User:Nick Freear

Nick is a software/web developer at the Open University UK, working in the Institute of Educational Technology.

He wrote the book Moodle 2 for Teaching 4-9 Year Olds (PacktPub).

• His profile on Moodle.org.
• Nick's blog Freear.org.uk.
• Moodle demo site Freear.org.uk / moodle

Contributed plugins (not written for my day job):

• Calculated Objects question type contributed plugin - Wiki page.
• Timeline Widget filter. See #CONTRIB-2502.
• SimpleSpeak TTS filter - speech-synthesis/ text to speech (TTS) - Nick Freear/SimpleSpeak filter.
  • SimpleSpeak filter on Github
  • (SimpleSpeak filter, on Bitbucket)
• Scratch embed filter - plugins database.
  • Scratch embed on Github
  • (Scratch embod on Bitbucket)
• Interwiki links filter - Github.
• standard_html5 theme/ Moodle 2 - Bitbucket.

Other key contributions/ links:

• Accessibility development for Moodle 1.6-1.9.
• Extended groups and groupings for Moodle 1.8/1.9.
• Moodle search plugins, on Mycroft - 'Moodle code' plugin.