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Registration is now open for the Summer 2024 Hack/Doc Fest, which will be held at Bryn Mawr College from June 25 through June 27, 2024. CLAMP’s Hack/Doc Fests are twice-yearly unconference-style events dedicated to improving the Moodle experience for liberal arts colleges. For CLAMP schools, CLAMP will reimburse your first… Read more

CLAMP held its Winter 2024 Hack/Doc Fest at Connecticut College in New London, Connecticut. The primary focus of the event was evaluating Moodle 4.3. We’re happy to report that we encountered no major issues and no blockers to upgrading to Moodle 4.3 over the summer. Please read on below for… Read more

There are five new Moodle: Liberal Arts Edition releases. There are no new LAE features; these are maintenance releases only. The 4.1 and 4.2 releases include updates to the CLAMPMail and Filtered Course List blocks. You can download the updates from the CLAMP code release archive. The next stable releases are… Read more

There are five new Moodle: Liberal Arts Edition releases. There are no new LAE features; these are maintenance releases only. You can download the updates from the CLAMP code release archive. The next stable releases are scheduled for mid-December. Moodle 4.3 has been released; CLAMP will evaluate it at the Winter… Read more

CLAMP spent three pleasant days at Lafayette College evaluating Moodle 4.2. The group’s impression was favorable; Moodle 4.2 addresses several issues from Moodle 4.1 (see the Swarthmore report for details on 4.1) and improves the user experience. CLAMP also held a roundtable discussion on the present state of integrating Moodle… Read more

There are four new Moodle: Liberal Arts Edition releases. There are no new LAE features; these are maintenance releases only. You can download the updates from the CLAMP code release archive. The next stable releases are scheduled for mid-July. CLAMP evaluated Moodle 4.1 at the Winter 2023 Hack/Doc Fest at Swarthmore… Read more

Registration is now open for the Summer 2023 Hack/Doc Fest, which will be held at Lafayette College from June 21 through June 23, 2023. CLAMP’s Hack/Doc Fests are twice-yearly unconference-style events dedicated to improving the Moodle experience for liberal arts colleges. Visit the event homepage Register for the event Read about the… Read more

There are three new Moodle: Liberal Arts Edition releases. There are no new LAE features; these are maintenance releases only. You can download the updates from the CLAMP code release archive. The next stable releases are scheduled for mid-March. CLAMP will release the first 4.1 version of the LAE the week… Read more

Registration is now open for the Winter 2023 Hack/Doc Fest, which will be held at Swarthmore College from January 10 through January 12, 2023. CLAMP’s Hack/Doc Fests are twice-yearly unconference-style events dedicated to improving the Moodle experience for liberal arts colleges. The main focus of this event will be upgrading from Moodle… Read more

There are three new Moodle: Liberal Arts Edition releases. There are no new LAE features; these are maintenance releases only. You can download the updates from the CLAMP code release archive. These releases come three weeks ahead of schedule and incorporate a security fix from Moodle core. The precise nature of… Read more

CLAMP has prepared its first Moodle 4.0 release. This contains updates to all the contributed modules to ensure compatibility with Moodle 4.0. You can download the release from the CLAMP code release archive. This release is something of a beta; we think it’s fine, but we know of at least… Read more

Following dinner Tuesday night several attendees strolled along the river and were excited to view and photograph a water creature, which they confidently (and baselessly) identified as an otter. Wednesday morning, a frank discussion with the locals and presentation of the photographs led to the more accurate if less interesting… Read more

There are three new Moodle: Liberal Arts Edition releases. There are no new LAE features; these are maintenance releases only. You can download the updates from the CLAMP code release archive. The next stable releases are scheduled for mid-July. Moodle HQ has released Moodle 4.0; CLAMP evaluated the development version of 4.0… Read more

The Summer 2022 Moodle Hack/Doc Fest will take place during the last week of June 2022. This will be a hybrid event with two major components: An online Moodle Showcase consisting of 20-minute sprint sessions for faculty and others to showcase creative and innovative ways to use Moodle. A traditional… Read more

There are three new Moodle: Liberal Arts Edition releases. There are no new LAE features; these are maintenance releases only. You can download the updates from the CLAMP code release archive. The next stable releases are scheduled for mid-March. Moodle HQ has not yet released Moodle 4.0; CLAMP evaluated the development… Read more

Registration is now open for the Winter 2022 Hack/Doc Fest, which will be held online the second week of January. We anticipate testing Moodle 4.0, which will either be released or very close to release. Please see the event page for more information or register now. Read more

CLAMP’s second CLAMP Chat for the 2021-2022 academic year will take place on Friday, November 19, from 2:00-3:00 PM Eastern Time. Andrew Ruether from Swarthmore College will preview the forthcoming Moodle 4.0 release, scheduled for January 2022. Focused mainly on improving the user interface, the new version claims to make it easier… Read more

CLAMP’s first CLAMP Chat for the 2021-2022 academic year will take place on Friday, October 15, from 2:00-3:00 PM Eastern Time. Carly Born from Carleton College proposes to solve the age-old problem that “No one reads the documentation” through the use of Moodle’s User Tours feature. Experience with faculty members… Read more

There are three new Moodle: Liberal Arts Edition releases. All three releases include updates to contributed modules; the Moodle 3.10 release includes backport of the custom user identity feature from Moodle 3.11. You can download the updates from the CLAMP code release archive. The Moodle 3.11 release is CLAMP’s first official release… Read more

CLAMP has finalized the schedule for the Summer 2021 Hack/Doc discussions. All three sessions will take place from noon to 1:00 PM, Eastern Time. Each will take place on Zoom; attendance is free and registration is required. Please click on each event below to register: Tuesday, June 8: Academic honesty… Read more

CLAMP’s sixth CLAMP Chat will take place on Friday, April 23, from 2:00-3:00 PM Eastern Time. This chat will focus on Moodle’s PDF annotation feature. Topics covered will include how the document conversion works under the hood, selecting the right document converter, and common issues maintaining the functionality. The chat will… Read more

There are two new Moodle: Liberal Arts Edition releases. CLAMP is releasing updated 3.10 and 3.9 releases to address a significant calendar corruption bug in MDL-71156. This fix, from Moodle HQ, reverts the change that caused the issue. If you already updated to 3.10.2 or 3.9.5 then you should see the linked… Read more

CLAMP’s fifth CLAMP Chat will take place on Friday, March 19, from 2:00-3:00 PM Eastern Time. Joe Murphy from Kenyon College will discuss the Hypothes.is social annotation tool for collaborative close reading. We’ll look at using Hypothesis as an individual, in closed groups, and through the Moodle LTI plugin. The… Read more

There are four new Moodle: Liberal Arts Edition releases. The 3.5, 3.8, and 3.9 releases are maintenance-only. The 3.10 release includes updates to all contributed modules and new features in the CLAMPMail and Filtered Course List blocks and Roster report. You can download the updates from the CLAMP code release archive. The next… Read more

Work on the task list continued during Day 2 of the Winter 2021 Moodle Hack/Doc Fest as our attendees juggled Moodle and the meetings from which Hack/Doc no longer provides any escape. From the task list Participants filter Core has continued its improvements to the participants page. You can now… Read more

CLAMP’s third CLAMP Chat will take place on Friday, January 22, from 2:00-3:00 PM Eastern Time. Kevin Wiliarty of Hampshire College will discuss Hampshire’s Moodle environment: Hampshire College is a relatively young, very small liberal arts college in Amherst, Massachusetts. We don’t have letter grades, academic departments, or majors. Every student… Read more

There are four new Moodle: Liberal Arts Edition releases. There are no new LAE features; these are maintenance releases only. You can download the updates from the CLAMP code release archive. The next stable releases are scheduled for mid-January. Moodle HQ has released Moodle 3.10; CLAMP will prepare an LAE beta… Read more

There are four new Moodle: Liberal Arts Edition releases. The 3.7 and 3.8 releases include a patch for the Anonymous Forums feature. The 3.9 release includes updates to all contributed modules and new features in the CLAMPMail and Featured Course List blocks and the Roster Report. You can download the updates from… Read more

There are four new Moodle: Liberal Arts Edition releases. There are no new LAE features; these are maintenance releases only. You can download the updates from the CLAMP code release archive. The next stable releases are scheduled for mid-May. We expect Moodle HQ to release Moodle 3.9 around that time; CLAMP will evaluate… Read more

The last day of Hack/Doc, as usual, was a bit shorter due to attendee travel plans. We wrapped up around lunchtime after some discussions about Moodle 3.8 and accessibility. Forum grading accessibility We logged a third and final issue with the new forum grading tool and accessibility: MDL-67663. Again, some… Read more

The biannual Hack/Doc Fest is being held at Swarthmore College in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. The event kicked off on Wednesday, January 8, 2020, and runs through Friday, January 8. The following tasks are queued up for Hack/Doc (very much subject to change): Evaluating Moodle 3.8, which was released last November Improving… Read more

CLAMP Moodle Hack/Doc Fest, Winter 2020 will be held Wednesday, January 8 through Friday, January 10, 2020, at Swarthmore College in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. CLAMP’s Hack/Doc Fests are twice-yearly unconference-style events dedicated to improving the Moodle experience for liberal arts colleges. The lodging deadline is Monday, December 9, 2019. The event registration… Read more

There are three new Moodle: Liberal Arts Edition releases. The 3.5 and 3.6 releases contain an update to the CLAMPMail block. The 3.7 release includes updates to all contributed modules and new features in the CLAMPMail and Featured Course List blocks. You can download the updates from the CLAMP code release archive. The… Read more

Work on the task list continued during Day 2 of the Moodle Hack/Doc Fest at Smith College, punctuated by two lunchtime presentations from members of the community. Lunchtime presentations Darren Hall from Occidental College presented on the ACRL IL Framework and how they’re working to map each of the frames to Moodle… Read more

LTI integration and the Women’s World Cup are among the topics discussed during the sprint (half) day at Smith. The biannual Hack/Doc is being held at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. The event kicked off on Monday, June 24, 2019 with the sprint day, and runs through Thursday, June 27. The… Read more

CLAMP Moodle Hack/Doc Fest, Summer 2019 will be held Tuesday, June 25 through Thursday, June 27 2019 at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. A pre-Hack/Doc documentation and coding sprint as well as a workshop on LTI applications will be held on Monday, June 24. The lodging deadline is Wednesday, May 29,… Read more

There are four new Moodle: Liberal Arts Edition releases. There are no new LAE features; these are maintenance releases only. You can download the updates from the CLAMP code release archive. The next stable releases are scheduled for mid-May. We expect Moodle HQ to release Moodle 3.7 around that time; CLAMP will evaluate it… Read more

There are four new Moodle: Liberal Arts Edition releases. The 3.1, 3.4, and 3.5 releases are maintenance-only. The 3.6 release includes updates to all contributed modules and new features in the Featured Course List block. You can download the updates from the CLAMP code release archive. The next stable releases are scheduled for… Read more

Work on the task list continued during Day 2 of the Moodle Hack/Doc Fest at Brandeis University, punctuated by three lunchtime presentations from members of the community. Lunchtime presentations Joe Bacal from Smith College presented on H5P and how they’re using it at Smith. H5P is an interactive, web-based content… Read more

PDF accessibility, the Course Overview block, preferred names, and Moodle 3.6 are among the topics discussed during the sprint (half) day at Brandeis. The biannual Hack/Doc is being held at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. The event kicked off on Monday, January 7, 2019 with the sprint day, and runs… Read more

