Augsburg modifications to moodle

As we’ve been testing moodle out we’ve also been tweaking the code to meet our needs. If anyone is interested in copies of the code snippets just let me know.

• Forum post emails don’t link back into moodle and neither do the RSS feeds – this breaks our single sign-on system.
• Forum replies in threaded form were too spaced out. We tightened up the reply spacing.
• HTML and Text resources automatically have a link in the upper-right of “Return to {shortname}” which takes you back to the course page.
• User’s can’t change their email addresses or id numbers. These are set with their accounts are auto-created by database authentication. The id numbers are needed for enrollment so those shouldn’t be editable!
• In the gallery module I added a top frame with appropriate navigation and made the gallery description more readable by placing it in a box. However the automatic advancing of images seems to have broken. I’m looking into that.

We have a few more minor changes in the pipeline but these were some of the main tweaks we wanted to do. The modular and open nature of the code makes these changes easier as you go along.

One Response to “Augsburg modifications to moodle”

1. martin langhoff says:

   May 3, 2005 at 3:52 am

   Scott — why don’t you offer these patches in the moodle dev forums? Could be the start of a collaboration story 😉

   (Locking of user fields is a standard feature in 1.5, but I need help testing it.)