‘Modules & Plugins’ Archives
Moodle Slideshow marries a Moodle plugin to an iOS App for on-the-go Slideshow creation
Here's a pretty cool mobile integration for Moodle: Install the Slideshow app by Netcourse.org: http://moodlemodules.netcourse.org/ Next download the handy Moodle Slideshow app for iOS and then login (as a student or teacher). Create slideshows from camera images and recorded audio straight from your iPhone. Check out the video to [...]
Convert Blackboard Learn courses to Moodle with Reteach.org
This is a new tool shared with us in the comments recently: it's a piece of code that you can use to automatically convert course exports from Blackboard Learn to Moodle 1.9 backup files. We haven't had a chance to try it yet but the original contributor did mention that it worked great: http://reteach.org. Reteach was created by Adam [...]
Top 30 reasons to move to Moodle 2 by @ghenrick
Gavin Henrick has pulled together 3 (three) top 10 lists for why to move from Moodle 1.9 to 2.0. The three presentations are available at his blog and the each already has a voice over presentation video available on Youtube. Each presentation highlights another set of new/changed Moodle features and discusses (quickly) how they impact the [...]
A Virtual Student and Pronunciation Activity for your Moodle course
Nicholas Walker, an ESL teacher at Montmorency College (Canada), has used Google Chrome + HTML5 + Google Speech Recognition + HTML code embed into Moodle to create a Virtual Student. It is as part of a English Language Lab activity that Nicholas and his colleague, Melvin Shantz, are currently testing. What's really GREAT about the [...]
joule Synchronous is Adobe Connect
Moodlerooms recently launched a new feature for its joule customers, joule Synchronous. What is joule Synchronous? Simply put it's joule's integration with Adobe Connect, one of the leading premium synchronous education tools for Moodle and other LMSs. I had the pleasure of working on/with Adobe Connect during the 2011 iMoot and it's a [...]
October 26th: The Moodle Lesson, Explained (Free Webinar by @lmikowychok)
Next week on October 26th at 3:30 PM EST Laura Mikowychok of the Chester County Intermediate Unit (CCIU) in eastern Pennsylvania will be hosting a free webinar to discuss and explain the Moodle Lesson activity. For many, the Moodle Lesson has always been a daunting, complicated activity, what with that record-length settings page, and all of [...]
Amvonet now available for Moodle 2.0
Amvonet, another option for synchronous webinars and meetings with integration to Moodle is now available for version 2.0 according to a company announcement. AMVONET is pleased to announce that it has just released its new plugin for Moodle 2.0+. For those organizations utilizing the latest Moodle technology, AMVONET now provides a seamless [...]
ACal – mindless free-format information overload or a structured Web 2.0 e-portfolio for your Moodle site?
I was dabbling with Arthur Wiebe's ACal freeware PHP calendar system the other day. Then I discovered that besides being able to link to images, each day's cell could load up Web 2.0 embed code as an event. So you could have Web 2.0 content right inside the calendar. For example: YouTube videos TED Flickr slideshows Preezi [...]
OneTopic Format for Moodle 2.0
I love course formats and lately I've seen some really cool ones. Here is the OneTopic format for Moodle 2.0 which provides a tabbed format (similar to the Animated Slide and Tabbed formats we've seen previously). The tabs can each have a custom name (so you can increase the navigability of your courses with text cues) and it's automatically [...]
Navigating Moodle with hotspots
How would you like your Moodle site to be more navigatable? Nicholas Walker of Collège Montmorency has shared an interesting and instructive post on how to create a Moodle block that contains a image with hotspots that link to various parts of your Moodle course. For those of you who would like a different approach for your users to navigate [...]
