‘Modules & Plugins’ Archives
Quick Tip: Office Add-in for Moodle and getting it to work @markdrechsler
Mark Drechsler (@markdrechsler) covered the OAM (Office Add-in for Moodle) which was released by Microsoft recently and posted a little known usability issue. you must have the ‘Courses’ block showing on your Moodle site for it to work If you plan to use the Add-in, do check out Mark's blog post: http://www.markdrechsler.com/?p=158. The [...]
The #Microsoft #Office Add-in for Moodle, a closer look at the tool installed
The new Office Add-in for Moodle (OAM) from Microsoft is a great little tool for managing and maintaining the Microsoft Office files and file directory in your Moodle course. Let's take a look at the new Add-in and how it works for Moodlers. First it should be understood that the Add-in requires installation of the .exe file to a computer [...]
#Microsoft #Office and it’s Moodle add-on (An overview)
Big news hit the twitterverse and blogosphere yesterday in the announcement of Microsoft's "Office Add-in for Moodle". The product is designed to simplify the addition and maintenance of Moodle files based on Microsoft's popular productivity suite Office by creating a quick bridge between your open files and your Moodle [...]
mTouch (MoodleTouch) for #iPhone: Another Mobile App
"MTouch is the first and only native iPhone application for Moodle" according to their website: http://moodletouch.com. This adds a little more competition to the quickly developing field of Mobile Moodle apps and plug-ins. Information is forthcoming as soon as we can get it. In the meantime checkout MoodleTouch.com and let us know what [...]
Offline Moodle: an answer to limited web access?
There's a new post over at the iLite blog: http://ilite.wordpress.com/2010/03/18/moodle-off-line-application/. It poses the question: what would offline Moodle access look like and is it possible? From the post: To my mind the offline client should be a stand-alone application that is installed on the Users PC. The application should permit [...]
@ITforALL goes for an alternate Mobile Moodle app (Mobile Learning Engine)
There's another mobile Moodle mod available and IT4ALL has it in place at their free professional development site (which runs the popular Moodle4Teachers program regularly). The Mobile Learning Engine (MLE) is a plug-in for Moodle which is available through SourceForge: http://mle.sourceforge.net/ and is for 1.9.x versions of Moodle [...]
#moodle4iPhone look and feel sneak peek @ckiyan
Carlos Kiyan (@ckiyan) sent us a link with some great screen shots of how students and teachers will add a Moodle icon to the iPhone/iPod Touch home screen, much like adding a desktop icon to a website on a laptop or desktop. Note: when released, Moodle sites will have the ability to use their own "icon" so that a student could have several [...]
“Creative Uses of Moodle Modules” Presentation by @paula_teach
@mariamoodle shared a great presentation on the web recently that was authored by Paula Clough out in Tempe, Arizona. The presentation (at 51 slides) covers creative uses of many Moodle modules including, Choice and use of images in the Choice module Quizzes (and how to use them as checklists Lessons and how to integrate audio and [...]
“How we implemented Moodle” Part 2 – Installation & Modules @moodlerific
Part 2 - Installation and Modules In this installment I will discuss the process of installing Moodle and some modules you may want to install from the start. Before installation I researched the best type of hardware and software to use. After reading documentation on Moodle Docs and looking through the Moodle Forums it was clear that the [...]
Moodle in Real-Life (part 3 – Mods and Add-ons) @west4me
William Cunningham, who runs an extremely elaborate and developed Moodle with his third grade students, gave me the pleasure of an interview via email. This "Moodle in Real-life" story will be told in several parts, the 3nd is below. All posts refer to William's Moodle install at this [...]
