Author: Charles Fulton

New Moodle LAE Releases for 2.7.17, 2.9.9, 3.0.7, 3.1.3

There are four new Moodle: Liberal Arts Edition releases. There are no new LAE features; these are maintenance releases only. Please see CLAMP’s release announcement for Moodle 3.1.0+LAE11.0.0 before installing or upgrading to Moodle 3.1. In addition, Moodle core introduced major changes to the gradebook beginning in Moodle 2.8. Please see CLAMP’s Moodle 2.8 and Moodle 2.9 recommendations for more information.

You can download the updates from their project pages:

The next stable releases are scheduled for mid-January. Moodle HQ is expected to release Moodle 3.2 next week; CLAMP will prepare an LAE beta during the forthcoming Hack/Doc Fest at Lafayette College.

These releases were developed, packaged, and tested by Charles Fulton (Lafayette College) and Kevin Wiliarty (Hampshire College).

New Moodle LAE Releases for 2.7.16, 2.9.8, 3.0.6, 3.1.2

There are four new Moodle: Liberal Arts Edition releases. There are no new LAE features; these are maintenance releases only. Please see CLAMP’s release announcement for Moodle 3.1.0+LAE11.0.0 before installing or upgrading to Moodle 3.1. In addition, Moodle core introduced major changes to the gradebook beginning in Moodle 2.8. Please see CLAMP’s Moodle 2.8 and Moodle 2.9 recommendations for more information.

You can download the updates from their project pages:

The next stable releases are scheduled for mid-November. These releases were developed, packaged, and tested by Joe Bacal (Smith College) and Kevin Wiliarty (Hampshire College).

CLAMP Recognition Award Winner Announcement for 2015-16

The CLAMP Steering Committee is proud to announce the 2015-16 winners of the CLAMP Recognition Awards.

Matt Wright has distinguished himself as a member of the CLAMP community through his regular attendance at Hack/Doc Fests in the last several years, his consistent effort to center accessibility issues when reviewing Moodle, his work on providing documentation on the new gradebook, and his willingness to organize and host the 2016 Summer Hack/Doc Fest. Matt is an Academic Technology Support Specialist at Butler University.

Sarah Ryder, senior web programmer at Hampshire College, has participated in CLAMP since the joint NITLE Camp/Hack Doc Fest at Smith College in 2009. She organized and hosted the 2011 Summer Hack/Doc Fest and the 2013 Integration Sprint, both at Hampshire College. Sarah served on the Steering Committee from 2012-2015 and was part of the ad hoc communications committee that redesigned CLAMP’s website in November 2015.

About the Awards

The CLAMP Recognition Awards are awarded annually to one developer (e.g.; hacker) and one instructional technologist (e.g.; doc’er) to acknowledge outstanding achievement as members of the organization. These achievements include work on Moodle development, Moodle documentation, CLAMP organization and/or recruitment to CLAMP.

In 2015-16, the value of this award is $500. Learn more about the awards at CLAMP-IT.org.

New members for the CLAMP Steering Committee, 2016

The CLAMP Steering Committee is pleased to announce that it has selected Beloit College, Centre College, and Kenyon College as its new members. They replace Colgate University, the College of the Holy Cross, and Reed College, whose terms ran 2013-16. The new schools’ terms run 2016-19.

About the Steering Committee

The CLAMP Steering Committee is composed of representatives from four-year liberal arts colleges or institutions. The current members are Beloit College, Centre College, Connecticut College, Lafayette College, Kenyon College, Occidental College, and Union College

New Moodle LAE Releases for 2.7.15, 2.9.7, 3.0.5, 3.1.1

There are four new Moodle: Liberal Arts Edition releases. There are no new LAE features; these are maintenance releases only. Please see CLAMP’s release announcement for Moodle 3.1.0+LAE11.0.0 before installing or upgrading to Moodle 3.1. In addition, Moodle core introduced major changes to the gradebook beginning in Moodle 2.8. Please see CLAMP’s Moodle 2.8 and Moodle 2.9 recommendations for more information.

You can download the updates from their project pages:

The next stable releases are scheduled for mid-September. These releases were developed, packaged, and tested by Charles Fulton (Lafayette College) and Kevin Wiliarty (Hampshire College).