‘Development’ Archives
Development News: Moodle 2.1 to require PHP 5.3 as a minimum
Recently announced by Martin Dougiamas , Moodle HQ (like PHP.net) is dropping use of php 5.2. Future Moodle releases will require PHP 5.3 as a minimum. While this information may not affect the majority of Moodle users, it's nice to know that Moodle is built upon supported web languages (and is not relying on old or outdated versions). To [...]
Video: A great illustration of the Lesson Module by @red20twenty
Below you'll find a video by Mike Walters (@red20twenty) which showcases his design and use of the lesson activity in Moodle to try to stave off the "scroll of death". The lesson is an all inclusive exercise that includes complete instructions, a quiz, 3 assignments and additional resources (even PDF downloads) of the resources students need to [...]
Video: Converting web pages to activities (cleaning up your Moodle with @grant_harbor)
Here's a quick video from Grant Harbor (@Grant_Harbor) of SCIL who shows us how to clean up a Moodle by changing a resource already created in Moodle to pretty much any type of Moodle activity. The tip, while simple, is a great tool which can help you reduce the number of links and resources available to your students. It's a great way overall [...]
Using Moodle in foreign language courses – a video by @moodlefairy
Here's a video from Mary Cooch (@Moodlefairy; produced in 2008) which still applies today. Learn how you might structure a foreign language course in Moodle using the directory, images, Glossary/Database, embedding video and mp3s. Adding mp3s seems like a very easy and useful way to embed foreign language audio into a course for students to [...]
Embedding PDF files in Moodle – a concise tutorial by @LBCCeLearning
Editor's note: first and foremost I'd like to welcome a new author/contributor to Moodlenews, Frankie Kam. His first post is published below. Welcome to the team! LBCC eLearning Blog is the "the place to see the latest ideas for online education at Linn-Benton Community College" (follow them @LBCCeLearning). In a March 2010 post, Eric [...]
Moodle Participates in the Google Summer of Code #GSOC for 5th year
The Google Summer of Code is an international event which teams mentor developers with aspiring student developers to work on various projects across the web. This is the 5th year of Moodle's involvement in the program according to the announcement . The opportunity gives interested students a chance to dive into Moodle code and potentially make [...]
TimeStat: track student presence in your Moodle by the second
TimeStat is a cool module that Frankie Kam suggested we give a go. The module tallies and reports total seconds and minutes that students have been in a course. It's great for tracking overall usage and gives a little better information than just click tallies and page views. While the installation process was a little more involved than just [...]
Gone Moodle: iPads + Moodle = Learning at Hudsonville Highschool
A little different than normal: I found a great article about Hudsonville Highschool's use of Moodle and iPads in the classroom from MLive.com. The highschool has over 200 iPads deployed throughout the school and is using them frequently in classroom settings to access electronic materials including Moodle courses. According to the [...]
How Students View a Moodle page (Research on Eye tracking across a Course)
Moodlefacts.nl had an interesting PDF/Paper posted about eye tracking research done on Moodle users in Australia (thanks for the post and information!). The article was written by Gergely Rakoczi of Vienna University of Technology and was presented at the Slovenian Moodle conference in May 2010. The paper is in English and is a very [...]
Poll Results: What Messaging/Email system do you use for your Moodle?
Thanks to all 30 of the Moodlers who took the time to fill out our poll yesterday about Mail/Messaging systems used in their Moodles. Here's a quick synopsis of the data we collected: The majority of users rely on Moodle's standard messaging system 2nd most popular was Quickmail: http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=13&rid=92 There [...]
