‘Development’ Archives
@Davosmith’s UploadPDF Assignment Activity for Annotating/Editing PDFs via Moodle
Here's a pretty slick module for Moodle that allows you to have students upload PDFs and then you can annotate and correct them with some in-browser tools before "handing" them back via the Moodle module. The module was created by Davo Smith (@davosmith). Installation notes: on shared hosting (Bluehost.com) I did not need to install [...]
Download it now: 10 things to do with a Moodle web-page
One of our most popular recent posts is "10 things you can do with a Moodle webpage" and in light of a few recent requests I am not sharing it as a backup file. Download the zip right here (or by logging into Joedle.com as the student/student user). If you make an improvement or add a new "thing you can do with a Moodle web-page" please [...]
Video How-To: Importing course materials in 1.9 by @BBCS_eLearning
Here's a short (~4min) video that highlights the very useful trick of importing materials from one of your courses to another in Moodle 1.9; specifically quizzes and exams. The video was created by Erica Vail of Baptist Bible College and Seminary (@BBCS_eLearning | http://bbc.edu). Direct video [...]
Free Course: Embedding Multimedia by @evmaiden
Emory Maiden (@evmaiden) shared a cool "Embedding Multimedia" course at MoodleMayhem.org recently and it's available for download and restoration to your own Moodle site: https://sites.google.com/site/moodlemayhem/moodle-courses (it's #4). The course was shared as a resource during a presentation at the recent Mars Hill Moodle Moot in Mars, [...]
A must watch Moodle Design Presentation by Stephan Schmidt @ozesteph1992 (+ 13 helpful videos)
If you're not planning on attending any upcoming Moot or local presentation, have no fear: you can have your own personal professional development session about Moodle just by sitting back at your computer and listening to Stephan Schmidt's "Think Outside the Square with Moodle" presentation recorded this past April 6th. Of the session Stephan [...]
Forum Block (how to show recent news from any discussion)
Here's a nifty little block that allows you to easily showcase recent posts from multiple discussion forums. The block, like the standard "Latest News" block, pulls recent posts from each designated discussion forum for a quick and easy measure of activity in the course. Easy to install (just unpackage the zip in the Blocks directory) and easy [...]
Quizzes: there’s an App for that (The Moodle Quiz Mobile for 1.9 and 2.0)
Here's a new resource that was shared with me recently. It's Moodle Quiz Mobile and you can see the teaser presentation below (or at this link: http://www.slideshare.net/tjuly/moodle-quiz-mobile). Moodle quiz mobile View more presentations from Yulia Ivanova The Moodle Quiz Mobile app was created by Yulia Ivanova and her team who [...]
A few tips on Moodle security (ReCaptcha, Passwords and more)
Moodle security, especially in the classroom setting is very important. There are always ways you can better secure your Moodle. There are a few that you have direct control over while others you might not even know exist. Password difficulty: today in Moodle you can set various password requirements for new users to increase the level of [...]
New Conversionthingy2 1.9 to 2.0 conversion process video
Here's a video that highlights one of the easy ways available for converting course content from 1.9 to 2.0 (the other way is upgrading the entire site on which a course has been restored/built). The process uses ConversionThingy2 (by Peter Friesen), which we've highlighted here before . It works pretty well converting the standard Moodle [...]
@OpenUniversity Working to update several Modules for Moodle 2.0 (OUWiki, OUblog, ForumNG)
Sam Marshall, a Moodle developer at Open University recently announced that the OU is working to update their popular contributed modules for use on Moodle 2.0. The OU contributions have been popular among modules and plugins from Moodle.org due to the additional features each modules adds to the basic/standard Moodle module version. Open [...]
