‘News’ Archives
What’s new in Moodle 2x? guide from @FIU
If you're still waiting to make the jump, here's a resource that you might use to convince yourself, convince your administrators or to put students at ease. "What's new in Moodle 2" is a resource created by the Moodlers at Florida International University (http://fiu.edu/) and it has a great overview (in easy to read text with graphics). It's [...]
#imoot2012 is coming!
No event information is yet published, but the website has a new landing page: http://2012.imoot.org/ I'm getting excited.
Its the 1st day of #Moodlemas and @ourlearning gave to me….
A freebie Christmas themed Glossary! We're getting into the spirit here at Moodlenews and kicking off 12 days of #Moodlemas: full of cheeky rhymes, free resources and perhaps a special surprise or two. Today I'm highlighting a cool free glossary export of Christmas cheer from OurLearning (http://ourlearning.co.uk/). The glossary includes [...]
Quick review of FreeMoodle.org: great for sharing and learning
FreeMoodle.org is a Partner-backed free Moodle hosting site available to teachers and student with just one catch: courses must be open. I got a chance to checkout the site and play around with some of the courses already there. I can say that HRDNZ has really set the stage for something wonderful. Already there are quite a few courses on [...]
Free Moodle hosting site Gnomio now running version 2.2
If you're interested in checking out some of the new features in 2.2 like the Rubrics and Advanced Grading, the MyMobile theme, LTI or any of the other coolness you can without any risk at Gnomio's 2.x site http://www.mdl2.com/ according to a recent tweet. MDL2 is listed on the Moodlenews hosting chart and provides free but ad-supported [...]
2.1.3, 2.0.6 and 1.9.15 Released (Upgrade today)
For the freshest versions of Moodle you may need to upgrade: versions 2.1.3, 2.0.6 and 1.9.15 have been released. Each release fixes various bugs and vulnerabilities as well as bringing some minor enhancements in usability. Note that improvements and bug-fixing has ceased for 1.9.x as focus shifts to Moodle's most advanced releases. General [...]
2nd Annual Mars College Minimoot will be held 3/16/2012
Mars Hill College in North Carolina is hosting its 2nd annual Minimoot this coming March. The call for papers is now open (deadline is 1/20/2012). According to Marty Gilbert of MHC the event was very successful last year. Early bird registration runs until 1/20 and costs only 45 dollars. According to the site : Mars Hill College would [...]
2.2 has been released!
The second 6 month installment of Moodle 2.x releases has hit the digital shelves. Long awaited features like Rubrics, myMobile theme and LTI capabilities are included. Some features originally planned for 2.2 (like multi-tenancy) have been postponed until next June or later (release 2.3). You can read the complete release notes for [...]
Moodlerooms takes top honors from EdTech Digest
Edtech Digest, a blog highlighting various education technology trends and products, gave top honors to Moodlerooms and some of their products in it's annual "Edtech Digest Awards" for 2011. Moodlerooms was a winner in the Learning Management System category but was a finalist in several other categories, including Cool Tools for 2k11 with Joule2, [...]
Moodle 2.2 Stable is at git.moodle.org!
While not officially announced yet, the 2.2 release in all it's glory is now posted to the git.moodle.org page (tweeted by the @Moodledev account). One step closer to an official release on the downloads page: http://download.moodle.org/.
