Mumbo Jumbo » Some usesful and not so useful ramblings…

Using USB devices with VMware vSphere 4.1

1 month ago

by Bhootnath in VMWare

Using a USB device with ESX… without. Has this ever happened to you? For one reason or another, you’ve been forced to suffer at the hands of a corporation that forces its customers to use hardware based methods to comply with licensing restrictions. These hardware methods often take the form of a USB-based dongle that has to exist physical on the server. Of course, as organizations continue to virtualize more and more of their environments; these hardware devices grow more and more bothersome. Although there are products on the market that allow virtualized servers to talk to USB hubs over TCP/IP, with VMware vSphere 4.1, VMware has added USB pass-through capability to ESX allowing you to skip the need to buy one of these TCP/IP devices and simply plug a USB device directly into your server.
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Powerpoint 2010 crashes when editing…

2 months ago

by Bhootnath in Apple, Bootcamp, Microsoft, Office 2010

Every time I tried to edit a presentation, my powerpoint will just crash :-(, no error code, no message.. Googling brought me to this,

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2655117?start=0&tstart=0

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Apple bootcamp bootcamp3.2 crash edit language not enabled powerpoint powerpoint2010 ppt

Allow students to take a test only once…

2 months ago

by Bhootnath in LMS, Moodle, Web

The finall assessment test of the course was created using iSpring and in the settings it was specified that allow it to be taken only once. And than it was added to the moodle with default setttings assuming that the settings in the SCORM package will take precedence. But that was not to happen… and so like mosr problem/ issues this one also landed on my desk.. *aargh..

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attempt ispring lock moodle scorm student test

Configure Moodle not to Grade an Activity (SCORM)…

2 months ago

by Bhootnath in LMS, Moodle, Web

Our moodle instance was grading the learning activities as well, as they were packed using iSpring in SCORM 1.2 package and even if the students went through the whole presentation, they were still given “0″ by the instance. The students were not happy seeing F in the online grade card, despite us telling them these will have nobearing on the final certfication they will receive .

One option was to recreate the SCORM package and remove the option of getting graded but too much work. Luckily for us, Moodle provides and alternative :

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fail gradeing ispring moodle pass SCROM tutorial

Browse Cydia from desktop…

2 months ago

by Bhootnath in Apple, iPhone, Jailbreak

Sometimes you may want to browse Cydia from your desktop, specially now when it crashes so often in iOS5 *rant..

Planet-iPhones Cydia Browser

ModMyi Cydia Browser

browse cydia iPhone jailbreak

Change Moodle Password policy…

2 months ago

by Bhootnath in LMS, Moodle, Web

In case you need to lower the requirements for password or may be make it more hard… here is the place to do so…

Site Administration

– Security

—-Site Policies

moodle password password policy policy security

How to create a copy of a course in moodle..

2 months ago

by Bhootnath in LMS, Moodle, Web

How can I copy my course or part of it?

There are several ways. These methods can be used to store any activity as a template. For example, a teacher might want to duplicate an assignment for different groups that will appear under different weeks in the same course. Or take a Lesson in one course and use it in another course.

Import course data
Importing course data is probably the most straightforward. It brings in any other courses material by activity group. For example, you can import all of the lessons from one course you have rights to into another, but not just a single lesson.
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