‘Modules & Plugins’ Archives
A WIRIS giveaway: 5 Yearly Site Licenses just for contributing questions!
Good news for math teachers across the globe, WIRIS, a provider of a math equation editor plugin for Moodle is giving away site licenses to teachers that contribute to the WIRIS collection of questions on their site: http://collection.wiris.com/quizzes. According to their newsletter published before Thanksgiving this year: WIRIS will give [...]
Developer Meeting Minutes/Recap
I attended the last Moodle Developer Meeting on 11/22 as an observer and got to learn a lot about the process and thought that goes into each and every Moodle change/improvement. It was great to hear about the many cool features that are coming in December with Moodle 2.2 but a little bit of a bummer to hear that some of the coolest features [...]
Joule 2: alerts, streams and interactive theme components
Here's a new video from Moodlerooms that highlights their joule 2 alerts and streams. Streams is a block of the most recent activity in any course which can be pulled/displayed right on a student's myMoodle page. Alerts are course notifications which show as an interactive theme element/drop down, just like a Facebook notification. Of [...]
Rubrics in 2.2 as highlighted by @Moodlefairy
Here's a great video by Mary Cooch that highlights one of the new features in Moodle 2.2: the creation and use of Rubrics for assignments. Rubrics provide a granular grading approach and enables writing/composition teachers to grade on various criteria within a single assignment (no need for multiple gradebook entries per paper). This is a [...]
QuickStructure released for Moodle 2
If you're looking for yet another way to jazz up your site, you might want to check out the QuickStructure block for Moodle 1.9 and 2.x released by Dr. Checkers (Iain Checkland) a Moodle developer in Hong Kong. The original release of QuickStructure occurred this past July and the code was recently ported to Moodle 2. QuickStructure allows [...]
New in 2.2: Gravatars!
Here's a cool tidbit from the documentation for Moodle 2.2, there will be a setting to check (if the user has not already uploaded an image) a user's email against Gravatar and will use that image instead of the default. Very cool. Gravatar is "globally recognized avatars" and are used throughout popular sites like Wordpress. By uploading [...]
Doc of the Day: URL module settings
If you've been using Moodle 2.x then you'll know that the resources have received an overhaul, instead of text pages, web pages and directories, there are now URLs, files, folders and pages. I think it's a step in the right direction for usability and streamlining of available resources. The URL and file module settings also got a touch up in [...]
New Enrollment Plugin from @mouneyrac: Invitation via email
Here's a pretty cool concept for Moodle 2.1+, an enrollment plugin that let's you invite students via email. Great for a no-non-sense ease of use enrollment. If the plugin works as described you can simply enter the emails and students are enrolled as soon as they click the link (assuming they follow through the registration process or are [...]
A new view for the teacher dashboard?
This is another great example of UX changes to Moodle that could have a lasting impact on usability and aesthetics. Stuart Lamour of the University of Sussex (and of the Page format fame: http://wp.me/pPsqH-1vL) has posted and shared a new Dashboard that they created for their teachers; their inspiration comes from the many content [...]
Course Format for 1.9 and 2: Grid View
This is a really unique course format that allows course topic sections to be identified with a specific image. The Grid View allocates an image to each topic area and when clicked from the course homepage a nifty popup appears highlighting the information held within. It's easy to use, easy to configure and is a great way to simplify course [...]
