The BTSF ACADEMY team has developed a Moodle #plugin that breaks language barriers in #eLearning. Using the European Commission’s eTranslation service, the plug-in enables on-the-fly translation of training materials including Moodle file resources into EU languages, making it easier for thousands of European professionals to access information on #foodsafety. The plug-in, developed by the BTSF […]
When upgraded Moodle 3.11 to 4.4, the Font Awesome icons in the :before pseudo content disappeared. Moodle 3.11 – HTML list with Font Awesome icons Moodle 4.4 – HTML list, Font Awesome icons disappeared It turned out, that due to a major upgrade of Font Awesome from 4.x to 6.x in Moodle 4.2, some Font […]
Last time, I found a way to fix the automatic browser translation font issue in eLearning content made by Articulate Storyline. When you translate Articulate Storyline published content with the browser’s translation service, the text does not display properly. It looks like this: The SVG fix does not work in all browsers. Chrome does not […]
Nowadays more and more people use the translation functionality of the browsers.Users are noticed to use the browser translation if needed in our academy because there are not enough resources to translate and maintain the contents in the 24 European languages. There are SCORM contents created with different authoring tools but only Storyline contents fail […]
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 […]
Two years after I wrote the article on how to set up the Python machine learning backend for Moodle Analytics and I got a comment that the method I described does not work anymore because the Python version has changed and the new moodlemlbackend 3.0.5 requires new Python libs. So here are the new steps […]
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 […]
SSL proxy is a transparent proxy that performs Secure Sockets Layer encryption (SSL) and decryption between the client and the server. It performs the SSL encryption and decryption between the client and the server.