Category: News

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.

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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.

Hack/Doc at Holy Cross

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

Get Ready! Moodle Hack/Doc Fest at Holy Cross in June

Don’t forget to register for Moodle Hack/Doc Fest, Summer 2015! It’s being held at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts from Wednesday, June 24 through Friday, June 26, 2015 at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA. A pre-Hack/Doc documentation and coding sprint will be held Tuesday, June 23, 2015.

 

At this Hack/Doc we will be testing Moodle 2.9 (view the release notes) and digging into the Moodle gradebook issues surrounding upgrading from Moodle 2.5 to 2.8/2.9. Read Bob Puffer’s CLAMP Moodle Exchange post “Grades Changing When Upgrading to 2.8 or 2.9” for an overview of the problem.

New Moodle LAE Releases for 2.6.11, 2.7.8, 2.8.6

There are three new CLAMP releases. There are no new LAE features; these are maintenance releases only.

You can download the updates from their project pages:

The next stable releases on the 2.6, 2.7 and 2.8 branches are slated for July 19. Core has released Moodle 2.9.0; CLAMP anticipates releasing a beta in late May and a production release following the MUG and Hack/Doc Fest at the College of the Holy Cross in June.

I would like to thank Kevin Wiliarty (Smith College) for testing this set of releases.