Moodle Hack/Doc Fest, Winter 2019 will be held Tuesday, January 8 through Thursday, January 10, 2019 at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. A pre-Hack/Doc documentation and coding sprint will be held the afternoon of Monday, January 7, 2019. The lodging and registration deadlines are Friday, December 21, 2018. An additional lodging option is… Read more

There are four new Moodle: Liberal Arts Edition releases. The 3.1 release is maintenance-only. The 3.3, 3.4, and 3.5 releases include an update to the Filtered Course List block. The 3.3 and 3.4 releases contain a new core patch for handling empty course sections on upgrade. You can download the updates from the CLAMP… Read more

There are four new Moodle: Liberal Arts Edition releases. The 3.1 and 3.2 releases are maintenance-only. The 3.3 and 3.4 releases contain updates related to GDPR compliance. You can download the updates from the CLAMP code release archive. The next stable releases on the 3.4, 3.3, 3.2, and 3.1 branches are scheduled for mid-July.… Read more

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a new law promulgated by the European Union. It will take effect on May 25, 2018. The GDPR governs the storage and use of the personal data of EU citizens, or of anyone’s data by companies and organizations in the EU. It introduces… Read more

  CLAMP held its Winter Hack/Doc Fest at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky, from January 8-January 11, 2018. This was CLAMP’s first visit to Centre. The event began with a half-day “Sprint Day” on January 8 and concluded on the afternoon of January 11. Moodle 3.4 The group kicked the… Read more

There are three new Moodle: Liberal Arts Edition releases. Each includes a minor update to the CLAMPMail block. You can download the updates from their project pages: Moodle 3.3.2+Liberal Arts Edition 13.0.2 Moodle 3.2.5+Liberal Arts Edition 12.0.4 Moodle 3.1.8+Liberal Arts Edition 11.0.8 The next stable releases are scheduled for mid-November. These releases… Read more

Please join CLAMP for a webinar presentation which will be held Friday, September 22, from 10:30-11:30 am (CST) in Zoom (https://zoom.us/j/630284326). Sonya Johnson PhD, professor of Religious Studies at Beloit College, will share about her experience coming to Moodle, anxieties and expectations she had, challenges she faced and how Moodle… Read more

The CLAMP Steering Committee is pleased to announce that it has selected Carleton College and Wesleyan University as its new members. They replace Connecticut College and Union College, whose terms ran 2014-17. The new schools’ terms run 2017-2020. About the Steering Committee The CLAMP Steering Committee is composed of representatives from four-year liberal… Read more

The last day of Hack/Doc, as usual, was a bit shorter due to attendee travel plans. We wrapped up around lunch time after some discussions about Moodle 3.3, Boost, upgrade plans, and accessibility. Moodle 3.3, Boost, and Upgrade Plans The Hack/Doc group didn’t have major concerns with Moodle 3.3; some CLAMP schools… Read more

The CLAMP Steering Committee is proud to announce the 2016-17 winners of the CLAMP Recognition Awards. Joe Bacal, Applications Administrator at Smith College, has participated in CLAMP since the Winter 2016 Hack/Doc at Reed College. As a relative newcomer, Joe was open and helpful, assisting with the testing of Moodle.… Read more

PDF annotation, instructor download files, accessibility, plugin and mobile app evaluations, H5P, and Moodle 3.3 review are among the topics that CLAMP queued up during the sprint day for Moodle Hack/Doc Fest, Summer 2017. The biannual Hack/Doc is being held at Hampshire College in Amherst, MA. The event kicked off on Tuesday, June 20,… Read more

Nominations are now open for new members of the Steering Committee and this year’s Recognition Awards. Steering Committee CLAMP is accepting nominations of member colleges to serve on the Steering Committee; terms are for three years. You need not specify who will represent the college on the committee now, and… Read more

CLAMP has completed work on its release for Moodle 3.2.2. There are no new LAE features; this is a maintenance release only. Please see Monday’s announcement for the new releases for Moodles 3.1.5, 3.0.9, and 2.7.19. You can download the update from its project page: Moodle 3.2.2+Liberal Arts Edition 12.0.1. The… Read more

There are four new Moodle: Liberal Arts Edition releases. This is the initial release on the 3.2 branch. The 2.7 release is maintenance-only. The 3.0 and 3.1 releases include updates to Filtered Course List and CLAMPMail. You can download the updates from their project pages: Moodle 3.2.1+Liberal Arts Edition 12.0.0 Moodle 3.1.4+Liberal Arts Edition 11.0.4 Moodle 3.0.8+Liberal… Read more

At Day 1 of Moodle Hack/Doc Fest we got down to work testing messaging and notification in Moodle 3.2, discussing CLAMP’s future approaches to documentation, reviewing H5P, and learning about changes to the Filtered Course list plugin. The group began testing messaging and notifications in Moodle 3.2. We determined that the… Read more

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… Read more

“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… Read more

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… Read more

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… Read more

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… Read more

The Collaborative Liberal Arts Moodle Project (CLAMP) recommends the use of Moodle 3.0.x and Moodle 3.1.x for use during the 2016-17 academic year. Our recommendation regarding 3.1 includes a caveat to wait for the Moodle 3.1.1 release. While we have been keeping an eye on Moodle 3.0.x since its release,… Read more

Steering Committee CLAMP is accepting nominations of member colleges to succeed them; terms are for three years. You need not specify who will represent the college on the committee now, and you can nominate schools other than your own. The nomination criteria are: The institution must be a four-year liberal… Read more

During Day 2 of Hack/Doc Fest at Butler the team tackled a review of third-party plugin compatibility with Moodle 3.0 and 3.1, continued our accessibility work by testing new tools and documenting best practices, reacquainted ourselves with the Workshop plugin, and delved deeply into Moodle 3.1’s new Competencies feature. Plugin Review… Read more

