‘Modules & Plugins’ Archives
Noodle in Moodle: Adding free Resources from @LSIS_updates
NLN is a collection of learning objectives and resources available on the web which are now maintained by the Learning and Skills Improvement Service (LSIS) and were created with funding from the UK's Skills Funding Agency. According to the site, The NLN Materials are small, flexible 'bite-sized' episodes of learning. They are not whole courses [...]
Using Google Apps in Moodle by @wastretchbeyond
Here's a great promo video/commercial boasting the integration of Google Apps to Moodle by Webanywhere (@wastretchbeyond). The video gives an example students working through a group assignment within Moodle using Google Docs, chat, Gmail and all of the baked in collaborative features that Gapps has to offer. Are you using Google [...]
MP3 Quickie – now with MP3 download and upload features.
Here's news on my latest work on the MP3 Quickie. MP3 Quickie is a modification of the GUI of Vimas Technology's MP3 Recorder demo version. To get the full version applet that allows audio recordings of more than the 20-seconds limit of the demo, click here. MP3 Quickie now incorporates an upload MP3 files button and two selection lists. One [...]
Handy Enrollment Cap tool for Moodle 1.9
Here's a plugin that allows you to set a max enrollment number for a course. It's a way to limit the number of total students who can self-enroll in your course. According to the entry, once extracted/installed: This setting specifies the maximum number of students that are allowed to be enrolled on the course. The number of available [...]
Interested in TurnitIn Plagiarism Detection? Here’s a video on how to setup a TurnitIn activity.
TurnitIn is a plagiarism detection tool that has integration into Moodle. It's a paid service but the addon is available for free at Moodle.org: TurnitIn: https://turnitin.com/ Addon entry at Moodle.org: Activity Module | Direct Integration Below is a quick video by RULibrary (Roehampton University) that highlights how easy it is to [...]
CLAMP LAE 1.4 has been released
If you're using the Collaborative Liberal Arts Moodle Project (CLAMP) Liberal Arts Edition (LAE) version of Moodle, then you're in luck: a new release is now out. 1.4 was released last week and provides integration to Moodle 1.9.13. CLAMP's version of Moodle has a few additional 3rd party addons baked into the releases [...]
MP3 Quickie – a new MP3 voice recorder for Moodle 1.9 and Moodle 2.x to record 20-second “quickies”
I would like to introduce to you a "new" MP3 voice recorder for Moodle 1.9 and 2.x. Here it is, sitting pretty on my Moodle coursepage in a Moodle HTML block: The interface design is "original", but the main underlying code is not. More on that later in this post. The voice recorder is actually based on Vimas Technology's Mp3 Recording [...]
Moodle user Authentication via Google (super simple registration) by @mouneyrac
Here's a cool resource by Jerome Mouneyrac (@mouneyrac) at Moodle, IT and me blog which provides the tools necessary for bringing Google Authentication to your Moodle site (just like Facebook Connect for Moodle). The Oauth2 Plugin for Moodle is Jerome's first authentication plugin for Moodle 2.0 and you can see it working at a sample site to [...]
OKMindMap – make sibling nodes into a parent-and-child: a simple but not obvious operation
Hi there. If you're using OKMindMap to build your mindmaps, this is something that may not be obvious to you. How to make two sibling nodes into parent and child node relationship. I want to go from here: to here, which is to regroup the original children nodes into two new categories named Fruit Category and Drink [...]
How to embed an OKMindMap inside your blog or Moodle webpage resource.
Hi. In this post, I will show you how to embed an OKMindMap in your website or Moodle webpage resource or label. This method is different from adding an OKMindMap activity to your Moodle site as mentioned previously in this post. That was a pretty long post wasn't it? Don't worry, this article is short(er) and sweet(er). The method oulined in [...]
