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It is time for our Summer Moodle upgrade again! On June 27th we will be upgrading to Moodle 3.0.3 (from 2.8). While the number is a big jump the differences in the platform are not too large and so should have a minimal impact on students and staff. Most of the improvements, bug fixes and security updates are internal and will not be directly...

This is an overview of how we are able to make some of our 'mobile' apps available to students directly from within Moodle. The benefit to students is that they have an opportunity to utilise the rich functionality these apps have to offer...

Continuing the overviews of our apps, here is BRISC (the “BRookes Individual Skills Catcher” app). This has been developed in conjunction with the Faculty of Business but it could be invaluable to any Brookes student. The app is designed...

Use case Periodically we need to carry out maintenance or updates to our Moodle platform hosted at ULCC. We try to only do these, especially if they pose risk to the service, during our ‘at risk’ times on Tuesday mornings 07:00 - 09:00. In...