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By: Fiona Malikoff

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Anders,

How is your installation going? Is noticeboard working?

As for the radiobuttons - I think they refer to different versions of mysql but I can't work it out, so I just leave the radio buttons set to whatever it defaulted to.

Has the reinstall fixed the problems with starting a lesson?

Regards,

Fiona

Posted by Fiona Malikoff

By: Anders Berggren

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Hi,
Sigh... Running only LAMS v2 I can create
a sequence and save it.

After that I can preview it. But - when
returning to the "Welcome"-page there is
no "Add lesson"-link... My guess is that the
lams2 database is still playing hide and seek
in XAMPP. The actual path to it is:
xampp/mysql/data/lams2

The problem in the LAMS/Moodle integration remains.

Cheers, Anders

Posted by Anders Berggren

By: Fiona Malikoff

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Anders,

I'm starting to think that it isn't the location of the database. I have a Moodle/LAMS integration working using XAMPP on a PC, and I'm pretty sure its data files are in the same place.

You will get the "Add lesson" on the main page if you have the Monitor role for the group. You need the Author role to create a sequence and run preview but the Monitor role to run a lesson.

Can you log into LAMS as sysadmin, and then select the"Group Mgt" link. This should bring up the "Manage Groups" page. Click on your group name and then the "Manage Users" screen. This should list all the users in this group and their roles. I've attached a sample screen dump.

Could you tell me which roles your user has?

Fiona

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By: Fiona Malikoff

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Might help if I remember to attach the screenshot!

Posted by Fiona Malikoff

By: Anders Berggren

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The problem is I have
a foot in my mouth :-I.
I thought I could do
anything as a 'sysadmin'
but I had to assign new roles first.
Then most of the doors opened

I had one problem opening Notebook
as a Learner. See attached error report.

In Moodle the problem of starting
a lesson remains. Nor can I set
a starting date.
Cheers, Anders

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By: Anders Berggren

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I discovered that my mdl_user
had a limited role. I saw this
when logging in to LAMS v2
separately. I assigned all
possible roles to this user
but still nothing happens...

Posted by Anders Berggren

By: Fiona Malikoff

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Anders,

The roles that the user gets in LAMS is indirectly based on what privileges the user has in Moodle.

By assigning all possible roles to the user in LAMS you have made sure that the problem with creating a lesson isn't a LAMS security problem and that was a very good thing to try.

I'm trying to work out what to ask you to do next.

What roles/privileges does your user have in Moodle?

My test user in Moodle has Adminstrator, Course Creator, Teacher and Student. But I think you only need Teacher and Student - I'm pretty sure I don't have Administrator rights on the http://moodle.lamscommunity.org/ website.

I do very little with Moodle, so please forgive me if I get the wrong names for things in Moodle.

Fiona

Posted by Fiona Malikoff

By: Anders Berggren

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I am admin in my Moodle instance.
Admin has all the rights in all
the other roles and more. Your
Moodle names are correct. Teachers
can have editing rights or not though.
It's also so that on course level e.g.
as an editing teacher you can rename
teacher/student to whatever you prefer.
With the new (1.7) expanded roles system
you can construct the roles you need
from top level to the minutest detail
on the bottom level in a very flexible
XML-tree manner.

Posted by Anders Berggren