[Server-devel] admin on moodle

Sameer Verma sverma at sfsu.edu
Sat May 16 11:29:41 EDT 2009


On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 2:39 AM, Martin Langhoff
<martin.langhoff at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 7:04 AM, Sameer Verma <sverma at sfsu.edu> wrote:
>>
>> I am able to get a XO to register and become a "student". It logs in
>> seamlessly. Who gets to be admin on the moodle instance on XS?
>
> You're not telling us what XS you're using :-)
>

XS-0.5.2, yum updated (not olpcxs-testing repo)

> The _first_ user to (register and then...) login to  moodle successfully
> gets to be a 'coursecreator'. This gives them access to some admin rights.
> The 'coursecreator' role means they can also assign other coursecreators :-)
>
> The name is misleading -- coursecreator is a premade role in moodle. Think
> about it as "school staff".
>
> On XS-0.5.x - the support for this is incomplete.
>
> On the development Moodle (in olpcxs-testing repo) this works almost
> correctly, and I was looking yesterday at how to finish the remaining bits.
>
> At this stage, you still need to login as the real 'admin' account, so cat
> /etc/moodle/adminpw to find the password.
>

That helps. I was going to take one of my courses from Moodle 1.9x at
SF State and restore it on the schoolserver to see how it plays out.

Thanks,
Sameer
-- 
Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Information Systems
San Francisco State University
San Francisco CA 94132 USA
http://verma.sfsu.edu/
http://opensource.sfsu.edu/


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