Category: Announcements

Moodle Webinar Series Kicks Off October 27, 2016

“Moodle Forums and Groups” will be the first topic of CLAMP’s new Moodle webinar series when it debuts at 11:30 a.m. (EDT), October 27 on Zoom (https://centre.zoom.us/j/271506274). The topic will be presented by Katieann Skogsberg, Associate Professor of Behavioral Neuroscience at Centre College.

Future sessions will consist of a faculty member presenting a 20-ish minute session about a particular method or tool they utilize within Moodle for their teaching. Faculty from each of the 30+ CLAMP schools are invited to lead these sessions as we continue with the series.

Each of session will be broadcast live via Zoom for participants at other schools to watch synchronously and hopefully gather faculty for discussion after the presentation. Sessions will also be recorded for those who cannot make the live session, and posted on the CLAMP YouTube channel. Our hope is that members of the CLAMP community are able to schedule a shared viewing of these presentations, whether live or recorded, with members of their own faculty to use as a springboard for discussion of how the presented material could be used at each of your respective institutions.

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

Save the Date: Moodle & Accessibility Brown Bag on July 26

Accessibility and universal design were discussed extensively at Moodle Hack/Doc Fest, Summer 2016. During our time at Butler we talked about various best practices, designed a “bad” course that featured a number of accessibility and usability issues, and then created an improved version of that course.

We’re going to showcase our work and continue the Moodle accessibility conversation during a free online brown bag lunch from noon-1 p.m. EDT on Tuesday, July 26, 2016.

We’ll be using the Zoom online conferencing tool for this brown bag; look for more details later in July.