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Join us for the Moodle Academy webinar “Moodle Qualifications: Empowering Educators and Administrators” on Tuesday 21 January, 10:00 UTC

Posted on by Michael G
by Sandra Matz.  

We invite you to join us for this free webinar, on Tuesday 21 January at 10:00-11:00 UTC, to discover the rebranded Moodle Educator Qualification (MEQ), previously known as Moodle Educator Certification (MEC) and the new Moodle Administrator Qualification (MAQ). Designed for educators and administrators, this session will provide an in-depth overview of these globally recognised programs. Whether you’re an educator seeking to validate and showcase your Moodle teaching skills or an administrator looking to demonstrate your proficiency in managing Moodle sites, this webinar will equip you with everything you need to get started with Moodle Qualifications.

This webinar is part of the course ‘Moodle Academy webinars‘. You have to be enrolled in this free course to register and join the webinar.

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Join us for the Moodle Academy webinar “Moodle Qualifications: Empowering Educators and Administrators” on Tuesday 21 January, 10:00 UTC

ComputerMinds.co.uk: Views Data Export: Sprint 2 Summary

Posted on by Michael G

I’ve started working on maintaining Views Data Export again.

I’ve decided to document my work in 2 week ‘sprints’. And so this article is about what I did in Sprint 2.

Sprint progress

At the start of the sprint in the Drupal.org issue queue there were:

  • 91 open bugs
  • 17 fixed issues.
  • 81 other open issues

That’s a total of 189 open issues.

By the end it looked like this:

  • 48 open bugs
  • 4 fixed issues.
  • 63 other open issues

So that’s a total of 115 open issues, a 39% reduction from before!

Key goals

In this sprint I wanted to:

  • Get the project page updated with information relevant to Drupal 8.x-1.x version of the module
  • Not have any support requests untouched in 1 month. I.e. basically be dealing with all support requests.

The project page

I did a bit of a light edit on the page to bring it up to date, using information from the README file and the existing project page. It still needs some work, but as we get the project in a better state we can revisit and sort things out as needed.

Support requests

I went through all the support requests and tried to helpfully close them down. Some of them changed to bugs or feature requests. Most were simply hideously out of date and just needed closing down sadly. But, they were mostly noise in the issue queue rather than helpful things.

After I did support requests, I started the process of going through all the open bugs and closing down the ones that weren’t going to be solved or asking for more information about the ones that we can/should solve. I opened all 91 in one go and promptly got myself blocked from accessing Drupal.org for a few minutes, which was a bit annoying, but I got access back and then went through them slowly. I didn’t manage to get through them all in this sprint, but hopefully we’ll get there in the next sprint!

Future roadmap/goals

I’m not committing myself to doing these exactly, or any particular order, but this is my high-level list of hopes/dreams/desires, I’ll copy and paste this to the next sprint summary article as I go and adjust as required.

  • Update the documentation on Drupal.org
  • Not have any duplicate issues on Drupal.org

HDMI 2.2 will require new “Ultra96” cables, whenever we have 8K TVs and content

Posted on by Michael G
We’ve all had a good seven years to figure out why our interconnected devices refused to work properly with the HDMI 2.1 specification. The HDMI Forum announced at CES today that it’s time to start considering new headaches. HDMI 2.2 will require new cables for full compatibility, but it has the same physical connectors. Tiny QR codes are suggested to help with that, however. The new specification is named HDMI 2.2, but compatible cables will carry an “Ultra96” marker to indicate that they can carry 96GBps, double the 48 of HDMI 2.1b. The Forum anticipates this will result in higher resolutions and refresh rates and a “next-gen HDMI Fixed Rate Link.” The Forum cited “AR/VR/MR, spatial reality, and light field displays” as benefiting from increased bandwidth, along with medical imaging and machine vision. ↫ Kevin Purdey at Ars Technica I’m sure this will not pose any problems whatsoever, and that no shady no-name manufacturers will abuse this situation at all. DisplayPort is the better standard and connector anyway. No, I will not be taking questions.