{"id":286,"date":"2013-11-26T12:53:24","date_gmt":"2013-11-25T23:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danmarsden.com\/blog\/?p=286"},"modified":"2013-11-26T13:04:12","modified_gmt":"2013-11-26T00:04:12","slug":"catalyst-it-contributions-to-moodle-2-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danmarsden.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/26\/catalyst-it-contributions-to-moodle-2-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Catalyst IT contributions to Moodle 2.6"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Moodle 2.6 includes several new features developed by <a title=\"Catalyst IT\" href=\"http:\/\/catalyst.net.nz\/\">Catalyst<\/a> staff including:<\/div>\n<p><strong>Improved Password reset process<br \/>\n<\/strong>The process for resetting a forgotten password in Moodle was previously lengthy and over-complicated. This improvement reduced the number of steps from 13 to 6. It was implemented by Peter Bulmer as a funded request from Statistics New Zealand and the Accident Compensation Corporation, who gave their approval for the work to be contributed to the community.<br \/>\nMore information is available on the Moodle Tracker:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/tracker.moodle.org\/browse\/MDL-23692\" target=\"_blank\">MDL-23692\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<div><strong>CSV Bulk Course Creation tool<br \/>\n<\/strong>One of the highest voted for features in the Moodle Tracker with 166 votes, this tool was developed by Piers Harding &#8211; it allows Moodle courses to be created and removed by passing a CSV file.<br \/>\nMore information is available on the Moodle Tracker:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/tracker.moodle.org\/browse\/MDL-13114\" target=\"_blank\">MDL-13114\u00a0<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong><br \/>\nAssignment Marking management and workflow<\/strong><br \/>\nThis feature implements a marking workflow in the Assignment module that allows selective release of grades to students and individual marker allocation. This feature was developed by Dan Marsden for the Lightwork team at Massey University<br \/>\nMore information is available on the Moodle Tracker:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/tracker.moodle.org\/browse\/MDL-38359\" target=\"_blank\">MDL-38359<\/a><\/div>\n<p><strong>SCORM<br \/>\n<\/strong>A large number of improvements to the SCORM module were made by Dan Marsden including:<br \/>\nImprovements to management of package files(<a href=\"http:\/\/tracker.moodle.org\/browse\/MDL-28579\" target=\"_blank\">MDL-28579<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/tracker.moodle.org\/browse\/MDL-41580\" target=\"_blank\">MDL-41580<\/a>)<br \/>\nNew objectives report (<a href=\"http:\/\/tracker.moodle.org\/browse\/MDL-39926\" target=\"_blank\">MDL-39926<\/a>)<br \/>\nUser report improvements (<a href=\"http:\/\/tracker.moodle.org\/browse\/MDL-41290\" target=\"_blank\">MDL-41290<\/a>)<\/p>\n<div>Many of the developers in the team at <a title=\"Catalyst IT\" href=\"http:\/\/catalyst.net.nz\/\">Catalyst<\/a> provided other bug fixes and minor improvements that have been included as part of the 2.6 release. Catalyst is a certified Moodle Partner with offices in <a title=\"Catalyst IT\" href=\"http:\/\/catalyst.net.nz\/\">New Zealand<\/a>, <a title=\"Catalyst IT AU\" href=\"http:\/\/www.catalyst-au.net\/\">Australia<\/a> and the <a title=\"Catalyst IT EU\" href=\"http:\/\/www.catalyst-eu.net\/\">UK<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moodle 2.6 includes several new features developed by Catalyst staff including: Improved Password reset process The process for resetting a forgotten password in Moodle was previously lengthy and over-complicated. This improvement reduced the number of steps from 13 to 6. It was implemented by Peter Bulmer as a funded request from Statistics New Zealand and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-moodle","tag-moodle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danmarsden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danmarsden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danmarsden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danmarsden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danmarsden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/danmarsden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":289,"href":"https:\/\/danmarsden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions\/289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danmarsden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danmarsden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danmarsden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}