Teflpedia:Teachers' room

Captcha
Since we have a lot of spam it would be nice if we had one or both of the following: Ghoti (talk) 12:37, 28 January 2015 (UTC)
 * new questions in the captcha
 * captcha when publishing anonymously. This feature is not present in Wikipedia, but is in http://www.explainxkcd.com/ which uses MediaWiki.
 * I asked Roger if there was anything we could do a while ago. I'll remind him now.  cheers. --Bob M (talk) 16:55, 3 February 2015 (UTC)

Copied from Teflpedia talk:Spam prevention:
 * Currently, and since 24 November 2014, we are getting spam almost every day. On 19 January 2015 we began getting pseudo-German gibberish. Around 5 new users each day create a user page and an article page. The contents has Cyrillic or Greek letters replacing Roman ones. For example "niςht" instead of "nicht". Ghoti (talk) 14:56, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

New questions in the captcha
It would very nice to have new questions in the captcha, and delete the old ones. Ghoti (talk) 21:47, 24 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Please email new captcha question:answer pairs we could use on TEFLpedia to me at rogerchrisman@gmail.com. Thanks --Roger (talk) 18:40, 29 March 2015 (UTC)
 * They can be questions like "What's the past tense of take?" or "How much is two plus three?". Of course, the current questions can't be used. Regards. Ghoti (talk) 21:06, 29 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks Ghoti. I set a new question just now and removed the old ones. Let's see if it helps. I hope it will. --Roger (talk) 23:27, 29 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks, Roger. It's too soon to know, but last night we didn't get any spam, something that has very seldom happened this year. Ghoti (talk) 13:24, 30 March 2015 (UTC).
 * Three nights in a row, it obviously worked. Thanks again. Ghoti (talk) 12:31, 2 April 2015 (UTC)
 * I liked the question. Ghoti (talk) 19:57, 24 April 2015 (UTC)

403 again
I get a 403 error identical to the example shown in Teflpedia:Error 403 but for different reasons.

Now I can't see any user page, for example User:Bob_M or User:jddjhddhduyeuye. I can see talk pages, though. If I replace the colon by %3a I can see the page, as in http://teflpedia.com/User%3aBob_M. This does not work every time.

I added this information to Teflpedia:Error 403.

Regards, Ghoti (talk) 18:10, 3 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Does this problem still exist?--Bob M (talk) 07:14, 13 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Yes. If you click on my userpage, for example, it says "403: Forbidden Access to this resource on the server is denied!" Gooniepunk2005 (talk) 08:58, 13 September 2016 (UTC)
 * I've written to Roger to see if he has any ideas.--Bob M (talk) 11:13, 13 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Fixed. A mod_security rule was being triggered by User: page requests. AndrewT at our Webhost, Dathorn, corrected that so that User: pages are loading nicely again. --Roger (talk) 01:33, 20 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks a lot! Ghoti (talk) 13:13, 20 September 2016 (UTC)

Decoding exercises: "th"; Spelling anomalies
Topic began on 29 July 2016.‎

Moved to Talk:Decoding exercises: "th".

How to Create an Online TEFL Course?
Hi all teachers,

I am an experienced teacher looking to get into training and have a good idea. Part of my idea is having an online platform that students can use to complete 120 hours of study (this is not the entire idea).

I am lost as where to begin finding the necessary help when it comes to creating and managing the site. Content will be created by myself and other professionals but I am at a loss when trying to figure out how to get the online course up and running.

Thanks,

DM

This is an encyclopedia- it is not suitable to used as an online platform. https://teachable.com/ is just one place to try making your own online course. You can of course refer students to teflpedia pages.