One of my big projects this year — Collaborative Liberal Arts Moodle Project — is now live. The project, known as CLAMP, is being funded by a NITLE Innovation Fund grant that was awarded to Lafayette and five other colleges last June to foster collaboration among liberal arts colleges in maintaiing and developing Moodle.
The idea is that as smaller institutions, our needs often differ from those of larger schools. By working together, we can identify (and fix) problems with Moodle that are of particular interest to our campuses. It also allows us to magnify our voice in the larger Moodle community; as we’ve seen in the past, when one school votes for an issue in Moodle Tracker, it might get noticed. When 12 do, it almost always gets noticed.
Our immediate goal with the project web site (http://www.clamp-it.org) is to consolidate all of our documentation, code, and development efforts down to one location (it had been scattered in a two or three different places). We’re also hard at work implementing Redmine as our project management tool.