GHOP/2007

A list of tasks completed in the Google Highly Open Participation Contest for Moodle in 2007/2008.

Thanks to Google for giving participants the opportunity to learn more about and contribute to many aspects of open source software development!

Note: This list is not yet complete. Search for all issues here: http://code.google.com/p/google-highly-open-participation-moodle/issues/list for the full list.

Database presets

• Database preset for document sharing - by Rowan Chakoumakos
• Dictionary-style database preset- by Arthus Erea
• Encyclopedia database preset - by Arthus Erea
• FAQ database preset - by Steve Y

Documentation translation

• German - Michael Bahr
• Czech - Milan Bárta
• Brazilian Portuguese - Gustavo Brasil
• Polish - Grzegorz Burda
• Brazilian Portuguese - Fernando A. Damião
• Hungarian - Bertalan Fodor
• Dutch - Thomas Goossens
• Polish - Szymon Kałasz
• Polish - Konrad Malawski
• Czech - Milan Mišák
• Portuguese - Marconi Poveda
• Polish - Michał Szyda
• Portuguese - Bernardo Trigo
• Dutch - Peter Wuyts

Language pack improvements

• Indonesian - Fajrin Azis
• Thai - by Pat B
• Polish - by gadulix
• Polish - by Szymon Kałasz
• Latvian - by Ivan Ribakov
• Hindi - by Stallon Selvan

Moodle brochures

• Moodle for students PDF - by Jesse Crawford
• Moodle for staff PDF - by Gustavo Brasil

Moodle documentation

• Development:Using XMLDB - by Pat B
• Activity report - by Max H
• Hotpot reports - by Rebecca Hermel
• POP3 server authentication - by Ujjwol Lamichhane
• How to easily make your Moodle theme - by Tyler Menezes
• Windows installation using XAMPP - by Nimish Telang
• Calendar export - by Sam Whittred
• Calendar preferences - by Sam Whittred
• Glossary settings - by Sam Whittred
• General grade settings - by Kevin Xu
• Grade item settings - by Kevin Xu
• Edit grade calculation - by Kevin Xu

Moodle presentations

• OpenOffice.org presentation (Indonesian) - by Fajrin Azis
• OpenOffice.org presentation (Thai) - by Pat B
• OpenOffice.org presentation (Portuguese Brazilian) - by Gustavo Brasil
• OpenOffice.org Moodle 1.9 presentation (English) - by Perry Huang

(Presentations in other formats are available for download from Moodle presentations.)

New language packs

• Latin - by Nicholas Sinnott-Armstrong

Selenium scripts

• Creating a quiz - by Pat B
• Creating site-wide outcomes - by Pat B
• Creating a new forum - by Aaron P

Themes

• Green - Piotr Bejda
• Mountdesales - Andre Bernal
• LHS - by Jim Bim
• Colegio Brasileiro - by Gustavo Brasil
• LO8 - czmichal
• ETEMA - Fernando A. Damião
• RedMoon - by Arthus Erea
• Yulagirls - by Rebecca Hermel
• Green theme - Tyler Menezes

Video tutorials

• How to keep online notes about people - by Clay Allsopp
• How to poll students using the choice module - by Michal Bejda
• How to edit a course page using AJAX - by Andre Bernal
• Effects of the general grade settings - by Andre Bernal
• How to set up and use groups and groupings - by Andre Bernal
• How to set up and use filters - by Andre Bernal
• Course activity and participation reports - by Rowan Chakoumakos
• How to enable teachers to override permissions - by Rowan Chakoumakos
• How to set a category theme - by Rowan Chakoumakos
• How to changing a word or phrase in Moodle - by Rowan Chakoumakos
• Different ways of monitoring student activity - by Rowan Chakoumakos
• How to use the grade item settings and grade letters at admin level - by Rowan Chakoumakos
• How to give a user the rights to moderate a forum- by Rowan Chakoumakos
• How to set up a lesson activity - by Andreas Freund
• How to install contrib modules into Moodle - by Neil Gupta
• Course backups - by David Kahn
• How to enable students to rate posts in a particular forum - by David Kahn
• How to restore a course backup file - by David Kahn
• Bulk user actions - by Szymon Kałasz
• Grade category settings - by Szymon Kałasz
• How to post to a forum - by Vladimir Kirillov
• The Moodle calendar - by Konrad Malawski
• How to set up the gradebook - by Konrad Malawski
• How to create and use a survey - by Tyler Menezes
• How to create an inspector role in Moodle - by David Mestel
• How to hide a block from guests - by Aaron P
• How to export grades from the gradebook - by Kevin Walter
• RSS feeds and how to add them to your course - by Kevin Xu
• Tags and how they work in Moodle for social networking - by Kevin Xu
• How to use gradebook site settings and defaults - by Kevin Xu
• How to set up calculations in the gradebook (basic) - by Kevin Xu
• How to set up calculations in the gradebook (advanced) - by Kevin Xu
• How to change the display of grades in the gradebook - by Kevin Xu

Other

• Develop a patch to improve the performance of restoring courses - by Pat B
• Jmol filter internationalization - by Szymon Kałasz