Author: Gareth Barnard

Elearning World H5P Moodle Technical Theme 

Customising H5P in Moodle using the Foundation theme

16th September 201912th September 2019 Gareth Barnard 1 Comment Foundation, H5P, H5P Customisation, Theme

Introduction H5P is a way of creating interactive content on a web page. It can be integrated into Moodle with

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Elearning World Linux Technical 

Software

16th August 20198th August 2019 Gareth Barnard 2 Comments C, code, Compiler, Linker, Program, programming, Software, Software Development, Software Engineering

Introduction Moodle’s logic is written in a programming language called PHP (www.php.net), this is ‘interpreted’ by another program that is

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Elearning World Moodle Technical Theme UX 

Essential to Foundation, theme evolution

16th July 201914th July 2019 Gareth Barnard 1 Comment Essential, Evolution, Foundation, Julian Ridden, Maslow, Theme, User interface

Introduction How do we interact with the tools that facilitate our learning? How do they make us feel? If we

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Elearning World Moodle MoodleBites Technical 

Code

16th June 201916th June 2019 Gareth Barnard 2 Comments code, Fear, Language, programming, Software Development, Software Engineering, syntax

Introduction You sit there, staring at the screen in a moment of quiet reflection, your mind wanders and thinks about

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LMS Moodle Technical 

Updates

16th May 201913th May 2019 Gareth Barnard 1 Comment

Introduction Its night, you should be asleep but you’re not. All around the silence of the night deafens your senses.

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General LMS Moodle 

Labels

16th April 201926th March 2019 Gareth Barnard 0 Comments bully, bullying, Geek, label, labels, nerd, techy, whizzkid

Introduction Labels are really just words? They are harmless. But are they? What about the words ‘Geek’, ‘Nerd’, ‘Techy’ and

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Elearning World Learning design Moodle Technical UX 

WebP

16th March 20199th March 2019 Gareth Barnard 2 Comments image size, page load, user experience, webp

Introduction As we connect to the world through devices which can have both limited processing power and bandwidth it is

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FOSS General LMS 

The numbers game

16th February 201920th February 2019 Gareth Barnard 2 Comments AI, Digital learning, human / machine, learning capacity, ratio, snow day, Thought provoking

Introduction Does the educator / student ratio matter? Can a machine educate? Are we better educators with the learning tools

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Technical 

What’s in a number?

16th January 201920th February 2019 Gareth Barnard 2 Comments bug, debugging, detective, revision, scm, Software Configuration Management, Version control, version number, verson

Introduction You see them everywhere with software, version numbers. You get reminded of updates with words along the lines of

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Technical 

Output three ways

16th December 201820th February 2019 Gareth Barnard 1 Comment how to, mustache, Output, PHP, template

Introduction Moodle principally generates its HTML output using PHP (some can be generated via JavaScript on your web browser) using

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