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Moodle CLAMP Project – New Liberal Arts Edition released for October 2023

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Jaswinder Singh
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Moodle CLAMP Project - New Liberal Arts Edition released
Moodle CLAMP Project - New Liberal Arts Edition released

CLAMP project is a group of colleges and universities who collaborate to develop and support Moodle, with an eye toward the issues unique to a liberal arts environment. The CLAMP project has released five new LAE versions for October 2023.

The CLAMP project released five new LAE versions for October 2023. The next major release is scheduled for December 2023. The team will evaluate the Moodle 4.3 in Winter Hackfest in January 2024.

All the five LAE versions released are maintenance releases without any new feature addition. You can find out more details for each version in the release notes below:

Moodle Hack/Doc Fest, Winter 2024

The Moodle hack/doc fest Winter 2023 will take place from January 9-11, 2024 at Connecticut College in New London, Connecticut. You can register for it through this link.

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Spanish Recruitment Startup Workfully Raises $1.27M in Seed Round

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Jaswinder Singh
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Spanish Recruitment Startup Workfully Raises $1.27M in Seed Round
Spanish Recruitment Startup Workfully Raises $1.27M in Seed Round

Workfully, a recruitment startup based in Barcelona, Spain, that enables innovation-led companies to hire and upskill individuals worldwide has raised $1.27 million (€1.2 million) in a seed round. With this round of funding, the firm plans to continue product development and fuel its expansion goals, ultimately empowering more recruiters worldwide to work for themselves with true flexibility while better serving the job market.

Workfully was founded in 2021 with the aim of creating the most trusted recruitment experience in the world and becoming the creator platform for a new recruiting economy. The platform connects experienced talent partners from around the world. Users can hire more efficiently and transparently through shared data sets, market analysis and in-country expertise. The company has served companies in industries such as Biotech, Crypto, DeepTech, eCommerce, Fintech, MarketPlaces, SaaS, and TravelTech.

Speaking about the platform, Co-founder & CEO of Workfully, Valerio Rossi, said:

We believe that building a recruiting business in the future will look much more like being a content creator: starting on a platform like Workfully, building an audience and then monetizing that audience in-platform.

Stefano Tacconi, Co-founder & CCO of Workfully, added:

The company aims to not only empower recruiters to place senior candidates into enterprise companies but, in some cases, to give high potential candidates with no technical skills the training needed to access higher-paying positions.

Workfully grew organically during 2022, signing significant deals with enterprises and VC-backed unicorns such as FreeNow, TravelPerk, Blackberry, Lamborghini and Accenture, among others, allowing them to scale their recruitment operations globally. The organizations have used the platform to recruit hundreds of key senior positions, including about 100 candidates from underrepresented groups who were upskilled to join well-known tech institutions. With this investment, Workfully will also allow the startup to move even further, helping many more companies get the talent needed to thrive in their business.

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Moodle Admins – Keep completion details of user account by merging two accounts

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Jaswinder Singh
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Moodle Admins - Keep completion details of user account by merging two accounts
Moodle Admins - Keep completion details of user account by merging two accounts

Moodle Admins often face a peculiar problem when they receive complaints from students that they completed some course activities with their other user account. This may lead to a problem that the completion details are available for two different user accounts. But the students expects that to show for only their main account. In this post we will see how you can merge two user accounts to keep completion details.

The Merge User Accounts plugin comes to the rescue of Moodle administrators in this specific problem. The Moodle plugin allows you to merge two Moodle user accounts into one account.

The intent of the plugin is to assign all activity & records from user A to user B. This will give the effect of user B seeming to have done everything both users have ever done in Moodle.

You can download the Merge User Accounts plugin from the official plugins repository here. Before installation, you are recommended to take a backup of your Moodle site. The basic function of the plugin is to loop through the tables and update the userid of every record from user A to user B. That will help you to restore the state before any merging action was done.

You need to go to Site Administration > Plugins > Admin Tools > Merge User Accounts. The plugin has the option to suspend old user, how to resolve quiz attempts etc. Once you are done, just click save changes to save plugin settings.

To merge the user accounts, go to Site Administration > user > merge user accounts. Just search for the user and select the criteria for search. Under show more, you can choose which user ID to be removed and which user ID to be kept.

What are the other useful tools which you are using to tackle such issues? Please share with us in the comments section below.

