The last day of Hack/Doc, as usual, was a bit shorter due to attendee travel plans. We wrapped up around lunchtime after some discussions about Moodle 3.8 and accessibility. Forum grading accessibility We logged a third and final issue with the new forum grading tool and accessibility: MDL-67663. Again, some… Read more

Work on the task list continued during Day 2 of the Moodle Hack/Doc Fest at Swarthmore College, interrupted only by an expedition to the Solar Lab on the roof of Singer Hall, which provided a commanding view of Swarthmore’s campus and Greater Philadelphia. From the task list We continued to… Read more

The biannual Hack/Doc Fest is being held at Swarthmore College in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. The event kicked off on Wednesday, January 8, 2020, and runs through Friday, January 8. The following tasks are queued up for Hack/Doc (very much subject to change): Evaluating Moodle 3.8, which was released last November Improving… Read more

There are three new Moodle: Liberal Arts Edition releases. There are no new LAE features; these are maintenance releases only. You can download the updates from the CLAMP code release archive. The next stable releases are scheduled for mid-January. Moodle HQ has released Moodle 3.8; CLAMP will prepare an LAE beta… Read more

CLAMP Moodle Hack/Doc Fest, Winter 2020 will be held Wednesday, January 8 through Friday, January 10, 2020, at Swarthmore College in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. CLAMP’s Hack/Doc Fests are twice-yearly unconference-style events dedicated to improving the Moodle experience for liberal arts colleges. The lodging deadline is Monday, December 9, 2019. The event registration… Read more

There are three new Moodle: Liberal Arts Edition releases. There are no new LAE features; these are maintenance releases only. You can download the updates from the CLAMP code release archive. The next stable releases are scheduled for mid-November. CLAMP evaluated Moodle 3.7 at the Smith College Hack/Doc Fest in June 2019;… Read more

There are three new Moodle: Liberal Arts Edition releases. The 3.5 and 3.6 releases contain an update to the CLAMPMail block. The 3.7 release includes updates to all contributed modules and new features in the CLAMPMail and Featured Course List blocks. You can download the updates from the CLAMP code release archive. The… Read more

The last day of Hack/Doc, as usual, was a bit shorter due to attendee travel plans. We wrapped up around lunch time after some discussions about Moodle 3.7, Quickmail, and “blockless” courses. Moodle 3.7 Chad Bergeron confirmed, following on on the previous day’s testing, that rotating a PDF in an assignment does not… Read more

Work on the task list continued during Day 2 of the Moodle Hack/Doc Fest at Smith College, punctuated by two lunchtime presentations from members of the community. Lunchtime presentations Darren Hall from Occidental College presented on the ACRL IL Framework and how they’re working to map each of the frames to Moodle… Read more

The theme of this summer’s Hack/Doc Fest is the snowclone: noun a cliché and phrasal template that can be used and recognized in multiple variants. Examples of this concept include “X is the new Y”, or “in space, no one can X.” Localized variants for this Hack/Doc include “Have Moodle,… Read more