‘Modules & Plugins’ Archives
Moodle catches a Wave #moodlewish
There's an interesting discussion at Moodle.org concerning the implementation of Google Wave into Moodle. Matt Bury, creator of the New Media Player plugin, envisions an implementation that would enable group Waves, Wave management, grade book entries, Wave initialization and much more. Read the whole description of what seems to be an [...]
KeytoSchool.com: now hosting 80+ 3rd party plug-ins/blocks/modules, all for free
KeytoSchool.com is a non-profit that runs one of the largest networks of free Moodle hosting in the world. Though it is not an official Moodle partner, from experience I can say that K2S is both responsive and responsible with their hosting and contributions. They provide several domains on which your subdomain installation of Moodle can exist [...]
Moodle 1.9 Extension Development Review by @bseanvt
The following is a book review by programmer, Sean Behan (www.seanbehan.com) of the book Moodle 1.9 Extension Development, by Jonathan Moore and Michael Churchward I highly recommend this book to anyone even thinking about developing in Moodle (4 out of 5 stars). It is written in a tutorial style with plenty of hands on, coding samples [...]
EasyVoter: a new integrated rapid response system for Moodle?
Yesterday we saw a couple tweets about easyVoter, a project sponsored and produced by staff at Solihull College in the UK. The project stemmed from the college's desire for a rapid response system and the inability for commercial projects/products to fit their needs. EasyVoter is the product of their ensuing research and development. A [...]
Mooconsole Alpha released for Windows, Mac and Linux
Juan Leyva Delgado's Mooconsole administration tool is now available for download in Alpha for Windows, Mac and Linux. It's not a stable release, but you can download it and try it out to get a handle on the functionality. If you try it out, let us know what you think. According to the documentation page: The first time you open MooConsole [...]
Learn the brief history of Moodle at @OpenUniversity (a presentation)
There's a great presentation on Slideshare.net that shares the storied history of Moodle at Open University (@openuniversity), their decision to adopt the open source software, it's subsequent customizations and upgrades and the particular challenges that one of the worlds largest Moodle has faced. Note that OU has over 500,000 registered users [...]
@howtoMoodle shows the #Moodle2 theme, learn how to get it now for your current Moodle
@howtomoodle showed off the Moodle 2.0 theme recently, specifically how easy it is to create a custom menu for quick access of your most important and popular resources: http://bit.ly/bWznpI. The new theme options in 2.0 are certainly a great addition to make Moodle pages more flexible and customizable. If you're interested in getting that [...]
#moodle4iphone at mLearn 2010 in San Diego @ckiyan
Carlos Kiyan (@ckiyan) of the Moodle4iPhone team (http://iphone.moodle.com.au) will be presenting the web app at mLearn in San Diego this June 15-17. During the session Carlos and his co-presenter, Inge de Waard (@ignatia), will focus on the history of their project (and it's roots in rural health education), the future of the native app and an [...]
Re: Updated Information and Pictures of mPage (the free native/web app for Moodle)
mPage representative, James CY Chan, has posted more information and pledged a concession in the design of mPage mobile web service in the Moodle forums. One change to the app is that the install to a Moodle server no longer "phones home" to update the files automatically; by removing this feature mPage is safer and more secure for those [...]
More info on mPage: the free Mobile Moodle App
MPage is a new player in the mobile Moodle movement that hit over the weekend. MPage seems to be a hybrid approach to mobile Moodle solutions (somewhere between a web and a native app). First, let's take a quick look at those two types of mobile apps: Native: Native apps are downloaded onto your phone from an app store (a great example is [...]
