Author: Gareth Barnard

Elearning World Technical Theme 

The perils of ‘display: none’

16th November 20189th November 2018 Gareth Barnard 0 Comments client server, computing, CSS, optimisation, Theme

Introduction Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) have an attribute called ‘display’ which can be used to determine how a given element

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Courses Elearning World Moodle Technical Theme UX 

Icing on the code

16th October 201821st October 2018 Gareth Barnard 1 Comment code, course design, Course Presentation, Moodle, Software Development, Software Engineering, syntax highlighting, WordPress

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

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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

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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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Courses Elearning World Moodle 

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

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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

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General Moodle 

Privacy

16th May 201815th May 2018 Gareth Barnard 4 Comments GDPR, legal, privacy

Introduction With the impending application of GDPR (docs.moodle.org/34/en/GDPR) on the 25th May 2018, what does this mean for you and

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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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Elearning World Learning design Moodle 

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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Elearning World Font Theme 

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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