Re: [Server-devel] Turn editing on is not available

[David Leeming]

Martin,

We have tried everything given there, and can happily add and remove Course
Creators.

But none of them can edit the Front Page because "turn editing on" does not
appear. We only have one half day left so unless we fix this we will revert
to plan B completely rebuild the servers - frustrating.

We also tried changing Front Page roles, to add the Course Creators within
that context. But to no avail.

Any idea where the config for editing of front page is located?

David

-Original Message-
From: Martin Langhoff [mailto:martin.langh...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, 31 March 2010 5:00 a.m.
To: David Leeming
Cc: XS Devel
Subject: Re: Turn editing on is not available

Hi David,

I am a bit snowed under, and unable to give you a good response
quickly. I think it's a logic bug.

I am pretty sure, however, that the problem you are seeing will
disappear if you use the technique here:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Techniques_and_Configuration#Controlling_Course
_Creators_directly

Hope the workaround works for you. If you are deploying many XSs and
you know what XO you want as "main admin", that will work for you.

cheers,



m
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 mar...@laptop.org -- School Server Architect
 - ask interesting questions
 - don't get distracted with shiny stuff  - working code first
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Re: [Server-devel] Turn editing on is not available

[Martin Langhoff]

Hi David,

I am a bit snowed under, and unable to give you a good response
quickly. I think it's a logic bug.

I am pretty sure, however, that the problem you are seeing will
disappear if you use the technique here:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Techniques_and_Configuration#Controlling_Course_Creators_directly

Hope the workaround works for you. If you are deploying many XSs and
you know what XO you want as "main admin", that will work for you.

cheers,



m
-- 
 martin.langh...@gmail.com
 mar...@laptop.org -- School Server Architect
 - ask interesting questions
 - don't get distracted with shiny stuff  - working code first
 - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff
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Re: [Server-devel] Turn editing on is not available

[David Leeming]

Hi Andra,

 

I haven't received any other feedback on this yet, so thanks for this. I
will try it but am worried by the warning given. What we are doing is
building a "master" XS to be cloned for up to 20 other servers. So rather
than have that risk multiplied by 20 it may be best to rebuild it completely
to get back the "turn editing on" facility that we have lost, unless Martin
or others can advise.

 

To restate, we had made a couple of changes to the System Roles to reassign
the main admin XO. That was fine, but in the process we now find that "turn
editing on" does not appear on the home page of the assigned Course Creator
XOs.

 

David Leeming

In PNG

 

From: Andra DuPont [mailto:andradup...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, 30 March 2010 11:01 p.m.
To: David Leeming
Cc: XS Devel
Subject: Re: [Server-devel] Turn editing on is not available

 

 

On Mar 30, 2010, at 12:40 AM, David Leeming wrote:





We have been rearranging the admin laptops using the assign system roles to
make other XOs course creators, etc.

 

We have ended up with two Course Creators, both have "create new course"
visible on the home page, but neither has "Turn editing on" visible on the
Front page. Using Front Page > Assign Roles to make them course creators
within that context does not correct this.

 

Any tips welcome.

 

David, I'm not sure if you got an answer or not. I am new to this, and I'm
not sure what caused your issue, but if you log into Moodle as admin, then
under Users / Permissions you will have the capability to Define roles.
Under Course creator at the right side, you can edit the roles. I was not
able to do this from my XO as mentioned at the bottom of the Wiki clip
below. I was able to do it from a non-XO by connecting to the AP and using a
browser to login to the schoolserver with the information given below.

 

Andy

 

Wiki excerpt


Logging in with the admin account


Use at your own risk! Direct access to the admin account is not recommended.
It may break your Moodle-on-XS today, or it may lead to breakage on
upgrades.

.. Normally the account is disabled (and only enabled at upgrade
time). Enable the account with

sudo -u apache php /var/www/moodle/web/local/scripts/adminuser-enable.php

.. After each upgrade, the account will be disabled again.

.. Look at the password - it is different for every XS:

cat /etc/moodle/adminpw

.. Login with the username admin.

.. If you are logging in from an XO which auto-logins using your
registered account, you can access the login page directly by editing the
URL to say  
http://servername/moodle/login/. You can use this form even if you are
logged in.

 

 

David Leeming

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Re: [Server-devel] Turn editing on is not available

[Andra DuPont]

On Mar 30, 2010, at 12:40 AM, David Leeming wrote:

> We have been rearranging the admin laptops using the assign system roles to 
> make other XOs course creators, etc.
>  
> We have ended up with two Course Creators, both have “create new course” 
> visible on the home page, but neither has “Turn editing on” visible on the 
> Front page. Using Front Page > Assign Roles to make them course creators 
> within that context does not correct this.
>  
> Any tips welcome.

David, I'm not sure if you got an answer or not. I am new to this, and I'm not 
sure what caused your issue, but if you log into Moodle as admin, then under 
Users / Permissions you will have the capability to Define roles. Under Course 
creator at the right side, you can edit the roles. I was not able to do this 
from my XO as mentioned at the bottom of the Wiki clip below. I was able to do 
it from a non-XO by connecting to the AP and using a browser to login to the 
schoolserver with the information given below.

Andy

Wiki excerpt
Logging in with the admin account

Use at your own risk! Direct access to the admin account is not recommended. It 
may break your Moodle-on-XS today, or it may lead to breakage on upgrades.
Normally the account is disabled (and only enabled at upgrade time). Enable the 
account with
sudo -u apache php /var/www/moodle/web/local/scripts/adminuser-enable.php
After each upgrade, the account will be disabled again.
Look at the password - it is different for every XS:
cat /etc/moodle/adminpw
Login with the username admin.
If you are logging in from an XO which auto-logins using your registered 
account, you can access the login page directly by editing the URL to say 
http://servername/moodle/login/. You can use this form even if you are logged 
in.

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