CLAMP kicked off Moodle Hack/Doc Fest on Monday, June 21 with our traditional sprint day. The sprint day exists for everyone to get a jump on the week’s work — a few people (in this case, most of those attending Hack/Doc) arrive early, resolve any logistical challenges (getting to campus,… Read more

Kevin Wiliarty, senior web programmer at Hampshire College, attended and presented at the NERCOMP event, Moodle at the Crossroads, on Monday, April 11, 2016. Thanks to Kevin for sharing a quick recap of the event. Read more

There are four new Moodle: Liberal Arts Edition releases. There are no new LAE features; these are maintenance releases only. 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 3.0.3+Liberal… Read more

Fritz Vandover, Academic Information Associate for Humanities at Macalester College, has been selected to be Treasurer of the Moodle Users Association Committee. The Moodle Users Association Committee is an elected body of members responsible for the management of membership, activity and financial activity of the Association. CLAMP is proud to… Read more

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… Read more

A brief summary of the discussions that have been taking place on the CLAMP Moodle Exchange (CME) throughout November 2015. Read more

Jason Simms from Wesleyan University was selected, as a CLAMP sponsored member, to travel to Minneapolis this August to attend MoodleMoot US and participate in a panel discussion about Moodle scale and growth. Thanks to Jason for participating and for sharing his thoughts about his experience at MoodleMoot US. Read more

Deadlines for Moodle Hack/Doc Fest, Winter 2016 at Reed College in Portland, OR are rapidly approaching.The hotel reservation deadline is Friday, November 20, 2015. The event registration deadline is Friday, Dec. 11, 2015. Read the itinerary for hotel registration information. Register online for Hack/Doc. The Winter Hack/Doc Fest is being held… Read more

Registration is now open for Moodle Hack/Doc Fest, Winter 2016 at Reed College. The event will be held Wednesday, Jan. 6 through Friday, Jan. 8, 2016 at Reed College in Portland, OR. There will be a Documentation/Code Sprint the day before Hack/Doc begins on Tuesday, Jan. 5. Learn more about the event. Register… Read more

There are three new CLAMP releases. This is the initial release on the 2.9 branch. The 2.8 and 2.7 releases now include the Ad-hoc database queries report. 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… Read more

In late May CLAMP became aware of several critical bugs in the Moodle gradebook which were introduced in 2.8. After assessing, CLAMP issued an advisory recommending against upgrading to Moodle 2.8 or 2.9 until those bugs were mitigated. Since then Moodle core and members of the Moodle community have made considerable progress working on these issues, and CLAMP believes it is now safe to upgrade to 2.8 and 2.9. Please continue reading for a full explanation. Read more

Moodle Hack/Doc Fest is now under way at Holy Cross. Our top tasks are: Understand changes to the Gradebook’s functionality in Moodle 2.8/2.9 Update CLAMP’s grade book advisory based on the current state of things (recently released fixes, outstanding issues, etc. Read the advisory. Documenting changes and new functionality in… Read more

Don’t forget to register for Moodle Hack/Doc Fest, Summer 2015! It’s being held at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts from Wednesday, June 24 through Friday, June 26, 2015 at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA. A pre-Hack/Doc documentation and coding sprint will be… Read more

CLAMP MUG at Holy Cross has been cancelled, but Hack/Doc Fest is still on. Moodle Moot US 2015 is being held in Minneapolis this August, and CLAMP is wondering which member schools may be interested in attending the event. Finally nominations are open for the CLAMP Steering Committee Members and Recognition Awards. Read more

There are three new CLAMP releases. There are no new LAE features; these are maintenance releases only. This release incorporates both the initial releases made by Moodle core on March 9, and the emergency releases made the same day after a regression was discovered. You can download the updates from their… Read more

Due to a recent emergency security release of Moodle, CLAMP is issuing new versions of all of its supported releases. CLAMP strongly recommends that you upgrade to one of these security releases. Moodle is withholding public details of the vulnerability until next week. Registered Moodle admins should have received details via… Read more

CLAMP is looking volunteers to help with its Moodle User Group (MUG) meeting being held June 22-23, 2015 at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA. Read more

Moodle Hack/Doc Fest, Winter 2015 is underway at Occidental College in Los Angeles, CA. Today is the code and documentation sprint, during which we’ll kick the tires on our various projects and  make sure our infrastructure is good to go. Hack/Doc itself begins tomorrow. Our major projects for the week… Read more

There are three new CLAMP releases. There are no new LAE features; these are maintenance releases only. The 2.7 and 2.6 include an updated version of the CLAMPMail block. Please note that the 2.6 and 2.7 releases include important changes to Quickmail and Filtered Course List. We highly encourage you to read those… Read more

There are three new CLAMP releases. There are no new LAE features; these are maintenance releases only.This is the initial release on the 2.7 branch. The 2.7, 2.6 and 2.5 releases include an updated version of the Edit Dates report; the 2.7 and 2.6 releases includes an updated Filtered Course List… Read more

CLAMP is pleased to endorse Moodle 2.6.x and Moodle 2.7.x for use during the 2014-15 academic year. Moodle 2.6’s new features were reviewed and documented as part of Moodle Hack/Doc Fest, Winter 2014 at Eckerd College. View CLAMP’s documentation. Moodle 2.7’s new features were reviewed and documented as part of Moodle… Read more

Version 2.4 of “Filtered course list” (for Moodle 2.6 or higher) introduces a number of fixes and enhancements. In the final phase of the upgrade you will be shown the “new settings,” but it is important to look at the new and the old settings together, so be sure to… Read more

Moodle Hack/Doc Fest, Summer 2014 at Macalester is almost here! If you plan on attending, and haven’t  registered yet please do so. If you have friends or colleagues who you know are coming, but haven’t registered, please remind them to do so as well.

