The main long term issue in the use of BIM has been student’s creating blog posts that contain “special” characters. This is typically done when they create their post in Word and then copy and paste it into their blog. The interaction between BIM, SimplePie and database engines has not been a good one. It
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BIM, missing students and Moodle groups
The following is a description of a common “problem” with BIM. Symptoms The problem manifests itself along the lines of this: There are students enrolled in the Moodle course you are using BIM for. You’ve set up BIM, allocated student groups to markers. However, some or all of the students aren’t showing up on the
More problems with BIM and special characters
The following is a record of some work to investigate some more apparent problem with BIM mirroring blog posts that contain “special” characters due to a bit of copying and pasting from Word into WordPress. An aside on supporting a tool like BIM All of my previous software support has been around software that I
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BIM, blog posts and special characters
The following is a summary/explanation of a common problem with BIM and its mirroring of blog posts and a common solution. The problem is generally caused by folk creating their blog posts in Word and then copying and pasting them into the blog post. For various reasons this process brings along some “special” characters which,
CQU problem with BIM and RSS feeds
This is the first post in a new tradition. Any problems folk report with BIM and the subsequent diagnosis and solution I undertake will get reported here on the blog and hopefully mirrored in some way onto the BIM github page. It is somewhat ironic that the first problem in this tradition comes from the
