Jesus's authority isn't only about rules. Noah Banasiewicz reflects on how it's about helping us make a true interior transformation.
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We donât want the Examen to become rote and routine. Fr. Mark Thibodeaux, SJ, thinks that as long as we make it an experience of prayer and are looking at past, present, and future, there are many ways to pray the Examen. Listen to him speak about keeping the Examen fresh in the audio clip [âŠ]
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In Lord, You Called Me: Discerning Your Path in Life, Brother Ricardo Grzona, FRP, offers 21 lectio divina encounters with Godâs Word.
Ash Wednesday is February 14, 2024, so today weâre highlighting just a few of the many Ignatian-inspired features designed to help you observe Lent. The Life of Jesus Lenten Read-Along Plan now to join the 2024 Lenten read-along with Loyola Press. Weâll be reading The Life of Jesus by Andrea Tornielli. The Life of Jesus [âŠ]
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In Lord, You Called Me: Discerning Your Path in Life, Brother Ricardo Grzona, FRP, offers 21 lectio divina encounters with Godâs Word.
Fr. Kevin OâBrien, SJ, encourages individuals who feel lonely to try converting loneliness to solitude. He says, âYou might find in those times of solitude resources you have not realized yet that are deep within you and ways of looking at the world which lead you to connection in new ways.â Fr. OâBrien is the [âŠ]
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Finding God in the Mess by Jim Deeds and Brendan McManus, SJ, is the perfect tool to help us learn to pause, to take time to be with God, to contemplate our lives, and to recognize Godâs presence in all of it, especially the hard times.
Jesus calls all people to follow him. Carlos Martinez-Vela, S.J., reflects on the call of the apostles, which is the call that all people of faith receive from Christ.
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The Ball of Red String by Marlene Halpin, O.P., is a classic guided meditation for children that takes little ones on an imaginative journey to a quiet place where they meet Jesus. The book is out in a new edition illustrated by Carrie Schuler. Now more than ever, amid endless screens and sensory overload, we [âŠ]
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Finding God in the Mess by Jim Deeds and Brendan McManus, SJ, is the perfect tool to help us learn to pause, to take time to be with God, to contemplate our lives, and to recognize Godâs presence in all of it, especially the hard times.
We invite you to register for this free webinar âImproving Moodle through UX research and data analysisâ on Thursday 25th January at 10:00-11:00 UTC. At this session, we will welcome Eliot Hoving and Stuart Lamour at UCL.
UCL Moodle is one of the biggest Moodle installations in Europe. It provides an essential arena for the teaching and learning of UCLâs 51,000 students and 16,000 staff. It is also an incredibly complex Moodle that combines third party cloud infrastructure, third party development, around 200 plugins, some local and some from the community, and internal Agile based development.
In order to upgrade from Moodle 3.11 to Moodle 4.2 in 2023, the central Moodle team engaged in a process of UX and data-led discovery and analysis to re-design its landing page, dashboard, and identify areas for future course format and plugin development. Many of the results were surprising and revealed the importance of continually engaging with end users when trying to evaluate and roadmap Moodle development.
In this webinar, our invited speakers will outline the methods of UX and data analysis used at UCL and the results. They will further show how these methods can be adapted at other institutions looking to improve their Moodle.
This webinar is part of the course âMoodle Academy webinarsâ. You have to be enrolled in the course to join the webinar.
Hello Moodlers,
Welcome to this edition of âShowcase Shortsâ and happy New Year to you all!
Like many of you, our teams took some time over the last few weeks to celebrate the festive season with their friends and family, but somehow still managed to smash out a ton of work!
We made great progress on delivering our Moodle Product Vision, which focuses on empowering you for life and delivering improvements designed to help you unlock your creativity, help facilitate collaboration and optimise your business & learning outcomes.
We are excited to share a few highlights of our recent efforts with you!
Custom Domains are coming to MoodleCloud
We are happy to announce that Custom Domains are coming to MoodleCloud. Providing our MoodleCloud Plan users with the opportunity to use their own domain name, this is one of our most highly voted new feature requests and we are thrilled to say that itâs almost here.
Another Plugin will be available in Moodle Mobile Apps
In a wonderful example of collaboration with our Moodle Community, the âmod_checklistâ plugin will soon be supported in our Mobile Applications. This will mean that all the plugins available to our MoodleCloud Plan users will also be available in our app for the first time, rounding out the proposition for those users.
Course creation is getting simpler
Weâve been thinking about how we can make creating course content in Moodle easier and help our users get creative. We started some deep dive research in this space to help us better understand how educators and learning designers create courses, what they need from the process and how we can make it better for them.
Weâve also been working hard on improving how courses can be structured in Moodle to make them easier to navigate and provide more options for how content can be presented.
Our most commonly used functions are getting better
Our activity icons and one of the most used functionalities in Moodle, the Activity Chooser, are getting a face lift. These changes are designed to help educators more quickly pick the right activities to include in their courses and make it easier for students to identify what they are working on easily.
We are also improving the functionality provided in our âBrowse User Listâ page to make managing users faster and simpler. These updates will be incredibly helpful to Moodle Administrators who use this functionality day in and day out.
And, we continue our journey to enhance the functionality provided by our Plugin Directory, making it easier to search, find and select the right plugin for your Moodle implementations.
Activity Icons & Chooser Updates
More opportunities to learn Moodle are here
Weâve launched a brand new âMoodle for Learnersâ Course on Moodle Academy, with functionality built in allowing the customisation of the course content for your own Moodle implementation. Weâve also got a bunch of new Webinars coming and are getting ready to launch our new Moodle Developer course soon too.
