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Todos en este sitio A heads up for anyone upgrading to the latest Moodle 1.9.6+, you'll find the password policy (in Site Administration > Security > Site policies) has been enabled and admins will be prompted to change their password on next login. Thus, if your site is for testing purposes only, you may wish to disable the password policy. [ Modificado: sábado, 21 de noviembre de 2009, 04:19 ] |
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Todos en este sitio Today I have been learning about password salting, a method of making encrypted passwords more secure and practically impossible to crack. Please see the documentation Password salting for the collected wisdom of posters in the forum discussion Moodle Salting and in our developer chat.
Elsewhere in Moodle Docs, I loved a talk page comment regarding a typo fix from documentation writer Chris Collman to Tim Hunt:
Keep doing the heavy lifting, sometimes I will find a grain of sand to put in the right place. [ Modificado: miércoles, 18 de noviembre de 2009, 05:01 ] |
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Todos en este sitio A couple of weeks ago I came across an interesting report about the Open University (OU) and Moodle, The Open University UK: creating a win-win situation by sharing code and content. The report explained how cooperating with the worldwide Moodle community resulted in everyone benefiting.
Following his return to the UK after working at Moodle HQ in Perth for twelve months, Quiz module maintainer Tim Hunt has continued to contribute to Moodle in lots of areas. In addition to writing the documentation Development:Security, Tim has recently created a Custom SQL queries admin report.
OU wiki, OU blog and conditional activities developer Sam Marshall has recently announced ForumNG (new alternative forum for moodle 1.9). Like Tim, Sam is also a particularly helpful Moodler in the Using Moodle forums. For details of what other OU developers are currently working on, please see Sam's development update blog post.
A big thank you to all the OU team for their contributions to Moodle. |
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Todos en este sitio I'm sure you all agree with me that we're very fortunate to be part of such a friendly and welcoming community on moodle.org.
However, newcomers (over a thousand every day according to moodle.org/stats!) don't always realise the unwritten forum rules that we choose to abide by and sometimes post in the wrong forum, or post the same question in several forums, or use "Please help me" as the subject line of their post etc.
Thus we've decided it would be a good plan to document our forum rules and moderation procedures, and so I've come up with a draft Moodle.org forums Code of Conduct. Comments on the draft are very welcome - please post in the Moodle.org design forum or use Talk:Moodle.org forums Code of Conduct. |
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Todos en este sitio This week I've made a start on setting up tests in the Moodle Tracker for our Moodle QA / functional testing - see MDLQA. (Thanks to Jerome Mouneyrac for figuring out how to use Jira as a Test Case Management Software and to Martin for creating the project.)
Up to now, we've not had any organised testing of Moodle features prior to the release of a new version. We're hoping for lots of help from the community to ensure Moodle 2.0 is the best release yet!
If you're wondering when Moodle 2.0 is likely to be released, the answer can be found in our Administration FAQ together with links to further information. |
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Todos en este sitio Our latest monthly download statistics show that Moodle is more popular than ever!
Following the release of Moodle 1.9.6 and 1.8.10, the download figures for October 2009 rose to a record high of 127052 downloads! (Note that this figure is just for packages downloaded from moodle.org/downloads and does not include site updates via a CVS mirror server as described in CVS for Administrators.)
For more statistics, including proportions of registered sites using different versions of Moodle (with a surprising number still using 1.5.x) please see moodle.org/stats. |
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Today is the last day of MOODLE_17_STABLE in the Moodle Tracker. As Martin mentioned in the moodle.org news back in February, New releases: Moodle 1.9.4, 1.8.8, 1.7.7 and 1.6.9,
Moodle 1.6.9 and Moodle 1.7.7 mark the last builds that the core team plan to release from those branches… please upgrade to later versions!
For anyone interested, our process of dropping support for older stable branches is detailed in Development:Stable branch support.
Keeping your site up-to-date is highly recommended in order to keep your site secure. Also recommended is to regularly run the Security overview report in Site Administration > Reports > Security overview (source: Hacked site recovery). [ Modificado: sábado, 31 de octubre de 2009, 14:54 ] |
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Todos en este sitio Today Moodle HQ says farewell to developer Nicolas Connault.
Nicolas joined Moodle HQ almost three years ago in December 2006. His work has included unit testing, the Moodle 1.9 gradebook, gradebook improvements in Moodle 1.9.5, blog improvements for Moodle 2.0 (MDL-19676) and over 350 bug fixes!
In addition to writing code, Nicolas has been a particularly helpful Moodler in the Using Moodle forums, a mentor for Google Summer of Code in 2007 and 2008, a documentation writer, and has added variety and artistic appreciation to our developer chat through his observations and daily photos.
A big thank you to Nicolas for his contribution to Moodle and best wishes for his return to university next year. |
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Todos en este sitio For those of you interested in some Moodle history, blogs arrived in Moodle in version 1.6, based on the work of Daryl Hawes. Since they were added, the lack of a blog comments option has been discussed at length (see Blogs, Forums and the nature of discussion and Blogs and comments) and as a result, blog comments will be included in Moodle 2.0.
In Moodle 1.7 it became possible to limit blogging to specific users by setting up a Blogger role.
Last year the Open University in the UK released their own blog module, the OU blog, which allows for course and group blogs.
In addition to blog comments, Moodle 2.0 will include a number of other blog improvements (see MDL-19676), such as support for external blogs and blog associations (based on the GSOC 2008 project Blog improvements by Joey Morwick).
As for my own blog on moodle.org, I’ve just moved it to helenfoster.wordpress.com where I’m enjoying discovering lots of cool WordPress features. Feel free to comment on any of my blog posts there! |
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Todos en este sitio Moodle has a new language pack, Dhivehi, thanks to translators Ahmed Shareef, Moosa Ali, Amir Hussein and translation coordinator Koen Roggemans.
According to the Wikipedia article, Dhivehi language, Dhivehi is the official language of the Maldives and is spoken by around 350,000 people. The word atoll (meaning a ring of coral islands or reefs) comes from the Dhivehi word atolhu.
You can easily install Dhivehi, or any other language pack, on your Moodle site via Site Administration > Language > Language packs. Even if you have no need for additional languages, you can still make use of Moodle’s language editing facility to change a word or phrase on your site. Please see the Language FAQ for details. |
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