Catalyst blog

Quick tips for ‘Emergency’ Online Learning with Moodle

Normally, when preparing to deliver courses online you would have had months of planning and discussions with a team of Learning Designers, Learning Technologists and possibly Multimedia Specialists.

Catalyst gets more kiwi classrooms online with BigBlueButton

Catalyst partners with Blindside Networks - founders and managers of the BigBlueButton project, to extend online classrooms to more learners across New Zealand.

The Elearning Flash apocalypse

Flash is going EOL in 2020 but most browsers will drop support in mid-2019.

The 3Fs of surviving the Flash Apocalypse

Survive the Flash Apocalypse: Find, Figure Out, Fix. Plan your strategy to remove Flash from eLearning materials effectively.

Mahara Hui DACH18: Something for every educator

Mahara Hui DACH 2018 was an unconference held in Vienna, Austria, that looked at portfolio practices with Mahara and providing engaging learning activities in general.

Learning to code with Mahara

Getting started to contribute to an open source project is easy. Recently, a 9-year-old student contributed to Mahara making her the youngest contributor so far.

Under the hood of Moodle’s cron system

At Catalyst we work with a lot of clients who have pretty big Moodle instances.