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

CLAMP held its Winter 2025 Hack/Doc Fest at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania. The primary focus of the event was evaluating Moodle 4.5. We’re happy to report that we encountered no major issues and no blockers to upgrading to Moodle 4.5 this year, although you should take careful note of… Read more

One of the many new features in Moodle 4.5 is the AI Subsystem. Given the buzz around AI development and the wild pace of change with LLM based tools it isn’t a surprise to see the beginnings of AI incorporated into Moodle. At the Lafeyette College-hosted Winter Hack/Doc 2025 I… Read more

Moodle 4.5 introduces many new features which we’ll be covering in the forthcoming report out of the 2025 Winter Hack/Doc Fest. Here, I’m going to highlight one in particular: image redaction. This is a new security feature that will automatically strip out geolocation data from uploaded images. It’s important that… Read more

Registration is now open for the Winter 2025 Hack/Doc Fest, which will be held at Lafayette College from January 7 through January 9, 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 night’s… Read more

The first question most people ask is, “Isn’t there an export option to make PDFs created in LaTeX accessible?” It may be theoretically possible, but no one has developed or maintained a package that does it successfully. The main issue is that LaTeX-to-PDF exports have equations and graphs, etc, exported… Read more

CLAMP held its Summer 2024 Hack/Doc Fest at Bryn Mawr College in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. The primary focus of the event was evaluating Moodle 4.4. We’re happy to report that we encountered no major issues and no blockers to upgrading to Moodle 4.4 over the summer. Please read on below… Read more

Registration is now open for the Summer 2024 Hack/Doc Fest, which will be held at Bryn Mawr College from June 25 through June 27, 2024. 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

CLAMP held its Winter 2024 Hack/Doc Fest at Connecticut College in New London, Connecticut. The primary focus of the event was evaluating Moodle 4.3. We’re happy to report that we encountered no major issues and no blockers to upgrading to Moodle 4.3 over the summer. Please read on below for… Read more

Registration is now open for the Winter 2024 Hack/Doc Fest, which will be held at Connecticut College from January 9 through January 11, 2024. 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 about… Read more