‘Development’ Archives
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 [...]
2.2 QA Testers needed at Moodle.org
Moodle.org Community Manager, Helen Foster announced early this week that QA testing for Moodle 2.2 has started (http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=190362), As Martin posted in the general developer forum, we're hoping to release Moodle 2.2 in just over two weeks time on 1st December 2011. To ensure a top quality release, we're running [...]
QuickStructure released for Moodle 2
If you're looking for yet another way to jazz up your site, you might want to check out the QuickStructure block for Moodle 1.9 and 2.x released by Dr. Checkers (Iain Checkland) a Moodle developer in Hong Kong. The original release of QuickStructure occurred this past July and the code was recently ported to Moodle 2. QuickStructure allows [...]
CLAMP Liberal Arts Edition v1.5 have been released!
The Collaborative Liberal Arts Moodle Project (CLAMP) has released its newest distribution of the popular software and its Liberal Arts Edition is now version 1.5. CLAMP's LAE incorporates a selection of usability and functional improvements adopted by a cadre of Moodle using Liberal Arts colleges in the US. Enhancements include, a better [...]
Moodbile 0.2 beta released: supports HTML5 mobile browsers, Android app in the works
Great news on the Mobile Moodle front, Moodbile, an alternative app for Moodle has released its 0.2 beta version which includes Moodbile Server for Moodle 2.0, and a new Moodbile Client for HTML5 Mobile Browsers. Also announced is a Android app pending release, possibly this week. Try out the app and the services [...]
Mark your Calendars: Developer Meeting 11/22 (and release of Moodle 2.2 12/1)
If you're interested in learning more about the "behind the scenes" of Moodle's development then you may want to attend the next Developer Meeting. The meetings are held online (this one is at 8am EST on the 22nd of November) and this one will focus on the pending release of Moodle 2.2 (yet another reason to attend). No meeting room is yet [...]
New Theme for 2.x: Zebra 2.1
Zebra is a great customizable theme that allows easy color changes and other customizations right from the Admin panel. It's been upgraded and released as Zebra 2.1 recently, bringing a fresh look with the same control. Change colors, logos, background images and more through the Admin panel and with FTP access. I tried it out and [...]
Responsive Design: Mobile Development Considerations for Moodle
Stuart Lamour has a really interesting post about Moodle Mobile apps vs. responsive design at the eLearning Team Blog for University of Sussex. In the video that accompanies his overview of best practices in design and the future of mobile development he highlights how Moodle might be factored for Mobile viewing right out of the box (or theme [...]
New in 2.2: Gravatars!
Here's a cool tidbit from the documentation for Moodle 2.2, there will be a setting to check (if the user has not already uploaded an image) a user's email against Gravatar and will use that image instead of the default. Very cool. Gravatar is "globally recognized avatars" and are used throughout popular sites like Wordpress. By uploading [...]
