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What is The Open Source eLearning Blog?
This blog will be a discussion of open source eLearning tools covering: Moodle, Alfresco, Mahara, Jaspersoft, and ELIS amongst other technologies. Posts will include interesting anecdotes, adventures,...
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A Year of Writing Moodle 1.9 Extension Development - Part 1
Part 1: Getting a Book DealThis is the first of a four part series on my experiences writing my first book, Moodle 1.9 Extension Development. The book was co-authored by Mike Churchward. The four parts...
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How to Create and Modify Moodle Filters
by Jonathan Moore Michael Churchward | May 2010 | MoodleIn this article by Jonathan Moore and Michael Churchward, authors of Moodle 1.9 Extension Development, we will discuss the basic concepts of...
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A Year of Writing Moodle 1.9 Extension Development - Part 2
Part 2: The First Half of WritingThis is the second of a four part series on my experiences writing my first book, Moodle 1.9 Extension Development. The book was co-authored by Mike Churchward. The...
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Interview with Packt
I recently did an interview with the staff at Packt Publishing, the publisher of Moodle 1.9 Extension Development.Packt: Your book is published now. How is the feeling of being a published...
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A Year of Writing Moodle 1.9 Extension Development - Part 3
Part 3: The Last Half of WritingThis is the third of a four part series on my experiences writing my first book, Moodle 1.9 Extension Development. The book was co-authored by Mike Churchward. The four...
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A Year of Writing Moodle 1.9 Extension Development - Part 4
Part 4: Post Writing Production This is the final of a four part series on my experiences writing my first book, Moodle 1.9 Extension Development. The book was co-authored by Mike Churchward. The four...
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The Little Moodle Moot that Could
I just returned from attending the Oklahoma Moodle Moot. This was my third time attending and it reinforced with me how consistently and well operated this conference is. I helped organize the first...
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Why Your Moodle Site is Slow: Five Simple Settings
Here are some simple settings that any Moodle administrator can change from the Site Administration menu that will help to improve his/her Moodle site's performance. Some of these changes come at the...
View ArticleHow to list the largest files in a Moodle 2.x site
Earlier this week, I was working with a client whose Moodle server was full. They asked me to help figure out why it was full. This can be a challenging question when using Moodle 2.x due to the fact...
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How Heartbleed is Breaking Your Moodle Security and How to Fix It!
What is Heartbleed?Discussion of the Heartbleed vulnerability has been burning up the Internet this past week, so I won’t go into great detail about its details. Good articles here and here.The High...
View ArticlePHP 5.5 and OpCache for Moodle / Moodle 2.7 on RHEL / CentOS 5
The ProblemOn a recent consulting engagement, I was tasked with helping a school eliminate a severe performance issue on its Moode site. I determined the primary solution was to add a PHP accelerator...
View ArticleMulti-language certificate tips for Moodle
I recently completed a project to provide a customized certificate including course completion elements for a course to be delivered in 14 languages. It was a great learning experience. This post...
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Enabling Moodle course and activity completions en masse for Moodle 2.7
This week I am going to talk about a method to enable course completions en-masse across a library of existing Moodle courses.Stupid Moodle Tricks!This is my pet name for these little tips,...
View ArticleUse apache mod_deflate to make your Moodle website faster
Mod_deflate is an Apache web server module that uses compression to reduce the bandwidth needed to send web pages between the server and the end user's computer.See...
View ArticleImproving Moodle Web Services Usability
The GoodMoodle, as of the version 2 release, includes a built-in Web Services (WS) API that supports a variety of WS protocols including SOAP, REST, and XML-RPC. Since the API is built-in it's...
View ArticleMoodle 2.9 Top 5 New Features for Admins
Moodle 2.9 was release earlier this week. Here are my top five new improvements for administratorsAllow backup and restore on the front page http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-31500Backup report...
View ArticleMoodle Configurable Reports Plugin All Variables and Filters
Configurable Reports is a popular plugin for Moodle that allows administrators to create custom reports for Moodle and make them available to their end users. In working with this plugin I have noticed...
View ArticleUsing a Moodle Yesterday Instance for Self Service Course Repairs and...
Why might this be a better solution than automated course backups?The Moodle course backup and restore feature, while a convenient mechanism for moving courses between Moodle sites, is not very...
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