[Moodle] Moodle award
Laurie Savage
sav at pvgc.vic.edu.au
Tue Aug 21 16:35:23 EST 2007
Thanks, that tends to confirm my experience. The difference in
"out-of-the-box" graphics/graphic gallery handling was what swung
the balance in Plone's favour.
Laurie
On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 02:39:18PM +1000, victor rajewski mentioned:
> 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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