Create Awesome Course Layouts With These Top 11 Moodle Course Formats (2019 Updated)

Source: https://www.lmspulse.com/2019/moodle-top-course-formats-plugins/ By Jaswinder Singh -June 23, 2019 Updated on June 23rd, 2019. Since we last checked, the Grid course format skyrocketed in popularity. Here are the top 10 Course Format plugins by downloads in the last 12 months: Grid (11,873 downloads in the past 12 months) Collapsed Topics (10,650) Onetopic (10,607) Buttons (7,045) Tiles (5,556) Flexible…

Discover Moodle’s latest learning app

Source: https://moodle.com/news/discover-moodles-latest-learning-app/ Our mobile app fosters student engagement and offline learning to bring instant access to education and training from anywhere Moodle App 3.7 brings the latest features of our open source LMS to mobile devices for learning on-the-go. It is now available for download in Google Play and the Apple Store and will be in the…

Giving Moodle a “Boost”

Over the weekend I read a post on LMS Pulse ( https://www.lmspulse.com/2019/ugly-lms/ ) entitled, “Is The LMS Ugly?”. In the article the author mentions that 80% of people surveyed found some form of dissatisfaction with Moodle. When talking to my own clients they often tell me that they want a Moodle site, that does not…

Moodle welcomes Google Summer of Code students

Source: https://moodle.com/community/moodle-welcomes-google-summer-of-code-students/ We are proud to announce that Moodle has been selected again as a mentor organisation for Google Summer of Code Google Summer of Code is an annual global program that encourages university students to participate in open source software development. The program pays developer students to work on a programming project for three…

Dangerous Vulnerability Found In Moodle 3.6.3, Earlier Versions Potentially Affected, Issue Not Yet Fix

Source: https://www.lmspulse.com/2019/dangerous-vulnerability-found-in-moodle-3-6-3-earlier-versions-potentially-affected-issue-not-yet-fix/ On April 28th, a vulnerability affecting Moodle 3.6.3 was documented by ethical hacker from Turkey Özkan Mustafa, aka AKKUŞ on his Pentest Blog. LMSPulse@lmspulse URGENT: Review the Admin roles in your #Moodle site ASAP CVE-2019-11631 High Severity vulnerability foundÖzkan Mustafa Akkuş@ehakkus (CVE-2019-11631) In Moodle 3.6.3 and in prior versions, the plugin installation area can…

Sneak Peek at New Features in Moodle 3.7

Source: https://moodle.com/development/sneak-peek-at-new-features-in-moodle-3-7/ The latest Moodle 3.7 release will be out in two weeks and we want to highlight some of the new features available and how you can use them to enhance your learning and teaching processes. Enhancements in forums Participating in forum activities within courses is now easier and more engaging than ever thanks…

Moodle versions in git

Source: Moodle Tips https://www.moodletips.com/moodle-versions-in-git/ All versions of Moodle are appropriately tagged in the Moodle git repository (git://git.moodle.org/moodle.git) so you can use the following to show the commits that relate to each version. Just a note too that major versions are branched using the convention MOODLE_XX_STABLE where XX is the version e.g. MOODLE_36_STABLE for Moodle 3.6. This gives you something…

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