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.
because some of them are getting really long on moodle.org
Eventually this display will be completely different, with information
about all public data.
The flag has a memory, but it keeps pushing you to subscribe. :-)
(so that by default it behaves like it did before)
Hopefully now subscription is a bit easier to understand.
still producing too much data and overflowing PHP memory on busier
sites (eg moodle.org).
Now, there are more database queries, which is unfortunate, but the
data is much more specific, and no sorting needs to be done, so
this is a performance boost.
I don't know how these will cancel out ... my guess is that very
small sites may be very slightly slower on the course page, but
that large sites will be much faster.
Let's see.
Moved COURSE_TEACHER_COLOR out to style sheets where it belongs (.teacheronly)
Added some efficiency when printing recent activity
- don't print more than one weeks worth of updates
- don't keep re-parsing logs once they've been used
