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Icing on the code

16th October 20188th October 2018 Gareth Barnard 0 Comments code, course design, Course Presentation, Moodle, Software Development, Software Engineering, syntax highlighting, WordPress

Introduction Technology and the code that drives it is becoming more important to our society and technological evolution. As more

Moodle Technical Theme UX

To Boost or not to Boost, that is the question

16th September 201811th September 2018 Gareth Barnard 7 Comments Architecture, Boost, development, Moodle, Moodle 3.6, Theme, Theme design, User interface

Introduction Time marches on and with that time we seek to improve upon what we have created. So has been

Elearning World Linux Moodle Technical

Icing on the Pi

16th August 20189th August 2018 Gareth Barnard 1 Comment Backup, Configuration management, development, Git, GitLab, Gogs, Moodle, Raspberry Pi, Server, Version control

Introduction Like most developers I’m a bit paranoid about backups and I really dislike having to repeat something I’ve already

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What’s in a setting?

16th July 201811th July 2018 Gareth Barnard 0 Comments Collapsed Topics, course, course layout, History, jump to, jump to menu, layout, Moodle, one section per page, single section

Introduction Perhaps one of the most misunderstood setting that Moodle has is the ‘Course layout’ setting, see docs.moodle.org/35/en/Course_settings#Course_layout, that you

Elearning World Moodle Theme

Shoelace, an undiscovered theme

16th June 20189th June 2018 Gareth Barnard 1 Comment Shoelace, Theme, theme features

Introduction Back in 2013 I created the Shoelace theme. At the time I wanted to learn more about themes and

Elearning World Moodle Technical

Backup

16th April 201813th April 2018 Gareth Barnard 0 Comments Backup, Risk, Update, Upgrade

Disclaimers: In this article I’m describing my own experience and thoughts as an opinion. In no way do I intend

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What’s in a Screen shot?

16th March 201815th March 2018 Gareth Barnard 5 Comments screen shot, screenshot

Introduction Screenshots, have you ever wondered about them? Are they something that make you think twice? Do you just take

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Most Awesome

16th February 201814th February 2018 Gareth Barnard 3 Comments font, FontAwesome, History, Theme

Introduction When the Bootstrap theme was initially introduced into Moodle by Bas Brands and David Scotson (moodle.org/plugins/pluginversions.php?plugin=theme_bootstrap the earliest being

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Collapsed Topics and the EU General Data Protection Regulation

16th January 201814th January 2018 Gareth Barnard 3 Comments Collapsed Topics, Course format, EU, GDPR, Legislation, Plugin, Regulation

Introduction Firstly, I am not a lawyer, I’m a software engineer so anything I write in this post pertain to

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