‘News’ Archives
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 [...]
2.2 QA Testers needed at Moodle.org
Moodle.org Community Manager, Helen Foster announced early this week that QA testing for Moodle 2.2 has started (http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=190362), As Martin posted in the general developer forum, we're hoping to release Moodle 2.2 in just over two weeks time on 1st December 2011. To ensure a top quality release, we're running [...]
CLAMP Liberal Arts Edition v1.5 have been released!
The Collaborative Liberal Arts Moodle Project (CLAMP) has released its newest distribution of the popular software and its Liberal Arts Edition is now version 1.5. CLAMP's LAE incorporates a selection of usability and functional improvements adopted by a cadre of Moodle using Liberal Arts colleges in the US. Enhancements include, a better [...]
Moodbile 0.2 beta released: supports HTML5 mobile browsers, Android app in the works
Great news on the Mobile Moodle front, Moodbile, an alternative app for Moodle has released its 0.2 beta version which includes Moodbile Server for Moodle 2.0, and a new Moodbile Client for HTML5 Mobile Browsers. Also announced is a Android app pending release, possibly this week. Try out the app and the services [...]
The 2nd Annual Global Education Conference Starts today! #GlobalEd11
At 11am EST Alan November (one of many great speakers) kicks off the 2nd Annual Global Education Conference, while it's not necessarily Moodle-focused or -related, it does offer a host of professional development, discussions and top-notch presenters and keynote from around the world. GEC is hosted entirely on Elluminate/Wimba (now Blackboard [...]
Mark your Calendars: Developer Meeting 11/22 (and release of Moodle 2.2 12/1)
If you're interested in learning more about the "behind the scenes" of Moodle's development then you may want to attend the next Developer Meeting. The meetings are held online (this one is at 8am EST on the 22nd of November) and this one will focus on the pending release of Moodle 2.2 (yet another reason to attend). No meeting room is yet [...]
