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So you have the box at the top, this confuses our users, so we need to remove it. To do this you can just use a simple script on the front page. 1. Edit the front page and add the “Script Editor” web part. 2. Give it a suitable name, and then enter the following … Read more

You want to change the size of the search box web part, this is fairly straight forward when you know how. 1. Firstly get the name/ID of the search box. Open your SharePoint front page, right click in the search box and select “inspect element”, then in the Developer box you should see the search … Read more

We have some Linux web servers that we use for Moodle they are setup behind a Barracuda Load Balancer that then distributes the load based on how busy each of the web servers are. Essentially the more busy the server the less clients it is given to process. The barracuda load balancer uses an SNMP … Read more

You get this error when opening a course, in this case we were using course 33. When entering the course, you get this error message: “Cannot find data record in database table course_module” http://moodle.domain/course/view.php?id=33 SOLUTION: Open MySQL Workbench on the server and then run this query: Then you should see the course record in the … Read more

You can do this with: Then in the commands.txt file you just put in the commands that you wish to run within the session. This has been tested on Linux.

We found that the metadata columns which use the term store, end up showing empty for all users apart from the Site Administrators. To fix this you need to grant privileges to the users in this list. To do this navigate to: http://intranet/Lists/TaxonomyHiddenList/AllItems.aspx Click on “List”->”List Settings” then click on “Permissions for this list.” Add … Read more

When setting up your APC Management card (this includes the ATS Devices) you need to configure the IAS policy as follows. I’m assuming you know the basics of configuring a RADIUS device this is specifically how to get administrative privileges for users logging into the Management card. Without these additional settings, the user will get … Read more

If you are seeing this when you start TomCat on a Shibboleth server you need to check your Shibboleth configuration as follows: Open relying-party.xml and change the maxvalidityinterval value within this section to: P46DT12H0M0.000S instead of: 4017600.

You may want to change the default behavour of the Lync client so that it appears to automatically start, so people know its there and want to use it. The other key thing is to automatically populate the username box on Lync so that users for the first time don’t need to know their name … Read more

I’ve been wrestling with a course restore problem on Moodle 2.4.2 and Moodle 2.5. Basically you can take a course backup fine, but when trying to restore it, it will timeout, and fail to restore the course at all or may only restore a small segment of it. Of course it fails, with no entries … Read more