Author: Michael G
Functionality with Moodle – November update
Dear moodlers,
We’ve had an action month at Integrations this past October, so it’s time to recap the most exciting news.
1. DevLearn Conference in Las Vegas
The DevLearn Conference in Las Vegas allowed us to meet some interesting new tools in the educational technology space and also to meet my colleagues from the US “office”, who were exhibiting Moodle Workplace at the trade show. Probably the only new functionality that I discovered was a tool to lip sync for dubbing purposes using AI called LipDub. I was also happy to meet Genially again, who were distributing some Moodle t-shirts in anticipation of their LTI Moodle integration. Meet the team at Vegas: (left to right) Hannah, Justin, myself, Don and Jeff. A joy to spend time with them! 😍
2. Disability Visibility
It may not seem directly related to educational technology, but this beautiful book contains first-person stories of people with disabilities and has me often thinking about the approach that we take to solving accessibility problems in software. I’m in the middle of reading it, but it has already refined my understanding of how we should care for those who may only suspect or be completely unaware that they have special accessibility needs. It is important for us in tech leadership positions to cater for as many of us as possible and to actively provide alternative content formats. A big thank you to The Analog Dope bookstore for having a selection that is a joy to browse. The book “Disability Visibility” is a fruit of the Disability Visibility Project by Alice Wong.
3. Accessibility course and webinar
Our Moodle Academy course “Introduction to Accessibility” provides many insights about good practice when creating learning materials. Our Certified Integration partner Brickfield Education Labs, focusing on this topic and authors of the accessibility checks that come with Moodle LMS and Moodle Workplace, also covered a lot of the information in the course in a webinar this week.
And that’s all this month! Get ready for the Integrations’ Survey and a new exciting Certified Integration in the field of assessment very soon!!! 😉
Talking Drupal: Talking Drupal #423 – Conflict Resolution Team
Today we are talking about The Conflict Resolution Team, What they do, and Why they do it with guest Mark Casias. We’ll also cover Smart Trim as our module of the week.
For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/423
Topics
- What is the Conflict Resolution Team
- Why is the Conflict Resolution Team needed
- When / Why was the Conflict Resolution Team created
- What kinds of issues does the Conflict Resolution Team deal with
- Do you meet separately from discussing issues
- How do you handle burnout
- How does one become a member
- Why are you a member
- How do you submit an issue to the Conflict Resolution Team
- How many submissions do you get
- Do you have to include the Drupal Association
- Does the DA provide tools
- Does the Conflict Resolution Team need help
- Is there any specific training you look for
- Code of conduct training
- Anything you would like to add
Resources
Hosts
Nic Laflin – nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi – epam.com johnpicozzi Mark Casias – kanopi.com – markie
MOTW Correspondent
Martin Anderson-Clutz – @mandclu Smart Trim
- Brief description:
- Have you ever wanted to truncate provided user text in a more intelligent way than the “summary or trimmed” formatter in Drupal core? There’s a module for that.
- Brief history
- How old: Originally created in Apr 2012
- Versions available: 7.x-1.6 and 2.1.0 versions available, the latter compatible with Drupal 8, 9, and 10
- Maintainership
- Actively maintained
- Number of open issues
- 74, 8 of which are active bugs against the 2.x branch
- Test coverage, using the new GitLab CI
- User guide for documentation
- Usage stats:
- 66,919
- Maintainer(s):
- Friends of the podcast, markie, ultimike, volkswagenchick
- Module features and usage
- Adds a variety of configuration options, in addition to the trim length:
- Whether the length is characters or words
- An optional suffix at the trim point e.g. ellipsis
- Whether or not to add a more link after the trimmed text
- Stripping HTML tags from the trimmed output
- The ability to customize the output even more via twig template override
- Because it works by providing a field formatter it works with entity display but also views, layout builder, and more
- A module I’ve used many times myself and found extremely useful. I haven’t had a chance to try the latest release, but given the recent focus on UI improvements, documentation, and flexibility in the twig template it should be even better than I remember
Added support of Rails 7.1 to actual_db_schema
Closing the 2023 rounds of Deep Dive AI with first draft piece of the Definition of Open Source AI

We are closing out 2023 and the Deep Dive: Defining Open Source AI with a draft Definition v.0.0.3 collaboratively crafted through in-person sessions and online comment contributions. It has been a challenging and rewarding experience. Read further to learn the details of what was done and what is yet to come.
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