CLAMP held its Summer 2026 Hack/Doc Fest at Kalamazoo College in Kalamazoo, Michigan. This was CLAMP’s second visit to K College, after the Summer 2012 Hack/Doc Fest. The primary focus this time around was the new Moodle 5.2 release, plus continuing follow-up on the issues with the question bank in… Read more

Moodle HQ has redesigned the login page for Moodle 5.2. If you only enable SSO authentication methods (CAS, Shibboleth), read no further. There are a few aspects to the redesign that bear mentioning, for both the users and administrators. We’re going to discuss four: the new design itself, including the… Read more

Registration is now open for the Summer 2026 Hack/Doc Fest, which will be held at Kalamazoo College from June 23 through June 25, 2026. CLAMP’s Hack/Doc Fests are twice-yearly unconference-style events dedicated to improving the Moodle experience for liberal arts colleges. Visit the event homepage Register for the event Read… Read more

CLAMP held its Winter 2026 Hack/Doc Fest at Connecticut College in New London, Connecticut. This was CLAMP’s second visit to Conn College, after the Winter 2024 Hack/Doc Fest. The primary focus this time around was the new Moodle 5.1 release, plus follow-up on the issues with the question bank in… Read more

Moodle implemented a data privacy feature in response to Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation. CLAMP blogged about the GDPR and Moodle in 2018. The impact of the GDPR on the LMS at CLAMP schools has been limited. We do occasionally have students request exports of their data, and at the… Read more

With some campuses seeing more interest by some instructors to employ lockdown browsers, a deeper dive back into Safe Exam Browser was done by a collective of Moodle HackDoc Winter 2026 participants: Jason Alley (Lafayette College), Gerard Gadigian (Connecticut College), Jim Nicnick (Lafayette College), and Andrew Ruether (Swarthmore College). CLAMP… Read more

Registration is now open for the Winter 2026 Hack/Doc Fest, which will be held at Connecticut College from January 13 through January 15, 2026. CLAMP’s Hack/Doc Fests are twice-yearly unconference-style events dedicated to improving the Moodle experience for liberal arts colleges. Visit the event homepage Register for the event Read… Read more

This was CLAMP’s third visit to Swarthmore College, but the first time we’d gone there during the summer (see the 2020 and 2023 reports). After some rain on Tuesday morning, good weather moved in for the rest of the conference. Points of interest on campus included the Scott Amphitheater, the… Read more

In February 2025, CLAMP posted about serious question bank issues in Moodle versions 4.3.8, 4.4.4, and 4.5.0. While those issues were addressed, With the release of Moodle 5.0, the Question Bank has been radically revised and appears to be a work in progress. Up through Moodle 4.5, the course Question… Read more

Registration is now open for the Summer 2025 Moodle Hack/Doc Fest, which will be held at Swarthmore College from June 10 through June 12, 2025. CLAMP’s Hack/Doc Fests are twice-yearly unconference-style events dedicated to improving the Moodle experience for liberal arts colleges. For CLAMP schools, CLAMP will reimburse your first… Read more