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Bangladesh’s Edtech Platform 10 Minute School Raises $5.5M in Pre-Series A Round

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Jaswinder Singh
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Bangladesh's Educational Platform 10 Minute School Raises $5.5M in Pre-Series A Round
Bangladesh's Educational Platform 10 Minute School Raises $5.5M in Pre-Series A Round

10 Minute School, a leading K12 and skills development EdTech platform in Bangladesh, has announced that it has raised $5.5 million (Tk 61 crore) in its pre-Series A round led by venture capital firm Conjunction Capital.

With this funding, 10 Minute School hopes to expand its technological capabilities, content, and operations. It also aims to provide personalized learning experiences for students by using AI, and it will bring in more engineers and product managers to support its tech development.

Co-founded by Abdullah Abyad Raied, Ayman Sadiq, and Mirza Salman Hossain, 10 Minute School provides live-streamed classes for K12 students, as well as pre-recorded lectures, university admission test prep, and personalized quizzes, among other content, through a smartphone app. The platform currently has over 35,000 recorded video courses, over 82,000 quizzes, and resources such as practice tests, ebooks, and lecture notes covering the national curriculum. 52% of its students come from rural and semi-urban areas outside Dhaka, and 34% are female (addressing gender gaps in education is one of 10MS’s priorities). The company aims to deliver high-quality and affordable education to millions of students nationwide.

Speaking on the fundraising, Co-founder and CEO of 10 Minute School, Ayman Sadiq, said:

At 10 Minute School, our vision has always been to democratize education. This funding not only validates our mission but also fuels our efforts to create a lasting impact on the K12 and skills development landscape in Bangladesh. With the support of our investors joining this round, we are poised to reach even greater heights and empower the future of our nation for a Smart Bangladesh as part of Vision 2041.

As Bangladesh’s largest online learning platform, the startup believes in the limitless possibilities of truly educated and skilled human beings. Since its inception in 2015, 10 Minute School has been committed to revolutionizing education accessibility, bridging the gap between traditional learning methods and the digital age.

Adding further about the investment, Mirza Salman Hossain Beg, Co-founder & COO of 10 Minute School, said:

Fundraising amid a VC winter and a global economic downturn was an incredibly challenging experience that tested our resilience as founders. It was a humbling yet character-building exercise that reinforced our belief in the transformative power of education. We’re grateful to our investors for recognizing our potential and joining us on this journey to make quality education accessible to all while we build an enduring business.

 

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Moodle Community – Test the Beta version of Moodle Mobile App for Moodle 4.3

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Jaswinder Singh
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Moodle Community - Test the Beta version of Moodle Mobile App for Moodle 4.3
Moodle Community - Test the Beta version of Moodle Mobile App for Moodle 4.3

This week we saw the latest version of Moodle LMS i.e. Moodle 4.3 released with a lot of exciting new features. Next, the Moodle Mobile App 4.3 is almost ready for the release. The beta version of Moodle Mobile App 4.3 is ready for testing.

In a recent announcement on Moodle Forums, Juan Leyva – the developer of the official Mobile app, mentioned for the community feedback about the new Moodle Mobile App 4.3 App.

The new beta version is available for both Android as well as iOS devices. You can download the beta version of the apps from Android or iOS links.

For testing, you need to download the app and then test out your Moodle site as a regular user and complete learning activities. Afterwards, please share your feedback with the Moodle team through this Beta Testing Feedback survey. You can also share the app to your students for testing.

Have you upgraded your Moodle site to Moodle 4.3 version? If you need any help in upgrading, please feel free to post your comments below.

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360Learning Acquires AI-Driven Skills Management Platform eLamp

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Jaswinder Singh
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360Learning Acquires AI-Driven Skills Management Platform eLamp
360Learning Acquires AI-Driven Skills Management Platform eLamp

360Learning, a French-founded US-based corporate learning platform, has acquired eLamp, an AI-powered skills management platform. This deal is part of 360Learning’s aim to become the go-to learning platform for global enterprises looking to reskill and upskill their employees from within.

