Mary Cooch

Now that Moodle LMS 4.2 is out, we made it a priority to upgrade the Mount Orange School demo site so that you can explore authentic courses and activities using the new features of the latest version.

Remembering that the site resets every hour on the hour (and that others might be using it at the same time as you), why not go into our new course:  Critical thinking as teacher Mr Sanders and explore for example:

• the new default editor, TinyMCE, modern and accessible;
• adding an activity anywhere on the course page;
• bulk editing activies or sections (click 'Bulk edit' top right when edit mode is on);
• indenting to the right;
• enhancements to the Gradebook;
• customising Quiz question numbers;
• ... and more!

 Alternatively, log in as Manager Anna Alexander and explore  the new cohort custom fields and improvements to custom reports?

Hello everyone

Just a reminder that our demo sites on moodle.org/demo are running Moodle LMS 4.1 so you are welcome to try things out on there, remembering that they reset on the hour, every hour.

Our Mount Orange School demo site has some examples for you to try and adapt, as well as offering a space to test with (real but fake!) students and teachers. A few sugggestions:

• Log in with the username manager/password moodle and explore the new custom report sources, including an example report on Badges;
• Log in with the username teacher/password moodle and from the Activity examples course explore the Database activities and create some yourself, using the three new presets;
• With the teacher role again, explore the new Grade summary report and Single view and User report enhancements from the Psychology in Cinema course;
• As a manager or teacher, enable editing, click to Add an activity or resource and see if your language has a new name for one of the resources.......;
• As any user, go to User profile > Preferences > Edit preferences and try out the new TinyMCE editor.

And finally - please spread the word about our Moodle Academy webinar What's new in Moodle 4.1 on Thursday 15th, along with a new course offering  4.1 for Admins and  4.1 for Educators badges (once I have finished writing it this week😄)

Could you be the new Moodle Community Engagement Lead?

 Moodle is looking for an active Moodle community member to join the Moodle Community team and help proactively build and grow Moodle’s community engagement initiatives.

 You would be involved in:

• Researching ideas and planning initiatives for enhancing community engagement.
• Collaborating with the Moodle Community team in implementing initiatives.
• Creating new networks, onboarding new members and running online events. 
• Being active on moodle.org and on social media, making regular posts targeted at engagement initiatives.

Find out more and apply!

There are quite a few Boost presets on archive.moodle.net, dating from the start of Boost until a year or so ago. As I am not a themer, I am not sure how up to date or useful these presets now are.
Over the next couple of months the contents of archive.moodle.net will be moved to MoodleNet as it now becomes more established, and I am doing a 'housekeeping' job, sifting through what we definitely should move over and what is uncertain.
 I would like to ask you themers: Should we just move these presets over to an area in MoodleNet regardless of their version/age? 
 Another alternative is, if people want to actually maintain them and keep them updated, we could add them to the Plugins directory.
 Or do you have other thoughts?

Thanks in advance for your opinions

Please join us for the Moodle Academy 'Teaching Languages with Moodle' webinar on 25 May 2022 12:00 - 13:00  UTC. (That's 13:00 London time.)

In this webinar you will learn how to take advantage of Moodle features to enhance and support language teaching. This webinar is part of the course 'Teaching Languages with Moodle'

This event is for Educators.

Register at moodle.academy