Posts Tagged ‘wordpress’
Quick thank you to @red20twenty (Moodle Theme Developer Extraordinaire)
I manage a professional certification site (Medinails.com) for nail technicians across the US and needed a quick theme project to make our Wordpress main informational site look more like the Moodle site (where the courses and assessments are delivered. Mike Walters (@red20twenty | http://www.redtwenty.net/) had been tweeting some of his past [...]
Opinion: The Overlords of Moodle
Wired Magazine is one of the only monthly publications I can read from cover to cover in one sitting and not skip an article. Each one is masterly crafted and I consume it eagerly for it's new, fresh ideas or codification of my previously held assumptions. Even better when an article piques my interest and speaks directly do some of the work I [...]
Opinion – Free Hosting and it’s place in the Moodle community
I've talked quite a bit about free hosting options for Moodle since starting Moodlenews and it's because I believe these sites to be an important and positive aspect of the Moodle community at large. I do respect and acknowledge the stance that Moodle HQ takes with these companies and that they represent a possible (probable?) Service or Trade [...]
Opinion – 1,000,000 lines of code
Disclaimer: I'm no programmer; so I don't have much more than a cursory understanding of the development behind software like Moodle. But this isn't so much of an opinion post as it is (I hope) a few thought provoking questions. A quote from Sean Behan's recent review of "Moodle 1.9 Extension Development" struck me. Moodle is nearly 1 [...]
@jasontbedell gets #WP and Moodle to play nice
Jason Bedell, who just ran a successful TeachMeet event in Nashville recently posted a great tutorial on how to authenticate users from WordPress Multi User into Moodle. This means that the most popular open source blogging platform was linked via single sign on (SSO) to the most popular open source learning management system. For any school [...]
