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In this course, you will learn how to add some excitement to your boring old Moodle site. This includes making changes to the front page settings, theme settings, changing your theme, downloading and installing a new theme, cloning a theme, and customizing a theme’s CSS. 

Regardless of your current skill level, there’s something in this course for you. If you’re a Moodle administrator or IT professional who wants to change the look of your Moodle site, this is the perfect course for you. Even if you’ve never written a line of computer code, don’t worry! You will learn how to make startling changes to your Moodle site without ever touching the database or files on the server.

And if you’re a more advanced user: maybe you have a lot of experience using CSS on other platforms but you’re wondering how to write your own stylesheets in Moodle, you will learn how to clone an existing theme and add your own custom stylesheet… then you can apply your CSS skills to take your Moodle site as far as you want.

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This class is all about querying the database: Writing MySQL queries from within the PHPMyAdmin web application, and writing PHP code to utilize functions within Moodle’s data manipulation API. Along the way we’re going to learn about 10 database tables in Moodle, centering around Moodle users, roles, capabilities and contexts.

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Mom and Dad uploaded video from their cell phone to Google drive, then shared the files with Great Wall Studios.

In this course you will learn to make your very own custom report in Moodle. Whether you’re a teacher, a trainer, a Moodle administrator, or an IT professional, if you want to learn how to customize Moodle, then this course is for you! This course assumes you’ve never even seen PHP or HTML before… and I will walk you through this project step by step.

This will include learning about three database tables in Moodle and how to query data from those tables. I’ll show you how to use some of Moodle’s built in functions to display data. We’re also going to learn some PHP: Conditional statements, foreach statements, string functions, and more.

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When you’re solving layer by layer, the cross is your starting point, and the more strategies you have at your disposal, the greater chance that you will get off on the right foot for a quick solve.

A fifteen second inspection can go by quickly! Sometimes it’s tough to come up with a plan! After learning the strategies and moves in this class, you will be much better prepared to tackle even the trickiest of scrambles.

I’ll also give you several exercises that will help you visualize the cube in your mind and plan out your moves in advance. Join me in this class if you are ready to take your inspection and first layer cross to the next level!

In this course you will learn to make your very own custom block in Moodle. Whether you’re a teacher, a trainer, a Moodle administrator, or an IT professional, if you want to learn how to customize Moodle, then this course is for you! This course assumes you’ve never even seen PHP or HTML before… I will show you everything you need to know to get through your first project.

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If adding a sheet of glass to your CR-10 bed causes the nozzle to ground out on the glass, and you can’t lower the bed enough to make room for it, then use this physical offset. This causes the z-axis to trip the z-axis home switch a little over 4 mm sooner, leaving room for the glass. Free download at thingiverse.com or sketchfab.com.

A strip light mounting bracket to clip an LED strip. #4 1/2 inch wood screw shown.  Free download at thingiverse.com, sketchfab.com, or grabcad.

Outtakes from the 2018 UGA Las Vegas Open golf tournament.