After extensive review, CLAMP is pleased to recommend the use of Moodle 2.x for the 2012-13 academic year.
In our initial report on Moodle 2.0 [PDF], CLAMP’s member schools found a number of major issues with the 2.x iteration of the open source learning management system. While some reservations remain, we find that most of these issues have been addressed in in the current Moodle 2.x releases.
The CLAMP Steering Committee is proud to announce the 2011-2012 winners of the inaugaral CLAMP Recognition Awards. These awards are given annually to honor outstanding work by members of the CLAMP community. Read more
CLAMP is pleased to announce the release of Moodle 1.9.16+Liberal Arts Edition v1.6.2. This is a security release that backports security fixes from 1.9.18 to LAE 1.6.x. It also includes an updated version of TinyMCE to resolve conflicts with Firefox 11 (CLAMP #370), and a gradebook fix that solves with comments not saving if there were no grades (CLAMP #393)
Download the code from the Moodle 1.9.16+LAE v1.6.2 release page. If you only want the security releases, use Moodle 1.9.16+LAE v1.6.1.
Moodle Hack/Doc Fest at Kalamazoo College 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.
We expect to work on the following:
A staple of recent Moodle Hack/Doc Fests have been informal, 30-minute long presentations given by attendees. At the Summer 2012 event at Hack/Doc we’re going to make these a bit more formal by giving them a sit time — during lunch on each day of Hack/Doc — and streaming the presentations to the folks attending virtually.
The schedule for presentations is:
In the past we’ve had presentations on Carleton College’s Language Lesson module, Reed College’s eReserves system, Luther College’s Google integration, and Eckard College’s IPAL web-based clickers. We’ll kick off this summer’s presentations on Tuesday with an update on Moodle 2.3.
If you’re interested in presenting at Hack/Doc Fest, please add a comment to this post.
