{"id":53,"date":"2011-06-01T19:03:45","date_gmt":"2011-06-02T03:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mclagan\/?p=53"},"modified":"2011-06-01T19:03:45","modified_gmt":"2011-06-02T03:03:45","slug":"moodle-muddle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mclagan\/2011\/06\/01\/moodle-muddle\/","title":{"rendered":"Moodle muddle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just spent a few minutes setting doing the Home page exercise in the Moodle Toolkit. Because I&#8217;ve used Moodle before it was very quick, but I was reminded of a couple of things.<\/p>\n<p>First, it doesn&#8217;t take long to forget the intricacies of how a system works. After a few months I was scratching my head and thinking, &#8220;I know there&#8217;s a way to do______, but where?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Second, no system is perfect. After repeated attempts to delete a News Forum from my home page, it was still there! Maybe the system just didn&#8217;t believe me when I answered &#8220;Yes&#8221; to &#8220;Are you absolutely sure you want to completely delete Forum &#8216;News forum&#8217;?&#8221; Or maybe there&#8217;s a hidden reason it doesn&#8217;t work, but regardless it refuses to die.<\/p>\n<p>I look forward to getting back into Moodle development and rediscovering those temporarily forgotten features.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just spent a few minutes setting doing the Home page exercise in the Moodle Toolkit. Because I&#8217;ve used Moodle before it was very quick, but I was reminded of a couple of things. First, it doesn&#8217;t take long to forget the intricacies of how a system works. After a few months I was scratching [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7254,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mclagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mclagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mclagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mclagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7254"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mclagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mclagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mclagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions\/56"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mclagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mclagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mclagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}