‘Development’ Archives
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 [...]
Quick Design Tip: the 80/20 rule
Stephan Schmidt (@ozesteph1992) who did this great set of Moodle design tutorials (link) had a great suggestion when it comes to planning/building your Moodle course. I'm keen on aesthetics and quality flow within the online learning space (eliminate the learning curve of navigating your course, if possible by cutting the extraneous and [...]
Get some ideas about course design/aesthetics from this “Using Moodle” video
Here's a quick video tour of a Moodle course that has some pretty nice design (lots of images) and additional resources for students which explains the course in full detail (expectations, plagiarism, course outline, total points per assignment and more which are all plainly provided to students). The video is by Tamara Wong and highlights an [...]
Moodle 2.2 Preview
Michael de Raadt (@salvatore) recently posted a Moodle 2.2 preview at his blog: http://salvetore.wordpress.com/2011/07/29/roadmap_22/. At the end the preview points at the Moodle.org Roadmap which gives some great information on what you can tentatively expect with the next major release of Moodle (Moodle 2.2 due in December 2011). Here are [...]
Aardvark 2.1.0 Theme released for Moodle 2 by @superawesomeme
Shaun Daubney (@superawesomeme) creator of the Aardvark theme and the great themes at http://vle.newbury-college.ac.uk/ just announced the newest installment of Aardvark: 2.1.0 (for Moodle 2.x). According to Daubney, That theme was blooming hard work and not just from me, major team effort! It sports a polished design and a pretty neat new [...]
Moodle Course Design: a high-wire act presentation by @catspyjamasnz’s #MootNZ11
Here's a great presentation by the same source who brought you the excellent Moodle Tool Guide for Teachers: Joyce Seitzinger (@catspyjamasnz). The presentation focuses on learning design and suggesting that teachers working with educational technologists can achieve great things when combining forces for learning. The full [...]
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. [...]
Presentations from #MootCAUS11 are now available!
Nearly 20 presentations from the North American Moot which took place this July 2011 are now available at http://www.moot-us.com/home/presentations/. PDFs of the Presentations slides include many of the daily sessions (no keynotes) for your perusal. Here's a nice presentation titled "Making your Moodle course Student Friendly" which features [...]
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 [...]
