Technical

Moodle Technical 

Moodle – which database should you use?

19th March 201917th March 2019 EdTech Geek 0 Comments MariaDB, MSSQL, MySQL, Oracle, Postgres

Moodle Docs recommends MariaDB above MySQL, yet Postgres is default. What does this mean?

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Elearning World Learning design Moodle Technical UX 

WebP

16th March 20199th March 2019 Gareth Barnard 2 Comments image size, page load, user experience, webp

Introduction As we connect to the world through devices which can have both limited processing power and bandwidth it is

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Courses MoodleBites Technical 

Moodle Server Administrator – 24 hour discount

1st March 20198th January 2019 ElearningWorld Admin 0 Comments Server Administrator

On the first day of each month we have a special one-time discount on a specific online  course…

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Moodle Technical 

Does your Moodle site say “Too many users” when enrolling?

19th February 201917th January 2019 Stuart Mealor 0 Comments Enrolment

This is a problem that affects many Moodle sites, but now has a surprisingly simple solution.

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Moodle Technical 

Changing your Moodle site name? Then read this!

9th February 201917th January 2019 Stuart Mealor 0 Comments domain, URL

Changing your Moodle site name isn’t quite as easy as it sounds…

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Elearning World Technical 

Meet ElearningWorld featured writer – EdTechGeek

22nd January 201917th January 2019 ElearningWorld Admin 1 Comment EdTech, EdTechGeek

A shadowy figure … is EdTech Geek real?  Imaginary?

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Technical 

What’s in a number?

16th January 201920th February 2019 Gareth Barnard 2 Comments bug, debugging, detective, revision, scm, Software Configuration Management, Version control, version number, verson

Introduction You see them everywhere with software, version numbers. You get reminded of updates with words along the lines of

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Technical 

Output three ways

16th December 201820th February 2019 Gareth Barnard 0 Comments how to, mustache, Output, PHP, template

Introduction Moodle principally generates its HTML output using PHP (some can be generated via JavaScript on your web browser) using

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Moodle Technical 

AWS server administrator contract wanted

15th December 201813th December 2018 ElearningWorld Admin 0 Comments Amazon, AWS, Server

We are looking for an additional server administrator for our AWS Moodle servers.

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Elearning World Technical Theme 

The perils of ‘display: none’

16th November 20189th November 2018 Gareth Barnard 1 Comment client server, computing, CSS, optimisation, Theme

Introduction Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) have an attribute called ‘display’ which can be used to determine how a given element

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