There are four new Moodle: Liberal Arts Edition releases. There are no new LAE features; these are maintenance releases only. You can download the updates from the CLAMP code release archive.
The next stable releases are scheduled for mid-July. We expect Moodle HQ to release Moodle 3.7 on or about May 20; CLAMP will evaluate it and prepare a beta at the forthcoming Hack/Doc Fest at Smith College. CLAMP evaluated Moodle 3.6 at the Brandeis University Hack/Doc Fest in January 2019; please see CLAMP’s daily reports for details: Sprint Day, Day 1, Day 2, and Day 3.
These releases were developed, packaged, and tested by Kevin Wiliarty (Hampshire College) and Andrew Zito (Lafayette College).
There are four new Moodle: Liberal Arts Edition releases. There are no new LAE features; these are maintenance releases only. You can download the updates from the CLAMP code release archive.
The next stable releases are scheduled for mid-May. We expect Moodle HQ to release Moodle 3.7 around that time; CLAMP will evaluate it and prepare a beta at the forthcoming Hack/Doc Fest at Smith College. CLAMP evaluated Moodle 3.6 at the Brandeis University Hack/Doc Fest in January 2019; please see CLAMP’s daily reports for details: Sprint Day, Day 1, Day 2, and Day 3.
These releases were developed, packaged, and tested by Kevin Wiliarty (Hampshire College) and Andrew Zito (Lafayette College).
There are two new Moodle: Liberal Arts Edition releases. CLAMP is releasing updating 3.5 and 3.6 releases to address a significant performance bug in MDL-64609. If you already updated to 3.5.4 or 3.6.2 then you should install this release as soon as possible. You can download the updates from the CLAMP code release archive. The next stable releases are scheduled for mid-March.
These releases were developed, packaged, and tested by Charles Fulton (Lafayette College). CLAMP would like to thank Eric Merrill of Oakland University for his diligence in finding, reporting, and fixing the performance bug.
There are four new Moodle: Liberal Arts Edition releases. The 3.1, 3.4, and 3.5 releases are maintenance-only. The 3.6 release includes updates to all contributed modules and new features in the Featured Course List block. You can download the updates from the CLAMP code release archive.
The next stable releases are scheduled for mid-March. CLAMP evaluated Moodle 3.6 at the Brandeis University Hack/Doc Fest in January 2019; please see CLAMP’s daily reports for details: Sprint Day, Day 1, Day 2, and Day 3.
These releases were developed, packaged, and tested by Charles Fulton (Lafayette College) and Andrew Zito (Lafayette College).
Chad Bergeron demonstrates the Moodle Inline Trainer plugin. Photo credit: Charles Fulton
The last day of Hack/Doc, as usual, was a bit shorter due to attendee travel plans. We wrapped up around lunch time after some discussions about Moodle 3.6, student projects, and user training.
Moodle Inline Trainer
Chad Bergeron demonstrated the Moodle Inline Trainer, a plugin in use at Brandeis University. This plugin was developed by Zak Kolar, then a student, in partial fulfillment of his senior thesis on how teachers use technology. This is independent of Moodle’s “user tours” functionality. Teachers may select from a list of available trainings which provide step-by-step instructions. For some steps instructional videos are available. An overlay feature will highlight the next place to click if the teacher gets stuck. Usage data is collected for review by site administrators. The plugin is open source, but no formal release is planned.
Moodle 3.6 features
Download participants table
The new merged participants list now allows the downloading of enrolled users. Previously the only place to get that information was via the grader report. There’s a set of controls on the bottom of the participants page similar to the bulk user actions list. All the standard data formats are supported. You can select some or all the participants.
Forum emails will display images from authenticated courses
This change addresses a long-standing problem for many CLAMP schools: when a forum email notification is viewed in a desktop client, the images are not visible, because they’re behind authentication. We couldn’t get this working in CLAMP test instances, but that could be down to peculiarities with CLAMP’s environment.
