Martin, My request is about the Front Page. In courses it is clear how to manage editing. On the Front Page only the first XO seems to be able to create global links to public folders and site resources (the menus that become editable through "Turn Editing On"). It may seem a point of detail but what happens if the first admin XO becomes unavailable for any reason? We are told that logging on as administrator is "at your own risk" as it might break Moodle. As the persons who would be required to log on as administrators would be the teachers only newly introduced to computers, I think we need to follow safe guidelines.
David Leeming -----Original Message----- From: Martin Langhoff [mailto:martin.langh...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, 31 July 2010 5:52 a.m. To: David Leeming Cc: XS Devel Subject: Re: Turn Editing On missing and joining multiple courses On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 8:52 PM, David Leeming <da...@leeming-consulting.com> wrote: > In our PNG deployment and elsewhere I am finding with Moodle that when the > initial administrator XO creates additional course creators, the Turn > Editing On button does not appear on the new Course Creator XOs Does not appear... on which course? Make them a teacher of each course where you want them to see that. Note! Don't make all teachers 'course creators'. Just create a course for them, and make them a teacher _in that course_. > Secondly, we have set up courses for each of six classes and are joining the > 250 students and their teachers to them as teachers and students Cool. that's the way :-) >. The > teachers have been made Front Page teachers but not been given any system > roles (otherwise they appear in all the courses). Good too! > We want to allow teachers > to collaborate between each other as well, so I am thinking of creating a > Teachers course. Yes - perfect! You're getting the 'moodle way'. Create a "Teachers' Exchange" course, and in there make them all "teachers". > I have not enough experience with Moodle to know what to > expect will there be any cross over issues (the best way I can describe > it) if teachers A and B are members of the Grade 3A and 4B courses > respectively, and then also both as members of Teachers. Each course its is own world -- you are doing it right. Moodle never asks "is this person a teacher?" or "is this person a student?". Moodle doesn't care. You are a teacher _in the context of a course_. You might be a student in another course ("how to use moodle")! A child might be "student" in a course, but an openminded teacher / "course creator" can setup a course where kids are setup with a "teacher" role and can do more things! Hope all is good in PNG! 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 _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel