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Available since May, have you been considering upgrading to the latest release of Moodle? Alternatively, are you looking to improve your organisation’s learning and development...

This fourth and final post in our “Authentication Series” looks at SAML authentication, our SAML 2.0 Moodle plugin and how it supports SSO and single log out (AKA single sign-out...

This third post in our “Authentication Series” looks at password security from an organisation’s perspective: what to avoid and tips to help make your environment more...

The Koha library software team at Catalyst is delighted to share the Koha latest version 21.05. This major release contains 703 changes: 6 new features, 248...

Multi-factor authentication (MFA) is a vital second layer of defence against password-based attacks, as it makes stealing users credentials so much harder. The reality is,...

In an ideal world of seamless ICT user experience (UX), users log in once and access everything. There is no visibility or thought to the architecture handling any of...

Here at Catalyst we take digital accessibility seriously, embedding it into our development services from the beginning. Web accessibility helps people with disabilities to...

Moodle LMS provides the platform for your learning content to be redesigned, so it can evolve with your organisation. With so many options for colours, fonts, GIFs and images...

Back in 2017, we wrote a blog post “Follow The Sun support – One Year In” that talked about why and how Catalyst IT established a Follow The Sun support model. Now, as we...

Agile software development was formalised in 2001, when 17 technologists drafted the Agile Manifesto. Since then, the term “Agile” has taken on a life of its own. It’s...

With DrupalFest 2021 happening through this month, celebrating 20 years of Drupal is ON! As a proud Premium Supporting Partner, that has worked with Drupal for over 15 years, we...

Migration to a Cloud Managed Service is hands down our most popular service at present. It has transformed the performance of many clients’ learning management systems (LMS) and...