resizing an Azure VM

Just going to portal.azure.com > VM > Overview > Sizing, choosing a different size, and hitting Resize did not work as planned, though a message popped up saying the VM would be restarted on resizing. After five minutes, stopped the VM - then it resized - then started it up again. MySQL took a couple of minutes to come up, so initially the Moodle instances complained about database connection failure.

connections problems to an AWS server

We were using ssh to connect to an AWS VM, and the developers who would log in from Hyderabad reported that they were unable to ssh into it. I too had problems connecting initially. 

Checking the AWS console to see if the IP address had changed, found that the IP, port etc were unchanged. Later, I was able to connect with ssh. 

So, maybe it was an internet connection issue? Or a routing issue with AWS or with some of the ISPs?

using ABeeZee TTF font on a Moodle instance

There was a request to enable the ABeeZee TTF font on one of our Moodle instances, since it is recommended for inclusivity etc. https://fonts.google.com/specimen/ABeeZee/about says it is a "children's learning font".

It was later clarified that this font was desired for all content on the site and for the custom certificates. So,

1. For adding custom fonts to course content and body text, I believe the method is to edit the CSS of the current theme, as mentioned here - 

https://docs.moodle.org/500/en/How_to_add_custom_fonts_in_a_theme

In our case, the theme is Moove.

2. For the custom certificate plugin, the method followed - adding the font using "Manage PDF fonts" using the TCPDF plugin, is the method we have followed earlier. 

https://hnsws.blogspot.com/2023/10/request-for-new-font-in-moodle-instance.html

So it should be working for creating custom certificates. 

For changing the font in the theme, it is relatively easy to implement if we were to change all content to use this font.

Site administration → Appearance → Additional HTML

and I've added inside the "Within Head" box

<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=ABeeZee&display=swap">

and inside the Moodle theme (which is used on our sites) advanced settings box, (which has the url oursite.org/admin/settings.php?section=themesettingmoove#theme_moove_advanced )

body {

    font-family: 'ABeeZee', sans-serif !important;

}

(which makes the entire body of the html page into ABeeZee.)

This was implemented for two of our sites after first trying it on our development instance.