‘Tech Tip’ Archives
How to be invisible on the Online Users block. A Moodle 1.9.x and 2.x solution.
Learning Outcome: at the end of this post, you will know how to allow your Moodle 1.9 and 2.0 users to hide themselves on the Online Users block. Now I don't know about you, but I like, no, LOVE, the Online Users block by Andy J. Davis. It lends an air of Web 2.0 for Moodle. The feeling of a learning community that the block helps to foster is [...]
Doc of the Day: LTI Provider
Earlier this week I posted a cool video by Charles Severance (@DrChuck) that highlighted Juan Leyva's LTI provider. I just wanted to follow up that posting with two additional resources to help you get a handle on LTI and start exploring. Moodle Docs for LTI Provider is a nifty overview of the utility, how and why it might be used and some [...]
12 Moodle tools to interact with your students online by @WizIQ
Full disclosure, WizIQ (@wiziq)is a sponsor of Moodlenews (see the ad space to the right) providing financial support for our operating/hosting costs. Here's an easy to digest list of good tools for Moodle that you might consider using. Many are not standard activities/modules but each is available below as a list from the [...]
Enrich your users’ learning experience with Mediabird Study Notes
One of my joys in life as a Moodle site administrator is scouring the Net to unearth gems of Moodle activity modules of earlier years. Such is the case with Mediabird Study Notes. It allows you to add private and community note-taking to your Moodle site! Never heard of it Mediabird Study Notes? This blast-from-the-past (April 2009) is a real gem [...]
Ask Mister Moodle: How can I get a report of just one student’s activities?
This was asked recently in the comments at Moodlenews, I would like to know if there is any method of exporting the grades and info about one student, so I could send to it’s company. It would be a report of his lessons and when was the last time he got in to the course, and that kind of stuff. I often provide a detailed report and spot [...]
Nadav Kavalerchik’s Spelling Bee block for your Moodle 1.9.x site
Here's one from the deep recesses of Moodle.org - a very good Spelling Bee block for Moodle 1.9.x, to challenge your English linguistic and spelling prowess. Nadav Kavalerchik is a brilliant Isreali chap with a penchat for churning out Moodle custom code like the Spelling Bee. If ever there were a Nobel Prize for Moodle Open Source coding, [...]
On the 12th day of #Moodlemas the community shared with me…
12 Wiggly icons for clicking! 11 Books for Reading 10 Courses for sharing 9 Tutorials for watching 8 Site for Storytell-ing 7 mobile Moodl-ing 6 Course-for-matting 5 a course about Jiiing 4 pretty themes 3 plugins 2 Cheery images and A freebie Christmas themed Glossary! Here's a special present from Frankie [...]
A Video Playlist all about the Gradebook (from Western Nevada College)
Here's a great set of videos by the Teaching and Learning staff at Western Nevada College that highlight all sorts of features and setup options in the Moodle 2 Gradebook, including calculated/weighted grades, extra credit, sum of grades, non-graded items and more. There are tons of great resources to be found at the WNC blog: I've put them [...]
Moodle 2.x Accessibility a few thoughts and a report by NC State University
North Carolina State University recently published this webpage which highlights their exploration of Moodle 2.x's accessibility vs accessibility in 1.9.x releases. The thorough paper provides a lot of use case scenarios and outcomes when testing Moodle with various assistive technologies and standard tools (screen readers, mouse only, keyboard [...]
Moodle and Gaming presentation by @Lasic
The Australian Flexible Learning Framework hosted its recent Learn 11- E-learning conference and Tomaz Lasic presented a session titled "Level Up: Learning to Moodle with games". The session slides are available at Slideshare.net. Definitely not as good as I can imagine Tomaz's presentation was in person but the slides do include some cool [...]
