‘Tech Tip’ Archives
Moodle for Motivating Learners poster by @MoodleMuse
The picture is liken to the Moodle Tool Guide for Teachers created by Joyce Seitzinger. This version by Natalie Denmeade (@Moodlemuse) is specifically for tailoring a Moodle course to various types of students with game elements in Moodle's standard toolset. Pretty interesting guide if you're looking to add more game elements to your Moodle [...]
#imoot2013 Presentation: How to guarantee your change is integrated to Moodle core
Here's another presentation deck from a live session given at the 2013 iMoot this past May. The presentation is by Dan Poltawski (Moodle HQ developer) and covers a bit of strategy in getting your code contribution integrated into core Moodle. How to guarantee your change is integrated to Moodle core from Dan Poltawski
Interesting Poster Presentation about Phonetic Transcription on Moodle
This poster focuses on the use of Moodle as an assessment and practice tool for English language learners in Poland. The researchers used Moodle's Quiz module to assess phonetics, provide instant student feedback and monitoring of student progress. Aside from a plugin to enable the use of International Phonetic Alphabet with Moodle's text [...]
Cool video: Essay Scaffolding with Moodle Quiz by @Moodlefairy
Here's a slick idea for using the Moodle quiz to scaffold essay writing with students. It also highlights the handy new collapsed options and the "Response template" for essay questions. Just another new feature in the awesome 2.5 release. Direct video link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAZa66WvyWQ
Video: Creating a Wiki Activity in Moodle 2.x by @Moodlerooms
Here's a 4 minute video by Moodlerooms that highlights the creation of the Wiki Activity. From filling out the fields to managing the settings this video has it covered, the video also explains Wiki Modes (collaborative and individual) in addition to how easy it is to create new pages in the wiki. A great tutorial. Direct video [...]
WizIQ goes HD and enables more access controls for increased security
Disclosure: WizIQ is a sponsor of Moodlenews and provides a Moodle integration for it's live classroom platform. For more information click on the WizIQ banner. Press Release see also http://blog.wiziq.com/see-it-to-believe-it-better-and-more-secure-video-streaming-on-wiziq/ WizIQ recently rolled out improvement in live video streaming [...]
Empowering Learning with Video (Free Webinar recording from @eschoolnews)
eSchool News recently hosted a webinar that featured three presenters talking about how to integrate video and other resources into Moodle, Learn how to leverage the power of online video to flip classrooms, get students reading, simply and easily create and incorporate teacher and student videos into Moodle, enhance professional development and [...]
Measuring Engagement: Learning Analytics in Online Learning [paper by Griff Richards]
![Measuring Engagement: Learning Analytics in Online Learning [paper by Griff Richards]](http://www.moodlenews.com/wp-content/uploads/figure3-300x206.png "Measuring Engagement: Learning Analytics in Online Learning [paper by Griff Richards]")
If you're interested in learning more about measuring student engagement in your Moodle course, this is a great paper/primer to start with. The paper was written by Griff Richards of Thompson Rivers University in Canada and highlights some key findings from recent studies of Moodle and Blackboard and how the researchers went about establishing a [...]
The Social Networks Adapting Pedagogical Practice (SNAPP) Tool and Visualizing Moodle Forums
If you're interested in some ways to visualize student engagement in the Moodle classroom, the Social Networks Adapting Pedagogical Practice (SNAPP) tool is something worth looking at. SNAPP is a bookmarklet available from http://www.snappvis.org/ which allows you to visualize the connections made in any Moodle discussion forum. It's very [...]
Video: Drag and Drop onto Image Question Type
This video by Dot Garmin (http://www.youtube.com/user/Gr8TechTools) highlights the "Drag and Drop onto Image" question type in Moodle quizzes. This is a novel question type that allows students to drag and drop small images or text onto a larger background. It's a pretty slick visual assessment tool that could be useful for all sorts of [...]
