‘Moodle.org’ Archives
Moodle 2.5 Code Freeze in Effect
In advance of this year's Summer release of Moodle 2.5, a code freeze is now in place to work through all remaining issues, identify bugs and provide time for documenting and subsequently QA'ing of the core. A recent note from Dan Poltawski, core Moodle Developer highlights the freeze objectives, Over the next week we will be working our way [...]
Right to Left Theme Options in Moodle
Right to left languages have been supported in Moodle Core themes for the last several years and today there's at least one contributed theme designed specifically to support Right to Left languages: Aaradyha. RtL language support will orient the text and language in reverse when applied to the site, this can easily be done on any core theme by [...]
Bug Requires Emergency Release of 2.4.3 Only One Week After 2.4.2
Recently Moodle.org released Moodle 2.4.2 (one of the minor updates that happen between major release cycles) but due to a "major regression" introduced before the codes release an emergency release of Moodle 2.4.3 followed only a week after to remedy the issue. The issue was identified early and posted at Moodle.org on 3/15, Following the [...]
Want to Review a Plugin? Become a Moodle Plugin Reviewer!
If you're interested in giving reviews to plugins that you've tested out and tried from the Moodle Plugin Repository, check out this Moodle Docs page which lets you know how: http://docs.moodle.org/dev/Plugin_reviews. Requirements for participation are knowing how to install plugins at your site and having written an approved and valuable [...]
MOOCH gets a new URL: Moodle.net
Hub.Moodle.org has been the official Moodle hub for published and shared courses. It now has a new URL: Moodle.net. This is still the same great resource but now with a simpler/shorter URL to type in. Any previously shared courses and viewable courses are still accessible and future connections to the site formerly known as the MOOCH will go [...]
Sick of the sun? Check out the Cloudyday Theme by Jason Cleaver
Cloudyday is a cool new theme for Moodle 2.4 by Jason Cleaver which gives you a new course view when you're using the topics format and each topic as a new page: tabs along the side. Check out the Theme entry and screenshots here: https://moodle.org/plugins/view.php?plugin=theme_cloudyday
Get a lot more out of Moodle.org with this search screen
I was searching for issues I had seen on a Moodle 1.9 site where the R Count of a quiz item analysis did not match up to the total attempts that had been made on an assessment. The assessment in question had 70 attempts but only 55 were represented in the R Count, which for statistics makes a slight issue with numbers adding up and being [...]
New Block: View your version of Moodle, PHP & MySQL
Here's a super simple block that allows you a quick reference for your Moodle, PHP and mySQL versions. The block was designed to help admins and develops quickly see the versions of the foundations of a running site. Check it out here: https://moodle.org/plugins/view.php?plugin=block_moodleversion
Watch a strangely organic and beautiful representation of Moodle’s development [6 minutes]
![Watch a strangely organic and beautiful representation of Moodle’s development [6 minutes]](http://www.moodlenews.com/wp-content/uploads/gource-300x231.png "Watch a strangely organic and beautiful representation of Moodle’s development [6 minutes]")
This video posted by Gareth Barnard and created with Gource shows an animated representation of the entirety of Moodle's development (from the first logs through this past February). The videos gives live to the development and introduction of various features and shows the rapid acceleration of participation and development overtime as [...]
Adsense for Moodle, support your site through ads with this block
Here's an updated block from the Plug-in Repository by Marcus Green which allows you to easily integrate your publisher ID from Google's Adsense to your (commercial, I hope) Moodle site. Adsense allows you to post text or image based ads on sites that you own through code. The block is available [...]
