CLAMP is pleased to endorse Moodle 2.8.x and Moodle 2.9.x for use during the 2015-16 academic year. A significant gradebook issue that had impacted both Moodle versions, and promoted CLAMP to issue a gradebook advisory, has been resolved.
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Moodle 2.8 and 2.9 gradebook advisory follow-up
In late May CLAMP became aware of several critical bugs in the Moodle gradebook which were introduced in 2.8. After assessing, CLAMP issued an advisory recommending against upgrading to Moodle 2.8 or 2.9 until those bugs were mitigated. Since then Moodle core and members of the Moodle community have made considerable progress working on these issues, and CLAMP believes it is now safe to upgrade to 2.8 and 2.9. Please continue reading for a full explanation. Read more
CLAMP Recognition Award Winner Announcement for 2014-15
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.
Moodle Hack/Doc Fest, Summer 2015 under way at Holy Cross
Moodle Hack/Doc Fest is now under way at Holy Cross. Our top tasks are:
- Understand changes to the Gradebook’s functionality in Moodle 2.8/2.9
- Update CLAMP’s grade book advisory based on the current state of things (recently released fixes, outstanding issues, etc. Read the advisory.
- Documenting changes and new functionality in Moodle 2.8
- Documenting changes and new functionality in Moodle 2.9
- Offering a community recommendation regarding upgrading to Moodle 2.8 or Moodle 2.9 this summer.
If you have any bugs you’d like us to look at, please post them to the CME forum thread.
Please note that we will not be streaming our lunch time presentations. We stopped streaming the presentations because it was creating too much logistical overhead.
Moodle 2.8 and 2.9 gradebook advisory
The problems described in this advisory have now been addressed and CLAMP has issued a new advisory. This page is retained for historical reasons but CLAMP now recommends upgrading to 2.8 or 2.9.
CLAMP has become aware of several critical bugs in the Moodle gradebook which were introduced in 2.8. CLAMP recommends that schools do not upgrade to Moodle 2.8 or 2.9 until these bugs have been mitigated. All current versions of 2.8 and 2.9 (as of writing 2.8.6 and 2.9.0) are affected. Please continue reading for a full explanation. Read more