Ken Newquist's Blog at Lafayette College
Posts about web applications such as Moodle, Drupal and WordPress.
When it comes to editing wikis, I’m fine with using wiki code. It’s simple, easy to use, and it does what I want it to do. That said, I can see how it can frustrate some people (aka my co-workers) so I carved out some time today to work on installing the CKEditor extension into … Read more
Card sorts are an information architecture tool used to help discover how people would organize information on your web site if they ran the zoo. The idea is that you give people a bunch of cards labeled with web page names and then ask them to sort them into piles. They then label the piles, … Read more
Wired.com is switching over its blogs from TypePad to WordPress. Wired’s blogs include Geek Dad and WebMonkey and while there’s no word about why they made the change, it’s nice to see them join the WordPress family.
It’s time to get hacking again. The fourth Moodle Hack/Doc Fest — in which we spend three days working on code, documentation, and support materials for Moodle — will be held at Smith College on June 3-5, 2009. This time around we’ll be focusing on making Moodle 1.9.x as rock solid as possible, as most … Read more
The Collaborative Liberal Arts Moodle Project (CLAMP) is sponsoring its first round of Moodle usability testing this spring. here are two tests, one for faculty, one for students, that evaluate common tasks that they are likely to encounter when working in Moodle (such as updating their profile, responding to forum assignments, creating assignments, grading assignments, … Read more
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 … Read more
Moodle Core’s announced a number of big changes to the Moodle gradebook for the 1.9.5 release. Among the changes: the student name column is now sticky (which means you can still see if if you scroll to the right to look at additional assignments). The categories page has been re-organized and color coded to make … Read more
NextGEN Gallery, the popular image gallery plugin for WordPress, has a new version out. v1.2.0 includes a couple of tweaks and bug fixes, but the big thing to note is that it no longer includes the JW Image Rotator, which is the Flash image manipulation tool that allows NextGEN to generate slide shows. It was … Read more
Google has announced support for seamless integration between Moodle and Google Apps thanks to the work of third-party developer Moodlerooms: Moodlerooms, a SaaS provider of Moodle, just launched an application built on the Moodle platform that lets school admins bring Moodle and Google Apps together with a single sign-in. So now, students who told us … Read more