The lead maintainer of the Filtered Course List block, Kevin Wiliarty from Hampshire College, recently added some new features to the plugin, bumping the version up to 3.0 with a seamless upgrade.
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Hack/Doc at Lafayette: The Sprint Day
HP5, PoodLL, Moodle Messaging and navigation/theme improvements to Moodle 3.2 are among the topics that CLAMP queued up at during the sprint day for Moodle Hack/Doc Fest, Winter 2017.
The biannual Hack/Doc is being held at Lafayette College in Easton, Pa. The event kicked off on Monday, January 9, 2017 with the sprint day. The event runs through Thursday, January 12, 2017. The following tasks are queued up for Hack/Doc:
- Review Theme and Navigation Project 3.2 (including the Boost theme)
- Review Messaging and Notifications Overhaul
- Review Custom Guided Tours / Tutorials with an eye toward using it for a guided tour of the Liberal Arts Edition
- Review the current status of the PDF converter and viewer for Moodle assignments.
- Work on Smith College’s tool for generating a CSV for exporting grades to Banner
- Look at H5P for streaming media within Moodle.
- Look at PoodLL for audio/video recording in Moodle.
- Revisit Moodle Mobile
In addition, we are kicking around a number of group discussions:
- How do you do course creation? (templating, block layout, etc.)
- Viability and interest in extending Scheduler to allow for instance-wide scheduling.
- Discussion best practices for course templates
- How do school’s organize help documentation (include video and screenshots, where is it stored). Consider what role CLAMP should have in terms of documentation, best practices, hardware/software/platform recommendations, etc.
- Course design principles, which will include accessibility decisions
- How do you present courses from multiple semesters to faculty and students?
- How do you convey to faculty (and students) changes to Moodle or simply to showcase key features whether they’re new features (e.g., PoodLL or Turnitin integration) or features one might find helpful to revisit (e.g., glossary)?
- Are folks conducting usability testing? If so, what’s your setup and what have you tested? If not, why not?
Posts from Moodle Hack/Doc Fest, Winter 2017 at Lafayette College: Homepage | Sprint | Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3
New Moodle LAE Releases for 2.7.17, 2.9.9, 3.0.7, 3.1.3
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:
- Moodle 3.1.3+Liberal Arts Edition 11.0.3
- Moodle 3.0.7+Liberal Arts Edition 10.0.5
- Moodle 2.9.9+Liberal Arts Edition 9.0.8
- Moodle 2.7.17+Liberal Arts Edition 7.1.5
The next stable releases are scheduled for mid-January. Moodle HQ is expected to release Moodle 3.2 next week; CLAMP will prepare an LAE beta during the forthcoming Hack/Doc Fest at Lafayette College.
These releases were developed, packaged, and tested by Charles Fulton (Lafayette College) and Kevin Wiliarty (Hampshire College).
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.
New Moodle LAE Releases for 2.7.16, 2.9.8, 3.0.6, 3.1.2
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:
- Moodle 3.1.2+Liberal Arts Edition 11.0.2
- Moodle 3.0.6+Liberal Arts Edition 10.0.4
- Moodle 2.9.8+Liberal Arts Edition 9.0.7
- Moodle 2.7.16+Liberal Arts Edition 7.1.4
The next stable releases are scheduled for mid-November. These releases were developed, packaged, and tested by Joe Bacal (Smith College) and Kevin Wiliarty (Hampshire College).