‘This just in!’ Archives
Congratulations to Marie Sciangula for winning the Moodle 2.0 Course Conversion book giveaway! #MDL2CC
Quick note to congratulate Marie Sciangula for winning the Moodle 2.0 Course Conversion book giveaway sponsored by Packt Publishing. Over 70 readers participated in the giveaway through tweeting and commenting. Thanks for reading!
Moodle in over 100 languages!
Helen Foster (@Moodlehelen) announced this recently and it's great news for the worlds most widely used (and translated) LMS. With the addition of a few new language packs Moodle now supports over 100 languages! If you're interested in creating a new language pack checkout the Translation documentation [...]
Blast off with the new Rocket Theme by @Moodleman for Moodle 2.1/2.2
5...4...3...2...1... The Rocket theme by Julian Ridden (@Moodleman) is a customizable theme to make your site less Moodley (and it succeeds). The theme has customizable logo, header images and category images and just simply looks great. It just may be the least Moodley looking theme of all Moodle themes! Check it out in some screen [...]
CLAMP Releases 2.2.1+LAE 2.0
Moodle 2.2 is one step closer to acceptance by the Collaborative Liberal Arts Moodle Project (CLAMP) with the release of Moodle 2.2.1+LAE (Liberal Arts Edition) v2.0 beta 1. While not a stable release this is a milestone for Moodle's acceptance by the group considering their reservations aired in a Moodle 2 Status Report nearly 1 year ago (Feb [...]
Shameless Plug: Vote for me as People’s Choice for 2011
I've written a few posts at OpenSource.com/Education and this year I qualified to be in the running for the 2011 People's Choice Award, specifically for my contribution of an article/interview with Wayne Mackintosh about OER University. Moodle is one of many interests (though I often have trouble finding enough time to write about other [...]
CLAMP releases Moodle 1.9.16+LAE v1.6
The newest version of the Collaborative Liberal Arts Moodle Project (CLAMP) flavor of Moodle (Liberal Arts Edition) has now been released. CLAMP is a collaboration of 26 liberal arts colleges across the US which produces a ready to use Moodle distribution with several key additions and improvements which we've highlighted previously. A few of [...]
Are you a Moodle Admin? Help Moodle HQ by filling out this super short survey
Are you a Moodle Administrator with knowledge of the OS of your Moodle server and what database you're using? Help Moodle HQ out by answering this survey here: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=193926
MoodleMoot returns to Ireland: The Ireland/UK MoodleMoot April 2-4, 2012 in Dublin #mootieuk12
After a several year hiatus the Ireland/UK Moodlemoot returns and will be held in Dublin on April 2-4, 2012. The call for presentations is open; deadline to submit is Feb 3rd, 2012. The Moot is focusing several strands for Moodlers including Implementing & Developing Moodle, Teaching & Learning with Moodle, Academic takeup of [...]
Moodlebook = Facebooky theme for Moodle 2.2+
Julian Ridden (@Moodleman) has just updated/released his new "Facebook" theme for Moodle which is based on the core Decaf theme by Lei Zhang. The theme mimics the world's favorite social network in color and layout and also includes some nifty drop down navigation. Dropdowns from the main menu bar across the top link to a users course [...]
Is Your Moodle “Cheatable”?
Here's a cool resource I picked up around the twittersphere last week which helps to "score" your Moodle classroom based on how easily it is to cheat or game the system as a student. It asks simple questions like how much of your course is assessment based, how the assessments are setup, if you use the same test pools every year, if students can [...]
