Friday, December 17, 2004

My Storyboard Icons The idea with these storyboard icons is that I'll use them to graphically depict how these classes are going to fit together. I'm using Inspiration on Mac OS X to create the storyboards. It is the easiest to link stuff together, do hyperlinks among nested pictures, etc. Moodle does not have a tool for designing the classes, it seems to be just an implementation tool. I'm not complaining, mind you. Click the picture below for a larger view. 3:09:27 PM     Moodle is Up! I got Moodle working! It wasn't that hard, just remembering a few permissions and passwords along the way. What an incredible piece of software! This guy has thought of everything. Adding in assignments, quizzes, lectures, student journalling --- you name it, it's in there. I think I need to change my storyboards a little to reflect the features exactly as they are in Moodle. You can download and use Moodle for free, it's open source software. Get it from here: www.moodle.org 2:08:38 PM     Moodle Installation I used to be so good at computers! I was once a technical architect for multi-million dollar software systems, and now I can't even get Moodle installed on my server. It's one thing after another. First, the permissions weren't set right on my directories on the server. Then I couldn't remember the user ID and password for the MySQL database. Dang! It makes me realize that a non-programming person would have a hard time installing Moodle and using it. They would probably be best advised to just hire someone for a few hours who knows about php, html, databases, etc. who can do it for them. If everything went fine, then a non-programmer would have no problems. But any little permissions issue and it would be a huge problem for someone who did not have an in-depth knowledge of technology. Or even for someone who does! :( 10:48:26 AM

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