Thatâs it for this edition of our âShowcase Shortsâ, we hope youâve enjoyed the updates.
Until Next Sprint!
The Moodle Products Team
A family member recently remarked to me that now that New Yearâs celebrations are over, and both Christmas and seasonal fall activities are over, itâs harder to imagine getting back to the daily routine. Here in the northeast it is cold and gray everywhere: gray in the sky, gray in city buildings, and gray roads [âŠ]
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Finding God in the Mess by Jim Deeds and Brendan McManus, SJ, is the perfect tool to help us learn to pause, to take time to be with God, to contemplate our lives, and to recognize Godâs presence in all of it, especially the hard times.
I strive for distractions-free prayer spaces, and I was sure the stateroom balcony on our once-in-a-lifetime cruise would be such a place. A monotonous horizon of water stretched in every direction. I had nowhere to be, no agenda, and as much time as I desired. Yet my brain refused to settle. Distracting thoughts disturbed my [âŠ]
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Experiencing God in the Ordinary by William A. Barry, SJ, nurtures our hope that God is always present and can be found in an ordinary day.
We don't become Jesus's disciples all on our own. Angelo Canta, SJ, reflects on how God works through the people around us to help us draw closer to the Lord.
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Ignatiusâs worldview did not include an awareness of social sin. He did not identify the unjust structures of society as embodiments of sin, nor did he think of sin in communal or relational terms. Ignatiusâs understanding of sin would have been more individual and act-oriented. His own battles with scrupulosity taught him that obsessing with [âŠ]
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Experiencing God in the Ordinary by William A. Barry, SJ, nurtures our hope that God is always present and can be found in an ordinary day.
In an episode of Pop-Up Prayer, Fr. Brice Higginbotham shares thoughts about listening for Godâs voice in the silence and predisposing ourselves to prayer. Fr. Higginbotham is the author of Remaining with Jesus: Discipleship in the Gospel of John.
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Experiencing God in the Ordinary by William A. Barry, SJ, nurtures our hope that God is always present and can be found in an ordinary day.
Dear Moodlers,
Happy New Year! I wish all of you, all over the world, a fantastic year ahead, filled with success, happiness, and countless moments of joy with Moodle.
As I prepare to conclude my journey as the Community Engagement Lead for Moodle HQ on Wednesday, I wanted to take a moment to express my gratitude to my amazing team and to every one of you.
While my focus will soon shift to a role outside the Moodle sphere, my connection to the Moodle community remains strong. I intend to stay engaged in various Moodle-based activities in my free time. I'll remain a member of the MUA and moodle.org, take part in the PAG, as well as continue work on a personal project (involving user tours) that I'm eager to continue.
I also want to share the exciting news that Olga Koenig will be taking over my role as the new Community Sites Manager. I have every confidence that Olga, leading the Community sites team, will continue to strengthen the community and uphold the values that make Moodle such a great project.
Thank you all for your support, dedication, and commitment to the Moodle project. Your contributions and collaboration are what make this global community so vibrant and impactful. It's your passion and commitment that make Moodle what it is today and what it becomes tomorrow.
Best wishes, and much Moodle love to all!
Aurélie
Community Engagement Lead, Moodle HQ
P.S: I leave you with this Scottish song which traditionally marks the new year, but also refers to friends who recall the good old times. It resonates especially as I will keep my last 15 months at Moodle HQ, and the people I met along the way, a dear memory, and hope to see many of you again soon.
'Ce n'est qu'un au revoir.'
By Eric Clayton
The start of a new year is inevitably a moment of transition. And transitions can be challenging. Excitement for the new collides with nostalgia for whatâs already gone. Possibility and potential meet with regret and missed opportunity. A sense of what was good in the past seems all but impossible to rediscover and reclaim in [âŠ]
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Experiencing God in the Ordinary by William A. Barry, SJ, nurtures our hope that God is always present and can be found in an ordinary day.
Reflecting on mothers and newborn children can deepen our spiritual understanding of the coming of Emmanuel at Christmas.
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We invite you to register for the first Moodle Academy webinar of the year âGenerative AI and H5Pâ on Thursday 18th January at 9:00-10:00 UTC, which is free to attend.
In this session, we are delighted to host Svein-Tore Griff With, the founder of H5P, to take us through the process of creating H5P content in a fraction of the time it used to take with the help of generative AI. Svein-Tore will demonstrate how you can create fully fledged interactive courses in minutes with H5P.
This webinar is part of the course âMoodle Academy webinarsâ. You have to be enrolled in the course to join the webinar.
Register at Moodle Academy.Jesus revealed himself as the Savior of the world. Ian Peoples, SJ, reflects on how this last Sunday of the Christmas Season we celebrate how Jesus uplifts the true, the good, and the beautiful of every ethnicity, culture, and language.
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In January 2023, the Lord invited me to hope. At the time, I faced a long journey ahead of rebuilding myself, body and soul, so I was a little afraid to hope. I did not want to be surprised again by challenges I didnât anticipate. I did not want to feel my hope wasnât enough. [âŠ]
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Experiencing God in the Ordinary by William A. Barry, SJ, nurtures our hope that God is always present and can be found in an ordinary day.
As we begin a new year, I pray, as I do every year, for God to reveal to me something heâd like me to meditate on in the coming year. What does God want me to learn? And where does he want me to grow? In past years, God has revealed joy (2022) and fearless [âŠ]
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In The Inner Chapel: Embracing the Promises of God, Becky Eldredge introduces readers to the sacred place within each person where God wants to love us unconditionally.