Following the acquisition of eLamp, 360Learning will integrate the company’s technology into its platform, enabling skills-based capabilities to address the ongoing difficulties that modern organizations face through upskilling and reskilling. Companies can offer the correct skills-based learning to the right employee at the right time with this seamless connectivity between skills-based initiatives and 360Learning’s advanced learning experience platform while tracking emerging skill gaps in dedicated dashboards.

eLamp, founded in 2015, is aimed towards the manufacturing and high-tech industries. Its client list includes Artelia and Bouygues Construction and nuclear company, Naval Group – due to its construction and engineering skills sector expertise.

Speaking on the acquisition, Co-founder & CEO of 360Learning, Nick Hernandez, said:

The recent progress in AI makes a dynamic approach to mapping employee skills now possible. It’s revolutionizing how companies think about skills and learning. With our acquisition of eLamp, 360Learning is the first learning vendor to integrate the whole value chain of upskilling on one platform, from understanding skill gaps to designing and delivering the right training plan that optimizes each employee’s career evolution. Unlike lagging skill matrixes of the past, AI now does it for you in real-time. It’s the biggest revolution in the history of HRTech.

Olivier Rohou, Co-founder & CEO of eLamp, added:

Over the last eight years, we’ve built and successfully deployed skills management workflows for companies of all sizes. We have become experts on skills and how to leverage the latest advances in AI to understand skills at scale. What’s exciting with 360Learning’s acquisition is that we’ll fully unlock the value of becoming a skills-based organization – from understanding skill gaps to launching upskilling and reskilling initiatives powered by collaborative learning. Our customers have been clamouring for it, and we’re delivering it. We need to learn new skills and know what those skills are to receive the proper education – it’s a perfect match.

With this deal, 360Learning is taking AI one step further with skills-based learning. When combined with collaborative learning, L&D teams can spot content gaps in their skills-based learning paths and identify the best internal experts to develop this content.

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What is Multi-Factor Authentication in Moodle 4.3 – A detailed look

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Jaswinder Singh
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What is Multi-Factor Authentication in Moodle 4.3 - A detailed look
What is Multi-Factor Authentication in Moodle 4.3 - A detailed look

Moodle 4.3 – the new version of the Moodle LMS has been released recently which includes a lot of exciting new features. There are many new features like New Activity Cards redesign, default site & course based activity completion settings & multi-factor authentication. In this post we will discuss about the Multi factor authentication.

The Multi factor authentication is an authentication method that requires the user to provide two or more verification factors to gain access to an online account. This type of authentication is used across online portals to increase security.

Earlier, Moodle has the option to add Multi factor authentication (MFA) by using the Moodle plugins. However, in Moodle 4.3 the authentication option is added in the core.

As a Moodle administrator, you can enable the Multi factor authentication on your Moodle site from Site administration > Plugins > Admin tools > Manage multi-factor authentication. You can also select the ‘factors’ which must satisfy in order to login.

You can also set the factors to include quite complex and flexible rules like cohorts, email, user capability etc. For more details, please refer to the official documentation here.

What are the other new features in Moodle 4.3 which makes you excited? Please share with us in the comments section below.

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Career Acceleration Platform TAPCareers Raises $1M in Seed Funding

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Jaswinder Singh
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Career Acceleration Platform TAPCareers Raises $1M in Seed Funding
Career Acceleration Platform TAPCareers Raises $1M in Seed Funding

TAPCareers, a Dutch-Palestinian EdTech and career acceleration platform designed to unlock remote job opportunities for youth in MENA, has raised $1 million in a seed funding round led by Wamda Capital with participation from the World Bank, Loyal VC, and other angel investors.

Co-founded in 2018 by Jafar Shunnar and Christian Vezjak, TAPCareers bridges the gap between marginalized populations and the tech sector. The platform offers skills upgrading and development opportunities — 10 weeks of online education — to students and connects companies — mainly in Germany, the Netherlands, and Spain — to a pool of trained and vetted graduates. While being mentored by industry experts, TAP learners enhance and deepen market-relevant digital skills and improve their power skills before they are connected with international employers to work remotely.

Speaking about the company, Co-founder & CEO of TAPCareers, Christian Vezjak, said:

We plan to turn TAP into an ecosystem where thousands of jobs are created, enabling high-potential youth to access the opportunities they deserve.

The Startup has partnered with the Swiss Development and Cooperation Agency and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to create jobs. It has imparted training to more than 100 students in one year, intending to place more than 1,000 graduates on jobs yearly. The firm is currently operational in Palestine where 40% of graduates and 60% of women under 30 are unemployed.

