[Moodle] Student file storage and moodle

Tue Aug 21 15:46:14 EST 2007

I Just installed the Portfolio Module...
With just one execution of a bash script it installs a portfolio
system and a "File Cabinet"..
It looks really good.
Its part of the SPDC portfolio features.
It allows users to upload files for general storage.. and possible
later addition to their portfolio.

What I would like to do now is get it linked into the users home
drivers on the schools server, so that their File Cabient on moodle is
subdirectory of their user account.
That was usb flash drives and emailing files is uneccessary.

You can find the demo course at the playpen

http://playpen.riverview.nsw.edu.au/course/view.php?id=12

The download link is there too.

Hope you find it useful

Amiel

Lilydale Adventist Academy

On 8/21/07, Daniel Stanley <Daniel.Stanley at flinders.vic.edu.au> wrote:
> Hi all,
> Has anyone setup, or can suggest a means by which students can store
> files within moodle without actually submitting files as an assignment?
>
> Thanks heaps,
>
>
> Daniel Stanley
> IT Co-ordinator for
> Carrum Downs Campus
> Flinders Christian Community College
> e: daniel.stanley at flinders.vic.edu.au
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> m: 0423960800
> f:   03 97735710
>
>
> "All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us."
>
> J.R.R Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
> British scholar & fantasy novelist (1892 - 1973)
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: moodle-bounces at edulists.com.au
> [mailto:moodle-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of victor rajewski
> Sent: Tuesday, 21 August 2007 2:39 PM
> To: The Moodle Users' in Schools Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [Moodle] Moodle award
>
> I've used and developed for both plone and drupal. They are both great
> systems, albeit with slightly different goals. Plone needs more work
> setting up, and you have to think about things a bit more at the outset.
> It is very, very configurable. Drupal on the other hand works better
> straight out of the box, and mainly configurable via plugins (which you
> can write your own), but I would suggest works better on smaller scale
> operations. Plone also seems to have better 'direction'
> as a project than drupal.
>
> vik
>
> On 8/20/07, Laurie Savage <sav at pvgc.vic.edu.au> wrote:
> > I'm invstigating Plone for an Intranet Solution on a server I've
> > high-jacked for Info. Tech. It has a short, steep learning curve for
> > the administrator but is very interesting. I find it is a simpler and
> > a better document repository than Drupal or Mambo/Joomla. It has
> > rather neat graphics capacities and work flows that will lend
> > themselves to collaborative student tasks. Look at the nice URL in the
>
> > Firefox screen-shot (not the domain, it's not fixed). I don't have a
> publicly available site yet.
> >
> >         Debian/Ubuntu: "sudo apt-get install plone-site"!
> >
> > I gave up on Drupal because the Admin. Pages scroll too far and I
> > could never get the hang of its image handling although its
> > collaborative tools are good. Anyone interested in Plone could do a
> > lot worse than having a quick look at the "Introduction to Plone"
> > and/or "Editing with Plone" videos on http://plone.org/about/movies
> >
> > Laurie
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: moodle-bounces at edulists.com.au
> > [mailto:moodle-bounces at edulists.com.au]
> > On Behalf Of Stephen Digby
> > Sent: Monday, 20 August 2007 1:12 PM
> > To: 'The Moodle Users' in Schools Mailing List'
> > Subject: RE: [Moodle] Moodle award
> >
> > 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 !!!!
> >
> > ====================================================
> > Stephen Digby, Learning Technology Manager
> > mailto: admin at cheltsec.vic.edu.au
> > Cheltenham Secondary College www.cheltsec.vic.edu.au
> > Ph: 613 955 55 955  Fx: 9555 8617 Mb: 0431-701-028
> > ====================================================
> > I hope....that mankind will at length, ...have the reason and sense
> > enough to settle their differences without cutting throats...
> > Benjamin Franklin
> >
> >
> > -----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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