‘Moodle.org’ Archives
Moodle 2.0.2 and Moodle 1.9.11 are now available for download!
Two fresh installs of Moodle are now available according to official Moodle news: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=171080. The newest issue of Moodle 2.0 (2.0.2) is out with improvements and fixes including, performance improvements expanded docking options for all standard blocks various bug fixes and improvements to the [...]
Doc of the day: Question Categories
Here's a great doc that explains how you can better organize your quiz/test questions into categories and pools so that you can reuse them, organize them and more efficiently upgrade/edit them within your Moodle classroom: http://docs.moodle.org/en/Question_categories. It's a great feature for organizing large question pools based on various [...]
Uploading/Importing Users with @Moodletuts
Here's a handy video which highlights both single user creation using the Administration "Add new User" option AND the bulk upload of users by CSV. Both are very necessary skills for anyone administering their own Moodle site from a free or hosted service. Check out the great video/screencast embedded below and be sure to check out [...]
Check out the Future of Moodle Mobile from Moodle HQ
A Moodle HQ directed Mobile app is being planned and you can see it's preliminary development page at http://docs.moodle.org/en/Development:Mobile_app. This development effort seeks to flesh out the main usability features (using icons to help guide users) and functionality which will bring Moodle use via mobile phones to the next level (and in [...]
Doc of the Day: Calculating required RAM per student
Moodle.org is always a wealth of knowledge from all sorts of angles and contributors. Here's a great Doc page which features a lot of what you need to know when evaluating Moodle (especially if you're evaluating whether or not to host it yourself): http://docs.moodle.org/en/Installing_Moodle#Hardware. Installing Moodle through a cPanel (like [...]
Want to Donate to Moodle AND Learn? Buy a book by @PacktPub
Packt Publishing has an interesting update on their news feed which focuses on their donations and funding to Open Source projects over the last few years. According to the post they've provided over $300,000 to open source projects around the world, including Moodle . The support they provide to the projects is used to put on conferences, [...]
Stay up to date on published courses from the Mooch with RSS
As long as you're an authenticated user at Moodle.org you can grab the RSS feed to view and keep track of the new courses posted to the Moodle Course Hub, dubbed the Mooch. Get it in just a few easy steps, Visit Moodle.org Login Visit hub.Moodle.org click the RSS button on the lower right. Subscribe with your favorite RSS reader et [...]
Doc of the Day: Moodle.org Forums Code of Conduct
If you're a Moodler in search of easy answers from the community, really the best possible destination is Moodle.org's very helpful forums. There are ongoing threads and discussions covering a huge array of Moodle products, modules, development efforts, bug issues and more, you just need to know 1. where to look and 2. how to ask. Which is [...]
Moodle 1.9.11 will fix HTML editor in Chrome?
Here's some interesting development news from Moodle.org, it seems that Chrome browser will soon display the HTMLarea HTML editor for Moodle without any of the suggested hacks and end user extensions: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-16336 Version 1.9.11's official public release is pending, but it will be great to have the added [...]
Update on the Module/Plugins and Theme repository replacement
As posted last week , Sam Hemelryk is working on a replacement plugin for the Moodle.org site to replace the DB module which currently hosts all of the contributed plugins/modules and themes available to the Moodle community. There's been a long discussion about the features to be included and how it might work at [...]
