Moodle Learning System

Our class enrollments are generated from APSCN overnight.  Unfortunately, this process has been known to hiccough once in a while.

This doesn't mean that "Moodle is down" or that your courses have gone away.  As soon as someone points out to me that it's happened, it only takes about 5 minutes to repair.

I'm looking into making the process a bit more robust, so it may stop happening.

We're starting the new year with courses from the old year in place.

For teachers, this means that if your course didn't change names, numbers, periods, or sections, it will already be setup with last year's content and new students.  You can easily delete the old content -- and you can "backup" the old content to restore into a new course.

Students -- you should only be in your current courses.  You won't be in the same courses as last year.

For everyone -- there was a regrettable import problem that should be fixed now...

Special for our math teachers...  You should be able to use algebra markup in our Moodle to make things like:

or

Look in the Moodle docs for Algebra filter for some information about it.  Also see Moodle Equation Samples.

The LaTeX filter is now turned on too, so you can actually do things a bit more complex:

$$\frac{success}{problem}=~\unitlength{.

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