Category Archives: Moodle

Book Review: Moodle 2 for Teaching 4-9 Year Olds by Nicholas Freear

Posted on March 13, 2012 by Gavin Henrick

Packt were kind enough to send me a copy of Nicholas Freears book Moodle 2 for Teaching 4-9 Year Olds to review. Having reviewed a few other Moodle 2 books I was interested to see what the difference was in … Continue reading →

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Moodle 2.2.2 is available!

Posted on March 11, 2012 by Gavin Henrick

Just noticed the Moodle 2.2.2 build was made available on the download page of Moodle.org a few hours ago as of course it is already the scheduled release day (March 12th) in Perth. This version includes 229 tracker fixes (which … Continue reading →

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The programme and abstracts have been published for the Ireland & UK Moodlemoot 2012

Posted on March 2, 2012 by Gavin Henrick

With just over four weeks to go to the Ireland & UK Moodlemoot in Dublin, the programme and the book of abstracts of accepted presentations has been published. There is nearly 70 presentations in total throughout the three days, on … Continue reading →

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Review: ForumNG for Moodle 2

Posted on February 28, 2012 by Gavin Henrick

Today’s plugin for review is ForumNG and I was using Moodle 2.2 for this review. Background This forum plugin has been around for Moodle 1.9 for a few years now. It is created by The Open University in the UK, … Continue reading →

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Review: Question type Drag and Drop Marker for Moodle 2

Posted on February 20, 2012 by Gavin Henrick

Today’s plugin for review is the Drag and Drop Marker Question Type. Background On Feb 13th, 2012 the Open University released to the community ten new question types for the Moodle quiz. These are question types that they had developed … Continue reading →

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Developer Profile – Brendan Rollinson-Lorimer

Posted on February 14, 2012 by Gavin Henrick

This is part of a blog series of short profiles on plugin developers within the Moodle community. Today it is Brendan Rollinson-Lorimer. Name: Brendan Rollinson-Lorimer Twitter: Blog: Source Code: https://github.com/remotelearner Tell us something about yourself I graduated from the University … Continue reading →

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