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Taking advantage of lower usage during the summer we have brought our Moodles (both 1.9 and 2.3) up to the latest. The changes are minor, so we don’t anticipate complications, but please let us know if you find anything unusual.

If at least one item in the gradebook is set to be invisible, students might not be able to see the calculated course totals. They will see the grades for all visible items but not the course totals. This can be changed by going to the gradebook and choosing the ‘settings’ tab. In the ‘User […]

The problem editing certain Moodle pages with FireFox 11 (described in a previous post) has now been resolved.

We’ve increased the default maximum file upload size for assignments and forums on Moodle to 10MB. The previous defaults were 1MB and 2MB respectively. A student who attempts to submit a file larger than the maximum will get an error. As before, instructors can increase these limits as needed for any individual activity. We hope […]

Sunday, March 11: 6:00AM – 11:00AM
All critical systems (including Moodle) will be unavailable. During this window, a very limited home page will be displayed on Wesleyan’s web site.
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Moodle is now using the new login page that was released for EPortfolio last week.  You will see this login page if you access Moodle directly from http://moodle.wesleyan.edu (without having signed in to your EPortfolio).  Users outside of Wesleyan who do not log in with a Wesleyan ID should click Guest Access on the main […]

We have recently discovered that many Moodle courses created for spring 2012 do not have a Course Documents folder in their Files area. You will see a link to the Course Documents on the main page for the course, but if you go to Administration > Files, the folder will not show up there. Fortunately, […]

By default new Moodle courses are unavailable to students. To make a course available an instructor can go to Course Administration > Settings and change the availability preference (near the bottom of the page), then save the change. Below is a demonstration of this process at:

As we transition into the spring 2012 semester, we have moved the fall 2011 courses into the “Archives” area. In addition, spring courses should now list as “current,” and fall courses should list as “old” in the “current courses list” that users see o…

Earlier this morning we upgraded our WordPress installation to 3.3.1. A few things will look different to the end user, but most things should be familiar. There’s a new admin toolbar that logged-in users will see on both the public and admin pages of their sites. The button to upload media has changed from a […]