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By dotMagis Editor

Welcome to the Lenten read-along of The Life of Jesus! As we read the first chapters of Andrea Tornielli’s book, consider these questions: Describe an experience from your life in which “time seemed to halt” because of an encounter with the “unidentifiable and indefinable.” Think of a time you abandoned yourself and decided to trust […]

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In The Ignatian Guide to Forgiveness, Marina Berzins McCoy delves into the principles of Ignatian spirituality and uses gentle honesty to lay out 10 steps toward forgiveness.

Pope Francis frequently provides tips for the kinds of priests he hopes to see in the Church. Patrick Hyland considers how Francis’ advice can inspire and challenge us in our own lives and vocations.

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By dotMagis Editor

This post is based on Week One of An Ignatian Prayer Adventure. One of the first movements of the Spiritual Exercises is an experience of God’s unconditional and faithful love for us. St. Ignatius experienced God as personally involved in his life and taught us that God invites us into relationship. He wanted the Exercises […]

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In The Ignatian Guide to Forgiveness, Marina Berzins McCoy delves into the principles of Ignatian spirituality and uses gentle honesty to lay out 10 steps toward forgiveness.

Jesus spent forty days and forty nights in the desert before he began his public ministry, and it prepared him for everything after. Ian Peoples, SJ, reflects on how Lent is a time of retreat and preparation.

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By Marina Berzins McCoy

When we think about the season of Lent, we often consider practices of fasting, prayer, and increased almsgiving. The Catechism says that although fasting is intended as an act of penance (#1434), there are also times in the Gospels when Jesus tells us not to be somber or to make a big display out of […]

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Helping Families Recover from Addiction: Coping, Growing, and Healing through 12-Step Practices and Ignatian Spirituality retells Jean Heaton’s journey “working the steps” as a family member of people with addictions.

Shame and fear are never good reasons to stay away from God. Angelo Canta, S.J., reflects on how shamelessly placing ourselves before the Lord opens pathways to healing.

The post Be a Little More Shameless | One-Minute Homily appeared first on The Jesuit Post.

By Eric Clayton

The high point of our tour through Morocco was always meant to be the camel ride in the desert. The trip was designed that way; it was a big, country-wide loop. We began in the Moroccan port city of Tangier, having arrived from Spain by way of the Strait of Gibraltar. Our tour set out […]

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Helping Families Recover from Addiction: Coping, Growing, and Healing through 12-Step Practices and Ignatian Spirituality retells Jean Heaton’s journey “working the steps” as a family member of people with addictions.

by Sandra Matz.  

We invite you to register for our next Moodle Academy free webinar “Upgrading a Large Moodle Site”, on Wednesday 21st February at 8:00-9:00 UTC. At this webinar, we will welcome Cameron Ball, Senior Architect at Catalyst IT, a Moodle Premium Certified Partner. Catalyst IT is a multi-region software development company that provides enterprise-level services for open source software.

Upgrading Moodle is a challenge at the best of times. With so many interesting plugins out there (not to mention core itself); any upgrade is sure to have some degree of challenge.

In this presentation Cameron will cover Catalyst’s approach for upgrading a huge Moodle installation from 3.9 to 4.1 covering:

• History of this large site;

• Overall approach for the upgrade;

• Codebase audit strategy and techniques;

• Database audit strategy and techniques;

• Data and configuration migration strategy and techniques

Join us for this highly entertaining session, voted number 1 favourite at MoodleMoot Global 2023, as Cameron takes you on their roller coaster ride of a journey to upgrade the largest Moodle in the Southern Hemisphere.

This webinar is part of the course ‘Moodle Academy webinars’. You have to be enrolled in the course to join the webinar.

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The practice of repetition is an important tool used throughout the Spiritual Exercises. Looking back on their shared time in Chicago, Collin and Michael reflect on how we all might learn to better savor the graces in our own lives.

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by Marie Achour.  

Hi Moodlers,

The Moodle Products team recently completed our 3-monthly increment planning process during which we re-assessed our priorities and formalised our delivery plans for the quarter ahead, as well as reviewed our longer-term roadmap.

Our goals for the quarter are aligned with Moodle's Product Vision which is focused on empowering our users to unlock their creativity, facilitate collaboration and optimise their learning & business outcomes.

For Moodle LMS, this means that we will be aiming to:

1. Complete the designs for our new AI Subsystem which will power Moodle’s AI capabilities in the future, with immediate focus on enabling AI-generated content creation and launching embedded tools to support learners.

2. Build our new SMS Subsystem which will enable the enriching of the notifications functionality in Moodle, helping educators and their learners collaborate more effectively and stay informed of key events that impact their learning outcomes.

3. Finalise the changes to our activity icons, with a new colour palette and some new designs that will make it easier for students to easily identify what they are working on.

4. Deliver our new course subsection functionality, providing more flexibility on how courses can be structured in Moodle to make them easier to navigate and provide more options for how content can be presented.

5. Complete the integration of the ‘Ordering Question Type’ plugin into Moodle core, as it is one of our most popular plugins it’s no surprise that this project was chosen by the Moodle User Association.

