‘Moodle.org’ 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Moodle 2.5 QA Testing Starts now
Interested in banging on the soon to be released Moodle 2.5 before it goes prime-time QA testing of Moodle's major release numbers happens twice a year and it's now underway for Moodle 2.5 due out in about 6 weeks according to a recent post by Helen Foster : With Moodle 2.5 due for release next month, we're once again running a QA testing [...]
Apply now for the 2013 Google Summer of Code for Moodle #GSoC
Moodle has once more been accepted as a viable project for the annual Google Summer of Code and the solicitation for mentors and students is now open (until May 3rd). If you're interested in helping a student learn the ins and outs of Moodle development, or you're a student seeking to work on an open source PHP project that helps students and [...]
Doc of the Day: Courses
If you're curious about anything related to courses on your Moodle site (I can't imagine that you aren't curious about courses as they are the focal point of all that is Moodle) then the Courses docs at Moodle.org are a great resource for your and other Moodlers. From course settings to formats to meta and more, the courses doc covers a lot of [...]
2nd Moodle Research Conference will be in Tunisia (Submit to present until 6/17)
The 2nd Moodle Research Conference is now scheduled for the 4th and 5th of October, 2013 in Sousse, Tunisia. Registration is not yet open but you can submit your proposals to present at this time and through 6/17. The Moodle Research Conference (MRC) is a unique annual event dedicated to research and development (R&D) in learning and [...]