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There are three new CLAMP releases. All three releases contain an update to the LAE Grader report. The 2.5 and 2.6 releases include the LAE User report. Please note that the 2.6 release includes an important change to Quickmail described in a related blog post. We highly encourage you to read that… Read more

Registration for Moodle Hack/Doc Fest, Summer 2014 at Macalester is now open. The event will be held Wednesday, June 25 through Friday, June 27 at Macalester College in St. Paul, MN. A pre-Hack/Doc documentation and coding sprint will be held Tuesday, June 24, 2014.  Visit the Hack/Doc webpage for more information… Read more

The Call for Proposals for the CLAMP Moodle User Group (MUG) meeting at Macalester College in June has been extended to Monday, March 17th.  Please consider submitting a proposal of your own or in conjunction with a faculty colleague! Learn more at the MUG web site. Read more

Wondering how to contribute to Moodle? CLAMP will host a Moodle Development Workshop on Monday, April 14 through Tuesday, April 15, 2014 at Smith College in Northampton, MA. This is a free event.  The workshop is designed as an introduction to Moodle development. It will include an overview of Moodle development practices, including… Read more

As part of the 2.6 release CLAMP is making a non-trivial change to Quickmail. Although covered in the release notes, this change is significant enough to warrant its own post. If you are installing a LAE 2.6 release or otherwise rely on CLAMP for Quickmail it is very important that… Read more

Day 2 of the Winter 2014 Hack/Doc Fest saw the Doc’ers continue their work on testing Moodle 2.6’s new features while the Devs ran through their integration tasks and came to a consensus on what would be included in the upcoming 2.4, 2.5 and 2.6 releases. We also had a discussion about the future of the Liberal Arts Edition of Moodle and two lunchtime presentations. The presentations are available on YouTube.

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We will have a number of lunchtime presentations at Moodle Hack/Doc Fest at Eckerd College, including topics such as “Moodle & Kaltura”, “Metacourse Filter”, “Learning Analytics”, and “The Future of Quickmail in the LAE”.

All times are Eastern Standard Time. The presentations will be available with a 7-second delay via YouTube and live via a Google+ Hangout.

More presentations will be added, so please keep an eye on this page for updates. Note that we are starting at 12:15 p.m., rather than noon, to give ourselves time to get from our work area to the lunch room.

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There are three new CLAMP releases. 2.3.10 is a maintenance release only, while 2.4.7 and 2.5.3 contain an update to the LAE Grader report. You can download the updates from their project pages: Moodle 2.3.10+Liberal Arts Edition v3.1.3 Moodle 2.4.7+Liberal Arts Edition v4.1.1 Moodle 2.5.3+Liberal Arts Edition v5.2.0 We anticipate releasing a… Read more

There are three new CLAMP releases. 2.3.9 is a maintenance release only, while 2.4.6 and 2.5.2 contain updates to the Edit Dates report, Filtered Course List, and the LAE Grader report. You can download the updates from their project pages: Moodle 2.3.9+Liberal Arts Edition v3.1.2 Moodle 2.4.6+Liberal Arts Edition v4.1.0 Moodle 2.5.2+Liberal… Read more

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… Read more

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… Read more

Each year CLAMP runs a survey to determine where its member schools are with regards to Moodle: what versions people are running, what they are going to, when they are making the move. This survey helps the Steering Committee and the Development Committee decide what versions CLAMP should support. The 2012-13 version of the survey saw 57% (24 colleges) of CLAMP schools respond.

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The second day of Hack/Doc Fest at Colgate University saw the creation of betas of the Moodle: Liberal Arts Edition for 2.3, 2.4, and 2.5, lots of work evaluating 2.4 vs. 2.5, and development work on language lesson, scheduler, and Selenium test scripts.

We had two presentations — “Updates and new features to LAE Grade Suite, updates to Quickset block” by Bob Puffer, Luther College and “IPAL Web Clicker Demonstration” by Bill Junkin, Eckard College. Video of the presentations is available on CLAMP’s YouTube channel. Finally we announced the winners of the CLAMP Recognition Awards for 2012-13.

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On the first day of Moodle Hack/Doc Fest the doc’ers worked their way through the Moodle 2.4 feature set and started getting ready to review Moodle 2.5. They also kicked around the responsive Bootstrap theme for Moodle 2.4 and 2.5. Meanwhile the Hackers put together a candidate release for Moodle 2.4 and dedicated cycles to working on Scheduler, Quickmail, Language Lesson, and the Moodle app.

We had three presentations, starting with Ken Newquist’s (Lafayette College) The State of Moodle, followed by Charles Fulton’s (Lafayette College) Moodle Grabbag Featuring  Roster View and Course Timer and Carly Born’s (Carleton College) Assignment 2.4 Overview. The presentations are available on YouTube.  Read more

Moodle Hack/Doc Fest isn’t just about hacking and documentation; it’s also about talking. This week we’ll have seven lunchtime presentations including topics such as the State of CLAMP, Moodle theming, web-based clickers, and the Language Lesson Project.

Here’s the list of presentations that will be given Colgate University. All times are Eastern Daylight Saving Time. The presentations will be available with a 7-second delay via YouTube and live via a Google+ Hangout.

