‘Modules & Plugins’ Archives
Special Summer Series: Hosting – MoodleReader
Part five of our Special Summer Series on free hosting services. This part of the Special Summer Series on hosting highlights a different kind of Moodle hoster in MoodleReader. We highlighted MoodleReader recently because of its complete utility for teachers managing developmental writing courses. Literally this module comes with 100s of [...]
SCORM Cloud + Moodle = #SCORM 2004 conformance
SCORM.com has recently announced that Moodle + SCORM Cloud, it's own web hosted service has been certified for SCORM 2004. Until now Moodle has only supported SCORM1.2 (though steps have been taken to support SCORM 2004). The third party module is available at no cost and can be installed like other Moodle add-ons and plug-ins. Easy to [...]
What the #Blackboard Acquisition means for Moodle
Wimba and Elluminate, both synchronous learning tools, have been purchased by the leading proprietary learning management company, Blackboard and have been re-branded already as Blackboard Collaborate. The news comes as a surprise to many (considering the similar market of both companies). Implications for Moodle users are not yet known, but [...]
New Moodle Flavor in Beta: 1.9.9 + Liberal Arts Edition
CLAMP-IT, which was reported on earlier at Moodlenews and put on the Hack/Doc fest which took place last week at Depauw University has released a beta version (for testing only) of their Moodle "plus LAE" (Liberal Arts Edition). This distro was created to specifically suit their partners and participants and focused on meeting the needs of [...]
Advancing Music and Moodle with @stuartrmealor
Stuart Mealor, part of the team at official Moodle Partner Human Resource Development International Limited (HRD) in New Zealand has a site/domain with a cool Music motif and a handy tutorial. The site features "Audio and Podcasts in Moodle" tutorial to help anyone learn more about using audio and music in their Moodle classroom by using tools [...]
Moodle Graded Reader Quiz Module (Reading Comprehension Management)
Found this Youtube video (2008) on the site Moodle+ (http://www.moodleplus.com) which has some helpful links to Moodle information (but also some suspect, seemingly unfiltered bot postings, e.g. this one). Nevertheless, I'm keen on any site that alerts me to something I've never seen in Moodle before. The video was created by Tom Robb, PhD of [...]
Introduction to Moodle Programming (a free course at Moodle.org)
There's a dated post (1/5/09) at Moodle.org by Helen Foster about the Introduction to Moodle Programming course. The course is still up, open and running and looks to be a great overview ramping up to programming with Moodle. If you're familiar with PHP and SQL and want to lend a hand or customize Moodle a bit, check it out. Note that you [...]
Collaborative Liberal Arts Moodle Project (CLAMP) and the Hack/Doc fest
Next week (June 23rd - 25th) at Depauw University in Indiana, CLAMP (Collaborative Liberal Arts Moodle Project) will be holding their annual Hack/Doc Fest all focused on improving and working with Moodle. According to the website, Many liberal arts schools have adopted the Moodle course management system because of its low financial barriers [...]
Pain relief for your Grade book woes: New Grader Report
Ever wanted to change or check a student grade in Moodle but as you scroll the grade book the students name goes off the screen and it becomes difficult to see who and what grade column you're looking at? There's a mod for that. Here's a link to the Moodle.org discussion where Bob Puffer originally posted the screen shots and video [...]
MS Office Add-in for students #moodlewish @iusher
Great, in depth post on the use of and potential of the Office Add-in for Moodle at Moodlea.blogspot.com today. Ian Usher (@iusher) highlights a lot of the features and raises some great questions about the use of MS documents in Moodle classrooms (and the why and how of easy access). Here's the full post: [...]
