Category: News

Featured Plugin: Roster Report

The CLAMP-maintained plugin Roster Report is a simple report which displays user pictures for everyone enrolled in a given course. Roster Report received a Reviewers’ Choice Award, which is “given by the plugins guardians and reviewers for particularly useful, well coded or otherwise interesting plugins.”

Charles Fulton, Senior Web Applications Developer at Lafayette College, created the Roster Report in 2013 to provide a way for faculty to become more familiar with the faces of their students. There are two options when viewing the roster; one is to toggle the “Learning mode,” which turns the display of names on and off, and the other is a “Printable” view, which brings up a version of the report suitable for printing.

Roster Report

If you’re interested in checking out this handy plugin, it can be installed using git. In the top-level folder of your Moodle install, type the command: git clone git://github.com/LafColITS/moodle-report_roster.git report/roster. Then visit the admin screen to allow the install to complete. Once the plugin is installed, you can access the functionality by going to Reports->Roster within the course.

Happy Rostering!

Moodle Hack/Doc Fest, Winter 2016 under way at Reed College

Moodle Hack/Doc Fest, Winter 2016 is underway at Reed College! The big list of things we’re working on can be found on the CME: Work List for Moodle Hack/Doc Fest, Winter 2016 at Reed College.

As the Hack/Doc proceeds we’ll be posting requests for comments and feedback on new and existing Moodle Tracker items in the CLAMP Moodle Exchange as well as on Twitter. You can follow the Hack/Doc conversation on Twitter via the hashtag #mdlhackfest and by following our CLAMP Twitter account (@ClampHQ).

Filtered Course List Accepted to Moodle Plugin Repository and Awarded Reviewers’ Choice

The lead maintainer of the Filtered Course List block, Kevin Wiliarty from Hampshire College, submitted the plugin to the Moodle plugin repository. Not only did it gain acceptance, but it received a Reviewers’ Choice Award, which is “given by the plugins guardians and reviewers for particularly useful, well coded or otherwise interesting plugins.”

The Filtered Course List block displays a configurable list of courses. It is intended as a replacement for the My Courses block, although both may be used. The plugin has been used and developed by CLAMP members for years, including several hackers and doc’ers from different institutions; it truly has been a collaborative effort. Thanks to everyone who has dedicated resources to the Filtered Course List plugin over the years.