Moodle Hack/Doc Fest, Winter 2017 will be held Tuesday, January 10 through Thursday, January 12, 2017 at Lafayette College in Easton, Pa. A pre-Hack/Doc documentation and coding sprint will be held Monday, January 9, 2017. Lafayette also hosted Hack/doc in Winter 2007 and Winter 2010.
The lodging deadline is Thursday, December 1, 2016. The registration deadline is Friday, Dec 16, 2016.
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.
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.
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.
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
Join us for a Moodle and Accessibility Brown Bag on July 26 from 12 p.m.-1 p.m. EDT. The event is free and available online using the Zoom video conferencing software.
During the brown bag Ken Newquist (Lafayette College) and Jedidiah Rex (Beloit College) be discussing best practices for designing usable, accessible courses in Moodle. They will be showcasing a badly-designed, inaccessible, scroll-of-death style course that was created at Moodle Hack/Doc Fest at Butler University in June 2016. They’ll then walk through several improved versions of that course.
They will have a brief Q&A between each course so participants can discuss their own problematic courses, best practices, and brainstorm other solutions to the usability and accessibility issues in the example course.
The brown bag will conclude with a discussion of possible next steps regarding Moodle usability and accessibility within the CLAMP community.
The presentation will be given using Zoom. Register for the brown bag using this link:
https://zoom.us/meeting/register/c791fbc3efdfcef9d746f627e8486654
Note that Zoom does require you to download software to your computer; if you haven’t used Zoom you may want to allocate time to download the software prior to the meeting.
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).
