One of the great new features in Moodle 2.0 is the updated file picker. Moodle 2 has integrated Box.net, Dropbox, YouTube, Google Docs and WebDav access into the file picker. Moodle administrators can manage access under Site Administration – Plugins – Repositories. After enabling Box.net administrators will need to enter a box.net API key in [...]
As we have moved away from desktop computers in the classroom to every student having an iPad we ran into a problem with having students, and staff not having easy access to change their Active Directory password. This password is still important because our Moodle server uses AD for authentication and we are looking at [...]
I have been struggling with a sluggish FTP server on OS X 10.6. The server configuration seemed simple enough. After following the setup instructions in Apple’s Documentation(PDF) I was able to get the server to authenticate users and to send them to the correct directory. The users could log in but directory listing took 3-4 [...]
I have had RenWeb installed on a Windows 2003 Terminal Server for about 8 months. I have not run into many problems with it until recently. The Terminal Server has become a great asset for us as we add more Macs to the network and continue to support older PCs.
RenWeb is not designed to run [...]
We use a combination of IPCop and OpenDNS for internet filtering at DCHS and some of the other schools we support. Both are free solutions and the combination of both products provides for a quality filter.
IPCop installs on most standard low end PCs, you just need to make sure that you have 2 network cards. [...]
We recently ran into an issue with connecting Mac’s to the Microsoft Terminal Server. The terminal server was installed with a temporary license while we tested it. Over Christmas break licenses were installed and the Windows and Linux machines had no trouble getting a license. Some (not most) of our Mac clients did not get [...]
I installed my first virtual machine instance of Snow Leopard server last week to start playing around with the OS and see how it’s wiki service worked. The server installed without any issue on Parallels Server and I was quickly up and running. After a little digging around I discovered that I could get out [...]
I can still remember my first trouble shooting call at Cetacean Networks. One of the engineers was distraught because he had a secondary monitor hooked up to his Dell Latitude laptop and could not get video to show on the secondary display. The easy answer was just to watch it on the laptop screen, but [...]
I think that one of the big reasons I like Macs so much is because I spend so much of my time working with Windows computers. I can not think of one Windows computer that I have not had to re-image in the past two years. I’m sure that there are ways to clean the [...]