A. Below are instructions for Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari and Netscape

Internet Explorer

To accept cookies:

1. Click Tools, Internet Options
2. Click the Privacy tab Change the slide bar under Settings to "Medium." This allows first-party cookies but still blocks any unwanted third-party cookies
3. Click Apply, then click OK

To enable popups:

1. Click Tools, Internet Options
2. Click the Privacy tab Remove the check from the box "Block pop-ups"
3. Click Apply, then click OK

Firefox

To accept cookies

1. Click Tools, Options
2. Click Privacy on the left
3. Click the plus sign to the left of "Cookies"
4. Check both "Allow sites to set cookies" and "for the originating web site only"
5. Click OK

To enable popups

1. Click Tools, Options
2. Click Web Features on the left
3. Remove the check from the "Block Popup Windows" box
4. Click OK

Safari

To accept cookies

1. Choose Preferences from the Safari menu and click Security
2. Click "Only from sites you navigate to" to prevent storing cookies that come from websites other than those you open.
3. Select this option to prevent advertisers on websites you visit from storing cookies on your computer
4. To see the cookies you have accepted, click Show Cookies.
5. You can then remove cookies

Turn off the popup blocker

1. Choose Preferences from the Safari menu and click Security
2. Choose Security Settings and remove the check from the Block Popup Window option

Netscape (version 8.1)

To accept cookies

1. Select Tools>Options and then select the Privacy panel
2. In the Privacy panel, click on the Cookies category to display options for that category
3. In the Keep Cookies field, select until I close Netscape

Turn off the popup blocker

• Hover your mouse over the pop-ups icon to display the options drop-down menu
• Check this option to toggle between allowing and not allowing pop-ups

Moodle.org runs a site registration system to try and calculate moodle usage. Based on our experience as a moodle partner offering hosting services, we would say that only about half the moodle-using organisations out there have registered their sites. Even so, the figures are impressive:

(The above data was gathered March 2010)

This means that Moodle cannot find a file called imsmanifest.xml inside the SCORM object. Reasons for this could be:

1. imsmanifest.xml needs to be immediately inside the scorm directory, NOT inside a directory inside of that. So if the zipped scorm package is package.zip, the unzipped package directory should contain immediately inside of it the imsmanifest.xml. This is a common mistake and normally occurs when a SCORM author creates a package themselves and then selects that folder to compress. This places the content folder inside of another folder, The imsmanifest.xml is there, but it is 2 directories deep. To avoid this problem when zipping scorm content into a package, go INSIDE of the exported scorm folder, select all files inside, and compress them while all are selected. The resultant compressed directory has the imsmanifest.xml file in the first directory, immediately available to the moodle scorm loading process.
2. when using linux based systems the filename imsmanifest.xml must be all in lowercase not IMSmanifest.xml or Imsmanifest.XML
3. The SCORM authoring tool Articulate sometimes fails to create the imsmanifest.xml -Try exporting the package again and see if the manifest is generated.
4. Starting late 2009, early 2010, Articulate Presenter has been publishing packages where the imsmanifest.xml file is in the correct place, but there are several lines of white space in the manifest file. The LMS will give a "Manifest not found" error when encountering this. To find this problem, unzip the scorm package and open imsmanifest.xml in a text editor. Delete the extra lines in the file. Resave the file and zip all files into a new compressed .zip package.

Moodle is provided freely as Open Source software (under the GNU Public License). Basically this means Moodle is copyrighted, but that you have additional freedoms. You are allowed to copy, use and modify Moodle provided that you agree to: provide the source to others; not modify or remove the original license and copyrights, and apply this same license to any derivative work. Read the license for full details and please contact the copyright holder directly if you have any questions.

Moodle can be installed on any computer that can run PHP, and can support an SQL type database (for example MySQL). It can be run on Windows and Mac operating systems and many flavors of linux (for example Red Hat or Debian GNU). There are many knowledgeable Moodle Partners to assist you, even host your Moodle site.

The word Moodle was originally an acronym for Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment, which is mostly useful to programmers and education theorists. It's also a verb that describes the process of lazily meandering through something, doing things as it occurs to you to do them, an enjoyable tinkering that often leads to insight and creativity. As such it applies both to the way Moodle was developed, and to the way a student or teacher might approach studying or teaching an online course. Anyone who uses Moodle is a Moodler.