Category: News

Moodle LAE Beta Releases for 2.2.5 and 2.3.2

CLAMP is pleased to announce beta releases of the Moodle: Liberal Arts Edition based on Moodle 2.2.5 and 2.3.2. These are minor point releases with bug fixes. We will also include incremental fixes to two contributed modules: EditDates and Quickmail.

Moodle Core did not release a 1.9 update in September 2012 and CLAMP has no bug fixes for the 1.9 branch at this time.

The CLAMP-specific updates to 2.2.5 and 2.3.2 are:

  • Quickmail: rename log field
  • LAE Grader Report: Grade Item Edits Set Totals to Overridden without Calculating Changes
  • Create groups fails when auto-groupings feature activated
  • Package and update OU dates report

Moodle 2.2.5+Liberal Arts Edition v2.2.3

  • 9/9/2012: Core releases 2.2.5.
  • 9/10/2012: CLAMP merges 2.2.5 into existing 2.2+LAE release and releases beta.
  • 9/10-9/16/2012: Opportunity for testing.
  • 9/17/2012: CLAMP releases 2.2.4+LAE2.2.3 (numbering is tentative).

View the full details of these issues in Redmine or offer feedback on the release

Moodle 2.3.2+Liberal Arts Edition v3.0.1

  • 9/9/2012: Core releases 2.3.2.
  • 9/10/2012: CLAMP merges 2.3.2 into existing 2.3+LAE release and releases beta.
  • 9/10-9/16/2012: Opportunity for testing.
  • 9/17/2012: CLAMP releases 2.3.2+LAE3.0.2 (numbering is tentative; LAE3.1 is possible).

View the full details of these issues in Redmine or offer feedback on the release

Getting the code

The beta code is available via CLAMP’s private git repository. If you are a member of CLAMP and need access to the repository please contact Ken Newquist (newquisk@lafayette.edu)

Assessing interest in a CLAMP Ruby Workshop

CLAMP considering hosting a Ruby workshop at Lafayette College October 23 – 25, 2012. The goals of the workshop will be to introduce the Ruby language and ecosystem as a platform for both web and system utility development, and to work on one or two projects as a group. We’ll spend time discussing some of Ruby’s interesting properties and idioms and look at Rails and the practices and conventions that it promotes.

The most promising candidates for group work are projects that have been discussed considerably within CLAMP: automated testing and deployment systems. We hope to develop a deployment tool of real-world utility by the end of the workshop, and to build on the Moodle testing framework we began developing at Kalamazoo in June.

The workshop would be free and open  CLAMP members. Attendees would pay for their own lodging, food, and transportation, although breakfast and lunch would be provided.

We’re currently assessing interest in the workshop. We need a minimum of 6 attendees to hold this workshop and registration is capped at 15 attendees. If you are interested in attending please fill out this survey:

Responses to this survey will determine whether we hold the workshop.

Moodle 2.2.4+Liberal Arts Edition 2.2.2 released

The final release is out for Moodle 2.2.4+Liberal Arts Edition 2.2.2. The following bug fix (with its CLAMP tracking number) was included in v2.2.2:

  • CLAMP-449: version conflict causes unmigrated forum attachments

If you were running an LAE 1.9 release and have upgraded to an LAE 2.2 release your forum module is potentially in a broken state. Please see http://cme.clamp-it.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=947 for instructions on how to resolve this issue.

You can download the code from the project page: