‘Modules & Plugins’ Archives
I’m okay, you’re okay. Introducing OKMindMap!
So you like using mindmaps, do you? Having fun time drawing all those little nodes and links on paper? Using highlighters and colour markers to spruce up the diagram, eh? Ever since Tony Buzan popularised the mind map in the 1970s, the world has never been the same. If you also use Moodle, then it might interest you to know that there is a free [...]
Go Ahead…Push the Big Blue Button
By Kent Brooks, Brian Carpenter and Steve Prater of Western Oklahoma State College Western Oklahoma State College has faced fiscal constraints for a long time. We are the classic portrait of Rural America. We see substantial population loss in rural counties, an aging demographic and declining fertility rates. [...]
Marginalia and Nanogong co-existing in your Moodle 1.9 forums – a match made in heaven
In this post, I explain how YOU can fortify your standard Moodle forum by getting the non-standard mods Marginalia and Nangong to co-exist in harmony. With Marginalia you can annotate forum posts, whilst with Nanagong you can embed voice recordings. As Hannah Montana would sing, "it's the best of both worlds!". At least on a Moodle 1.9 [...]
The Chat Console Block; A new chat for Moodle?
Here's a new Mod that's now available for Moodle 2 and 1.9 which provides an overlaid chat box for logged in users. It works pretty well for 1-to-1 chat for students and teachers (and even admins) and according to the new settings also stores history/logs of all conversations occurring over the platform. The Gmail/Facebook-like chat for [...]
How to use the humble comma delimited (CSV) file to display private coursework marks on a Coursepage
In 2007, Serafim Panov created a Moodle mod named Display Data (it works for Moodle 1.6, 1.7, 1.8.2, 1.9.3 and 1.9.7.). By using Serafim's mod with Notepad or Excel to produce a comma-delimited (CSV) file, you can place a table containing an entire class' coursework marks on your Moodle coursepage, and yet just allow the user to see only his [...]
Adding Youtube videos by link with the Youtube Multimedia Filter plugin
Here's a time saver for those of you using Youtube videos in your Moodle courses. Did you know that a simple link like "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Six2mhNeJcg" will embed the video automatically in Moodle if you have the Youtube Multimedia Filter enabled? No more flipping to plain text or configuring the embed code: just paste and [...]
No more Wimba/Elluminate for Moodlers: Blackboard Collaborate officially unveiled
Earlier this week at Blackboard World in Las Vegas Blackboard officially unveiled its synchronous meeting tool based on the two acquired products Wimba and Elluminate. Current users of the two legacy products will be able to upgrade to the new official Blackboard product, Blackboard Collaborate at no cost; this includes all Moodle using [...]
Echo360 and Netspot team up to provide Moodle 1.9 and 2.0 plugin (due August 2011)
While there are several live, synchronous meeting and capture tools on the market for Moodle (BigBlueButton, Blackboard Collaborate, Adobe Connect, WizIQ), there's a new type of lecture capture system working on Moodle 1.9 and 2.0 integration via plugin: Echo360. Echo360 does lecture capture and presentation slide organization so students can [...]
Drag and Drop File upload Block by @Davosmith
Here's a really slick application of drag and drop for Moodle. The block, according to Davo Smith, the developer, is simply a proof of concept for adding easy drag and drop functionality to Moodle courses. That said, for Moodle 2.0 it works like a charm. Install the block and voila: drag and drop functionality to the topic/week areas within [...]
ELIS Community Package now Available at Moodle.org
Download it now and give it a test drive. The full community package and documentation is now available at Moodle.org in the Plugin Repository: http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=13&rid=4894. From the entry, As a highly flexible system, ELIS(TM) is widely used in a variety of learning programs. ELIS(TM) is a set of add-ons to [...]
