• Mac OS X,  Mac OS X Server,  sites

    Moodle 2.0

    I’ve been experimenting with some of the new developmental stuff in Moodle 2.0. The first thing that struck me was that the navigation is much better. It’s uniform throughout the pages and it seems like a lot of attention was made to make the menus and how blocks appear and are laid out look and feel much better. There are also a number of new features for managing courses and blocks, including: Tagging Built-in Progress tracking Forced paths through a course Conditional course completion Enhanced testing and grading systems Built-in RSS aggregation Built-in blogging tool A backup program that was actually able to backup my whole Moodle environment Updated wiki…

  • sites

    Mac OS X: MAMP, Apache for the Masses

    There’s a nifty little app called MAMP.  It allows you to distribute what amounts to a self-containing web based application.  Using MAMP you can install whatever you need in Apache and SQL and then zip it up and distribute it.  Ports can be customized so as not to adversely effect the system’s other Apache instances that may be running.  For example, Moodle…

  • Consulting,  sites

    Moodle

    After checking out all the various Course Management Systems or Content Management Systems with a specific bent towards Courseware, Moodle stands out as the way to go.  It’s open source, it’s easy to setup and it just works. Now if I can only get it to automate the process of creating courseware…  😉