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

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