Moodle 2 is now live!
The upgrade process was successful and Moodle 2 is now live! If you have any problems with the new system, have a look on our FAQs page for some quick answers, drop into our live Moodle chat, or email...
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Moodle is now more secure
As part of our ongoing improvements to Moodle this summer, we have now enabled some additional security features. This should be fairly seamless for most users, and you’ll see that Moodle is now using...
View ArticleMoodle training
If you’re getting a little lost in the new Moodle 2, we are running some more training dates on “What’s new in Moodle 2?” in September. Have a look at our training pages to check the dates and book...
View ArticleMoodle annoyances
The upgrade to Moodle 2 has gone almost perfectly. Since we upgraded in mid-July, there have been nearly 300,000 interactions with Moodle, and the feedback we’ve been receiving has been generally...
View ArticleWe’ve made some changes to OCS
Our developers have been busy beavering away over the summer to make some changes to OCS that were requested by students and staff of the University. We haven’t been able to do everything you asked,...
View ArticleYou may notice a few more notification emails…
As well as a few other OCS bugs that have been reported to us, we have recently released an update which was requested by a number of administrators over the summer. OCS now sends out more notification...
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Moodle 2.4 Upgrade
Over the weekend of Saturday 9th and Sunday 10th February, we will be taking Moodle out of service whilst we perform a small upgrade (http://moodle.essex.ac.uk). Moodle should be unavailable from...
View ArticleThe hunt for red blocktober!
Don’t panic, the red “Settings” block in your Moodle course has not gone missing! We’ve simply changed the default position of this block; it can now be found on the left hand side of the site below...
View ArticleThe CMR is changing on Wednesday 18th September 2013
As you may have already heard, we’ve been making a number of improvements to all of our e-learning services over the summer break. The Course Materials Repository (CMR) has not been left out of this...
View ArticleMoodle archive now live!
There is now a “read only” archive of the entire Moodle site for the 2012/2013 academic year. Both students and staff can access the archive by clicking on the link below:...
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