Posts Tagged ‘helen foster’
Moodle.org seeks QA testers for Moodle 2.0
Helen Foster, community manager at Moodle.org put out this call for QA testers on Moodle 2.0 earlier this week : I'm pleased to announce that we're now ready to begin our QA testing - see Moodle 2.0 QA Cycle 1. If you'd like to help with QA testing you need to be a member of the testers group in the Moodle Tracker. Please contact me if you'd [...]
Oklahoma Moodle Moot: June 7-9; @metrotechOK featuring @moodlehelen #mootok10
Registration for the Oklahoma City Moodle Moot (coordinated by Metrotech) is open now and only 99 dollars for both days (June 8th and 9th; the pre-Moot session on the 7th is an additional $75). The schedule of sessions is stuffed with great strands, including Business, Curriculum, Technical and various levels of Moodle experience (presumably [...]
2 dozen courses for download at demo.moodle.net RT @moodlehelen
Thanks to Helen Foster (@moodlehelen) for originally posting the details. Http://demo.moodle.net has around two dozen courses that you can download and use due to their CC licenses. Most of the courses are a product of the "Cool Course Competition" which occurred earlier this year (more info about the Cool Course Comp: [...]
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: [...]
What If The Cool Course Competition Was Judged By The American Idol Judges? @moodlenator
The good news, we would be on TV and would have over 15 million viewers weekly! The bad news, the elimination rounds would be brutal. Long lines of Moodlers circling the outside of stadiums, trying to acquire a wireless signal to tweet their experiences. Ryan Seacrest interviewing the most bizarre of contestants before they show their sites [...]
Moodle.org bows out of Google Summer of Code #GSOC
Moodle.org community manager, Helen Foster announced today that Moodle will not be participating in the Google Summer of Code this year, this year we've decided not to submit an application for Moodle to be a mentoring organisation in order that we can focus on the Moodle 2.0 release. There's still lots to be done if we're to meet the release [...]
Cool Courses Competition at Moodle.org
Helen Foster, Moodler at Moodle HQ is leading an initiative to deem the coolest Moodle course in all the land. The "Cool Course Competition" began in October and will finish in January 2010 (after a 1 month extension) asks that Moodle course designers submit their courses (in any language) to be judged for a prize and claim to having the [...]
