‘Development’ Archives
CLAMP recommends using 1.9 for upcoming Academic year
The Collaborative Liberal Arts Moodle Project (CLAMP) report on Moodle 2.0 has been updated. While they still do not believe that Moodle 2.0 is production-ready for their member institutions and are recommending that their colleges and universities stick to Moodle 1.9; they have gone so far as recommending pilots of Moodle 2.0, according to the [...]
Just released: Moodle 2.0.3 and 1.9.12
Two new versions of Moodle have been released: 1.9.12 and 2.0.3. Each has several security and bug fixes which should make for a smoother and safer Moodle user experience. For more information on each release check the links [...]
@webanywhere_inc to host a free “Cost Effective Elearning” session in Philadelphia
This June 15th, Webanywhere, an official Moodle Partner and vendor of Totara LMS (a flavor of Moodle very similar to the MITMS http://wiki.mitms.ac.nz) is hosting evening seminar about "Cost Effective eLearning". If you're in the Philadelphia area in June this might be a great chance to check out some of the extensions and specific use [...]
New Updates for Moodle’s Blackboard Collaborate (Elluminate Live/Wimba) integrations
David Nagel, published at The Journal and Campus Technology reported yesterday that Blackboard had just updated the Moodle to Blackboard Collaborate integration (for both products: Elluminate Live and Wimba). This integration allows for scheduled and open synchronous course activities and online meeting places through both [...]
Check out the “Awesomebar” on the Decaf Theme for Moodle 2
Lei Zhang, an e-learning developer from University of Canterbury, has continued to improve the Decaf theme for Moodle 2.0 and have added persistent navigation as the "Awesomebar". Awesomebar, similar to the "Moodle bar" gives users an easy shortcut menu including home, profile course administration (for teachers) switch role my [...]
News Flash: Official Moodle App Moodle 2 is coming July 2011
Just caught this on the official Mobile page in the Moodle Development Docs: http://docs.moodle.org/en/Development:Mobile_app Moodle app 1.0 Requires Moodle 2.1 (released 1st July 2011). Click here to read more and view wire frame images of what the app might look like.
CLAMP Moodle 1.9.11+LAE1.2 has been released
The Collaborative Liberal Arts Moodle Project has released its newest version of its Liberal Arts Edition (LAE) of Moodle addons as a package for anyone to download. This distribution of Moodle includes several non-core features which help to simplify grading and adds a host of useful tools. In this release you can look forward to two new [...]
Using the Accordion Resource Editor in an innovative way to (further) reduce the Scroll Of Death – Moodle 1.9.
As promised, this is the followup to an earlier post I made on Abrar Ullah's 2009 Accordion Resource Editor. I thought I'd share this YouTube video that shows how you can add Moodle resources and activities inside the Accordion; it doesn't just support labels and HTML code as previously thought. Hope you find it useful. For the full [...]
Check out this Video of the Slides course format in action
A demo site was shared by the Slides course format for Moodle 2.0 in the forums yesterday by creator Jeremy FitzPatrick and I had to check it out . The layout and usability are pretty good, though it did take a while to load the slides before I could navigate between them. Check out the screen capture below and don't forget to check out the [...]
@KristianStill’s Magnificent Seven Gradebook/Course Design Tips
This post is cross-posted at Kristian Still's personal blog, a great resource for Moodle tips and educational technology links . I have spent a fair amount of time reflecting on course design and why the gradebook is somewhat of a late bloomer, in terms of Moodle core features. I don’t mean to harp on about gradebooks, but if you do think [...]
