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Introduction You’re customising your Moodle site using CSS / SCSS, perhaps with a plugin or in theme, then suddenly your

Elearning World LMS Moodle Technical

16th October 2024 Gareth Barnard

Settings transfer

Introduction A long time ago, seven and a half years or so, when I was involved with and maintaining the

Elearning World Learning design LMS Moodle Pedagogy

16th September 2024 Gareth Barnard

Added value

Introduction We discover, we learn, we develop our skills that help us to achieve in this world, in our society.

Elearning World Technical

16th August 2024 Gareth Barnard

In our world these days we interact with advanced machines, machines that are the result of centuries of human tool development. They are complex and require careful configuration to ensure that they operate in the way we intend them to do so. There are many ‘configurations’ with varying levels of complexity. Take the software that runs on the machine, that is a ‘configuration’ that is instructions that tell the machine what to do, and yet that has a ‘configuration’ too, a set of values associated with the particular operational functionality of the software, the settings. Hopefully that configuration you can manage yourself from the information provided to you by the developer (or via a technical writer) on what each setting does. But what of the actual software? How is this created? What is this mysterious person ‘The Developer’?

Elearning World Font Moodle Technical Theme UX

16th July 2024 Gareth Barnard

A little boost

When a client contacted me asking for assistance in adding a font to the Boost theme, I created a solution for them, one that is quite straightforward to implement. I thought it would make a good post, so with their permission here it is. I’ve not written about fonts in a while and this brings me back to my roots of writing for eLearningWorld.

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Elearning World Linux Moodle Technical

16th June 2024 Gareth Barnard

xDebug

Introduction Software development can be a difficult process, full of logic flows, data structures and concepts. Programs such as Moodle

Elearning World Learning design Moodle UX

16th May 2024 Gareth Barnard

Section Zero

With the introduction of Moodle 4.4 the decision has been made to treat the first section, zero, of a course just like any other. These are my thoughts about it.