The Call for Proposals for the CLAMP Moodle User Group (MUG) meeting at Macalester College in June has been extended to Monday, March 17th. Please consider submitting a proposal of your own or in conjunction with a faculty colleague!
Author: Ken Newquist
CLAMP Moodle User Group Meeting, June 23-24, 2014
CLAMP will hold its first-ever Moodle User Group Meeting (MUG) from June 23 through June 24, 2014 at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota
The MUG brings together faculty, staff, students, and other Moodlers for two days of presentations and conversation around Moodle use in a liberal arts environment. Learn about what topics may be presented at the event by visiting our Call for Proposals page or submit your own proposal using our online form.
The MUG will be followed by CLAMP’s biannual Moodle Hack/Doc Fest, a three-day event where developers, instructional technologists, and others come together to work on the open source learning management system. Hack/Doc runs from Wednesday, June 25 through Friday, June 27, 2014. Learn more about Moodle Hack/Doc Fest.
The website for the event is mug.clamp-it.org. The hashtag is #mug2014
Moodle Development Workshop at Smith College, Spring 2014
Wondering how to contribute to Moodle? CLAMP will host a Moodle Development Workshop on Monday, April 14 through Tuesday, April 15, 2014 at Smith College in Northampton, MA. This is a free event. The workshop is designed as an introduction to Moodle development. It will include an overview of Moodle development practices, including code standards and version control.
Day 3 at Moodle Hack/Doc Fest, Winter 2014
The final half-day of Moodle Hack/Doc Fest was dedicated to continued testing and integration work on Moodle 2.6. We also had two lunchtime presentations, one on the LAE’s move from Quickmail to CLAMP Mail, and another on Moodle/WordPress integration via LTI. Both presentations are available on YouTube.
Day 2 at Moodle Hack/Doc Fest, Winter 2014
Day 2 of the Winter 2014 Hack/Doc Fest saw the Doc’ers continue their work on testing Moodle 2.6’s new features while the Devs ran through their integration tasks and came to a consensus on what would be included in the upcoming 2.4, 2.5 and 2.6 releases. We also had a discussion about the future of the Liberal Arts Edition of Moodle and two lunchtime presentations. The presentations are available on YouTube.