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CLAMP is conducting a survey to determine what version of Moodle member schools are planning to upgrade to in the next academic year. An abstract version of the results, minus school names, will be published on the CLAMP web site. A full version of the report will be available to… Read more

The CLAMP Recognition Awards are awarded annually to one programmer (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. Read more

Moodle Hack/Doc Fest, Summer 2013 will be held Tuesday, June 11, 2013 through Thursday, June 13, 2013 at Colgate University, Hamilton, NY. This will be CLAMP’s 12th Moodle Hack/Doc Fest. A pre-Hack/Doc documentation and coding sprint will be held Monday, June 10, 2013. This is a bring-your-own project event; arrive a day… Read more

There are three new CLAMP releases. The 2.2.9 release and 2.3.6 releases are maintenance only; there are no new LAE features. The 1.9.19 release includes a fix for MDL-37672: Backup of course omits grade categories. You can download the updates from their project pages: Moodle 1.9.19+Liberal Arts Edition v1.7.4 Moodle 2.2.9+Liberal Arts Edition… Read more

The CLAMP Web site (http://clamp-it.org) will be down for maintenance on Monday, 1/7/2013. Access to the site will be intermittent. Read more

There are two new releases out for Moodle 2.2.6 and 2.3.3. These are minor releases that fix a significant bug in Moodle that can cause a big performance hit when using the database activity. You can download the updates from their project pages: Moodle 2.2.6+Liberal Arts Edition v2.2.5 Moodle 2.3.3+Liberal… Read more

Moodle Hack/Doc Fest at Reed College is coming up soon (Jan 7-10, 2013) and we’re looking for suggestions for bug fixes, documentation and new features for Moodle that the community would like us to address. In order to streamline issue gathering, we’re using a Google Doc to accept and review… Read more

CLAMP is hosting a Ruby workshop at Lafayette College October 23 – 25, 2012. The goals of the workshop will be to introduce the Ruby language and ecosystem as a platform for both web and system utility development, and to work on one or two projects as a group. We’ll… Read more

CLAMP is pleased to announce beta releases of the Moodle: Liberal Arts Edition based on Moodle 2.2.5 and 2.3.2. These are minor point releases with bug fixes. We will also include incremental fixes to two contributed modules: EditDates and Quickmail. Moodle Core did not release a 1.9 update in September… Read more

The final release is out for Moodle 2.2.4+Liberal Arts Edition 2.2.2. The following bug fix (with its CLAMP tracking number) was included in v2.2.2: CLAMP-449: version conflict causes unmigrated forum attachments If you were running an LAE 1.9 release and have upgraded to an LAE 2.2 release your forum module… Read more

The final releases are out for Moodle Liberal Arts Edition’s 1.9.x and 2.2.x branches. You can download them from their project pages: Moodle 1.9.18+LAE1.7 Moodle 2.2.3+LAE2.2 We will be releasing the beta of Moodle 2.3+LAE3.0 in early July 2012. Read more

In Spring 2012 CLAMP conducted a survey of member institutions to determine their plans for deploying Moodle 2.x. Twenty-one colleges responded to the survey.

At the time of the survey, 17 schools were running Moodle 1.9, of these 12 were running the Moodle Liberal Arts Edition. Two schools were running Moodle 2.x. Read more

After extensive review, CLAMP is pleased to recommend the use of Moodle 2.x for the 2012-13 academic year. In our initial report on Moodle 2.0 [PDF], CLAMP’s member schools found a number of major issues with the 2.x iteration of the open source learning management system. While some reservations remain, we find that… Read more

CLAMP is pleased to announce the release of Moodle 1.9.16+Liberal Arts Edition v1.6.2. This is a security release that backports security fixes from 1.9.18 to LAE 1.6.x. It also includes an updated version of TinyMCE to resolve conflicts with Firefox 11 (CLAMP #370), and a gradebook fix that solves with… Read more

A staple of recent Moodle Hack/Doc Fests have been informal, 30-minute long presentations given by attendees. At the Summer 2012 event at Hack/Doc we’re going to make these a bit more formal by giving them a sit time — during lunch on each day of Hack/Doc — and streaming the… Read more

We’ve recently discovered and issue involving TinyMCE and Firefox 11 that causes the TinyMCE to stop working when you have more than one text field on a page. This problem appears in a number of places, including assignment view. The work around is to use a different web browser. The… Read more

CLAMP is pleased to announce the release of Moodle 1.9.16+LAE v1.6. Full details about this release can be found in the LAE_readme.txt file in the download. This version release merges the Liberal Arts Edition with Moodle 1.9.16. Visit the release’s home page to download the code: http://www.clamp-it.org/code/moodle-1-9-16lae-v1-6/ Read more

Moodle Hack/Doc Fest at Tulane continued on Thursday, January 13, 2012. Here’s what we did: OM Local For the last few years we’ve been using the “OM” tool to quickly create new instances of Moodle based on code from our Git repository and pre-made database profiles. Daniel Landau (Reed College)… Read more

Moodle Hack/Doc Fest is under way at Tulane University. We eschewed our regular end-of-day recap on Wednesday because we ran out of time; instead we re-capped this morning. Mobile App Nate Swart (Lafayette College), Cort Haldaman (Furman University) and Bill Junkin (Eckard College) looked at the mobile app and theme.… Read more

Moodle Hack/Doc Fest at Tulane University is a month away and we’re looking for suggestions for bug fixes, documentation and new features for Moodle that the community would like us to address. You can add your requests by making a comment on this blog post. You don’t have to be… Read more

Moodle Hack/Doc Fest for Winter 2012 will be held Wednesday, January 11, 2012 through Friday, January 13, 2012 at Tulane University in  New Orleans, Louisiana. This will be CLAMP’s ninth Moodle Hack/Doc Fest. Learn more at the event home page. Read more

CLAMP is pleased to announce the release of Moodle 1.9.13+LAE v1.4. Full details about this release can be found in the LAE_readme.txt file in the download. This version release merges the Liberal Arts Edition with Moodle 1.9.13. Visit the release’s home page to download the code: http://www.clamp-it.org/code/moodle-1-9-13liberal-arts-edition-v1-4/ Read more

CLAMP is pleased to announce the release of Moodle 1.9.12+LAE v1.3 Beta 1. Full details about this release can be found in the LAE_readme.txt file in the download. Note: This is a beta release for testing purposes only; it is not recommended for use on production web sites Code freeze was… Read more

