Archive for the ‘software’ Category

If you are interested in attending one of our workshops on New Media, Moodle or Wikis & Blogs, and you want to visit  either Athens or Ghent at the same time, then quickly fill in our preregistration form. With the support of your National Agency, you can have it all, for free! Free, as in: you would not have to pay for your plane ticket, accommodation, meals, course fee… The deadline for these workshops is January 16 -make sure you make it on time!

The list template takes care of what the list view actually looks like. If you don’t like the list, open up the template and change where appropriately. Do make sure that, if you want to add extra fields or actions to list items, you do put them within the table! Read the rest of this entry »

If you see unexpected things occurring in your database, then you can usually fix the problem by looking at the template. More often than not, the problem is that field codes occur outside the table, which never is a good thing. In this tutorial we’ll show you how you can fix problems like these. We are focussing on the “Add template”, but the procedure is the same for any template really. Good luck!
Read the rest of this entry »

Especially if you have many questions it is advisable you use categories to manage them. In this tutorial we’ll show you how to create categories and how to allocate questions to them.
Read the rest of this entry »

How do you set up a simple quiz in Moodle? These are the basic steps you need to follow -more tutorials on this will follow! Read the rest of this entry »

Today we went to the Acropolis, where we could marvell the wonder that is the Parthenon. For more videos, check our Facebook page.

In the afternoon we’re going to the archaeological museum. Until that time, we’re having great fun with the different options offered by Moodle’s Groups and Groupings.

Joomla is back with a brand new version – 1.6, and it’s become more powerful, offering more control and more options than ever before. Developers will like the fact that the system went through a major code overhaul, making it even better for the production of websites, intranets and other applications for small, medium-sized and large companies. Simplicity is its strength, and with this version the Joomla team have taken a big step forward, staying well ahead of the rest of the competition.

Hundreds of volunteers contributed for months to bring you this wonderful piece of software, which is still freely available as open source software. Thanks a billion, all! Your work is greatly appreciated by this non-profit!

What’s new in Joomla 1.6?

• Better access control for viewing and editiong of content, with definable user groups and access levels.
• A completely user-configurable category structure (no more messing with sections!), allowing for simple or complex, multi-layered categories.
• Improved extension management, allowing you to install several extensions in one simple go, or to update existing extensions with a simple click of the button.
• Improved language support for the development of multilingual websites.
• Configurable start and end dates for the visibility of modules; more control over where modules are visible.
• New templates, and a semantic template markup, pleasing both to the eye and to search engines.
• More creative possibilities thanks to the template styles.
• Hundreds of other new functionalities to improve your workflow and productivity

You’ll understand that we won’t be rolling out a new version of our website just yet – we’ll wait until the application deadline for our Comenius & Grundtvig courses is over, if you don’t mind!

Those wonderful folks at Videolan have released a new version of the VLC Media Player. If you’re using an ATI graphics card, and you’ve got version 10.7 or higher of the Catalyst drivers installed, then VLC can use DxVA2 hardware acceleration as well.

What’s new in 1.1.5:

• 1000 Web-shows listing integrated inside VLC’s playlist, provided by Channels.com
• New Game Music Emu (GME) support
• Windows SMB security issue - VideoLAN-SA-1006
• Major updates in translations, and new translations in Asturian, Armenian and Modern Greek
• Mac/Power-PC port fixed in 1.1.4.1
• live .webm streams support
• GPU HD decoding using Intel IGP on Windows, using DxVA2
• Miscellaneous fixes on all Interfaces, Demuxers and Decoders modules
• Codecs updates

Get it while it’s still hot!

Okay, we know: you use Videolan‘s Media Player VLC (because you know what’s good for you), but what we don’t know is if you’re using Windows as well. If you are, then you might want to upgrade again, because some problems have been fixed:

A bit after the 1.1.3, an important security issue was discovery in most windows applications, and VLC is affected too. Since security issues matters, here is a new release, targeted for the Windows platform!

• Windows Dll loading security issue, in Qt4 and dmo modules – VideoLAN-SA-1005
• Fix for folders opening issue on Windows
• Updated translations

Go and get that upgrade, already!