You can now hide/show individual activity modules and even delete them completely!
For example, if you hide the "choice" module, then all choice activities
will be hidden throughout the whole site, and "Choice" will not
appear on any "Add..." menu.
Deleting a module is a complete deletion of all data from the database.
If you want to try out the deletion on a real module, I suggest the
pgassignment module, since it will soon be deleted from CVS anyway
(because it's being replaced with workshop).
Look for "Manage modules" on the admin menu.
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)
- rename the main_frame variable to framename, because it
- might have caused some confusion
- none of the global variables have underscores
- put the config in the config table, with a default of _top
Course creators are managed by /admin/creator.php , same way that admins.
Or if authetication module have 'auth_iscreator'-function (right now only ldap-module have) ,
users are added to creators at login time.
Moodle tables.
ie user -> userid in many tables, plus in user_students
start -> starttime and end -> endtime
I've just done all this as carefully as I could ... I don't think
I missed anything but it's pretty intensive work and I'd be fooling myself
if I didn't think I'd missed a couple.
Note that this version should pretty much be able to bootstrap itself
using PostgreSQL now ... but this is untested
Basically all the Database functions are in lib/datalib.php
and the web functions are all in lib/weblib.php, so
moodlelib.php is much thinner than it was.
Data functions have been extended ... most old calls will
still work, but now many more SQL commands can be performed
using the datalib functions rather than using SQL. I'm
currently moving through the whole tree replacing SQL
calls or at least concentrating them in one section of
mod/xxx/lib.php
Still working on forums, quizzes, surveys, resources.
The tree is currently not full working ... some things are
half-completed ... will resume tomorrow.
THIS IS A BIG CHANGE!
I've renamed the "reading" module to "resource".
This meant changing quite a few references throughout Moodle.
The automatic upgrade process should work OK (it worked OK on my
development server) and there shouldn't be any problems.
BUT PLEASE PROCEED WITH CAUTION AND KEEP BACKUPS OF EVERYTHING
UNTIL I HAVE A FEW MORE TESTS! If you upgrade please let me know.
One thing that will break are any hard-coded links within forum messages.
What I will be doing to fix this on my apache server is to add this to
httpd.conf:
Redirect /mod/reading/ http://moodle.com/mod/resource/
Sorry about any inconvenience, but it's better this is done sooner than later.
in a course. Firstly, the course settings page now allows the teachers
to specify the word they want to use in place of "teachers" and "students"
as well as "teacher" and "student". Secondly, a new teacher admin tool
allows any teacher to modify the order and displayed role of teachers
in that course. This affects the display on the course listings, the
participants page and so on.
