Hi, I want to use nanogong on my moodle. the version of my moodle is 1.9.7. I found patch for 1.9.5 and installed it. But still I have problems. I can record sound and listen when I sing into my account. But when I login to the system as a tacher to listen the students' messages, there arent any messages. Is this because of the version of my mooode? If so, do you think to make a patch for upper version of moodles?
I run our Moodle at Lunarpages.com. If you look down at the bottom of the homepage there is a link to an application for free web space for any public school in the U.S. There are limitations to the free account, my uploads, (and students), are limited to 2mb in Moodle. That being said, I have greatly exceeded the 500mb storage limit, when I emailed them about it, the reply was, "don't worry about it".
When you register for your account, be sure to ask for a Linux server as they have modules that make installing Moodle and other applications much easier than the windoze server I am using. That being said, I installed and upgraded our Moodle without any professional training and I am no youngster. If I can do it, anyone can. If you are really interested in the nuts and bolts of Moodle, its the way to go. I can install and delete modules, make custom interfaces and configure Moodle just how all of the staff want it.
Thanks for the quick response. It looks like you were up early this morning! I did go ahead and add the top level menus to the bottom of every page as you suggested. That will reduce the time to scroll back to the top each time. You probably already know that the system will send out an email after you register that includes your username and password. As far as pictures are concerned I will eventually set up some kind of gallery that has information on where each was taken and tie them to the various boot camps once we get those rolling. I haven't decided if I want to set up my own gallery or just load them to Flickr and tag them and then embed the slide shows on pages on the site. Thanks again for the feedback!
I bounced around the site to get a feel for how things are put together and found it to be straight forward. I can see there are some areas that you are building but overall the site has a nice look and feel, and is easy to navigate. (you may consider lower navigation quick links so scrolling back to the top is not required)
I like the pictures you are using....and curious me would love to know where they were taken...I can tell the places of some (a small thing but personal touch and helps people know who you are if you could add the info in the corner of the pic.) I think your user sign up is slick (not sure if auto generates your username and password to your e-mail just in case I forget ;)
In moving out of Groupwise using Open Source groupware, you should check out Zimbra. We did several school district migrations from different programs (Groupwise included) to Zimbra, and it is really catching up a lot. It has a really nice Web interface , and enables collaboration features that are really useful (calendering, tasks, instant messaging, etc.)
SMay, it looks like your district is looking to move from GroupWise to Microsoft Exchange using Outlook as the client on the desktop. If the district is just looking to move because of Outlook, many email systems can use Outlook as the client. One option I would recommend is to use Zimbra as the email system and the Zimbra web based client. This removes the desktop client and only allows email via a browser like Gmail, Yahoo, or Hotmail. Zimbra has a nice collaboration component including calendars. There is a free version of Zimbra or you can pay a fee for a fully supported version. The Michigan City Area School District in Indiana just moved all of their email to Zimbra and are very pleased with its performance and ease of use.
I am an a proponent of district's looking closely at open-source software as a cost savings measure for not only the district, but also for the families of the students that we are working with. With that said, I know that the main concern that my district's technology department would have with making this type of move would be the Outlook issue. They are currently working on moving from Groupwise to Outlook.
What open-source email program would you suggest that not only provides email, but also calendar features similar to Outlook?
Hello David, I am glad that you found something that you can take back to your schools. That is why we do these labs. People need to know what is available in the open source arena that can have a powerful impact on teaching and learning.
Hey Jeff, I am glad you enjoyed the conference and that you learned some things. It is also comforting to know that I am not the only band director to leave the ranks and go into tachnology.
I will look into the newest version of phpESP and see what I can do. In the mean time, take a look at the Lime Survey and see if it does what you want. As far as Joomla, how is that working out for you? I started with Joomla because it was easy to get started, but found in the long run I couldn't do the things I needed to do with user access control. I am now a big Drupal fan and with the addition of views and cck, I wouldn't use anything else at this point.
Thanks again. I hope to see you at another conference. Stop by and say hello.
Hello Ronnix, I really appreciate your comments. Once of my goals, now that my personal life is returning to some kind of normalcy, is to spend more time posting about free and open source software and the impact it can have on teaching and learning. If I appear to be wandering again, please ping me and rattle my chain.
Anonymous, your point is well taken and no, these free hosting companies and other non-Moodle partners probably do not contribute financially to the ongoing development of Moodle. The point made in this post isn't to bypass Moodle Partners, but to recognize those providers that allow teachers to get their feet wet and experience Moodle before entering the obstacle course of convincing their IT and instructional technology departments to take a look at Moodle in their organization. This is a very painless way to take Moodle for a test drive.
