‘Moodle.org’ Archives
Managing Repositories in #moodle2 with @ghenrick #moodle2PR
With the release of Moodle 2.0 beta preview, we’ll be posting about the new features and changes all week. Gavin Henrick strikes again with a great video and post on how the new Repository API works in Moodle 2.0. Check out the full post which highlights the possible Repository connections, how it all works and the benefits [...]
2 dozen courses for download at demo.moodle.net RT @moodlehelen
Thanks to Helen Foster (@moodlehelen) for originally posting the details. Http://demo.moodle.net has around two dozen courses that you can download and use due to their CC licenses. Most of the courses are a product of the "Cool Course Competition" which occurred earlier this year (more info about the Cool Course Comp: [...]
4 part video preview of #Moodle2 by @Moodler
With the release of Moodle 2.0 beta preview, we’ll be posting about the new features and changes all week. These videos highlight a presentation that Martin Dougiamas gave all the way back in 2008 (October) to highlight the changes and proposed enhancements to Moodle2.0. Though dated, the main changes and enhancements are highlighted well [...]
#Moodle2 Beta Preview 1 hits the downloads page
The unstable build of Moodle2.0 Beta Preview 1 is now available for download at http://download.moodle.org. Have at it! Around 250 people already have downloaded it today. A huge thanks to the Moodle HQ staff for pushing out the release. I'm looking forward to a stable release later this year. Here's a link to the official [...]
Top 10 Moodle Myths from www.Moodle.org
I'm astounded at the shear number of resources and handy tips that have been accumulating at Moodle.org, here's a great "top 10" list of the famous (and infamous) myths you often hear about the Learning Management System: 1 Once Moodle is stable, it will be put under licence. If it were any good, they’d already be charging for it 2 Moodle [...]
Martin Dougiamas outlines #Moodle2 at #MootUK10
With the release of Moodle 2.0 beta preview, we’ll be posting about the new features and changes all week. Direct video link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyHep6CXV7s Moodle 2.0 discussion picks up about four minutes in.
Moodle 2.0: new quiz features #moodle2
With the release of Moodle 2.0 beta preview, we'll be posting about the new features and changes all week. Tim Hunt of Open University led a major development effort to upgrade Moodle 2.0's quiz feature set (with help from other Moodle community members and freelance developers). You can catch a full overview of the features in this release [...]
Overheard at www.Moodle.org: “Wow, Moodle is the Best”
The original question: When Moodle 2.0 comes out in July 2010, the database on the server that has the current Moodle setup for students, will that have to be deleted and reinstalled with Moodle 2.0 in order to upgrade? Or is there a seamless method to upgrading when Moodle 2.0 goes mainstream? Hm. Any ideas/answers? Much appreciated, [...]
“Teaching Tips and Tricks” on Moodle.org @moodlefairy
I recently received several emails from the Moodle.org "Using Moodle" course forum "Teaching tips and tricks". I had forgotten I was subscribed to it and remembered what a great resource it is! Mary Cooch (@moodlefairy) is the forum's moderator and it's a place to go (within the "Using Moodle" course) if you have a neat trick or piece of [...]
Moodle 2.0 Beta Release date pushed to 5/3/2010
Looks like Moodle 2.0's release has been pushed out of April to May 3rd. There are 70 commits into the main development branch from the last week. Martin Dougiamas has set-up Moodle 2.0-beta release day in HQ planning calendar to May 3rd 2010 and the team is focusing on bringing Moodle 2.0 beta down onto the runway. Hopefully the wind conditions [...]
