‘Modules & Plugins’ Archives
Sections: a new simple course topic (no numbers)
If you've ever wanted to ditch the topic numbers in your Moodle course for text titles only, the Sections course format is for you. Like the weekly or topics format it organizes your course vertically by topic, but instead of including numbers (where the main topic is 0, then each lower incremented by 1) it just has a place to add your course [...]
Doc of the Day: BLOGS
Here's a great resource on Moodle.org that has everything you need to know (want to know?) about Blogs in Moodle 2.0 (including a great video). Enjoy. Blogs in Moodle are user based - each user has their own Blog. Admins, teachers, and students can create Tags - Admins can create site level tags, teachers can create Course level tags, and [...]
MyView (Advanced myMoodle page) for Moodle 1.9
Here's a cool new add-on just released to Moodle.org's plugin repository which adds a lot more functionality to the concept of "myMoodle" (a personalized home page). The plugin was submitted by Nadav Kavalerchik. Additional resources include sorting/organizing of courses, more help system and customization options, a bulletin for announcements and [...]
Ajax Replacement Chat – an improved chat room for your Moodle 1.9 site
I was thinking about Moodle's chat module yesterday. I thought about how my Moodle 1.9.7 site's chat module could be improved. This post is all about chatting in Moodle. Ah yes, online chatting. A major addictive time-waster in most cases. Raise your hand if you have ever wasted more than an hour chatting with others online. My right hand is up. [...]
Moodle Monday: Progress Bar by @timdalton
My current favourite thing about Moodle 2 is the combination of activity completion tracking and conditional activities. With these two additions it has become so much easier for us as staff to keep track of student progress on our courses, and for the students to understand how they should move through the courses we build. This week I [...]
Next Developer Meeting: 8/23/2011
The next Moodle.org Developer's Meeting has been announced for August 23rd (Tuesday) at 2am EST (7 UTC). Mark your calendars! For more information visit http://docs.moodle.org/dev/Developer_meeting_August_2011. Developer meetings are open to the public and provides a forum for anyone interested in the development process at Moodle.org. [...]
Released: Drag and Drop file uploader for Moodle 2
The Drag and Drop File Upload block by Davo Smith (@davosmith) has been released in the Moodle.org plugin and addon database: http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=13&rid=4963. As shown before the plugin adds some nifty drag and drop functionality for file uploads right to course topics. Check out my past post for more [...]
I’m okay, you’re okay. Introducing OKMindMap!
So you like using mindmaps, do you? Having fun time drawing all those little nodes and links on paper? Using highlighters and colour markers to spruce up the diagram, eh? Ever since Tony Buzan popularised the mind map in the 1970s, the world has never been the same. If you also use Moodle, then it might interest you to know that there is a free [...]
Go Ahead…Push the Big Blue Button
By Kent Brooks, Brian Carpenter and Steve Prater of Western Oklahoma State College Western Oklahoma State College has faced fiscal constraints for a long time. We are the classic portrait of Rural America. We see substantial population loss in rural counties, an aging demographic and declining fertility rates. [...]
Marginalia and Nanogong co-existing in your Moodle 1.9 forums – a match made in heaven
In this post, I explain how YOU can fortify your standard Moodle forum by getting the non-standard mods Marginalia and Nangong to co-exist in harmony. With Marginalia you can annotate forum posts, whilst with Nanagong you can embed voice recordings. As Hannah Montana would sing, "it's the best of both worlds!". At least on a Moodle 1.9 [...]
