We had a productive first day at Moodle Hack/Doc Fest at Eckerd. Hackers began integration work on the Liberal Arts Edition of Moodle 2.6, while doc’ers worked on road testing Moodle 2.6. We also had three lunchtime presentations, recordings of which are available on YouTube.
Author: Ken Newquist
Presentations at Moodle Hack/Doc Fest at Eckerd College
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.
Code & Documentation sprint underway at Eckerd College
The Code and Documentation sprint is underway at Moodle Hack/Doc Fest at Eckerd College. We have coffee, we have doughnuts, and we have a dimly lit room to work on code.
Moodle 2.x Status Update, June 2013
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 https://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.
CLAMP Moodle 2.x Deployment Report 2012-13
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.