‘Development’ Archives
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 [...]
#Moodlewish: Moodle for assessment only
I manage online courses on a day-to-day basis, and one of the main tasks is taking care of our test banks and configuring online assessments. This currently is done on another LMS but could easily be delivered via Moodle (if/when all test questions were imported from our original system). There are two ways I could see this done which have [...]
47 Interesting Ways to Use Moodle in the Classroom (started by @TomBarrett)
There's a great Google Documents presentation going around which features 42 (and growing) "interesting ways to use Moodle in the Classroom". It was originally started by Tom Barrett (@Tombarrett) but many other Moodlers and educators have continued building upon the original slides to create a dynamic encyclopedia of tips, tricks, Moodle-uses [...]
A dynamic visual reminder tool for students: DHTML News Ticker Wizard
Ever used a Javascript marquee or news ticker? Chances are you didn't feel too impressed. Either the motion of the ticker wasn't smooth enough for your taste. The default layout was too rigid. It wasn't colourful enough. Perhaps you probably had to hard-code parameters by using a text-editor. If the previous paragraph describes your experience, [...]
Moodle all atwitter (a Twitter-like Theme for Moodle by @Moodledan)
Here's a great new theme for Moodle 1.9 which we previewed a few months ago. The theme was developed by Dan Humpherson (@moodledan). The theme features a familiar layout borrowed from Twitter but also boasts a cool, consistently available navigation style bar at the top of the page (for courses, profile and messages), a two column (both to the [...]
mTouch 2.0.1 and mTouch+ 2.0.1 released (Now supporting Photo uploads)
mTouch 2.0.1 and mTouch+ 2.0.1 (for iPad) are both now available in the Apple App Store (as of today, 4/1/2011). These newest releases from PragmaTouch and Ali Özgür have addressed a few bugs and have continued to innovate the product to support more Moodle features. Here's a full list of what you can expect for changes if you upgrade to [...]
Watch a Presentation highlighting Poodle for Moodle (Offline Portable Moodle)
Poodle for Moodle (Portable Moodle) is a desktop client which lets you host your own Moodle site right on your Windows computer. It's very easy to setup and easy to use (I've personally used it to play around with themes and to install new modules...it's a snap to use). The product is created by Mission Aviation Fellowship Learning [...]
Doc of the Day: Adding/Editing Assignments
Moodle.org is such a wealth of information and documentation; here's some great (updated) documentation for the Assignment module which covers pretty much everything you could possibly want to know about adding assignments to your Moodle course. Adding/Editing an Assignment: http://docs.moodle.org/en/Adding/editing_an_assignment And just in [...]
10 Things you can do with a Moodle webpage
Here are a couple of ideas for what you can do with Moodle's webpage, which are generally blank canvases in your classroom that might be under utilized. By knowing how to toggle the plain text view in any html editor you too can embed some of these great little tools. Here's a quick list, with a link to my test course where you can see these [...]