Moodle Hack/Doc Fest officially got underway on Tuesday, June 28th, 2011 It. was a packed day filled with Moodle 2.0 wrangling, documentation work, and demonstrations of Git, Language Lesson, and Amhert College’s flash audio solution. Hackers Git for Version Control Moodle Core switched from CVS to Git for version control… Read more

Here’s a list of Moodle bugs and problems encountered during Moodle Hack/Doc Fest, Summer 2011 at Hampshire College. Please read them over and consider voting for them. Moodle 1.9 and Moodle 2.0 MDL-28008: separate course backups can become commingled under certain conditions MDL-20245: grader preferences won’t save under certain conditions.… Read more

Moodle 1.9.12+LAE v1.2.1 Beta 2 is available for download. This release fixes a bug in the forum code that caused the upgrade to 1.9.12 to fail. Many thanks to Lael for reporting the bug. Read more

Moodle Hack/Doc Fest at Hampshire University is a month away and we’re looking for suggestions for bug fixes, documentation and new features for Moodle that the community would like us to address. You can add your requests by making a comment on this blog post. You don’t have to be… Read more

Moodle 1.9.11+LAE1.2 released is available for download. This is a maintenance release that incorporates Moodle 1.9.11. It supersedes the Moodle 1.9.9+LAE1.1.4 releases. It includes incorporates new bug fixes and features from Moodle Hack/Doc Fest at Furman University, as well as a specific bug with TinyMCE 3.0 that was introduced in the… Read more

Registration is now open for Moodle Hack/Doc Fest: Summer 2011 at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. This will be CLAMP’s eighth Moodle Hack/Doc Fest.  Visit the Hack/Doc home page for event details and the registration form. Read more

After careful assessment, CLAMP has concluded that Moodle 2.0.1 is not production ready. This assessment was conducted at Moodle Hack/Doc Fest VII at Furman University in January 2011. CLAMP will re-evaluate the progress of Moodle 2.0.x in March 2011 and make a recommendation then about deploying Moodle 2.x for the… Read more

Moodle 1.9.9+LAE v1.1.4 is available for download. This is a security release that backports fixes from Moodle 1.9.10 to Moodle 1.9.9. It supersedes the Moodle 1.9.9+LAEv1.1.1 and LAE v1.1.2 releases. It also incorporates a number of bug fixes and new features developed at Hack/Doc Fest VII at Furman University, and… Read more

Moodle 1.9.9+LAE v1.1.2 is available for download. This is a security release that backports fixes from Moodle 1.9.10 to Moodle 1.9.9. It supersedes the Moodle 1.9.9+LAEv1.1.1 release. It also incorporates a number of bug fixes and new features developed at Hack/Doc Fest VII at Furman University. Visit the project page… Read more

CLAMP is pleased to announce the release of Moodle 1.9.9+LAE v1.1.2 Beta 1. This is a beta release meant for testing only; it is not recommended for use on production systems. Code freeze was 5 p.m., Friday,  January 7, 2011 Moodle 1.9.9+LAE v1.1.2 Beta 1 was released Tuesday, January 11,… Read more

During the Moodle Hack/Doc Fest pre-meeting on Tuesday, 12/21/10 we discussed evaluating Moodle 2.0. That in turn gave  rise to a question of triaging evaluation tasks — what’s most important to our campuses? What’s most likely to break? What new features do we want to test? Here’s our initial breakdown,… Read more

Moodle Hack/Doc Fest at Furman University is a month away and we’re looking for  suggestions for bug fixes, documentation and new features for Moodle  that the community would like us to address. You can add your requests by making a comment on this blog post. You don’t have to be attending… Read more

The Collaborative Liberal Arts Moodle Project uses the Redmine collaboration suite to coordinate projects, track bugs and features, and discuss upcoming projects. On Wednesday, Dec. 1 at Noon EST, Caroline Moore of Smith College will be leading an “Introduction to Redmine” brown bag that provides an overview of its features… Read more

Moodle 1.9.9+LAE v1.1 is available for download. This release includes a number of new features including: Simple File Upload: Upload individual files without having to deal with the full Moodle upload interface Assignment ZIP: Download all the files associated with an assignment with one click. LAE Grader View: A cleaner,… Read more

The CLAMP Development Committee has decided to do one final beta release for — Beta 3 — for Moodle 1.9.9+LAE v1.1. This release includes a few bug fixes from Hack/Doc Fest that didn’t make it into the Development branch and tweak to TinyMCE 3 to make the “file upload” icon… Read more

The Moodle 1.9.9+LAE v1.1 Beta 1 is available for download. This is a beta release meant for testing only; it is not recommended for use on production systems. Code freeze will be on the end of the day on June 29. We will release Beta 2 on 7/2/2010 The final… Read more

CLAMP is running a survey to learn what colleges are using for their eReserves system and what, if any, integration that system has with Moodle. We’ll use answers to this survey to help guide CLAMP’s development efforts in this area. Take the Moodle and eReserves Integration survey. Read more

The first day of Moodle Hack/Doc saw the doc’ers tackling the Herculean task of evaluating Moodle 1.9.9 by running it through our testing script. Meanwhile the developers concentrated on setting up test instances of Moodle, cleaning up outstanding issues in Redmine, and beginning code revisions. Developers The developers created a… Read more

Hack/Doc Fest: Summer 2010 is coming, we’re looking for  suggestions for bug fixes, documentation and new features for Moodle  that the community would like us to address. You can add your requests by making a comment on this blog post. You don’t have to be attending Hack/Doc Fest to make suggestions… Read more

Moodle Hack/Doc Fest for Winter 2011 will be held Tuesday, January 4 through Thursday, January 6, 2011 at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina. Additional information will be posted in Summer 2010. This will be CLAMP’s seventh Moodle Hack/Doc Fest, and our first to be held in a southern state. Read more

We’re continuing to work on Moodle 1.9.7+LAE1; we’re in the final stages of bug squashing and testing, and hope to have it posted in the next two weeks.  We’ll also have stand alone versions of Assignment ZIP and Simple File Upload at that time. Update We’re now looking at mid-April. Read more

Here’s the big list of bugs and features that we worked on at Moodle Hack/Doc Fest V which need to be voted on by the CLAMP community. Each link takes you to Moodle Tracker, where you’ll be able to login and vote on each issue. Please add your own comments… Read more

How to edit your Moodle profile to include information about yourself such as email, phone number, social network IDs or a photo. Read more

An explanation of Moodle roles, when you may create new roles and how to allow for role overrides.