Let me express a word of warning here for those that are using or plan to use a free Moodle hosting company, these free hosting solutions are basically for a single class size install and not designed to run an entire district. As I have pointed out in many of my discussions with folks about Moodle, if you want to take Moodle to the next level you w ant to host your own server or get hosting from a Moodle partner. I have sent a number of folks to talk to partners about large installations.
Now I would like to argue the point that " ...non-Moodle partner hosting sites don't provide any support to the Moodle project,..." I agree that most of them don't support the project financially in any way, but the open source philosophy doesn't just look at support as paying a fee for hosting or support.
There are a number of ways that I believe these non-Moodle partners do support the Moodle project. They provide boatloads of free advertisement which does bring new Moodle users to the community. Many of the hosting companies have wonderful tutorials that provide assistance to the community. Other non-Moodle partners spend time in the forums answering questions and helping users solve problems. In some cases, don't ask me for evidence, there may actually be individuals working with these companies that actually work on code or the addition of 3rd party modules. There are lots of ways to support an open source community aside from the financial end of things.
I will now climb down off my soap box and return you to your regularly scheduled blog perusal.
It's important to note that these free hosts and other non-Moodle partner hosting sites don't provide any support to the Moodle project, wheras Moodle partners give 10% of their revenue to support the ongoing development of Moodle. Moodle partners can be found at Moodle.com.
Thanks for taking the time to discuss this, I feel strongly about it and love learning more on this topic. If possible, as you gain expertise, would you mind updating your blog with more information? It is extremely helpful and beneficial to your readers.
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I have never seen anyone really address the issue of the clip art available in OO (I have found that Oxygen OO is an improvement over just OO). Here is my issue: Having elementary (including Kdgn) students insert clip art. I know everyone says - find a copyright free website and copy/paste. I just don't find that practical for K-2 students (and don't advocate it for the rest) Is there something in OO that will let you search for clip art like in Office. As far as the mechanics of using OO - no problem with that - similar enough for basic work (although printing in Impress can be an issue)
Thanks for any input anyone may have!
Randy,
I attended the T+L conference and your open source presentation. You did a nice job and I learned some things......
I read your bio on this site and we have some things in common. First, I used to live near Bainbridge Island. I went to Olympic High School. Second, I too was a music teacher - band, to be more specific. I taught band for 16 years before I found out that I was going to lose my hearing (you probably saw me with interpreters in your open source session). So, I became a librarian and taught some tech classes. I am now Webmaster/Instructional Technology Coordinator for my school district.
I was able to make this move largely because of open source tools. I have set up Joomla powered sites for our schools, and a Moodle powered site for the District. Fun stuff.....
I had a go at phpESP and learned something. phpESP requires the dbase extension, which is not included in PHP 5.3.0 It is available for earlier versions.
At any rate, thanks again. I enjoyed your session.
Best wishes,
Jeff
A few of our high schools are interested in doing this for morning announcements and live events, such as Remembrance Day Ceremonies, that would normally require assembling the students in the gym.
I'll pass along this post to them to show that others have done this successfully.
Thanks.
I have been able to use OpenPhone just fine on Windows 7. I used netmeeting on XP and have tested xMeeting on Mac. All of these work just fine in connecting to the Codian 4200 MCU. I did have problems connecting netmeeting directly to a Polycom FX or Tandberg 880 unit.
With the old adage "If it seems to good to be true, it probably is." Well, with OpenOffice that is not the case. I myself have used it for about three years. Matter of fact, I use the Oxygen OpenOffice version. And I am very happy with it.
For years Microsoft has been the bull in the office suite business. They have been strong-arming businesses for a long time. For example, Let say a company has 100 computers with Microsoft Office on them that company has to pay them an annual volume license for all of the software on those computers. With the price of Microsoft Office at $399 per copy, thats $39,900, each year! And that is not including the cost of the Operating systems.
That sum of $39,900 probably could hire a couple of part-timers to come in an install OpenOffice.
Hi, I want to use nanogong on my moodle. the version of my moodle is 1.9.7. I found patch for 1.9.5 and installed it. But still I have problems. I can record sound and listen when I sing into my account. But when I login to the system as a tacher to listen the students' messages, there arent any messages. Is this because of the version of my mooode? If so, do you think to make a patch for upper version of moodles?
I run our Moodle at Lunarpages.com. If you look down at the bottom of the homepage there is a link to an application for free web space for any public school in the U.S. There are limitations to the free account, my uploads, (and students), are limited to 2mb in Moodle. That being said, I have greatly exceeded the 500mb storage limit, when I emailed them about it, the reply was, "don't worry about it".
