‘Moodle.org’ Archives
2011 Edublog Awards voting is open, Vote here for Moodle and your fave bloggers
Voting for the 2011 Edublog Awards is now open. You can vote for your favorite Moodle blogger (Moodlenews nominated Gavin Henrick, Some Random Thoughts). You can also vote for Moodle as the best "free web tool". Tons of other nominees are available in an array of categories. If you're looking for some new blogs and sites to follow for [...]
#Moodlewish: Autosave
Here's a goodie from the forums recently: Autosave in Moodle. Ever been building a great webpage or label and then (by accident) closed the window or lost your work? Ever had students complain that they had been typing their online text assignment and then inadvertently lost it the same way? Soon it might be possible to ward off the [...]
How to use the Meta Course function in Moodle 2.x
Meta courses are great ways to automatically give students the resources they need on a Moodle site without having to enroll them into two areas. On several projects I've used Meta courses to speed up access to students and to create a 1 stop shop for supporting students that was easily update-able and centrally managed. In Moodle 1.9 Meta [...]
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!
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
Doc of the Day: URL module settings
If you've been using Moodle 2.x then you'll know that the resources have received an overhaul, instead of text pages, web pages and directories, there are now URLs, files, folders and pages. I think it's a step in the right direction for usability and streamlining of available resources. The URL and file module settings also got a touch up in [...]
