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.
Author: Charles Fulton
New Moodle LAE Releases for November 2021
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-January. CLAMP evaluated Moodle 3.11 at the Summer 2021 Hack/Doc Fest; please see CLAMP’s report for details. CLAMP will preview Moodle 4.0 at the next CLAMP Chat, scheduled for Friday, November 19. Please see the announcement for more information.
These releases were developed, packaged, and tested by Charles Fulton (Lafayette College).
CLAMP Chat: Moodle 4.0 preview
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 for teachers and students to navigate the system and access and edit content. Will you want to upgrade quickly or cling to earlier versions for as long as possible? Join us to get a sneak peek at the new interface and decide for yourself if the revamp was successful! We’ll do a tour of the updates and dive into any questions you have.
The chat will take place over Zoom. Please register for the chat using this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwpdu2orD0iGdae-OmESzrrA9swOzOrsFap.
New Moodle LAE Releases for September 2021
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-November. CLAMP evaluated Moodle 3.11 at the Summer 2021 Hack/Doc Fest; please see CLAMP’s report for details.
These releases were developed, packaged, and tested by Charles Fulton (Lafayette College). Charles gratefully acknowledges the work done by Andrew Zito, formerly of Lafayette College, who built a suite of scripts that greatly simplified the whole process.
CLAMP Chat: Documentation is Dead, Long Live Documentation!
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 suggests that everyone–new and tenured faculty alike–are googling for answers rather than using the documentation provided or just contacting their support professionals. What if writing help articles is a waste of time, and just-in-time documentation, the kind that pops up when you visit a page for the first time, is the way to go? In Moodle, these are called User Tours, and there is an opportunity for CLAMP to work together to produce a collection of User Tours that are specific to small colleges and lighten our collective load!
The chat will take place over Zoom. Please register for the chat using this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIkdO-orj4rHdBspLTmnqlUqIStw6kCr4Zi.