‘Modules & Plugins’ Archives
4 Great sites for module/plugin research
Extending Moodle is one of the best options for providing your organization and users a robust and unique learning experience within Moodle. There are 100s of modules available on the web, showcased on Moodle.org and available to checkout and tryout at sites around the web. Here are a few of my all time favorite sites for checking out and [...]
Module: Helpdesk Block
There's a slick new module out that might help you get a handle on bugs and issues with your Moodle site (by tapping the inherent QA skills all users possess). The module is called "Help Desk" and it provides a simple bug and ticket submission and tracker tool for the Moodle administrator team. Help desk at Moodle.org: [...]
Wanna new Wiki? Check out OUWiki
If you're looking for a more robust Wiki module and don't want to wait for the upgraded wiki in Moodle 2.0, consider checking out OUWiki. OUWiki is an alternative wiki activity for Moodle which is fully supported and updated by the Open University. Instead of using the current wiki syntax/markup included in Moodle, the OUWiki uses a text [...]
My #mootustx10 Moot Presentation and MoodleLibre
Sign up for details and news about the release of our new block: http://goo.gl/S6CI Presentation:
#mootustx10 Slides from @Awyatt’s Microsoft Office Addin for Moodle #oam
Quick resource link: http://www.limegreensunrise.net/presentations.html I wasn't able to attend the session by Dr. A. T. Wyatt (@awyatt) which focused on the Microsoft OAM . But the slides are available online. The session focused on how to use/install the MS OAM, it's pros and cons and future release information.
Opinion: the #Blackboard Mobile App and why it matters for Moodle
I use Blackboard for my day job at StraighterLine.com. It's the system that I inherited. Truth be told, it works well for our needs, there's great and responsive technical service and the learning curve was small (I'm convinced that any LMS user could easily jump between the various systems available, with just a little time and [...]
33 Examples of the Book Module providing passive professional development
AUB (the American University of Beirut) was a big contributor of traffic to our site last week from their very nice Moodle (http://moodle.aub.edu.lb) and I'm glad they were (otherwise I wouldn't have seen their really great use of the Moodle Book module which provides and easy to access "Guide to Moodle" for faculty). They've created various [...]
LAE Grader Report plug-in’s official release
The CLAMP-IT.org LAE Gradebook (just one piece of the 1.9.9 +LAE distribution highlighted earlier this month at Moodlenews) has been released in the Module and Plug-in repository on Moodle.org. You'll be able to download, see documentation and the various features which have made this mod a winner: easier manipulation of gradebook on the [...]
New Grader Report – Update
If you're interested in that New Grader Report that freezes student names and and makes the layout a little easier to manage you'll be happy to hear that the code is available online at Moodle.org: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=153718. Thanks to Bob Puffer of Luther College for letting us know.
Some may say “Good bye, Elluminate/Wimba. Hello, BigBlueButton”
On the recent post, "What the Blackboard Acquisition means for Moodle", Denis Zgonjanin commented that a possible open source alternative to both Wimba and Elluminate resides in BigBlueButton. BBB is only 2 years old and is an open source synchronous education tool. In response to the acquisition, the official BigBlueButton blog says, But [...]
