Category: Hack/Doc Fest at Hampshire

Moodle Hack/Doc Fest, 6/27/11: Documentation Sprint

Moodle Hack/Doc Fest, Summer 2011 kicked off on Monday, June 28th with an all-day Documentation Sprint. The goal was to complete as much documentation as possible before Hack/Doc formerly started on Tuesday, but the group found they had to slow down in order to work through Moodle 2.1’s often very different interface.

The tasks undertaken include:

Updating our library of Moodle screencast scripts to be compatible with Moodle 2.0

Documenting the Quiz module, which has seen massive changes. Those changes include an overhauled question bank, new certainty based questions (in which users can specify how certain they are that the answer was correct), interactive mode, and adaptive mode.

Working through Moodle 2.0’s File System (including repositories). The consensus was that this system was considerably more complex than Moodle 1.9, and that there is much potential for confusion among faculty. Particularly challenging was the “server repository”, which was identified as a target for further examination on Thursday.

The University of Massachusetts: Amherst contributed doucmentation that explains how to upload individual files to Moodle 2.0, which is available through the shared CLAMP Documentation folder in Google Docs.

Creating a plain-english description of the Moodle: Liberal Arts Edition, which will translate the readme file into an easily scannable overview of the software package.

Compiling  our “Rabble Rousing List” that documents Moodle Tracker items that we recommend people read and vote for. The list is available via the CLAMP web site:

http://www.clamp-it.org/2011/06/moodle-issues-for-rabble-rousing-june-2011-edition/

Moodle issues for rabble-rousing, June 2011 edition

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. Affects both 1.9+ and 2+

MDL-27931: Trivial, but worth fixing: inconsistency in the user upload form

MDL-27735: Yet more Q&A forum bugs

MDL-28082 auto-create grouping for each group created

MDL-13114: Include bulk course create and remove with Moodle through the use of CSV files

MDL-26657:  Hiding a Sticky Block Can Cause Other Blocks to Disappear

MDL-28223: Alphabetize Groupings drop-down list

Moodle 2.0

MDL-26350: File attachments are stored incorrectly when doing a “File Download” portfolio export from a forum

MDL-27156: File System Repository files limited by PHP upload_max_filesize limits

MDL-27242: Restrict Access by time as well as day

MDL-28080: Error on Oracle DB operations caused by placeholders longer than 28 chars

MDL-26967: Can’t disable My Private File on student role (possibly resolved by PULL-562)

MDL-28101: Bold and italics do not work with the NWIKI formatting

MDL-24120: login as procedure always log the (admin) user out

MDL-24398: “Save changes” after uploading a file seems unnecessary and causes confusion

MDL-28151: High resolution images uploaded as resources are cropped.

MDL-27764: Can’t import topic summaries. This is an old bug from 1.9 which crossed into 2.0/2.1.

MDL-23520: ability to delete wiki pages in 2.0 and 2.1.

Hack/Doc Fest: Summer 2011 Project Suggestions

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 attending Hack/Doc Fest to make suggestions — we’d like suggestions from the entire community.

  • Moodle 1.9 bug fixes
  • Learning how to use Git for version control
  • Demo site for Moodle LAE
  • Further evaluation and testing of Moodle 2.0
  • Planning Moodle 2.0 pilots
  • Identifying and writing needed documentation for Moodle 2.0

Save the Date: Hack/Doc Fest at Hampshire College

Moodle Hack/Doc Fest for Summer 2011 will be held Monday, June 27 through Thursday, June 30, 2011 at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. This will be CLAMP’s eighth Moodle Hack/Doc Fest.

We’ll be kicking things off on Monday, June 27 with our first-ever Documentation Sprint, in which we’ll focus on revising and publishing the documentation we’ve been working on for the last year. This is an optional event, but we hope folks will be able to join us.

Moodle Hack/Doc Fest itself runs Tuesday, June 28 and runs through Thursday, June 30, 2011. Additional information, and a registration form, will be available April 1, 2011 at the event web site: http://www.clamp-it.org/events/moodle-hackdoc-fest-summer-2011/