For the online learning world
Have you ever wanted to compare themes easily? In “What’s in a screenshot” (March 2018), I briefly mentioned my ‘Theme selector’ block that I took over from John Syrinek. It gives you the ability to switch between themes quickly so that you can make the comparisons you want.
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Running, let alone writing the Moodle acceptance tests is a bit tricky and complicated, and they can take ages. But what if there was a way to speed things up? In this first of a two part post, we’ll look at getting up and running with running tests one at a time.
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We all use technology on a regular basis and we know that our electronic computing technology is based on bytes. But what exactly is a ‘Byte’ and why does it matter so much?
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Sometimes its the small details in life that can make all the difference.
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When I first implemented the setting reset functionality of Collapsed Topics (CT), it allowed you to reset the settings of the course to the defaults as set by the administrator at the time. The reset functionality applies to the current course or can be applied to all courses by the administrator if desired. But this has the downside that when the defaults change then whole groups of settings need to be ‘reset’. What if you wanted to be able to only have one setting track the default? This is where ‘three-state’ logic comes in.
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Introduction In this post I want to have a break from the technical side of things and be more human,
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Introduction In last months post (www.elearningworld.org/?p=11723) I described some basic CSS. This time we’ll look at some more advanced. Again,
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Introduction In reading some of the posts on the Moodle theme’s forum (moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?id=46) I realise that the problems are sometimes
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