When you register for your account, be sure to ask for a Linux server as they have modules that make installing Moodle and other applications much easier than the windoze server I am using. That being said, I installed and upgraded our Moodle without any professional training and I am no youngster. If I can do it, anyone can. If you are really interested in the nuts and bolts of Moodle, its the way to go. I can install and delete modules, make custom interfaces and configure Moodle just how all of the staff want it.
Carl
Thanks for the quick response. It looks like you were up early this morning! I did go ahead and add the top level menus to the bottom of every page as you suggested. That will reduce the time to scroll back to the top each time. You probably already know that the system will send out an email after you register that includes your username and password. As far as pictures are concerned I will eventually set up some kind of gallery that has information on where each was taken and tie them to the various boot camps once we get those rolling. I haven't decided if I want to set up my own gallery or just load them to Flickr and tag them and then embed the slide shows on pages on the site. Thanks again for the feedback!
Hey Randy -
I bounced around the site to get a feel for how things are put together and found it to be straight forward. I can see there are some areas that you are building but overall the site has a nice look and feel, and is easy to navigate. (you may consider lower navigation quick links so scrolling back to the top is not required)
I like the pictures you are using....and curious me would love to know where they were taken...I can tell the places of some (a small thing but personal touch and helps people know who you are if you could add the info in the corner of the pic.) I think your user sign up is slick (not sure if auto generates your username and password to your e-mail just in case I forget ;)
Well...that's first impressions. Nice work!
Bre
We're trying to edit weblib.php to get this to work.
Suggestion: might the developers provide a patch for V1.9.4?
In moving out of Groupwise using Open Source groupware, you should check out Zimbra. We did several school district migrations from different programs (Groupwise included) to Zimbra, and it is really catching up a lot. It has a really nice Web interface , and enables collaboration features that are really useful (calendering, tasks, instant messaging, etc.)
SMay, it looks like your district is looking to move from GroupWise to Microsoft Exchange using Outlook as the client on the desktop. If the district is just looking to move because of Outlook, many email systems can use Outlook as the client. One option I would recommend is to use Zimbra as the email system and the Zimbra web based client. This removes the desktop client and only allows email via a browser like Gmail, Yahoo, or Hotmail. Zimbra has a nice collaboration component including calendars. There is a free version of Zimbra or you can pay a fee for a fully supported version. The Michigan City Area School District in Indiana just moved all of their email to Zimbra and are very pleased with its performance and ease of use.
I am an a proponent of district's looking closely at open-source software as a cost savings measure for not only the district, but also for the families of the students that we are working with. With that said, I know that the main concern that my district's technology department would have with making this type of move would be the Outlook issue. They are currently working on moving from Groupwise to Outlook.
What open-source email program would you suggest that not only provides email, but also calendar features similar to Outlook?
Very good post, thanks a lot.
Hey Jeff, I am glad you enjoyed the conference and that you learned some things. It is also comforting to know that I am not the only band director to leave the ranks and go into tachnology.
I will look into the newest version of phpESP and see what I can do. In the mean time, take a look at the Lime Survey and see if it does what you want. As far as Joomla, how is that working out for you? I started with Joomla because it was easy to get started, but found in the long run I couldn't do the things I needed to do with user access control. I am now a big Drupal fan and with the addition of views and cck, I wouldn't use anything else at this point.
Thanks again. I hope to see you at another conference. Stop by and say hello.
Anonymous, your point is well taken and no, these free hosting companies and other non-Moodle partners probably do not contribute financially to the ongoing development of Moodle. The point made in this post isn't to bypass Moodle Partners, but to recognize those providers that allow teachers to get their feet wet and experience Moodle before entering the obstacle course of convincing their IT and instructional technology departments to take a look at Moodle in their organization. This is a very painless way to take Moodle for a test drive.
Let me express a word of warning here for those that are using or plan to use a free Moodle hosting company, these free hosting solutions are basically for a single class size install and not designed to run an entire district. As I have pointed out in many of my discussions with folks about Moodle, if you want to take Moodle to the next level you w ant to host your own server or get hosting from a Moodle partner. I have sent a number of folks to talk to partners about large installations.
Now I would like to argue the point that " ...non-Moodle partner hosting sites don't provide any support to the Moodle project,..." I agree that most of them don't support the project financially in any way, but the open source philosophy doesn't just look at support as paying a fee for hosting or support.
There are a number of ways that I believe these non-Moodle partners do support the Moodle project. They provide boatloads of free advertisement which does bring new Moodle users to the community. Many of the hosting companies have wonderful tutorials that provide assistance to the community. Other non-Moodle partners spend time in the forums answering questions and helping users solve problems. In some cases, don't ask me for evidence, there may actually be individuals working with these companies that actually work on code or the addition of 3rd party modules. There are lots of ways to support an open source community aside from the financial end of things.
I will now climb down off my soap box and return you to your regularly scheduled blog perusal.
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