- can search for full words or non words with +word -word
- no longer groups by category, sorts by full name
- prints paging as well as total number
- search help
that is much better than the proposal to change the role of course creators.
There is a new field in user_teachers called "editall", which is
ON BY DEFAULT, and allows teachers to edit courses. It can be modified
on the teacher editing screen (formerly assign teachers).
The value is cached in the session.
To test for it, there is a new function isteacheredit($course->id)
which works much like isteacher did.
I'm going through now and applying this new function wherever
it is needed.
OK, this is a big check-in with some big changes, and needs work still.
It seems relatively stable, but I need help identifying the rough patches.
1) First grading scales support. There is a now a new table called "scale"
that contains grading scales. There can be site scales (course=0) and
custom course scales. These can be used in modules - I've only done
forums for now but that was the hard one. Scales can be edited via
the new item in the course admin menu.
There is one default scale - the connected/separate knowing one that used
to be in forum. To build this I pull data from the language packs
to create one during the upgrade, or anytime a scales menu is called
and no scales are found.
2) New roles for course creator and teachers. I've fixed up the course
menus and some other things but there's a lot left to do on this to
make it all smooth. The idea is that teachers no longer can edit courses
unless they are also course creators. The interface for this needs to
be smoothed out a fair bit and I need help with this.
The upgrade will upgrade all teachers to be creators, but will default
the new site config "creatornewcourses" to "no", so that effectively
these new teachers have the same privileges.
3) Simplified teacher management. There is no longer an "assign teachers"
and a "teacher roles" page - it's all on one page in course/teacher.html.
Phew ... time for a shower and then back into it.
This includes some significant cleanups to the new course categories
system. The basic idea is that the categories/course browser is now
unified under one system, and admin features related to that have
all been moved into the browser (as little icons).
I'm much happier with this as a foundation that can scale and be
built upon.
Still to go:
- searching
- paging
- polishing
Also in here are a lot of little cleanups around the place, such as
the initial setup process.
OK, some big changes here to the front end, particularly in
course categories and course display.
Course categories can now be nested (to any level).
Courses and course categories can now be manually sorted
any way required.
There is a groovy front end for managing these, and a better
range of options for formatting the front page.
It all still needs some polishing, which I'll be doing over
the next couple of days, including better auto-sorting.
I would not use this on production systems just yet.
ensure that the order they are displayed in is always the same as the
order they have been defined in. See bug 553.
This involved API changes to the function get_all_instances_in_course()
when there were more than one record returned was sometimes causing
problems if the data was unclean due to a bug somewhere.
For example, if there are two copies of a section, then Moodle keeps
creating new ones because it can't find ONE. This fix prevents that.
There is something wrong with this SQL still though ... it mostly works
but I'm still getting wierd behaviour with small numbers of users.
Need some help here ... for example just look at get_site_users()
on your test site.
It's supposed to return a list of users who are admins, creators,
teachers or students
can be used all over the place.
Also, related fixes to "add admin" (MUCH better performance) and the user listings
More to come for "add teacher" and "add creator"
Now these are saved in a new table called course_display,
each user and each course can have independent settings.
I'm intending to expand this table later for all the other
course display stuff (like hidden topics etc)
