Some of the students have returned to college now, which means the start of the annual mad rush to get everything set up and working. Usernames need to be given out for the computers, induction tests need to be running and the need to have the college VLE running becomes more and more critical.
Most parts of the Moodle install are completed now, with a bit of extra coding on my part, and I have learned a little about PHP objects in the process. I needed to add a few extra lines of code to the database enrolment plugin in order to pull the full name of the course from our Student Records database, rather than just the course ID number. After about an hour I had it set up, tested and working, so now staff and students are automatically added to courses in Moodle based upon their enrolment in the database, and the courses that are created automatically are given all the correct information. Initial tests show it is working well.
The final steps now are to install the plugins that the college needs and to improve the appearance of the front page, but these are much less critical and will take less time to complete.
