Want to make Moodle and Twitter talk in a basic way? Very simple, just turn on RSS feeds in your forums and run it through a Twitter account. If your system administrator is too busy fighting fires in the server room (i.e. playing online games with Troll in the title) to enable RSS there is [...]
Using SMS for education generally costs money. Even if you use free software you will generally end up paying someone for each text you send. However there are free tools out there that incorporate free SMS functionality. Twitter and Jaiku are two simple ones. With these tools you type short messages and they are published [...]
Moodle Blogger MoodleUS has the number one quality of a good security analyst - paranoia. But is it paranoia if everyone is out to get you?
I was sentenced to 12 months hard time by Martin Dougiamas (judge, jury, and executioner).
He has been banned from Moodle.org forums, for as far as I gather, some [...]
Sometimes Moodle’s reporting feature doesn’t do what you want it to. If that is the case for you a great tool for doing website usage analysis is Google Analytics. Google Analytics is now also available for intranets which means you can use it in Moodle.
First sign up for a Google Analytics account, select Add Website [...]
Moodle 1.9 was released today wow! I was jut talking to some people last week and we saw no prospect of 1.9 any time soon. That’s the excitement of opens source for you (and the rapid rate of Moodle development). Over on Moodle.org they list the main new features as:
An all-new Gradebook designed [...]
A while back I wrote and submitted a patch which was went into the core Moodle codebase. You can see my name in the Moodle credits. It was about an cross-site scripting vulnerability that I found in the code. Projects like Moodle are bound to have these. Moodle is not any less secure than other [...]
reMoodle is an extension that I wrote for Firefox that makes some additions to Moodle:
Personalized Course List Ordering: Courses you use more will start to appear at the top of the course list (nice if you are enrolled in lots of courses that you rarely use).
Unread Posts Display: A link will [...]
