Notes from Moodlemoot 2013
Jim Bennett from Greater Saskatoon Catholic School board presented
Uses MSSQL as all their existing servers were Microsoft, and expertise designing and maintaining asp apps
Server runs moodle 1.9 due to the amount of customization
Custom apps are in folders prefixed with division name
Custom blocks in moodle
courses run for 150 days in year (separate run of 2 months over summer)
students are enrolled for 150 days (needs to account for holidays/summer/etc)
every two weeks a report card is emailed to students with marks for activities
at 75 days midterm report card
at 150 days final report card is sent to teacher for approval before sending
"attendance" is tracked as more than just log onto the system uses moodle logs to see if they actually did anything
a 5 days misses message sent to student, parents, teacher
at 10 day missed same but more strongly worded
at 15 days warning goes to counselors and admin
Using maplewood for SIS
Stored procedures are generic and modulers
Self contianed accounts, no central auth
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