Category Archives: Moodle

Moodle 2.5 and the Bootstrap based theme – Clean

Posted on May 8, 2013 by Gavin Henrick

Moodle 2.5 brings the a new theme into core. It is called Clean and it is based on the modified Moodle bootstrap theme which is maintained by Bas Brands which inherits styles and renderers from its parent theme. The Original … Continue reading →

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Demonstrating the improvement in forms in Moodle 2.5

Posted on May 8, 2013 by Gavin Henrick

Moodle 2.5 has improved the usability of Moodle forms with a great step forward in providing the forms in a collapsed format and also providing the html editor in collapsed state by default too. When you have a platform that … Continue reading →

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Moodle 2.5 – User Interface improvements

Posted on May 8, 2013 by Gavin Henrick

The user interface has been an area that Moodle HQ has focused on since the release of Moodle 2. Each release has added some nice features and now it has come in for some nice improvements in the upcoming Moodle … Continue reading →

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Managing Add-ons in Moodle 2.5

Posted on May 7, 2013 by Gavin Henrick

In Moodle 2.3 a new feature was implemented to enable site admins get alerts when a plugin that they were using in their Moodle site had been updated in the plugin directory.  This would send the admin an email about … Continue reading →

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Open Badges and Moodle

Posted on May 6, 2013 by Gavin Henrick

The soon to be released Moodle 2.5 comes with a new feature called Badges. So before I go through how it works in Moodle, let me address a few questions What are badges? How are they earned? Who issues badges? … Continue reading →

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Mediterranean MoodleMoot 2013

Posted on April 12, 2013 by Gavin Henrick

For those intending to head to Tunisia for the Moodle Research Conference on the 4th, 5th October, before you book your flights maybe you should consider arriving a few days early and also attending the Mediterranean MoodleMoot 2013 which takes … Continue reading →

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