In 2019, the founders launched Kiitos, a software house spotlighting underrepresented Palestinian software engineers in the global tech market. Over time, Kiitos transformed itself from a job provider to a platform for accelerating talent. In 2020, the Talent Acceleration Platform (TAP) emerged within Kiitos to fast-track trainees for roles at international companies. When they began requesting Kiitos-trained talent for other tech roles, TAP took off as its own firm.

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Lost Admin rights on your Moodle Site – Assign admin role to other user

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Jaswinder Singh
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Lost Admin rights on your Moodle Site – Assign admin role to other user
Lost Admin rights on your Moodle Site – Assign admin role to other user

While upgrading the Moodle LMS to a new version or testing a new plugin on your site, there  may be chances when you might have accidentally lost access to your admin account. And you couldn’t reset it without any means like the forget password option also not working. In this post we will see how you can assign admin role to any user in your Moodle.

While testing an authentication plugin on my development Moodle, I was also stuck up with no login for my admin account. Luckily, I have another test user with a student role, so by using the tip mentioned below, I was able to upgrade the student account as an admin and later recovered my main admin account.

However, in order to use this handy tip, you need to make sure that you know the ID of the new user whom you want to elevate as site admin.In case you don’t know the ID of the user, then you can find it out from the Moodle database in table mdl_user (where mdl is your database prefix).

Lost Admin rights on your Moodle Site – Assign admin role to other user
Add this line in config.php file

Once you are having the ID, then follow the steps below:

  • Navigate to Config.php file of your Moodle site (it is located in the root directory of your Moodle site)
  • Now, open the file in a text editor like Notepad etc.
  • Add the following line in your config.php file where 2 is the original admin user established when first installing, and [yourotheradminid] the ID number of the other user you setup as admin levels –
$CFG->siteadmins='2,[yourotheradminid]';
  • Save your config.php file and login with your student credentials. You will see the admin privileges.

What are the other handy tips you have to share with the Moodle community? Please let us know in the comments section below.

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San Francisco-Based Class Companion Raises $4M to Enhance the Teacher Experience

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Jaswinder Singh
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San Francisco-Based Class Companion Raises $4M to Enhance the Teacher Experience
San Francisco-Based Class Companion Raises $4M to Enhance the Teacher Experience

Class Companion, an emerging AI platform that enables teachers to provide fast, personalized feedback to students, recently announced a $4 million seed round led by Index Ventures, with participation from the OpenAI Startup Fund and notable angel investors.

With this round of funding, the San Francisco-based company intends to improve the teacher experience and expand the team as teachers use their expertise to shape AI to help students learn in new and exciting ways.

Class Companion, co-founded by Avery Pan and Jack Forbes, empowers teachers to give instant feedback and support students to learn at their own pace. Thousands of teachers use the AI platform to create assignments, engage students, generate feedback, and gain insights into progress. In addition to detailed feedback, the platform provides hints and contextual knowledge, modification suggestions, and progress recognition. Teachers have complete control over the process and can override the AI to have the final say.

Speaking about the platform, Co-founder & CEO of Class Companion, Avery Pan, said:

If we want to use AI to improve education, we need more teachers at the table. Teachers design Class Companion for teachers to harness the most sophisticated AI and improve their classroom experience. Developing technologies specifically for teachers is imperative to supporting the next generation of students and the education system.

With Class Companion, teachers can focus more energy on group discussion, individual instruction, and lesson planning—all of which are informed by the quality and volume of feedback the platform provides. The startup uniquely supports teachers by enabling them to customize their end-to-end experience, including assignments, rubrics, and insights into each student’s learning.

Thousands of teachers using Class Companion have observed faster learning, more motivated students, and a better understanding of what their students do and don’t comprehend so that they can modify their instruction accordingly. At the same time, students love the platform since it makes learning more enjoyable. They no longer have to wait a week for the task to be returned, by which time they have forgotten about it.

Nina Achadjian, Partner, Index Ventures, commented:

Class Companion has created a seamless way for teachers to leverage cutting-edge AI technology that gives them and their students a far better school experience. Avery and the team have built trust with teachers, students, and parents, delighting them with an easy-to-use and effective platform for personalized feedback.

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