‘Modules & Plugins’ Archives
Block: #Twitter Search
Paul Vaughn left a comment on our recent post, Embedding #Twitter into Moodle and the Twitter Post Block, letting Moodle Monthly know about the Twitter Search block which was recently contributed to the Modules and plug-ins repository on Moodle.org by his colleague, Kevin Hughes. The block appears to be a simple way to add the posts of a [...]
Embedding #Twitter into Moodle and the Twitter Post Block
Here's a quick presentation posted to E-teachUK (http://muppetmasteruk.blogspot.com) that shows the process of embedding a Twitter widget into a Moodle page. A handy tutorial for adding all of your Twitter posts to an HTML Block in a Moodle classroom. Additionally, Lewis Carr also recently released a Moodle Twitter Post Block which allows [...]
Login to #iMoot2010 with #Facebook Connect
Julien Ridden, one of the organizers of the upcoming iMoot announced today that the site has integrated the Facebook Connect authentication plug-in recently posted to Moodle.org and mentioned on MoodleMonthly. iMoot is the first ever web-based Moodle Moot. It starts February 4th and runs through the 7th. The cost is only 41 USD to attend [...]
#Facebook Connect for Moodle
Aaron Fulton of www.Webtolife.org recently submitted a new module/plug-in for Moodle that allows Facebook Connect to authenticate users. There are three main features of the plug-in (but it certainly packs a lot of value for users): users can use existing Facebook accounts to register to a Moodle site users can link existing accounts to [...]
Revisiting and rediscovering Moodle: a Story
Jared Stein recorded a one hour UStream session about his personal experience of rediscovering Moodle and implementing it at the Utah Valley University. The presentation was given on January 21st, 2010 to higher education officials and the Utah Education Network and covered the "tools and features of Moodle 1.9.5 for the Utah Education Network, [...]
Moodle Bar
Lewis Carr, Moodle developer has contributed a great many projects to Moodle.org (including fixing many bugs and a developing a new My Moodle page). Lewis's blog is full of useful developer notes and downloads that could be implemented to Moodle sites and his list of development projects for 2010 includes an iPhone theme and the Moodle [...]
New Plugin: Moderated Enrollment
Announced today a Moodle.org is a new enrollment method which allows editing teachers to approve/deny enrollment to prospective students once they've "applied". As a modification, instead of seeing the option to "enroll" in the course Administration block or a text field to enter a course enrollment key, students instead will see a button to [...]
New Plugin: OpenBiblio
Moodle Monthly hopes to cover all new plugins and modules released at Moodle.org, this is the first such coverage (but there will be more in the future categorized here: http://www.moodlemonthly.com/category/development/modules/) OpenBiblio is a Moodle block that interacts with the OpenBiblio open source library catalog management software. [...]
