‘Development’ Archives
Nadav Kavalerchik’s Spelling Bee block for your Moodle 1.9.x site
Here's one from the deep recesses of Moodle.org - a very good Spelling Bee block for Moodle 1.9.x, to challenge your English linguistic and spelling prowess. Nadav Kavalerchik is a brilliant Isreali chap with a penchat for churning out Moodle custom code like the Spelling Bee. If ever there were a Nobel Prize for Moodle Open Source coding, [...]
On the 12th day of #Moodlemas the community shared with me…
12 Wiggly icons for clicking! 11 Books for Reading 10 Courses for sharing 9 Tutorials for watching 8 Site for Storytell-ing 7 mobile Moodl-ing 6 Course-for-matting 5 a course about Jiiing 4 pretty themes 3 plugins 2 Cheery images and A freebie Christmas themed Glossary! Here's a special present from Frankie [...]
Help drive development in 2012 by filling out this survey
Posted by Martin Dougiamas, Head Moodler in the Moodle.org forums today. This is your chance to help steer development towards your priorities. Speak up now by takeing this quick 4 question survey or forever hold your peace! Moodle AAARRGH! survey for 2012 My wish for 2012? Better usability through fewer clicks and fields.
On the 7th day of #Moodlemas the community shared with me…
mobile Moodl-ing! 6 Course-for-matting 5 a course about Jiiing 4 pretty themes 3 plugins 2 Cheery images and A freebie Christmas themed Glossary! If you haven't yet checked out all the goodies in our Mobile Moodle Matrix, check it out here: http://www.moodlenews.com/mobile/. But that's not all there is, there's a new [...]
On the 6th day of #Moodlemas the community shared with me…
Course-for-matting! 5 a course about Jiiing 4 pretty themes 3 plugins 2 Cheery images and A freebie Christmas themed Glossary! As I've said before, I'm a sucker for aesthetics and you can really improve the usability and navigability of a course by simply employing the appropriate course format available. I've tested nearly [...]
On the 3rd day of #Moodlemas the community shared with me…
3 plugins! 2 Cheery images! and A freebie Christmas themed Glossary! There are awesome plugins at Moodle.org available in the new plugin/addon repository. If you haven't checked some of the recent submissions from the community you should. Here are a few that I really like: Drag and Drop file Upload Progress [...]
A Video Playlist all about the Gradebook (from Western Nevada College)
Here's a great set of videos by the Teaching and Learning staff at Western Nevada College that highlight all sorts of features and setup options in the Moodle 2 Gradebook, including calculated/weighted grades, extra credit, sum of grades, non-graded items and more. There are tons of great resources to be found at the WNC blog: I've put them [...]
Moodle 2.x Accessibility a few thoughts and a report by NC State University
North Carolina State University recently published this webpage which highlights their exploration of Moodle 2.x's accessibility vs accessibility in 1.9.x releases. The thorough paper provides a lot of use case scenarios and outcomes when testing Moodle with various assistive technologies and standard tools (screen readers, mouse only, keyboard [...]
2.1.3, 2.0.6 and 1.9.15 Released (Upgrade today)
For the freshest versions of Moodle you may need to upgrade: versions 2.1.3, 2.0.6 and 1.9.15 have been released. Each release fixes various bugs and vulnerabilities as well as bringing some minor enhancements in usability. Note that improvements and bug-fixing has ceased for 1.9.x as focus shifts to Moodle's most advanced releases. General [...]
2.2 has been released!
The second 6 month installment of Moodle 2.x releases has hit the digital shelves. Long awaited features like Rubrics, myMobile theme and LTI capabilities are included. Some features originally planned for 2.2 (like multi-tenancy) have been postponed until next June or later (release 2.3). You can read the complete release notes for [...]
