Author: Dr Martin S Dulberg

May 20, 2014

Moodle News: May 2014

As part of DELTA’s ongoing efforts to keep you informed, here’s the latest Moodle News to help you make the most effective use of Moodle in your courses. Moodle Upgrade We have upgraded Moodle to version 2.6, which applies to both courses and project spaces. For the most part, this a small upgrade focused on… 

May 9, 2014

Important Moodle Project Space Information

As summer approaches, we would like to make all Moodle Project Space owners aware of important Moodle upgrades and changes. Upcoming Outage for Moodle Upgrade Moodle 2 Project Spaces are being upgraded to Moodle 2.6 beginning at 8:00 a.m., on May 12, and will be unavailable for most of the day. During this time, we will be… 

May 7, 2014

May 2014 Maintenance for WolfWare

As the spring 2014 semester winds down, we have a long maintenance window coming up. From May 9-16 we will be upgrading, updating and patching our learning technologies within WolfWare. To help you plan around service outages, here is our anticipated timeline for when we will be servicing the various technologies we provide: May 9:… 

Mar 14, 2014

Moodle News: March 2014

As part of DELTA’s ongoing efforts to keep you informed, here’s the latest Moodle News to help you make the most effective use of Moodle in your courses. Moodle Upgrade Moodle 2.6 is now available for you to begin preparing summer and fall courses. Expect to see only minor changes in the Moodle user interface,… 

Mar 3, 2014

Collaborate: March 2014 Upgrade

During the Spring Break maintenance window, DELTA is upgrading Blackboard Collaborate to version 12.5.4, resulting in the following improvements: changes to resolve the problems people have experienced launching sessions, initiated by the recent Java upgrade. a functioning “guest link” in Moodle, enabling instructors to invite guests–both from NC State and outside the university–to their Blackboard Collaborate… 

Jan 10, 2014

Highlights from the November Moodle Moot

DELTA’s Scott Watkins and Marty Dulberg attended the 2013 Moodle Moot conference in New Orleans, on Nov. 5 and 6. They learned about the future direction of Moodle, heard about the innovative uses of Moodle on other campuses and brought home some great ideas for future features in our own Moodle. Here are some of… 

Jan 10, 2014

Moodle News

As the new semester gets underway, here’s the latest Moodle News to help you make the most effective use of Moodle as you’re teaching your courses. New Features in Moodle WeBWorK block to create and administer online homework in Moodle. (more info) Nanogong plug-in to record audio clips within Moodle. (more info) Moodle Workshop module… 

Dec 2, 2013

LMS Updates, Fall 2013

As part of our ongoing efforts to increase the usability and feature set of WolfWare, and improve performance and make the system more robust, DELTA recently made several updates to our campus learning management system (LMS) tools, specifically Moodle. Here is a summary of work performed during the fall 2013 semester. August 2013 Fixed margin… 

Aug 14, 2013

LMS Updates: August 12, 2013

As part of our ongoing efforts to increase the usability & feature set of WolfWare, DELTA recently made several updates to our campus LMS tools, specifically Moodle and Collaborate. Here is a summary of work performed on August 12th, 2013. Moodle 1. On the courses server, we made login changes allowing for direct to Shibboleth… 

Jun 5, 2013

Moodle Updates: June 1, 2013

As you may be aware, software like Moodle requires regular maintenance to keep it running smoothly,  performing well, up to date with security fixes, to allow us to change settings and to add new features. We schedule regular maintenance windows to work on all of the LMS tools (usually Saturday mornings) throughout the year. Please…