The Canberra Institute of Technology (CIT) in Australia has selected Moodle PartnerNetSpot to provide support for the introduction of the institute's new integrated e-learning solution "eLearn", based on Moodle, content repository EQUELLA and the Wimba Collaboration Suite.

As lead contractor, NetSpot will be providing a wide range of services to CIT, including implementation consulting, training, systems integration, load testing, Moodle configuration and customisation.

All Moodle Partners contribute directly to the ongoing development of Moodle software via funding or expertise, so by making use of NetSpot's services, CIT is helping support Moodle development.

According to Allan Christie, Founder and Managing Director of NetSpot, "CIT's choice of the best-of-breed open source learning management system (Moodle) combined with leading proprietary systems (Wimba and EQUELLA) adds value to the core LMS offering".

Many of our Moodle Partners specialize in providing Moodle integrations, including American company Remote-Learner who are offering an Enterprise Learning Intelligence Suite for Moodle (ELIS™).

ELIS, an integration of several open source solutions with Moodle, comprises a curriculum management system, the Business Intelligence software Jaspersoft and the Content Management System Alfresco. For further details, see Remote-Learner Announces Enterprise Learning Intelligence Suite for Moodle.

Remote-Learner have also been involved in integrating the Open Source Video Platform Kaltura with Moodle as both a new resource and assignment type, enabling teachers and students to easily add and edit videos from within Moodle. For further information, see Remote-Learner and Kaltura Announce Partnership to Bring Open Source Video to Moodle.

If you're looking to integrate an external system with Moodle, please consider making use of your local Moodle Partner. All Moodle Partners contribute directly to the ongoing development of Moodle software via funding or expertise, so by making use of their services you are also helping support Moodle development.

Moodle 1.9.6 and Moodle 1.8.10 were recently released. Apart from a range of bug fixes and small improvements, six security vulnerabilities (1 critical, 1 major and 4 minor) have been discovered and fixed since Moodle 1.9.5. (Thanks as usual to the reporters and to Petr Skoda for his tireless and excellent work defending all our Moodle sites).

There are no reported exploits yet, and they do not affect all sites, but we still recommend that you upgrade your sites to these latest versions as soon as possible (or otherwise ensure that these issues are not active in your site). As per our usual procedure, all 45,000 admins of registered Moodle sites were already privately notified a week ago.

More details can be found in the Moodle 1.9.6 release notes and the Moodle 1.8.10 release notes.

The releases themselves are available, as always, from our downloads page or any of our CVS mirrors.

Cheers,
Martin