Ken Newquist's Blog at Lafayette College
Posts about web applications such as Moodle, Drupal and WordPress.
The first-ever Academic Technology Administrators Conference (ATAC) is being held at Lafayette College on June 25 and 26. Sponsored by CLAMP, the conference is dedicated to the people who design, implement and support the academic technology ecosystem. In some ways this conference is the successor to the old NITLE User Group meetings, where folks … Read more
I spent the last week or so rolling out the 2017 editions of Lafayette’s i-World and i-Lingua badges. Evidence to support the various flavors of badges is collected using a customized Moodle instance (called, simply enough, “Badges”). Once graded using the corresponding rubrics, the badges are baked by Moodle and can then be shared with the … Read more
Moodle Hack/Doc Fest, Summer 2017 will be held Wednesday, June 21 through Friday, June 23, 2017 at Hampshire College in Amherst, MA. A pre-Hack/Doc documentation and coding sprint will be held Tuesday, June 20, 2017. Hampshire also hosted Hack/Doc in Summer 2011. Unfortunately I can’t be there myself because of a prior commitment. It’s bittersweet — this is the first Hack/Doc … Read more
Moodle Hack/Doc Fest at Butler University has come and gone, yielding recommendations regarding adopting Moodle 3.0/3.1 and demonstrating that the new “competencies” module isn’t going to be nearly as useful as I’d hoped. At first blush, Competencies seemed like something that might be useful for our badges project (e.g. demonstrate competency in a foreign language, then use that … Read more
Phase 2 of the Web Redesign — in which the new design is rolled out to department, office, and program websites — is well underway with more than a dozen sites converted. Learn more about the update at the Web Redesign at the next Web Community of Practice meeting from noon-1 p.m. on Wednesday, April … Read more
Moodle Hack/Doc Fest — that biannual summer camp for instructional technologists, web developers, and other folks who work with Moodle — hits Indianapolis this summer. It’s being held Tuesday, June 21 through Thursday, June 23, 2016 at Butler University in Indianapolis, IN. A pre-Hack/Doc documentation and coding sprint will be held Monday, June 20, 2016. … Read more
It’s time to get Moodling again. CLAMP’s Moodle Hack/Doc Fest for Summer 2015 is being held at the College of Holy Cross in June 2015. This is our 16th Hack/Doc, and our first time back in Massachusetts since Summer 2011’s event at Hampshire College. Last summer’s Hack/Doc at Macalester College saw me spending three days … Read more
My Lafayette (https://my.lafayette.edu) went responsive on October 15, 2014, which means it now works equally well on smartphones, tablets, and desktop computers. This should come as welcome news to anyone who ever growled/cursed/cried in frustration while pinch/zooming site in their phone’s web browser. We also made a number of other smaller, but useful, improvements to … Read more
Registration is now open for Moodle Hack/Doc Fest, Winter 2015 at Occidental College in Los Angeles, California. The event starts on Monday, January 5th with our traditional code/documentation sprint (which admittedly tends to be less a sprint, and more a “let’s get organized” session) followed by formal Hack/Doc on Tuesday, January 6 through Thursday, January … Read more