YouTube block update

Today, as part of our weekly code review, I tested MDL-21293. Had you noticed anything about the YouTube block on tag pages e.g. Moodle.org Cats tag? I certainly hadn’t seen that video thumbnails were no longer being displayed! Thanks to Nadav Kavalerchik in Israel for reporting that block tag_youtube needed updating to support the new [...]

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More Moodle twitter accounts

Like many of you, I’m using twitter a lot more these days and I often search for tweets containing the word moodle to find out what Moodlers worldwide are up to. Yesterday I set up a few more Moodle community sites twitter accounts. Thus, the full list is now: twitter.com/moodle – Moodle news including Moodle [...]

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New Moodle QA testing site

If you just can’t wait to check out some of the new features in Moodle 2.0, you’ll be pleased to hear about our new Moodle QA testing site. As for the Moodle demonstration site, you can login as a teacher, student or admin, and the database and files are erased and restored to a clean [...]

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Lessons learnt as a Cool Course Competition admin

With just three days left till the close of the Cool Course Competition on Tuesday 19 January 2010, the site now has 35 courses in nine different languages. Bearing in mind that the courses will be the start of our community hub for Moodle 2.0, restoring each of them to the competition site has proved [...]

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New moodle.net domain

If you’re very observant, you may have noticed that our demonstration site has moved from demo.moodle.org to demo.moodle.net. Similarly, our developer test site has moved to test.moodle.net and our new site for Moodle 2.0 QA testing to qa.moodle.net (more information about this site coming soon). The sites have been moved to a new domain for [...]

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