‘Development’ Archives
My 5 Favorite Moodle 2.5 Improvements
Moodle 2.5 is coming this summer and after seeing some of the features demoed during the General Developer's Meeting yesterday I can say that I am very excited. Here are my top five improvements to Moodle 2.5: 1. Wordpress like install and update for plugins: Administrating your Moodle and managing plugins and addons just became wayyyy [...]
WIRIS Introduces its Popular Equation Editor in Arabic
WIRIS EDITOR is now available for Arabic users. That means far more than Right to Left writing. This was the title of an email from our friends and supporters at WIRIS. With access to the site I was able to see a quick demo of the new capabilities of the Arabic Language Math Editor and it's as slick as ever. WIRIS will be opening the doors to the [...]
Moodle Calendar Event Reminders addon
This helpful tool will send students reminders about upcoming events on the Moodle calendar. The addon was created by Isuru Madushanka Weerarathna as part of the 2012 Google Summer of Code and can be configured similarly to Google Calendar's event reminders (though these event reminders are globally configured rather than on an event by event [...]
2.4 Feature: Restricting Access to Activities based on User Profile Fields
Here's a quick video by Mary Cooch (@Moodlefairy) of a new feature in Moodle 2.4 I had not seen. It's the ability to restrict access of activities in Moodle by information in the user profile fields. Students could be grouped in new ways and access restricted based on groupings at a site wide level. Alternatively, based on a user's country [...]
OptivoteConnect is a low cost clicker system for Moodle 2.x
Optivote, which was covered last on Moodlenews when they were giving away some free services to a pilot school in the UK has released Optivote Connect for use with Moodle 2.x activities (including quiz, questionnaires and surveys). Their technology provides a very low cost system that allows students to use handsets (tablets, phones, etc.) or [...]
Moodle Mobile Roadmap and Tablet Screen Shots
My Moodle, formerly the official Moodle Mobile app has been replaced by Moodle Mobile at Moodle.org: http://docs.moodle.org/24/en/Mobile_app. The tool is looking quite polished. Recently the site was updated with a roadmap for development and additional documentation and screenshots to help highlight the apps advancements. Check out the [...]
6 Videos showcasing Open Badges for Moodle (development by @TotaraLMS)
There are 6 videos created by Gideon Williams that highlight the open badges development lead by Totara. The videos showcase open badge creation, publishing and earning by students within Moodle. You can give it a go at a Totara development site and can learn more from their docs [...]
4/23 @ 9am EST General Developers Meeting
The next general developers meeting for Moodle.org is taking place next Tuesday at the east coast friendly time of 9am on Tuesday April 23rd. This meeting will be hosted instead on Google Hangouts live via Youtube. The agenda? Moodle 2.5 Open Badges Themes (the addition of Bootstrap for Moodle) Installation of plugins through the [...]
Recoil Theme for Moodle 2.4 is sleek and crisp
Here's a new theme for Moodle 2.4 by Joseph Conradt and Mike Finney which features drop shadows, a crisp contrast of light and dark elements and called out user information in the header. White space is definitely the name of the game with this theme (notice no borders between topics, only the raised blocks act to frame the page). The only [...]
#imoot2013 Presentations Announced!
The 2013 iMoot is coming this May and presenters were recently notified of their acceptance. Myself and Justin Hunt will both be presenting (me on crowdsourcing the first Moodle development project and Justin speaking to the Youtube Assignment and Youtube Anywhere apps he created); but in addition you learn and hear from many other great Moodlers [...]
