This document outlines the agenda and topics to be covered for a Moodle User Group meeting on November 15, 2012. The agenda includes introductions, discussions on Moodle 2.3 features like drag and drop uploading, the Lesson module, external tools, and an open discussion period. One topic is on cloning a Moodle site for testing upgrades or migrating to a new server. Alternatives to long scrolling topic lists in courses are also mentioned.

1. Moodle User Group
Phil Hardcastle
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2. Agenda
9:30-10:00 Coffee / Networking
10:00-10:10 Introductions
10:10-11:00 Moodle 2.3 and other news
11:00-11:20 Coffee / Networking
11:20-11:40 The Lesson Module
11:40-12:00 External Tools
12:00-12:30 Catch up – what have you been doing?
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3. Moodle 2.3 & News
 Moodle 2.3
– Came out over the summer
– Big change is drag and drop uploading and assessment
submission
– This is rumoured to work with IE 10
– Upload one file and put in multiple locations – the file
will update all copies
– Needs Private files to be enabled
– You can only upgrade to Moodle 2.3 from Moodle 2.2 or
later. If upgrading from earlier versions, you must
upgrade to 2.2 as a first step.
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4. Private Files
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5. Moodle Cloning
Cloning Moodle
This is something it is important to be able to do: To make a
clone of your Moodle so you can test dangerous things (like
an upgrade) safely, before you do it for real.
The procedure is described on
http://docs.moodle.org/23/en/Moodle_migration . (To migrate
your site from one server to another, first you clone it onto
the other server, then you delete the original. If you just want
a clone, stop before deleting the original.)
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6.  Alternatives
 We have some induction courses with a long list of
topics and we have used alternative course
formats in order to avoid the ‘scroll of death’.
These are some suggestions:

 -Use the ‘Course menu’ block which displays a list
of topics. Although there is no a version for
Moodle 2.2, we are using the version for Moodle
2.0 and it is working fine. November 15, 2012 | slide 6