Tag Archives: moodle

Adding a Moodle cron sidecar to moodle-docker via local.yml

Posted on May 28, 2026 by ronaldpringadi

The moodle-docker stack is designed primarily for automated testing — Behat, PHPUnit, and so on — which is why it doesn’t ship a cron container. A background scheduler would interfere with deterministic test runs, so the README’s only nod to … Continue reading →

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Creating a new theme and changing font on Moodle 5

Posted on May 27, 2026 by ronaldpringadi

I wanted to swap the default font in a Moodle 5 install. Specifically: keep Boost, the stock Moodle theme, but use Inter from Google Fonts instead of the Bootstrap system stack. The official path is “make a child theme of … Continue reading →

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Running multiple Moodle instances side-by-side with moodle-docker

Posted on May 27, 2026 by ronaldpringadi

The moodle-docker project gives you a one-command Moodle dev stack — Apache, PHP, the database of your choice, mail catcher, the lot. What its README mentions only in passing is that you can run several Moodle instances on the same … Continue reading →

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Moodle Plugin Development: version.php, install.xml, upgrade.php, and tasks.php Explained

Posted on May 14, 2026 by ronaldpringadi

Moodle is one of the largest Learning Management System (LMS) platforms in the world, and one of its quietly excellent superpowers is its plugin architecture. Every feature you can add — a new activity, a block, a report, an authentication … Continue reading →

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