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Default File Display on Moodle 2 is now “Force download”

Posted in announcements, best-practices, files, moodle2, pdf, syndicated-posts on Dec. 6, 2012 by

One of the most common uses of Moodle is to share PDF files. When a user clicks on a PDF file link, Moodle sometimes tries to open its own PDF reader within the user’s web browser. Unfortunately that approach causes problems for a number of users. In order to improve that experience we have changed […]

Default File Display on Moodle 2 is now “Force download”

Posted in announcements, best-practices, files, moodle2, pdf, syndicated-posts on Dec. 6, 2012 by

One of the most common uses of Moodle is to share PDF files. When a user clicks on a PDF file link, Moodle sometimes tries to open its own PDF reader within the user’s web browser. Unfortunately that approach causes problems for a number of users. In order to improve that experience we have changed […]

Best practices for big gradebooks

Posted in assigments, best-practices, gradebook, grader report, grades, slow, syndicated-posts on May. 5, 2011 by

Gradebooks with a lot of students (rows) and a lot of items (columns) can be very slow to load, especially after you turn editing on. We are exploring adjustments to our systems, but to some extent the problem is endemic to Moodle. Fortunately there are some end-user practices that can somewhat alleviate the pain. Depending […]

Quickmail attachments

Posted in attachments, best-practices, email, quickmail, syndicated-posts, troubleshooting on Apr. 7, 2011 by

Attachments to Moodle Quickmail will fail silently if they exceed limitations on the recipient’s account. In practice, you should avoid attachments over 25MB. To share files of that magnitude or larger, upload them to some other part of the Moodl…

Best Practice: Create a direct link for guests

Posted in best-practices, guest access, syndicated-posts, trick, URL on Feb. 8, 2011 by

If you have opened your course to guest access without a key, you can give your guests a link that will take them directly into the course. Go to the main course page and copy the URL from your browser’s address window Add the following string to the end of the URL: &username=guest Share that […]

Troubleshooting: “file could not be found”

Posted in best-practices, error, file, file-not-found, link, syndicated-posts, troubleshooting, upload on Feb. 2, 2011 by

If clicking a link to a file results in an error that “the requested file could not be found” consider that you may have moved the file after creating the link. You can rectify the situation either by (1) restoring the file to its previous location or by (2) editing the link to point to […]

Best Practice: Download Large Reports as Text Files

Posted in best-practices, excel, moodle, reports, stats, syndicated-posts on Dec. 1, 2010 by

Moodle generates detailed reports on course usage. You can view reports, customize the report parameters and download reports by following the “Reports” link in your course’s “Administration” bucket. If the report is large, you will have best results if you download it as a (comma separated) text file. Very large files in Excel format fail. […]

The trick to guest access with a key

Posted in access, best-practices, enrollment, guest, syndicated-posts, Tips on Nov. 16, 2010 by

In an earlier post I described how to turn on guest access to your Moodle course. When you turn guest access on, you have the option of allowing all guests or only those with an enrollment key. The “key” is a password that you create and then share only with the guests you want to […]