The story of blogs in Moodle

For those of you interested in some Moodle history, blogs arrived in Moodle in version 1.6, based on the work of Daryl Hawes. Since they were added, the lack of a blog comments option has been discussed at length (see Blogs, Forums and the nature of discussion and Blogs and comments) and as a result, [...]

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The story of the database activity module

Today I finally got around to renaming and recategorising database documentation pages about the database module to ‘Database activity module‘. Hopefully this will reduce confusion between the activity module and Moodle’s underlying database. The database activity module, which enables students to create, maintain and search a bank of record entries, was added to Moodle 1.6 [...]

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The Moodle wiki story

There was an interesting discussion in the Lounge last week entitled Why Mediawiki Instead of Moodles Wiki Module for docs.moodle.org? As this question has been asked quite a few times, I decided to add it, together with some of the answers in the thread, to the Moodle.org FAQ. The current Moodle wiki module, ewiki, based [...]

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The story of tags in Moodle

Tags were first introduced with blogs in Moodle 1.6. Interests, tag pages, Flickr and Youtube blocks and other tag improvements were added to Moodle 1.9 as part of the GSOC 2007 project Social Networking features (MDL-10169). Further tag improvements were planned for 1.9 and 2.0 – see MDL-13404. However the issue assignee Mathieu Petit-Clair is [...]

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Stories from the Moodle community

This week I’m off to the Oklahoma MoodleMoot (#mootok09). I’m really looking forward to meeting lots of familiar faces from moodle.org, as well as chatting to newer Moodlers about their experiences. I’ll be sharing stories from the Moodle community in my presentation, including “Moodle millions?”, “Spam – such a scandal!”, “Which wiki?”, “Moodle ecstasy”, “Our [...]

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