‘Development’ Archives
Sharing Cart: The Easy Way To Copy And Move Activities In Moodle
This post is republished with permission from the Moodle Association of Japan Newsletter (Vol. 1) from February 2012. Do you have more than one course? Do you want to copy activities from one Moodle course to another? Have you wanted to copy something from your colleague's course? If you answer yes to any of these questions, then the [...]
Process for Setting Up a Staging Moodle Site in IIS7 by Mari Cruz Garcia
This work by Mari Cruz García is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial 3.0 Unported License. Mari Cruz is an educational technologist at the University of Dundee and supports an online postgraduate programme there. According to her note to Moodlenews, I have elaborated a guide about how to set up a staging Moodle, [...]
Use Labels to Create Menus in Moodle
Here's a great HD video on Vimeo that showcases one of the ways to fight scroll of death on a Moodle page: adding image links to a label. Simple an effective in a regular course (though recently a commenter did mention that tables could affect accessibility for some students) this is easily accomplished using the Moodle text editor (any [...]
Moodle in over 100 languages!
Helen Foster (@Moodlehelen) announced this recently and it's great news for the worlds most widely used (and translated) LMS. With the addition of a few new language packs Moodle now supports over 100 languages! If you're interested in creating a new language pack checkout the Translation documentation [...]
The MyNotes block – a simple yet effective ToDo list for Moodle 1.9
If you ever needed a ToDo list in a block on your Moodle 1.9.x site, look no further than Hugo Santos 2007 MyNotes block. You can use it as a reminder system, a ToDo list, or to manage personal notes for own convenience. Sounds a bit like the MediaBird Study Notes module. However, this Portugese-made block is less complex, but simpler to [...]
Letting students add select Gifs/Animations to the Online Users block (Moodle 1.9.x and Moodle 2.2!)
An Adaptation of the Online Users block Fourteen days ago, I set out to modify Andy J. Davis' Online Users block. My objective was to make my Moodle site more engaging. I think that with the generous help of PHP developer, Matteo Scaramuccia of Italy, and Stephane Gully's Shoutpro Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 License code, [...]
Showing off Student Awards/Badges with a Stamp Collection block (Moodle 1.9.x)
The Stamp Collection module by David Mudrak is one of my all-time favourite modules on my Moodle 1.9.15 site. It's a great tool to provide feedback to students and to reward them whenever work has been done. I like to think of it as a motivational tool. I had always wished that there could be a block that shows the student how many stamps he or [...]
Free Course on the MOOCH: Mobile Learning and Teaching with Moodle 2
Here's a free course available via the MOOCH (hub.moodle.org), "Mobile Learning and Teaching with Moodle 2. The course was shared by Nadav Kavalerchik and is available to download or view. You can check out the MOOCH entry here or the course here. The course focuses on opportunities to learn about mobile computing in classrooms (with [...]
#Moodlewish: Improved nav via arrows (#Chrome -style)
If you're a Chrome user like me, then you've noticed their cool window navigation when you open a new tab. Click in the left margin of the tab to see your most frequented sites, click in the right margin to see your list of Chrome apps. It's all very simple and totally intuitive. What I'd like, is a course format that borrowed a little [...]
CLAMP Releases 2.2.1+LAE 2.0
Moodle 2.2 is one step closer to acceptance by the Collaborative Liberal Arts Moodle Project (CLAMP) with the release of Moodle 2.2.1+LAE (Liberal Arts Edition) v2.0 beta 1. While not a stable release this is a milestone for Moodle's acceptance by the group considering their reservations aired in a Moodle 2 Status Report nearly 1 year ago (Feb [...]
