CLAMP is pleased to announce updated releases for Moodle 2.4.4 and Moodle 2.5.0. These releases, Moodle 2.4.4+LAE4.0.1 and Moodle 2.5.0+LAE5.01, incorporate a hotfix for a bug introduced during the Colgate Hack/Doc Fest. This bug is documented in a discussion on the CLAMP Moodle Exchange. If you have already updated to either of these releases we strongly recommend that you install the updated release. There are no changes beyond this hotfix. Moodle 2.3.7+LAE3.1 is not affected by this issue.

You may download these releases from their respective code pages:

• Moodle 2.4.4+LAE4.0.1
• Moodle 2.5.0+LAE5.0.1

This is the initial release on the 2.5 branch. This release includes bugfixes for Anonymous Forums, the Roster Report module, CLAMP’s rewritten Quickmail block, and the ability to set a course-level default for resource display mode.

You can download the release from its project page:

• Moodle 2.5.0+Liberal Arts Edition v5.0

There are two new CLAMP releases. This is the initial release on the 2.4 branch. Both releases include bugfixes for Anonymous Forums, the ability to recover grades when re-enrolling a student, the Roster Report module, and CLAMP’s rewritten Quickmail block. In addition, the 2.4 release includes the ability to set a course-level default for resource display mode.

The initial 2.5 release is pending the resolution of a bug discovered during integration testing. We expect the 2.5 release to happen next week.

You can download the updates from their project pages:

• Moodle 2.3.7+Liberal Arts Edition v3.1
• Moodle 2.4.4+Liberal Arts Edition v4.0

CLAMP is pleased to recommend the use of Moodle 2.4 for the 2013-14 academic year. Moodle 2.4 and Moodle 2.5 were reviewed at Moodle Hack/Doc Fest at Colgate University in July 2013 and while no major problems were found with 2.5, the lion’s share of our time was spent on reviewing 2.4 and its features. CLAMP documentation for Moodle 2.4 can be found at http://staging.www.clamp-it.org/documentation/

The organization recommends upgrading to at least Moodle 2.4, rather than Moodle 2.3, because 2.3 will go out of official support when 2.6 is released in late 2013. Moodle core only supports the three most recent releases of Moodle and in December 2013 that’s expected to be 2.6, 2.5, and 2.4. Upgrading to 2.4 now avoids having to do a mid-year upgrade in January 2014.

This summer CLAMP will release three new versions of the Liberal Arts Edition on Friday, June 21, 2013:

• Moodle 2.3.7+Liberal Arts Edition v3.1
• Moodle 2.4.4+Liberal Arts Edition v4.0
• Moodle 2.5.0+Liberal Arts Edition v5.0

CLAMP’s own support for Moodle 2.3 will track with Moodle core’s and will end with Moodle 2.6’s release.