‘Development’ Archives
Moodle HQ is upgrading at this very moment (2.2 is on it’s way!)
We've seen something like this before (last holiday season) when Moodle.org was updating to 2.0. They are at it again: If you're not interested in waiting and refreshing the screen every 5 seconds until the site is back up, you can click the image above to play some Space Invaders.
Moodle 2.2 QA is complete: 2.2 “ready for release”
According to a quick note from Helen Foster 2.2 is now ready for the masses : A big THANK YOU to everyone who has helped with QA testing, as listed in the Testing credits. I'm pleased to announce that the Moodle 2.2 QA cycle has a 100% pass rate, thus Moodle 2.2 is ready for release! Watch out for the official announcement!
A WIRIS giveaway: 5 Yearly Site Licenses just for contributing questions!
Good news for math teachers across the globe, WIRIS, a provider of a math equation editor plugin for Moodle is giving away site licenses to teachers that contribute to the WIRIS collection of questions on their site: http://collection.wiris.com/quizzes. According to their newsletter published before Thanksgiving this year: WIRIS will give [...]
Check out the Unofficial Clone of myMoodle Mobile for #Android
More in Android/Moodle news: Juan Leyva has endeavored to clone the iOS app for Mobile Moodle onto the Android (and other) platform. Screenshots of the alpha release are already available. According to his post at Moodle.org, This application is intended and has been designed to be easily customizable by Institutions (University, corp..). [...]
Moodle and Gaming presentation by @Lasic
The Australian Flexible Learning Framework hosted its recent Learn 11- E-learning conference and Tomaz Lasic presented a session titled "Level Up: Learning to Moodle with games". The session slides are available at Slideshare.net. Definitely not as good as I can imagine Tomaz's presentation was in person but the slides do include some cool [...]
Developer Meeting Minutes/Recap
I attended the last Moodle Developer Meeting on 11/22 as an observer and got to learn a lot about the process and thought that goes into each and every Moodle change/improvement. It was great to hear about the many cool features that are coming in December with Moodle 2.2 but a little bit of a bummer to hear that some of the coolest features [...]
Siri, what can you do with Moodle? #Apple
Here's a cool tidbit if you're following some of the new iOS features, specifically the voice recognition and personal assistant software that was introduced as Siri (a witty, helpful automated assistant and search tool). Unfortunately it can't tell you what your homework is or how many students have yet to finish that quiz within a Moodle course [...]
Dear Mr. Moodle: How do I hide myself from the online users block?
Here's a question that came in recently to Mr. Moodle: Dear Mr. Moodle! Some lecturing staff where I work are requesting the option to change their Moodle status from online to offline as/when it suits them. They state privacy reasons - that if they choose do a lot of Moodle work online at odd hours they would rather this not be public [...]
Joule 2: alerts, streams and interactive theme components
Here's a new video from Moodlerooms that highlights their joule 2 alerts and streams. Streams is a block of the most recent activity in any course which can be pulled/displayed right on a student's myMoodle page. Alerts are course notifications which show as an interactive theme element/drop down, just like a Facebook notification. Of [...]
Rubrics in 2.2 as highlighted by @Moodlefairy
Here's a great video by Mary Cooch that highlights one of the new features in Moodle 2.2: the creation and use of Rubrics for assignments. Rubrics provide a granular grading approach and enables writing/composition teachers to grade on various criteria within a single assignment (no need for multiple gradebook entries per paper). This is a [...]
