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Category: News
Requesting Hacks, Fixes and Documentation for Hack/Doc Fest IV
Hack/Doc Fest is coming soon, and we’re starting to put together our list of possible tasks for the event. We’re in the process of gathering and reviewing the usability tests that a number of schools conducted in the spring, and we expect a good chunk of our work to be guided by those results.
As always though, we’re looking for suggestions from the community about things *you* want us to look at and work on. These can be bug fixes, hacks, functionality improvements, documentation, road testing, etc.
Note: You don’t have to be attending Hack/Doc Fest to make suggestions — we’d like suggestions from the entire community. Read more
Hack/Doc Fest at Reed College: Post Event Report
Hack/Doc Fest III was held at Reed College, January 7-9, 2009. The big issues tackled at the event were the Gradebook and Moodle usability (with the two colliding more often than not). In the Gradebook, we’ve created documentation explaining how to simplify and streamline it using existing Moodle options and one or two easy-to-apply patches. Read more
Moodle 1.9 Usability Testing, Round 1
Our member colleges are conducting usability tests of Moodle 1.9 to evaluate problem areas with the software in Spring 2009. There are two tests, one for faculty, one for students, that evaluate common tasks that they are likely to encounter when working in Moodle (such as updating their profile, responding to forum assignments, creating assignments, grading assignments, etc.) Screen capture software is used to record the volunteer's actions and faces during the tests, and data is collected in a central survey for later data crunching.
Moodle Upgrade Evaluation Script
This manual script is used to verify that everything works the way we expect it to work when a new version of Moodle is release. It walks through the major areas of Moodle (assignments, forums, gradebooks, etc.) We have tried to cover everything, but you will need to tweak this document to fit your specific institution.