Author: Gareth Barnard

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 0 Comments 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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Elearning World Technical Theme 

The perils of ‘display: none’

16th November 20189th November 2018 Gareth Barnard 1 Comment 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 2 Comments 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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