Registration open for Winter 2025 Hack/Doc Fest
October 9, 2024Registration 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
New Moodle LAE Releases for October 2024
October 9, 2024There are four 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 new releases are for versions 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, and 4.4. The next stable releases are scheduled for mid-December.… Read more
New Moodle LAE Releases for September 2024
September 3, 2024There are four 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 new releases are for versions 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, and 4.4. The next stable releases are scheduled for mid-October.… Read more
New Moodle LAE Releases for August 2024
August 14, 2024There are four 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 new releases are for versions 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, and 4.4. The next stable releases are scheduled for mid-October.… Read more
Making LaTeX accessible
July 31, 2024The 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
How to implement pronouns as a custom profile field in Moodle
July 10, 2024Moodle doesn’t officially support a pronoun field. There’s a long-standing tracker item about this, to which various CLAMP schools have contributed over the years. Moodle HQ’s current plan is a custom profile field that ships with Moodle by default. This would be coupled with an even older request to allow… Read more
New Moodle LAE 4.4 Release
July 3, 2024CLAMP has prepared its first Moodle 4.4 release. This contains updates to all the contributed modules to ensure compatibility with Moodle 4.4. You can download the release from the CLAMP code release archive. We expect the next stable releases from core in mid-August. CLAMP evaluated Moodle 4.4 at June’s Summer… Read more
Summer 2024 Hack/Doc Fest at Bryn Mawr
July 2, 2024CLAMP 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
New Moodle LAE Releases for June 2024
June 12, 2024There 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 new releases are for versions 4.1, 4.2, and 4.3. The next stable releases are scheduled for mid-August. Moodle 4.4… Read more
New Moodle LAE Releases for April 2024
April 24, 2024There 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 new releases are for versions 4.1, 4.2, and 4.3. The next stable releases are scheduled for mid-June. Moodle 4.4… Read more