[Moodle] Moodle award

[Stephen Digby]

I have got around this by moving all our intranet INSIDE moodle folders.
i.e. ALL students software is within a meta course for student software, all teacher references are within a moodle course for
student references etc.
These course folders are also mapped directly for quick access while students are at school.
This allows teacher and students to exchange links to the resources which will work the same way at school as outside school.

Now building forums inside these courses that detail the resources so that they are more effectively searchable through the forum
search feature.

Had to hack a bit of moodle (the bit that tries to calculate folder sizes when displaying directories) as it fails when it tries to
calculate 11 Gb of folders !!!!

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-----Original Message-----
From: moodle-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:moodle-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of victor rajewski
Sent: Monday, 20 August 2007 12:00 PM
To: The Moodle Users' in Schools Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Moodle] Moodle award

If the folder cannot be accessed from outside, then the folder can't be accessed from outside, irrespective of whether there are
links to it. The only solution is to somehow provide external access to the folder, either by allowing direct access to the server
(this can usually be locked down), or via some kind of proxy solution like using apache and samba described below. Or using a VPN
for the whole thing - this would be just like being inside the school.

vik

On 8/17/07, Alan Oh <OH.A at wcc.vic.edu.au> wrote:
> Hi Vik. The moodle server is a linux machine, totally different to the 
> MyFolder server. MyFolder is a network folder available within the 
> school network but not available outside, unless a VPN is set up.
>
> Alan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: moodle-bounces at edulists.com.au
> [mailto:moodle-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of victor rajewski
> Sent: Friday, 17 August 2007 12:28 PM
> To: The Moodle Users' in Schools Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [Moodle] Moodle award
>
> On 8/17/07, Alan Oh <OH.A at wcc.vic.edu.au> wrote:
> > Ahem, I don't want to sidetrack the discusion about the Ultranet, 
> > but does anyone know if there is a way around this scenario:
> >
> > - The moodle server is inhouse
> > - I have a Windows file server containing a folder called "MyFolder"
> > that I did a webshare on. Ths folder has pictures, etc that teachers 
> > want students to access/view
> > - in moodle, I used "Link to a file or website" to link to "MyFolder"
> > - all works well....inhouse.
> > - when logged in to moodle from home, the MyFolder link fails.
>
> Is the windows fileserver which MyFolder is on accessible from the 
> outside world? Does it have the same address/domain name inside as it 
> does outside?
>
> Is your moodle server running on linux or windows; if windows, is it 
> the same server as the file share is on?
>
> vik
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