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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?

Elearning World LMS Moodle Theme UX

16th March 2021 Gareth Barnard

Small little details

Sometimes its the small details in life that can make all the difference.

Elearning World Moodle UX

16th February 2021 Gareth Barnard

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.

Elearning World General Technical

16th December 2020 Gareth Barnard

How I learn

Introduction In this post I want to have a break from the technical side of things and be more human,

Elearning World Technical

16th November 2020 Gareth Barnard

A little bit of CSS, part two

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,

Elearning World Technical

16th October 2020 Gareth Barnard

A little bit of CSS, part one

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

Elearning World Moodle

16th September 2020 Gareth Barnard

SynHi

Introduction In writing posts like ‘What a difference a character makes’ (www.elearningworld.org/what-a-difference-a-character-makes), I’ve been describing code, which on its own