Links to English version of documentation

Our documentation wiki, Moodle Docs, has a nice feature for users browsing in one of the 27 languages other than English. If you view a page which is not yet translated, a message is displayed encouraging you to translate it and also providing a link to the English version of the page e.g. http://docs.moodle.org/nl/backup/restore. Thanks [...]

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Password salting

Today I have been learning about password salting, a method of making encrypted passwords more secure and practically impossible to crack. Please see the documentation Password salting for the collected wisdom of posters in the forum discussion Moodle Salting and in our developer chat. Elsewhere in Moodle Docs, I loved a talk page comment regarding [...]

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Seven new particularly helpful Moodlers

Three months ago I received a message from Colin Fraser asking whether he could start a page in Moodle Docs called ‘Beginning Administration FAQ’. Of course my answer was “Yes please!” as everyone is welcome to contribute to our documentation wiki. Beginning Administration FAQ grew very quickly and so Colin started another page Beginning Administration [...]

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Moodle features list

This week I’ve been working on a list of Moodle features in a format suitable for setting up test cases. We’d like Moodle 2.0 to be extremely well tested during the beta period, so the plan is to ask the Moodle community for help with user testing in addition to running unit tests. Moodle Docs [...]

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Resources for new developers

If you’re thinking of developing a new module for Moodle, you’ll be interested in the latest addition to our developer documentation – the NEWMODULE documentation, thanks to Daniele Cordella. The comprehensive documentation includes a tutorial, a reference, FAQ and even information on adding capabilities. Another useful resource for new developers is the course Introduction to [...]

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