‘Development’ Archives
@LewisCarr releases Moodle Bar 1.0
The Moodle Bar, which was highlighted at MoodleMonthly a few weeks ago is now available for download publicly through Lewis Carr's blog/site. As promised, I have released the Moodle Bar. The release date coincides with the iMoot 2010. It is available direct from this website by following this link: http://bit.ly/du5RNQ Please feel [...]
#iMoot2010 Keynote Recap – Martin Dougiamas
iMoot is off and running and hugely successful. Yesterday Martin Dougiamas, Moodle founder and lead developer kicked it off with a keynote and overview of Moodle2.0 (and beyond). Here are the main takeaways. Big changes are coming with the release of Moodle 2.0 files will now be stored in the database instead of individual course [...]
Behind the Scenes at #iMoot2010 and #Elluminate
It's not too late to register for the first ever iMoot! http://imoot.org/register iMoot2010 is just gearing up (keynote by Martin Dougiamas starts in minutes!) and it's been a really exciting from the presenter perspective (I am presenting Thursday at 2:30 PM PST on the topic of Selling Courses through Moodle). As the first ever iMoot, it's [...]
3 Moodle Blocks from @SchoolsICT
SchoolsICT (http://moodle.schoolsict.net/), a Moodle consulting company has released three cool Moodle blocks that are available for download directly from their site. The blocks each have a specific integration with an existing technology or web service, but each also builds additional capabilities into a Moodle installation (and the fact that [...]
Plug-in Spotlight: Question Types for Quizzes
This is a pretty neat plug-in for the Moodle Quiz module that allows Music teachers to use Moodle more effectively: This question type deals with music intervals. The respondent is given a note and is prompted to enter a second note at a given interval. Answers are entered in a graphical user interface. More information and a screen shot are [...]
New Moodle Theme w/ drop-down menus from @ptrkmkl
Patrick Malley of Newschoollearning.com (a Moodle partner) recently submitted a new theme to Moodle.org that inherently uses the YUI library drop-down menu. In plain speak, Patrick has released a Moodle theme template the incorporates drop-down menus into the navigation and theme. The theme can be further modified to incorporate drop-down [...]
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 [...]
