‘Moodle.org’ Archives
Opinion: Content as King in the Future of the LMS
There's been some important news lately about the partnering of content companies and publishers directly with the learning management systems that more often than not serve content to our high school, college and professional development students. Most recently the announcement came from Cengage (whose sub brands include Brooks/Cole, [...]
Sections: a new simple course topic (no numbers)
If you've ever wanted to ditch the topic numbers in your Moodle course for text titles only, the Sections course format is for you. Like the weekly or topics format it organizes your course vertically by topic, but instead of including numbers (where the main topic is 0, then each lower incremented by 1) it just has a place to add your course [...]
Doc of the Day: BLOGS
Here's a great resource on Moodle.org that has everything you need to know (want to know?) about Blogs in Moodle 2.0 (including a great video). Enjoy. Blogs in Moodle are user based - each user has their own Blog. Admins, teachers, and students can create Tags - Admins can create site level tags, teachers can create Course level tags, and [...]
Doc of the Day: Youtube Videos as a Repository in Moodle 2
Here's a cool feature of Moodle 2+'s file picker which lets you embed Youtube videos easily into your course. Check it out for how to configure, how to use it and how to leverage the picker to add more dynamic/multimedia content to your course: http://docs.moodle.org/20/en/Youtube_videos.
Moodle 2.1.1, Moodle 2.0.4 and Moodle 1.9.13 have been released!
The freshest versions of each Moodle are now available. Moodle 2.1.1, 2.0.4 and 1.9.13 are now all available for download from Moodle.org featuring the latest enhancements, but and security [...]
Doc of the Day: Moodle Glossary of Terms
Ever been at Moodle.org and noticed the autolinking of terms and words throughout discussion forums? Those are driven by the Glossary autolink filter which pulls all of the common terms and concepts from this global glossary activity at Moodle.org: http://moodle.org/mod/glossary/view.php?id=851. There are around 100 entries in total, from [...]
Moodle HQ is hiring
A growing Open Source project means a growing core development team: Moodle HQ is hiring . According to Michael de Raadt's blog post, Right now Moodle is growing, and in response to that, Moodle HQ is growing as well. We’re looking for talented developers to join us in Perth. If you love Moodle; if you love cranking out code; if you love [...]
Moodle 2.2 Preview
Michael de Raadt (@salvatore) recently posted a Moodle 2.2 preview at his blog: http://salvetore.wordpress.com/2011/07/29/roadmap_22/. At the end the preview points at the Moodle.org Roadmap which gives some great information on what you can tentatively expect with the next major release of Moodle (Moodle 2.2 due in December 2011). Here are [...]
Next Developer Meeting: 8/23/2011
The next Moodle.org Developer's Meeting has been announced for August 23rd (Tuesday) at 2am EST (7 UTC). Mark your calendars! For more information visit http://docs.moodle.org/dev/Developer_meeting_August_2011. Developer meetings are open to the public and provides a forum for anyone interested in the development process at Moodle.org. [...]
Is this the new Moodle.com?
Saw this screenshot and have to say "yeowza". That's a nice looking site if it's the mock-up for the new Moodle.com.
