The Musing I had a faculty member contact me and let me know that when they clicked the ‘Grades’ heading in Moodle (5.0.4+), they got an exception: Attempt to assign property “sortorder” on null’. Big red exception, with no helpful message. The best they could tell me was that they were adjusting weights and adding grade items. Hmm…doesn’t sound terribly… More →
Category: Moodle
Apache Reverse Proxy for Moodle on CentOS 7.3
The Musing As I’ve written previously, we moved our Moodle server to a virtual server, but I also keep live backups of each term for as long as possible. Because we’ve been using Moodle for almost ten (10) years, we have mountains of data, and it won’t all fit on the virtual machine. I’d still like to keep it live, not… More →
Mahara + Moodle = Mahoodle – Updating them between terms
The Musing So at MHU we use Moodle extensively, and have been piloting a test install of Mahara for some English faculty that really want to use ePortfolios. I set Mahara to integrate with Moodle, so that with a single (or more?) click, one can export their work to their Mahara portfolio. Because of the strange way we do terms… More →
CentOS 7 and ClamAV
The Musing We use Moodle at Mars Hill – at least three (3) different instances. One for our main LMS, one for TimeTracker, and one for myMHU, our campus intranet. This past weekend, I braved the frozen tundra of our server room to upgrade the OS on our campus intranet server to CentOS 7. Seriously, I needed a parka. At… More →