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I guess a lot of you already thought this was the case, but as explained and discussed in MDL-38322 the /local plugins type is now officially our location for generic plugins for Moodle.

Yes it's a silly name but it's too late to worry about that.

This does not mean anything can be thrown in there.  It's a last resort when your plugin doesn't fit anywhere else.  In particular a lot of the plugins that are now in /local would probably better be in /admin/tools.

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Hello all,

My apologies for breaking into English here, but I wanted to raise your attention to some work happening now on new name fields in the Moodle database for Moodle 2.5.

    Tracker issue:  MDL-31776

    Specification:  http://docs.moodle.org/dev/Alternate_name_fields

I wanted to make sure that the work we are doing could help Moodle work better than it does now for those with Arabic names.

Can anyone here who is familiar with this area comment on it?  

Are Arabic-speaking countries happy with two name fields (first and last name)?   Would it be better to have three?  Or would you prefer using a separate single field to hold a display name with ALL the names from a user in it?    In short, what would be ideal for you?

Regards,
Martin

Google translation:

مرحبا بكم جميعا،

اعتذاري لاقتحام الإنجليزية هنا، ولكن أردت أن رفع انتباهكم إلى بعض الأعمال يحدث الآن على حقول اسم جديد في قاعدة البيانات لموودل موودل 2.5.

     تعقب المشكلة: MDL-31776
     المواصفات: http://docs.moodle.org/dev/Alternate_name_fields

أردت أن تأكد من أن العمل الذي نقوم به يمكن أن تساعد موودل تعمل على نحو أفضل بكثير مما هي عليه الآن لذوي الأسماء العربية.

يمكن لأي شخص هنا المطلع على هذا التعليق المنطقة على ذلك؟

هي البلدان الناطقة بالعربية سعيدة مع الحقول اسم اثنين (الاسم الأول والأخير)؟ سيكون من الأفضل أن يكون ثلاثة؟ أو هل تفضل استخدام حقل منفصل واحد لعقد اسم العرض مع أسماء جميع من مستخدم في ذلك؟ باختصار، ما من شأنه أن يكون مثاليا بالنسبة لك؟

التحيات،
الخطاف طائر

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Moodle in English -> Quiz -> GUI for cloze questions

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I ran into http://www.learnclick.com/ ... I wish Moodle had a graphical way to edit cloze questions that was as easy as that.

Surely it's not too hard now to have a new editor that can read and write our cloze text format.  A start was made here and then abandoned: MDL-16154   Any volunteers to finish that off?

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We've been planning a re-design for this site (moodle.org) for some time (MDLSITE-1862) to make it more useful, more international and easier to navigate.  Moodle.org is based on our own Moodle platform plus a custom theme and custom plugins and scripts for our special needs.

The pieces (and time) are finally starting to come together now so I hope we'll be able to launch the new-look site later this month.

Before that we'll have a test site with the new design so you can help with feedback before we go live.  We'll post regularly here in this forum too.

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