‘Development’ Archives
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 [...]
Happy Friday: 11 Free Moodle hosting options
We just put the finishing touches on our 9 part Special Summer Series on Hosting (http://www.moodlenews.com/tag/special-summer-series/). Now you can see them all (and more) at our special resource on hosting: http://www.moodlenews.com/hosting/ You'll find information on limits, basic plans, business plans and notes about the various variables [...]
Some may say “Good bye, Elluminate/Wimba. Hello, BigBlueButton”
On the recent post, "What the Blackboard Acquisition means for Moodle", Denis Zgonjanin commented that a possible open source alternative to both Wimba and Elluminate resides in BigBlueButton. BBB is only 2 years old and is an open source synchronous education tool. In response to the acquisition, the official BigBlueButton blog says, But [...]
More on @moodledan’s Customizable Edumoodle 2.0 theme
I'm digging Dan Humpherson's (@moodledan) EduMoodle theme for Moodle 2.0 more and more as I see it's customization interface. Check out these two videos that highlight you can both easily change the color theme to fit your needs and change the logo. COOL. Vote for the theme: http://newschoollearning.com/theme/submissions/ Change the color [...]
@Moodleman “Always make sure your Moodle engages the audience”
The thing that everyone should do...is always make sure your Moodle sites engage our audience. The quote in the title comes from the MoodleMayhem podcast by Diana Benner (@diben) and Miguel Guhlin (@mguhlin) who recently interviewed Julian Ridden (@moodleman). It occurs at about 25 minutes and is a great message about theming your Moodle site [...]
Workshop 2.0 by @markdrechsler #mootau10
Here's a cool preso from Mark Drechsler (@markdrechsler) that gets into the revamped Moodle Workshop 2.0 activity (slides 16-19). Read more about it and the presentation given at Moodle Moot Australia 2010: http://www.markdrechsler.com/?p=225 Pretty slick. Moodle 2.0 first impressions View more presentations from NetSpot Pty Ltd.
Special Summer Series: Hosting – MoodleReader
Part five of our Special Summer Series on free hosting services. This part of the Special Summer Series on hosting highlights a different kind of Moodle hoster in MoodleReader. We highlighted MoodleReader recently because of its complete utility for teachers managing developmental writing courses. Literally this module comes with 100s of [...]
