Posts Tagged ‘Development’
Ross MacKenzie: Moving the Open University to Moodle 2.0
MootUK11's video archive from this year is a great collection of resources and videos that highlight some of the most cutting edge Moodle use/practices from around the UK (and world). Today I got to watch Ross MacKenzie's presentation in which he highlights Open University's move to Moodle 2.0. Ross highlights a lot of great information about [...]
How to find Moodle programmers/developers for your project
Someone recently asked me, "how can I find a Moodle developer to help me with my Moodle project?" Through my own experience there are just a few basic ways to find someone with Moodle help. So if you're interested in finding a Moodle programmer, or if you have a project in need of some paid technical expertise, read on. The very first thing [...]
Update on the #Blackboard Acquisition and Moodle
Read our previous post on the Blackboard acquisition, including the invaluable comments, here: http://www.moodlenews.com/2010/what-the-blackboard-acquisition-means-for-moodle/ There's an update from Blackboard on the public response to the Blackboard acquisition of Wimba and Elluminate from Ray Henderson, President of Blackboard Learn, I love [...]
Opinion: The Importance of Moodle Mobile
New at MoodleMonthly: every week we'll run one op-ed from the community or the staff. So if you have something to say about Moodle here's your chance. Use the contact us form to connect with us or just comment below and let us know you'd like to get on deck. I wrote an article on the relevance and importance of Moodle Mobile over at [...]
Offline Moodle: an answer to limited web access?
There's a new post over at the iLite blog: http://ilite.wordpress.com/2010/03/18/moodle-off-line-application/. It poses the question: what would offline Moodle access look like and is it possible? From the post: To my mind the offline client should be a stand-alone application that is installed on the Users PC. The application should permit [...]
More info on 1.9.8 @moodlehelen
From @moodlehelen: In addition to some security fixes, Moodle 1.9.8 will also include a new capability moodle/restore:createuser for controlling whether a user can create other users when restoring a course (source: Moodle 1.9.8 release notes). Related: Check out Helen's post at: [...]
Moodle Coding Sprint Update #php @moodlehelen
Just in case you're down for the developer's sprint this coming weekend (March 20th and 21st), join the Moodle.org discussion about it (and pledge your time) here: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=146083. Related: Moodle Core Developers Group: http://moodle.org/user/index.php?id=5&group=172 MoodleMonthly coverage: [...]
New Moodle Theme w/ drop-down menus from @ptrkmkl
Patrick Malley of Newschoollearning.com (a Moodle partner) recently submitted a new theme to Moodle.org that inherently uses the YUI library drop-down menu. In plain speak, Patrick has released a Moodle theme template the incorporates drop-down menus into the navigation and theme. The theme can be further modified to incorporate drop-down [...]
Updated: Moodle.org QA Testing site Open!
The Moodle QA testing site was officially opened today (According to Helen Foster, @moodlehelen's tweet: http://twitter.com/moodlehelen/status/7940791238) with additional capabilities (including course creation and access as an Administrator), contrary to an earlier post: [...]
New Plugin: OpenBiblio
Moodle Monthly hopes to cover all new plugins and modules released at Moodle.org, this is the first such coverage (but there will be more in the future categorized here: http://www.moodlemonthly.com/category/development/modules/) OpenBiblio is a Moodle block that interacts with the OpenBiblio open source library catalog management software. [...]
