Category: News

Fritz Vandover Selected as Treasurer of Moodle Users Association

Fritz Vandover, Academic Information Associate for Humanities at Macalester College, has been selected to be Treasurer of the Moodle Users Association Committee. The Moodle Users Association Committee is an elected body of members responsible for the management of membership, activity and financial activity of the Association. CLAMP is proud to participate on the committee and to be represented by a long-time member of the Collaborative Liberal Arts Moodle Project. Fritz was a CLAMP Recognition Award winner in 2015, a fantastic organizer and host of the 2014 MUG and Hack/Doc events, and a past member of the CLAMP Steering Committee.

New Moodle LAE Releases for 2.7.12, 2.8.10, 2.9.4, 3.0.2

There are four new Moodle: Liberal Arts Edition releases. This is the initial release on the 3.0 branch. The 2.7, 2.8, and 2.9 releases are maintenance-only. 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. The 3.0 release includes updates to the Ad-hoc database queries report, CLAMPMail, Edit Dates report, and Roster report.

You can download the updates from their project pages:

The next stable releases on the 2.7, 2.8, 2.9, and 3.0 branches are scheduled for mid-March.

These releases were developed, packaged, and tested by Kevin Wiliarty (Hampshire College), Charles Fulton (Lafayette College), and Joe Bacal (Smith College).

Featured Plugin: Roster Report

The CLAMP-maintained plugin Roster Report is a simple report which displays user pictures for everyone enrolled in a given course. Roster Report received a Reviewers’ Choice Award, which is “given by the plugins guardians and reviewers for particularly useful, well coded or otherwise interesting plugins.”

Charles Fulton, Senior Web Applications Developer at Lafayette College, created the Roster Report in 2013 to provide a way for faculty to become more familiar with the faces of their students. There are two options when viewing the roster; one is to toggle the “Learning mode,” which turns the display of names on and off, and the other is a “Printable” view, which brings up a version of the report suitable for printing.

Roster Report

If you’re interested in checking out this handy plugin, it can be installed using git. In the top-level folder of your Moodle install, type the command: git clone git://github.com/LafColITS/moodle-report_roster.git report/roster. Then visit the admin screen to allow the install to complete. Once the plugin is installed, you can access the functionality by going to Reports->Roster within the course.

Happy Rostering!

Moodle Hack/Doc Fest, Winter 2016 under way at Reed College

Moodle Hack/Doc Fest, Winter 2016 is underway at Reed College! The big list of things we’re working on can be found on the CME: Work List for Moodle Hack/Doc Fest, Winter 2016 at Reed College.

As the Hack/Doc proceeds we’ll be posting requests for comments and feedback on new and existing Moodle Tracker items in the CLAMP Moodle Exchange as well as on Twitter. You can follow the Hack/Doc conversation on Twitter via the hashtag #mdlhackfest and by following our CLAMP Twitter account (@ClampHQ).