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Course Announcements Disabling/Stopping In Moodle

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Hi, Moodle buddies..., When every you try to edit your course settings default announcements were creating??? If you don't know how to stop creating default announcements, then this blog is for you... Simple steps:  Login with Course editing rights (like admin, manager, course creator, editing teacher...) Go to the  course --> click on edit settings for that course scroll down--> Appearance and set for 0 this will help you with stopping default announcements Dont forget to save after editing. And if you want to know more about announcement settings then you can check these:   https://docs.moodle.org/31/en/Announcements https://www.umass.edu/it/support/moodle/courseannouncementsmoodle These two are their own official websites Not mine😊😊.

In Moodle Disable Students at risk in a course emails

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 Hi, Moodle buddies, In Moodle, If there is a course but no one is using then the Teacher/Manager/Non-editing teacher might get some notification sometimes they get emails like  Students  at  risk  in some course.   If you want to stop getting these notifications/emails to anyone that you can do follow me.:-)  This feature is from Moodle Analytics Insight. Go to Site administrator settings --> Analytics --> Analytic models  here you can see all the types of Insights right side of each type there is an action button click on it and disable it . Credits: Praveen Kota (praveenkota27@gmail.com) Moodle

How to reduce Moodle Size. It's too large

Hi, Moodle buddies... This is my problem in Moodle : I have Moodle version 3.6.1 on my windows10. I regularly use Moodle for uploading new content and I do some backups of content. Unfortunately one day I have checked my moodle size it's nearly 168GB but the content is not that much, then I was quite surprised, I don't understand how it happened. My research on the problem (How to reduce my moodle size):  I have seen a few moodle documentation and raised some queries in moodle forms. I got some responses from  Dominique Palumbo  and  Séverin Terrier , like check your's recycling bin, disk space not recovered, run cron. I tried these but the problem not solved. I was googling at that time I got a strike when I do some backup than how it will create.  It needs some space to create the files right. what are my backups and how many backups I took that I need to know. How to get that..?? Again I google how to see my course backup size in moodle I got some plugins  http

How to upload any type of file in Moodle

Hi, Moodle Buddies... Problem statement: How to upload any type of file (.htm,h5p,.epub,.txt,.pdf, etc...) in Moodle.        It's very simple to upload any type of file in Moodle. But make sure that you already have that plugin into your Moodle site. Some plugins already in moodle, which are not in moodle those you need to add if you require. For example, I want to upload h5p interactive content in my Moodle site but this plugin is not available in my site then you need to add an h5p plugin.  If you don't know how to add plugins to your Moodle site then follow the link . I already have the required plugins for my file uploading. I have  uploaded.htm,.epub. Following these steps First, log in as admin. turn on editing (right side of your page setting click and turn on editing). Go to course-->Topic-->Add on activity or resource. here you can see different types of file upload formate. (assignment,chat,database,files,lesson,etc... ) if you know in which

Adding a new plugin to Moodle site

Hi, Moodle buddies... I want to tell you which you don't know that is how to add a new plugin to our Moodle site... You may think that how I know that you don't know how to add a plugin to your Moodle site It's simple if you know then you won't see this page right. Ok, let's go to plugin a feature to your site you will find plugins  here . let me suggest a useful plugin for you... In general, if you want to know what is your moodle course size, here you go, click here use this plugin in your LMS goto site administration--> plugins--> Install new plugin-->drag or choose from your device. Continue updating database continue after completing. Goto site administration--> reports-->course size. Click on it and see the report. follow the documentation. Click here Credits: Praveen Kota (praveenkota27@gmail.com) Moodle

Moodle Course Backup

Hi, moodle buddies... How to backup a Moodle course: If you want to backup  Moodle course from your moodle older version or current version and you want to upload in a new moodle version.3.6,3.7. Then you can simply upgrade your moodle site to the latest version. It's very easy... Login as admin goto site administrator-->  then Notifications here you will find moodle notification click on download and proceed... Wait but you want to maintain both the versions of Moodle and you just want to take some content to backup and upload somewhere on the same site or another moodle site. then continue reading the entire blog... Don't worry here is the solution for you... Log in as admin--> Goto your course--> topic which you want to backup.  At the top-right settings option, click on it. you will get some settings like edit settings ,  turn editing on..., backup. click on backup. if you want to take complete topic backup with all the user data and all, then goto direct

How to delete Backup files from Moodle

Hi, Moodle Buddies... If you don't  know How to delete backup files: From your Moodle site then follow this simple process. Note: deleting backup(.mbz) files from your Moodle site will not affect course content. Login as admin --> got your course and there you will find settings right side of the page. Goto--> courses Click on --> click on restore you will find if you ever did the backup otherwise will get the screen but no backup files.        if you found backup files       Click on -->  manage backup files.        then click on the backup file delete them , after deleting don't forget to save.        after completing all the backup files deletions from all courses.        finally, run cron. Then check your Moodle folder size on your machine. If you don't know where you have created backup files(On which course)then add a plugin to know that how many backup files you created and where. plugin: Course size  Click here . Continue...from