‘Tech Tip’ Archives
Dear Mr. Moodle: How do I hide myself from the online users block?
Here's a question that came in recently to Mr. Moodle: Dear Mr. Moodle! Some lecturing staff where I work are requesting the option to change their Moodle status from online to offline as/when it suits them. They state privacy reasons - that if they choose do a lot of Moodle work online at odd hours they would rather this not be public [...]
Doc of the Day: URL module settings
If you've been using Moodle 2.x then you'll know that the resources have received an overhaul, instead of text pages, web pages and directories, there are now URLs, files, folders and pages. I think it's a step in the right direction for usability and streamlining of available resources. The URL and file module settings also got a touch up in [...]
Plan to use Moodle? Training may be required
Depending on what state or country you live in you may now have a hurdle if you're interested in implementing/using Moodle in your classroom: required professional development and training. At least one state in the US now have a minimum training requirement for any teacher who wants to "teach an online course in a public school, including a [...]
Convert Blackboard Learn courses to Moodle with Reteach.org
This is a new tool shared with us in the comments recently: it's a piece of code that you can use to automatically convert course exports from Blackboard Learn to Moodle 1.9 backup files. We haven't had a chance to try it yet but the original contributor did mention that it worked great: http://reteach.org. Reteach was created by Adam [...]
Doc of the day: Key Terms
This is a great resource to share with teachers or students if ever you want to get everyone on the same page with Moodle-terminology. From Blocks to Resources to Activities, each is discussed here and helpfully explained in plain terms. For more great guides like this and more visit http://docs.moodle.org/20/en/Moodle_key_terms
How to Moodle presentation slides from the MITC (in MO, USA)
The MOREnet Instructional Technology Conference (MITC) was held recently in Missouri and boasted a slate of really progressive and interesting edtech topics and sessions, including "How to Moodle". The presentation resources are now available for anyone to checkout at http://www.more.net/mitc2011/presentations. "How to Moodle" was presented by [...]
A Virtual Student and Pronunciation Activity for your Moodle course
Nicholas Walker, an ESL teacher at Montmorency College (Canada), has used Google Chrome + HTML5 + Google Speech Recognition + HTML code embed into Moodle to create a Virtual Student. It is as part of a English Language Lab activity that Nicholas and his colleague, Melvin Shantz, are currently testing. What's really GREAT about the [...]
Free Course by @SukhwantLota: Pushing Moodle content to Twitter
Here's a slick little course that highlights how you can push RSS information from your Moodle course (forum postings) to a Twitter account. The course was created/shared by Sukhwant Lota (@SukhwantLota) at Leeds City College and highlights the few steps to making it happen. It's a pretty cool little tool if you're interested in letting [...]
ACal – mindless free-format information overload or a structured Web 2.0 e-portfolio for your Moodle site?
I was dabbling with Arthur Wiebe's ACal freeware PHP calendar system the other day. Then I discovered that besides being able to link to images, each day's cell could load up Web 2.0 embed code as an event. So you could have Web 2.0 content right inside the calendar. For example: YouTube videos TED Flickr slideshows Preezi [...]
Navigating Moodle with hotspots
How would you like your Moodle site to be more navigatable? Nicholas Walker of Collège Montmorency has shared an interesting and instructive post on how to create a Moodle block that contains a image with hotspots that link to various parts of your Moodle course. For those of you who would like a different approach for your users to navigate [...]
