Moodle has a great documentation page for creating a theme based on Boost theme but that one is for Moodle 3.2 and it does not work for 4.x versions. I had to create a child theme recently, so now I have the steps for a tutorial for the 4.x versions. Getting started The tutorial is […]
Changing the Time Zone in Windows Server in the Azure cloud cannot be made with the normal process. As you can see on the image below whenever you change the Time zone on the Date & time panel nothing will happen. There was a need to change it because all the log files were showing […]
First of all, caching is important. A cache is a collection of processed data that is kept on hand and re-used to avoid costly repeated database queries. The default cache setting is quite good but if you are running a big Moodle instance or you using cloud services where the IOPS is limited you need […]
Moodle 3.9.11+ was recently installed in Azure Cloud. The installation was not an easy ride because Moodle was not prepared to install the application behind an SSL proxy. You may find the solution for this here: Installing Moodle using SSL Proxy.I started to use Moodle then I realize that I cannot add an activity or […]
You can change the beep sound by change the %WWWROOT%/mod/chat/beep.wav file. You can also disable the beep by deleting this file.
When trying to export an assignment document to Mahara and we get the following error: Payload not encryptedERROR 1:1:Payload not encryptedDebug: \nError code: failedtopingline 280 of /portfolio/mahara/lib.php: portfolio_export_exception thrown line 57 of /portfolio/mahara/preconfig.php: call to portfolio_plugin_mahara->send_intent()\n, referer: http://moodle.appi.bme.hu/mod/assign/view.php Most likely we are behind a firewall. If both Moodle and Mahara servers are behind the firewall […]
I have got a mail from one of our students, that she can not log in using SSO from Moodle. The Apache log said: [Thu Oct 10 10:46:38 2013] [warn] [client 192.168.1.2] mod_fcgid: stderr: [WAR] fe (api/xmlrpc/client.php:173) Unknown error occurred: 710: Az al\xc3\xa1\xc3\xadr\xc3\xa1s-ellen\xc5\x91rz\xc3\xa9s sikertelen; az azonos\xc3\xadt\xc3\xa1st feltehet\xc5\x91leg nem \xc3\x96n \xc3\xadrta al\xc3\xa1., referer: http://moodle.appi.bme.hu/ [Thu Oct […]