Author: Charles Fulton

CLAMP Recognition Award Winner Announcement for 2015-16

The CLAMP Steering Committee is proud to announce the 2015-16 winners of the CLAMP Recognition Awards.

Matt Wright has distinguished himself as a member of the CLAMP community through his regular attendance at Hack/Doc Fests in the last several years, his consistent effort to center accessibility issues when reviewing Moodle, his work on providing documentation on the new gradebook, and his willingness to organize and host the 2016 Summer Hack/Doc Fest. Matt is an Academic Technology Support Specialist at Butler University.

Sarah Ryder, senior web programmer at Hampshire College, has participated in CLAMP since the joint NITLE Camp/Hack Doc Fest at Smith College in 2009. She organized and hosted the 2011 Summer Hack/Doc Fest and the 2013 Integration Sprint, both at Hampshire College. Sarah served on the Steering Committee from 2012-2015 and was part of the ad hoc communications committee that redesigned CLAMP’s website in November 2015.

About the Awards

The CLAMP Recognition Awards are awarded annually to one developer (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.

In 2015-16, the value of this award is $500. Learn more about the awards at CLAMP-IT.org.

New members for the CLAMP Steering Committee, 2016

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 CLAMP Steering Committee is composed of representatives from four-year liberal arts colleges or institutions. The current members are Beloit College, Centre College, Connecticut College, Lafayette College, Kenyon College, Occidental College, and Union College

New Moodle LAE Releases for 2.7.15, 2.9.7, 3.0.5, 3.1.1

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:

The next stable releases are scheduled for mid-September. These releases were developed, packaged, and tested by Charles Fulton (Lafayette College) and Kevin Wiliarty (Hampshire College).

New Moodle LAE Release for 3.1

CLAMP is pleased to announce the first release on the 3.1 branch. This release is based on extensive testing at the Butler Hack/Doc. This is a beta release; please ensure that you have read CLAMP’s Moodle 3.0 and 3.1 recommendation before installing this release. Several of the contributed plugins do not have official 3.1 releases as yet, although based on our testing they work.

CLAMP has made two major changes to the Liberal Arts Edition for this release:

  • Moodle HQ has major significant improvements to the Course Meta Link enrollment interface. CLAMP has removed its own version and is pleased to recommend the core solution.
  • CLAMP has removed the ability to choose whether or not to restore legacy course files when restoring a course backup. Such files will now always be restored. Implemented in the early days of 2.0 for 1.9 capability, we judged that this feature has outlived its usefulness.

You may download the release from its project page: Moodle 3.1.0+Liberal Arts Edition 11.0.0

The next stable releases, including Moodle 3.1.1, are scheduled for mid-July. This release was developed, packaged, and tested by Joe Bacal (Smith College), Charles Fulton (Lafayette College), and Kevin Wiliarty (Hampshire College).

Nominations Open for CLAMP Steering Committee Members and Recognition Awards

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 arts college or institution.
  • The institution must be a member of CLAMP

Our current steering committee members are: Colgate College, College of the Holy Cross, Connecticut College, Lafayette College, Occidental College, Reed College, and Union College.

Rotating off the committee this year are: Colgate, Holy Cross, and Reed. The current committee members will choose the three new members based on nominations submitted by the community, with an eye towards maintaining geographical diversity.

Nominate a CLAMP school for steering committee membership »

Recognition Awards

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.

In 2015-16, the value of this award is $500. To receive the award, individuals:

  • must be a member of a current CLAMP school
  • can not be currently serving on the steering committee

Nominate a CLAMP member for a recognition award »

Deadline

Nominations for both steering committee and recognition awards must be submitted by July 31, 2016.