Posts Tagged ‘Foster’

Moodle 2.0 is being translated into two new languages – Tigrinia and Amharic, thanks to translators Armando Di Pietra and Berhane Woldegabriel, and translation coordinator Koen Roggemans.
I’d never heard of either language before, so checked the Wikipedia articles Amharic language and Tigrinya language to discover that the languages are spoken in Ethiopia and Eritrea, and [...]

Moodle, our open source course management system, is eight years old today! It’s also the birthday of Moodle’s founder and lead developer, Martin, who is quite a bit more than eight years old today. Happy Birthday to Moodle and Martin!
Moodle usage continues to grow at an amazing rate, with over 52 thousand registered Moodle sites [...]

Moodle has a new language pack, Dzongkha, thanks to Tenzin Dendup and translation coordinator Koen Roggemans.
According to the Wikipedia article, Dzongkha language, Dzongkha is the official language of Bhutan, South Asia and is spoken by around 600 thousand people.
There are currently a total of 86 Moodle language packs for Moodle 1.x (source: Moodle download – [...]

A big thank you to everyone involved in Moodle 2.0 QA Cycle 1 to-date. According to the Moodle 2.0 QA Cycle 1 overview, over 50% of tests have passed so far!
To ensure the remaining tests pass as soon as possible, testers please

Make sure that each test failure is reported as an MDL issue for developers [...]

Using Moodle now has two new forums:

Web conferencing plugins – for discussions about Adobe Connect, BigBlueButton, DimDim, Elluminate and OpenMeetings and other web conferencing plugins
Moodle for mobile – for discussions about Moodle on mobile devices

Elsewhere in Using Moodle, Moodle HQ senior developer Sam Hemelryk announced his CSS theme tool block for Moodle 2.0 (a “phenomenal [...]

Are you wondering why 20 July 2010 is named as the release date of Moodle 2.0?
The reason is because it’s the last chance for people in the Northern Hemisphere to install or upgrade to Moodle 2.0 before the school year begins. Larger Moodle sites will undoubtedly wait a while before upgrading, but it is expected [...]

Our Using Moodle course on moodle.org has a new group – Testers! Testers are active in the Moodle Tracker and help with quality assurance (QA).
So far I’ve been in contact with members of the testers group in the Tracker (created long ago) to check whether they wish to help with Moodle 2.0 testing, and if [...]

Apologies for neglecting my blog recently, though glad to note I’m in good company (see sam marshall’s OU/Moodle blog).
You’ve most likely heard that we’re aiming to release Moodle 2.0 beta very soon, so we’re all trying our best to get everything done! I’ve been helping David Mudrak with the big language pack clean-up in Moodle [...]

If you’re thinking of adding extra features to your Moodle site, you’ll most likely have taken a look in the Moodle modules and plugins database.
The modules and plugins database, “a comprehensive reference of all known Moodle modules, hacks and plugins”, was created four years ago and now contains 630 entries! The very first entry was [...]

If you’ve visited moodle.org today, you’re sure to have noticed something odd about the site. As someone (whose identity I won’t reveal!) messaged me:
Hi Helen, sorry to bother you, but I just logged in, via the Moodle.org front page and the panel on the right of the log in was, mostly, upside down. Weird! I [...]