‘Modules & Plugins’ Archives
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 [...]
Bitty Browser magic – how to embed a website inside your Moodle webpage
Bitty Browser is truly an amazing web application. It allows you to embed a website within a website. So you can embed a entire working website inside your blog or Moodle site. The embed code that I used for the "embeded iframe" website above is: <!-- BITTY BROWSER : WWW.BITTY.COM : {BEGIN} --> <table cellspacing="0" [...]
New Moodle.org Plugin Database is now live
The new plugin database is now live at Moodle.org and ready to be seeded by the developers of the various plugins, addons, grade reports, themes and other 3rd party tools that give Moodle a host of additional capabilities and user experience improvements. The new database specs and preliminary mockup can be found [...]
What do a peacock, Emily Dickinson and Class have in common? (Word Censorship in Moodle)
Profanity censorship. The purpose of today's post is to share with you how I enable a-Year-2008 improved Moodle censorship filter on my site. I will let you know how I tweaked it to achieve the desired effect. So at the end of this post, you will know how to enable the 'new' Censorship filter that allows a good word list while censoring bad words. [...]
Create a form in a block the easy way with the Form Maker block – no HTML needed
Some of the simplest blocks on Moodle.org are also the most elegant and easy to use. Caio Almeida's Form Maker block for Moodle 1.9 (March 2009) on Moodle.org is one such example. At the end of this post, you will be able to create a basic form in a Moodle block to capture input from users. This block allows a site administrator or teacher to [...]
Using the Presentation Mode in OKMindMap
Last month I featured OKMindMap on Moodlenews.com. Within a month, I had over 430 pageviews of my blog post and Dr. Won's OKMindMap site experienced an influx of visitors. In today's post, I touch on another one of OKMindMap's features - the Advanced Presentation. Did you know that OKMindMap has this feature that allows nodes to be displayed as a [...]
Making the “Web’s best php shoutbox” even better for your Moodle site
In my post on FreeEmbedChat, if you were observant enough, you would have noticed an interesting-looking block on the lower right-hand corner of my Moodle course page. That's the section with the red border. Today's post is about that intriguing block with the text "Whisper" inside it. One the most useful feedback tools on my Moodle site is [...]
ELIS 1.9.2 Released!
ELIS (Enterprise Learning Intelligence Suite), the wrapper that includes and is based upon Moodle has been upgraded several times this year (rapidly over the last three months) and the newest version, 1.9.2 based on Moodle 1.9.12 is now available for Remote-Learner customers. ELIS made headlines earlier this year when it was open sourced by [...]
FreeEmbedChat – you’ve never seen a free PHP chat like this for your Moodle site before!
Julie slaps Frankie with a large trout. Remember that line "...slaps... with a large trout"? The early 1990s were the good old days of the Internet age where text ruled the roost. Internet connections were mainly dial-up lines. Chat clients like mIRC and ICQ were all the rage. I should know. I once wasted the equivalent of one whole week's [...]
Moodle Flavours–a site admin setting replication tool–now available in the Plugin Repository
Moodle Flavours, which was one of the Google Summer of Code projects for 2011 by David Monllaó has just been released. This is a pretty cool tool for managing multiple Moodle sites and sharing the settings between them through an import/export process. According to the documentation page, With this plugin Moodle Administrators will be able [...]
