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Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 21:05:07 -0800 (PST)
From: sHeD
Subject: Re: Fwd: Tracking problems in moodle
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Sandy,

This definitely makes sense and is exactly what we needed to know.  The information that we received from the student made no mention of the MS Word requirement.  I will pass this along to the student and we'll be ready to assist him if he needs help using Word for this purpose.

Todd @ SHED

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>>> On 11/27/2006 at 10:46 AM, in message <376498.5125.qm@web50407.mail.yahoo.com>,
"Sandra M. Jensen" <chickadeeacres@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Ted,
>   The term "tracking Forum" posts is unrelated to this. That just means 
> Moodle will tell them which Forum posts they have and haven't read.This has 
> nothing to do with Moodle and everything to do with basically knowledge of 
> how your Word program works.
>    
>   When I say "turn on your tracking," that means the student downloads his 
> or her document and opens it in Word (WordPad, Apple Works and other smaller 
> programs don't do this, which is why students are told before they enter the 
> class that those programs aren't acceptable for this class. Ohterwise, they 
> have to come up on campus to download their document from Moodle and view 
> comments in Word.). 
>    
>   On a PC, you go to "View" and click on "comments" as in "View comments." 
> Comments is called tracking on a Mac. I'm not e-mailing you from home or I'd 
> send you more detail. However, any standard Word user should be able to find 
> this function easily.
>    
>   None of this has anything to do with Moodle.
>    
>   Does that help?
>   Sandy
> 
> sHeD sHeD <sHeD@lanecc.edu> wrote:
>   Sandy,
> 
> We worked with this student back in October to turn on the basic
> tracking function (using the instructions we were given) but it sounds
> like they're having a new problem receiving corrected work back from
> you? Here's what we told them before:
> ===
> Have the student login, go to any class, and click the EDIT PROFILE
> link in their Admin block.
> There, they have a multitude of options to choose from. The one
> referred to here is:
> 
> Forum tracking: YES: highlight new posts for me
> 
> instead of the default
> Forum tracking: No: don't keep track of posts I've seen
> 
> ====
> 
> Can you give us more information on how you're returning the
> corrections (is it an attachment to a forum posting or ?). I've cc'd
> the Faculty webmasters also in case they can point us in the right
> direction. Thanks.
> 
> Todd Lutz @ SHED

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