‘News’ Archives
2011 Edublog Awards voting is open, Vote here for Moodle and your fave bloggers
Voting for the 2011 Edublog Awards is now open. You can vote for your favorite Moodle blogger (Moodlenews nominated Gavin Henrick, Some Random Thoughts). You can also vote for Moodle as the best "free web tool". Tons of other nominees are available in an array of categories. If you're looking for some new blogs and sites to follow for [...]
Moodle HQ is upgrading at this very moment (2.2 is on it’s way!)
We've seen something like this before (last holiday season) when Moodle.org was updating to 2.0. They are at it again: If you're not interested in waiting and refreshing the screen every 5 seconds until the site is back up, you can click the image above to play some Space Invaders.
Moodle 2.2 QA is complete: 2.2 “ready for release”
According to a quick note from Helen Foster 2.2 is now ready for the masses : A big THANK YOU to everyone who has helped with QA testing, as listed in the Testing credits. I'm pleased to announce that the Moodle 2.2 QA cycle has a 100% pass rate, thus Moodle 2.2 is ready for release! Watch out for the official announcement!
Attend the Open Source Software In Education this January 21st 2012 in Sunny Los Angeles
SCALE 10x (Southern California Linux Expo) is hosting its Open Source Software in Education (OSSIE) track this year and has provided Moodlenews with a 50% discount for anyone interested in attending and registering. The OSSIE track schedule is not yet posted (the CFP just closed) but in the past there have been presentations about Edubuntu, [...]
Siri, what can you do with Moodle? #Apple
Here's a cool tidbit if you're following some of the new iOS features, specifically the voice recognition and personal assistant software that was introduced as Siri (a witty, helpful automated assistant and search tool). Unfortunately it can't tell you what your homework is or how many students have yet to finish that quiz within a Moodle course [...]
myMoodle (the official Mobile app) for Android is coming this holiday season!
Great news for Android Moodlers, the official Moodle mobile app is currently under development! According to the Moodle.org Developer meeting minutes , We have hired a company to create android app based on our iPhone app. The code will be a complete rewrite as it needs to be in Java and the iPhone app is written in Objective C, but the [...]
Introducing FreeMoodle.org: A free, Moodle Partner-backed hosting option
Great news on the free Moodle hosting front recently, HRDNZ, an official Moodle Partner in New Zealand has launched http://www.freemoodle.org/ as a free and open Moodle resource with an eye towards sharing. There are various stipulations and conditions if you upload your course on the site (which beckons back to the eSocrates.org sharing [...]
Gone Moodle: CSU Fullerton, Case Western, Virtual University of Uganda, NNI and the ATS
Here are a few schools and organizations that have "gone Moodle" recently. Either piloting, adopting, testing or building their own Moodle sites to support learning in various ways. Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH : Case Western is now piloting Moodle as a possible replacement for it's current Blackboard installation and [...]
Saturday’s Classroom 2.0 LIVE with Beth Still: Moodler
Classroom 2.0 has a great live session program that highlights all sorts of great events and individuals. This Saturday you can hear from Beth Still regarding her teaching/learning/Moodling. From the session description: When: Sat, November 19, 10am – 11am Where: http://tinyurl.com/cr20live Description: Our topic for this [...]
Nominations open for the 2011 Edublogs Awards #eddies11: I nominate @ghenrick
Nominations are open for the 2011 Edublogs and I'd like to nominate Gavin Henrick's "Some Random Thoughts" blog as best "Best ed tech / resource sharing blog" (formerly the "resource sharing" category). Gavin's posted some wonderfully instructive and informative posts about Moodle lately and his blog is a great resource for finding a 1st level [...]
