The lead maintainer of the Filtered Course List block, Kevin Wiliarty from Hampshire College, submitted the plugin to the Moodle plugin repository. Not only did it gain acceptance, but it received a Reviewers’ Choice Award, which is “given by the plugins guardians and reviewers for particularly useful, well coded or otherwise interesting plugins.”

The Filtered Course List block displays a configurable list of courses. It is intended as a replacement for the My Courses block, although both may be used. The plugin has been used and developed by CLAMP members for years, including several hackers and doc’ers from different institutions; it truly has been a collaborative effort. Thanks to everyone who has dedicated resources to the Filtered Course List plugin over the years.

Congratulations to Doc'er Fritz Vandover from Macalester College and Hacker Ken Newquist from Lafayette College. 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.

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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.

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