‘Development’ Archives
33 Examples of the Book Module providing passive professional development
AUB (the American University of Beirut) was a big contributor of traffic to our site last week from their very nice Moodle (http://moodle.aub.edu.lb) and I'm glad they were (otherwise I wouldn't have seen their really great use of the Moodle Book module which provides and easy to access "Guide to Moodle" for faculty). They've created various [...]
LAE Grader Report plug-in’s official release
The CLAMP-IT.org LAE Gradebook (just one piece of the 1.9.9 +LAE distribution highlighted earlier this month at Moodlenews) has been released in the Module and Plug-in repository on Moodle.org. You'll be able to download, see documentation and the various features which have made this mod a winner: easier manipulation of gradebook on the [...]
Moodle Do’s and Don’ts Comic
Caught this on Twitter yesterday (thanks @wagjuer); it's a comic style tips sheet for Moodle. Not as robust or in depth as the Moodle Tool Guide for Teachers; but helpful (and fun) nonetheless. I love the design and layout (maybe it's time for an updated comic version?). It was originally uploaded to Moodle.org in 2006 and created in part [...]
NEWS FLASH: Final Release of 2.0 pushed to September
Final Release date: September, 2010 (if testing goes well) Previously the push to release Moodle 2.0 was focused on readying the code for use by schools starting this September, unfortunately, with at least one more QA testing cycle in store for Moodle 2.0 the release has been pushed back to September, 2010 (at the earliest). For more [...]
The “Moodle Museum” from CLAMP-IT.org
CLAMP-IT, the developers of the Moodle 1.9.9 + LAE distribution announced last week have a great archive of Moodle tips and tricks called the MoodleMuseum. Tips are anything from advanced uses of the wiki, using the summary field appropriately, tips on organization of resources and your course page, forums and glossaries. All in all there [...]
Moodle 2.0 Release day +1 (Delay update)
You may have noticed that it's now July 21st and despite the information listed on the Moodle 2.0 Roadmap at Moodle.org, the long awaited Moodle 2.0 has not been released. Originally there were upwards of 8 Preview Releases scheduled, but after only four Martin Dougiamas updated the community with a call for QA testers in order to release the [...]
New Core Theme for 2.0; and meet Melbourne: a fancy theme for 1.9
The new core theme for Moodle 2.0 is "Fusion", created by Patrick Malley of New School Learning. The theme is still under rapid development and testing, but you can see the design, which evokes WordPress (in my opinion). Check out the discussion or test it out on your own 2.0 install: [...]
New Grader Report – Update
If you're interested in that New Grader Report that freezes student names and and makes the layout a little easier to manage you'll be happy to hear that the code is available online at Moodle.org: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=153718. Thanks to Bob Puffer of Luther College for letting us know.
Moodle 1.9.9 + LAE v1.1 now available for download (CLAMP-IT)
A few weeks ago we highlighted the Moodle Hack/Doc Fest at Depauw University and their slightly different Moodle flavor for Liberal Arts Colleges . Bob Puffer of Luther College let us know that the release emerged from Beta last week and is now available. This new release features the following improvements Simple File Upload: Upload [...]
Moodle.org seeks QA testers for Moodle 2.0
Helen Foster, community manager at Moodle.org put out this call for QA testers on Moodle 2.0 earlier this week : I'm pleased to announce that we're now ready to begin our QA testing - see Moodle 2.0 QA Cycle 1. If you'd like to help with QA testing you need to be a member of the testers group in the Moodle Tracker. Please contact me if you'd [...]