6. And last but certainly not least, support the release of Moodle LMS 4.4 scheduled for the 22nd of April. 

For Moodle Workplace, this means we will be focused on:

1. Delivering our new Course Catalogue feature, bringing self-directed learning capability to our solution for the first time!

2. Passing our WACG AA accessibility accreditation, certifying Moodle Workplace as best in class against accessibility standards (also for the first time).

Our community developers should also expect to see further developments in support of our ongoing commitment to modernise our software:

1. Updates to the Task API: we will be completing technical enhancements that will make it easier for administrators to manage their sites in the case of task failures and create the foundation for further technical modernisation in the future.

2. Enhancements to the LTI framework: creating more opportunities to leverage the power of this common standard in Moodle.

3. Changes to our Web services & Bootstrap: please watch the videos below for excellent summaries of the work we will be progressing in this space.

4. Focus on Plugin reviews: each of our teams will dedicate time this quarter to review plugins submitted by our community, keep an eye out for feedback and a sharp drop in the queue!

Webservices

Bootstrap

To find out more about these upcoming improvements and to see what we have planned long term, please check out our Public Roadmap. From there, you can follow the links to the Tracker issues for even more details.

Until next increment!

The Moodle Products Team

By Gretchen Crowder

Sometimes it’s easier to invite God into the bad moments than the good ones. I’ve noticed I tend to my friendship with God more intently—this friendship I may have neglected for a time—when stuff has completely fallen apart. Two weeks into January every year, my family celebrates most of our milestones. My boys’ birthdays are […]

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In Lord, You Called Me: Discerning Your Path in Life, Brother Ricardo Grzona, FRP, offers 21 lectio divina encounters with God’s Word.

By dotMagis Editor

Lent is a time for entering more deeply into the profound mysteries of Christ’s life. One of the ways we do this is through direct and daily contact with the Gospels. Join Andrea Tornielli and Sr. Bernadette Reis, FSP, for a prayerful webinar in which they’ll invite us to nourish ourselves with the Word of […]

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In Lord, You Called Me: Discerning Your Path in Life, Brother Ricardo Grzona, FRP, offers 21 lectio divina encounters with God’s Word.

What do St. Paul and St. Ignatius have in common with a salesman? Josef Rodriguez, S.J. reflects on how St. Ignatius helped people find God at work in their lives.

The post St. Paul, St. Ignatius, and Salesmen | One-Minute Homily appeared first on The Jesuit Post.

By dotMagis Editor

In an episode of Pop-Up Prayer, Fr. Andy Alexander, SJ, explains that “Lent is a journey that is about what God wants to give us, and it’s a journey in freedom. It’s a journey in intimacy and relationship.” Fr. Alexander is the Director of the Collaborative Ministries Office and Online Ministries at Creighton University and […]

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In Lord, You Called Me: Discerning Your Path in Life, Brother Ricardo Grzona, FRP, offers 21 lectio divina encounters with God’s Word.

By dotMagis Editor

Ignatian spirituality teaches that God wants to play a role in our decisions and that through discernment we can make decisions that are aligned with God’s will for us. Joe Paprocki introduces steps to discernment in an episode of Pop-Up Catechesis. Joe is the author of more than 20 books, including 8 Steps to Energize […]

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In Lord, You Called Me: Discerning Your Path in Life, Brother Ricardo Grzona, FRP, offers 21 lectio divina encounters with God’s Word.

by Sandra Matz.  

We invite you to register for our next Moodle Academy webinar “Student partnership in assessment”, on Wednesday 7th February at 11:00-12:00 UTC, which is free to attend. At this webinar, we will welcome Rob Lowney, Senior Learning Technologist at Dublin City University.

Involving students as partners in the assessment process helps develop assessment literacy, support student engagement, and recognises students’ agency and their being experts in their own learning. Moreover, it helps support academic integrity and universal design for learning. Technology can play a key role in facilitating assessment partnership between educators and students. This webinar will share the experiences of Dublin City University (DCU) in utilising core and third-party Moodle tools to support assessment partnership, and encourage other educators to adopt these approaches into their own practice.

This webinar is part of the course ‘Moodle Academy webinars’. You have to be enrolled in the course to join the webinar.

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By Gerri Leder

The priest concludes his Sunday homily before the interior doors of the church fling open. Just released from Sunday school, the young children crowd the doorway, preparing to rejoin their parents in the pews. They stand expectantly, bouncing on tippy toes, eyes darting around the church to spot their families. Off they go; the smallest […]

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In Lord, You Called Me: Discerning Your Path in Life, Brother Ricardo Grzona, FRP, offers 21 lectio divina encounters with God’s Word.

Hearts on Fire retreats bring the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius to young people, and make them accessible.

The post Hearts on Fire: Applying the Spiritual Exercises in the 21st Century appeared first on The Jesuit Post.

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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By dotMagis Editor

We don’t 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 […]

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In Lord, You Called Me: Discerning Your Path in Life, Brother Ricardo Grzona, FRP, offers 21 lectio divina encounters with God’s Word.