Category Archives: Technical

Splitting Moodle Services to Multiple Servers

Posted on 09/09/2011 by William Stites

Early this year we moved our Moodle server from a Linux server to an Apple server (Moving to Moodle 2.0:Pt. 1 – The Decision) and upgraded from 1.9 to 2.1. In doing so we were concerned with a number of … Continue reading →

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Managing Your Evernote Sponsored Group

Posted on 09/07/2011 by William Stites

So it’s the start of another school year and what’s become part of my new routine for the start of the year is approving all of our Evernote Premium accounts. The process is a fairly simple one.  We have a … Continue reading →

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The new OS wars… moving beyond the desktop. Are you ready?

Posted on 07/14/2011 by William Stites

It wasn’t to long ago that when you were talking about what technology to use in school the discussions — or arguments — were about whether you were a Mac or PC school. These same conversations happened as schools considered … Continue reading →

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Evernote and Firefox 5 PSA

Posted on 06/24/2011 by William Stites

If you’ve update to Firefox 5 and your Evernote add-on is no longer working here is a link to the the beta: http://update.evernote.com/prerelease/ENMozillaExtension/mozilla-extension-4.beta.xpi  

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How do I set up self enrolment in Moodle 2.0?

Posted on 06/20/2011 by William Stites

First off… I know that you spell enrolment with two “l’s”, but Moodle spells it with one. As we are beginning our training around Moodle 2.0 there are some small, but important differences that are coming to light.  Depending on … Continue reading →

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Moving to Moodle 2.0: Pt.2 The Tools and Tweaks

Posted on 06/11/2011 by William Stites

Before begining any project you want to make sure you have the tools to do the job.  In the case of a Moodle 2.0 migration you better have a really good set of tools. “Relax, all right? My old man … Continue reading →

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Moving to Moodle 2.0: Pt.1 The Decision

Posted on 06/10/2011 by William Stites

It wasn’t easy and came with a lot of investigation, thought and discussions, but we’ve decided to make the move to Moodle 2.0 this summer (2011). We have had a number of our teachers, students and tech staff playing with … Continue reading →

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Evernote goes social.

Posted on 05/14/2011 by William Stites

If you’ve update Evernote recently you might have missed the new arrow button in the menu bar. Now I love this feature and find it very interesting because Phil Libin has said that Evernote is the anti-social, anti-viral software, that … Continue reading →

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Catalog your school’s archive with FileMaker

Posted on 04/25/2011 by William Stites

It always feels good to get your hands dirty in a good project and when a colleague, David Korfhage (@drkorfhage – The 1:1 Diaries), came to me with his archive project I was excited. The project he was going to … Continue reading →

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Syncing LDAP (OD or AD) data within Moodle

Posted on 04/21/2011 by William Stites

So we have a Moodle server at our school that is connected to our LDAP server for user authentication.  This works great for us as it provides for easy integration with out other systems that use this form of authentication (FinalSite … Continue reading →

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