A Critical Moodle LMS Security Vulnerability — All Versions
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Free Technology Tutorials- Moodle Security Myth Continues May 16, 2012TweetThree years of egg on their face and the disciples over in moodle-land are still pushing the big Moodle security lie. Maybe they need to refresh their memories. Good thing Blackboard bought Moodle…at least there is one secure LMS in the company to choose from and it isnt Moodle Moodle Security = Oxymoron Related [...] Related posts: MoodleBoard Coming […]
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- MoodleBoard Coming to a School Near You April 12, 2012TweetNow that Blackboard has effectively bought out Moodle, they are wasting no time making their presence noticed. Just look at the #Moodle hashtag on Twitter today and it’s right in your face. Moodle sells out and Blackboard takes over…of course, I still don’t see Blackboard in the Official Moodle Partner list over at Moodle.com Related [...] Related posts […]
- Blackboard Owns Moodle — Will Never Buy Canvas March 27, 2012TweetI love it when people tell it like it is…especially when that person is the leader of a very successful endeavor and doesn’t care that the truth may offend the “elites” in the industry. Kudos to the Canvas leadership for putting it out there. But what about open source? Yes Ray Henderson talks a lot [...] Related posts: University of Mary Washington Sel […]
- A dose of Moodle reality by Matt Bury March 27, 2012TweetBlackboard was bought out by Providence Equity Partners venture (vulture?) capitalists, who specialise in leveraged buyouts, last year. Presumably they borrowed the $1.64 billion they paid and need to see a significant return on that ASAP. Leveraged buyouts are usually about a fast turnaround and how to extract the biggest possible return in the shortes […]
- Moodle Sells Out — Blackboard Buys It! March 27, 2012TweetBlackboard announces the purchase of moodlerooms, the largest Moodle partner. For those of you who don’t know, Moodle partners pay a stipend (normally around 10%) to Moodle HQ. Wonder how much Moodle HQ got and will continue to get in this deal? Not sure why this should surprise anyone…Moodle was never an open source project…it [...] Related posts: A do […]
- How to Quickly Install Multiple WordPress Blogs Using a Single Database March 4, 2012Tweet In this video I show how to quickly install a WordPress blog and then replicate it multiple times resulting in multiple independent WordPress installs using a single database. If you need hundreds of WordPress installs, then the using the network feature (multiple blog feature) in WordPress is the way to go. However, if you [...] Related posts: Install […]
- Favorite WordPress Plugins for Twitter #blogchat February 20, 2012TweetI’ll be lurking in the #blogchat discussion tonight on #twitter and the topic of discussion is “favorite blog plugins”. After thinking about it for a few minutes, I realized it’s hard to identify my favorite plugins–I use a lot of different plugins on different sites depending on a lot of variables. However, in the spirit [...] Related posts: A Gradeboo […]
- How to Create & Upload Thousands of WordPress Users with MS Excel February 19, 2012Tweet The video in this post is a follow-up to the last video I published here about creating a members only WordPress blog. In that video I briefly demonstated a WordPress plugin that allows you to upload a csv file of and create tens of thousands users in a matter of minutes. In this video, [...] Related posts: How to Create a Members-Only WordPress Blog […]
- How to Create a Members-Only WordPress Blog & Enroll Thousands of Users February 4, 2012Tweet In the video above I demonstrate how to close a WordPress blog to the public and make it available only to members who have a username and password created for them by the blog administrator. The site I demonstrate has 49,500 members that I created and bulk uploaded in about an hour. I show [...] Related posts: How to Create & Upload Thousands of W […]
- Moodle Security Myth Continues May 16, 2012