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A complete list of bugs, feature requests, and road tests has been been posted to Google Docs. Attendees have edit access; everyone else has view access. Check out the Moodle Hack/Doc Fest V Task List Read more

Redmine is a web-based project management tool that’s essential to coordinating CLAMP’s code, documentation and community efforts. At the “Introduction to Redmine” brown bag at 12 p.m. ET on Wednesday, 12/16, Courtney Bentley will explain how we use it, with a particular eye toward coordinating work at our upcoming Moodle… Read more

Hack/Doc Fest V is coming, we’re looking for  suggestions for bug fixes, documentation and new features for Moodle  that the community would like us to address. You can add your requests by making a comment on this blog post. You don’t have to be attending Hack/Doc Fest to make suggestions —… Read more

UPDATE: Because of a scheduling conflict, this brown bag has been moved from 11/17 to Monday, Nov. 23 at 12 p.m. ET. When registering, you can still use the 11/17 option in the signup form. Documentation: everyone needs it, but writing it can be a challenge. CLAMP’s made that easier… Read more

We’ve release a security update to the Moodle: Liberal Arts Edition. v1.0.1 includes a critical security fix backported from Moodle 1.9.6.  You can get the update by downloading the full LAE v1.0.1 edition or the standalone update from the project home. Go to the Moodle Liberal Arts Edition v1.01 home page. Read more

Moodle Hack/Doc Fest V will be held January 5-7, 2010 at Lafayette College in Easton, Pa. The event will feature programmers and instructional technologists coming together to improve Moodle. We expect to continue work on CLAMP’s Moodle: Liberal Arts Edition project, fix outstanding Moodle bugs, and craft new training materials.… Read more

Moodle Liberal Arts Edtion v1.0 is available for download. The project’s home page includes the full Liberal Arts Edition v1.0 package, as well as its components broken out for individual download. It also includes links to a number of recommended extensions that a number of CLAMP schools use, but need… Read more

Changes/Improvements to the gradebook in Moodle 1.9.5. Written for end users. Read more

Creating custom scales– site-wide or for an individual course. Read more

At Hack/Doc Fest we set a release date of July 31, 2009 for Moodle: Liberal Arts Edition v1.0, a packaged version of Moodle which incorporates our most-used modules, bug fixes, and home-grown and add-ons. Go to the Liberal Arts Edition v1.0 for a complete inventory. The release date has been delayed… Read more

The Collaborative Liberal Arts Project is now accepting registrations for the 2009-2010 academic year. Read more about CLAMP, learn how to get involved, or sign-up using our online registration form. Read more

One of the things we are working on at Hack-Doc is this site, so if it changes under your feet, please bear with us. Comments to help us improve the site are also welcome. Read more

Professor Mark Burford, Reed College Course: Music of the Caribbean Unlike my courses on European art music, for which there are numerous anthologies and CD sets or multiple recordings of canonical works, several other music classes I teach, and the way I teach them, require that I accumulate materials from… Read more

Professor Alex Montgomery, Reed College Course: Weapons, Technology, and War I organized POL 359 by topic rather than by week, which allows for more of the course to appear on a screen at any one time; it also exposes the underlying structure of the overall course in a meaningful way… Read more

Cindy Evans, Director, Foreign Language Resource Center and Lecturer in French, Skidmore College Skidmore’s model of LAC offers students the possibility of reading in the target language in conjunction with virtually any other course they are taking in English.  This individualized LAC model allows us to reach a wider student… Read more

Professor Katalin Fabian, Lafayette College Course: Politics of European Integration Students are required to present their final work in class. Three days are set aside for this, and students need to sign up for the day they want to present. Using choice, I was able to allow students to do… Read more

Hack/Doc Fest III was held at Reed College, January 7-9, 2009. The big issues tackled at the event were the Gradebook and Moodle usability (with the two colliding more often than not). In the Gradebook, we’ve created documentation explaining how to simplify and streamline it using existing Moodle options and one or two easy-to-apply patches. Read more

This manual script is used to verify that everything works the way we expect it to work when a new version of Moodle is release. It walks through the major areas of Moodle (assignments, forums, gradebooks, etc.) We have tried to cover everything, but you will need to tweak this document to fit your specific institution. Read more

Hack/Doc Fest IV is now! It’s running June 3-5, 2009 at Smith College. We’ll be focusing on usability testing and a solid CLAMP version of Moodle 1.9.5 to run through the next academic year.

Logistics Update: We’ll be in Wright Hall, starting in Room 5.  There’ll be coffee and breakfast-snacks at 8:30 a .m. and lunch will be provided.  We typically work until around 5 p.m. and then break for dinner. We have no set dinner plans any particular night.

Leaving Friday: People will be leaving at various times on Friday, as travel arrangements require, but we should still be able to accomplish something Friday morning.

Contact: Jo Cannon is the Smith coordinator for Hack/Doc Fest; you can reach her at 413 585-3472.

When: June 3 -5 (Wednesday – Friday)

Where: Smith College, Northampton, MA 01063

Travel: Closest airport = Bradley (BRD)
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