New languages for Moodle 2.0 – Tigrinia and Amharic

Moodle 2.0 is being translated into two new languages – Tigrinia and Amharic, thanks to translators Armando Di Pietra and Berhane Woldegabriel, and translation coordinator Koen Roggemans. I’d never heard of either language before, so checked the Wikipedia articles Amharic language and Tigrinya language to discover that the languages are spoken in Ethiopia and Eritrea, [...]

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New Moodle language pack – Dzongkha

Moodle has a new language pack, Dzongkha, thanks to Tenzin Dendup and translation coordinator Koen Roggemans. According to the Wikipedia article, Dzongkha language, Dzongkha is the official language of Bhutan, South Asia and is spoken by around 600 thousand people. There are currently a total of 86 Moodle language packs for Moodle 1.x (source: Moodle [...]

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New forums on moodle.org

Using Moodle now has two new forums: Web conferencing plugins – for discussions about Adobe Connect, BigBlueButton, DimDim, Elluminate and OpenMeetings and other web conferencing plugins Moodle for mobile – for discussions about Moodle on mobile devices Elsewhere in Using Moodle, Moodle HQ senior developer Sam Hemelryk announced his CSS theme tool block for Moodle [...]

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New Moodle language pack – Zulu

Moodle has a new language pack, Zulu, thanks to iCyber E-Learning Solutions on initiative of Gerrit Botha, Lionel Redelinghuys, Nhlanhla Ndlovu, and translation coordinator Koen Roggemans. According to the Wikipedia article, Zulu language, Zulu is one of South Africa’s eleven official languages and is spoken by around 10 million people. Many of our 80+ language [...]

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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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