chance, 
> I'll also see if I can figure out how the main theme manages to avoid this 
> problem. 
>  
> I'll probably send the announcement to faculty later this afternoon. 
>  
> Into the abyss.... 
>  
> David 
>  
>  
> =============================================== 
> David Walton 
> Moodle System Administrator 
> Lane Community College 
> For enrollment, course creation, logging in, or general server issues, email 
> moodleadmin@lanecc.edu 
> For faculty assistance using Moodle, email online@lanecc.edu 
> Voice: 463-3367 
> =============================================== 




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David Walton
Moodle System Administrator
Lane Community College
For enrollment, course creation, logging in, or general server issues, email moodleadmin@lanecc.edu
For faculty assistance using Moodle, email online@lanecc.edu
Voice: 463-3367
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