development

Courses Elearning World Moodle Technical 

Refactoring

16th December 201912th December 2019 Gareth Barnard 1 Comment Decisions, design, Developer, development, Functionality, Improvement, Maintenance, Refactor, Refactoring, Time

Introduction This month I’m going to discuss ‘Refactoring’ within the context of developing, maintaining and improving a Moodle plugin. The

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Elearning World Moodle Technical 

The ‘OO’ in Moodle

16th November 201911th November 2019 Gareth Barnard 1 Comment Concepts, Developer, development, Moodle, Object Orientated, OO, Program design, Software Engineering

Introduction Moodle stands for ‘Modular Object Orientated Dynamic Learning Environment’ (and the first word is ‘Modular’ and not “Martin’s” as

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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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Elearning World Moodle 

Anyone for a Hot Potato?

13th August 201811th August 2018 John Allan 9 Comments development, H5P, Hot Potatoes, learning objects, Moodle, Quiz, Stan Bogdanov

In a recent blog post, “Wow, Hot Potatoes had a Facelift”, I provided a few reasons why language educators should

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Pedagogy Technical 

Making learning objects on the cheap

30th June 201826th June 2018 John Allan 2 Comments Audacity, development, DrawIO, Google text editor, Moviemaker online, offidocs, Online Convert, Pixlr, ScreenCast-O-Matic, Vectr

Over the course of a term, teachers sometimes identify gaps in their instructional materials. These gaps may be specific outcomes

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Applications Moodle Pedagogy 

H5P’s Column feature

13th May 201813th May 2018 John Allan 3 Comments Column, development, H5P, H5P column, learning objects

Following up on the March 13th post, H5P’s Course Presentation feature, I’d like to suggest that you consider another powerful

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Applications Elearning World Moodle 

H5P’s Course Presentation feature

13th March 201825th March 2018 John Allan 3 Comments Course Presentation, development, H5P, learning objects

Following up on Stuart’s February 1st post, E-learning app of the month – H5P, I think I can help some

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