‘Tech Tip’ Archives
Overriding Quiz Settings in Moodle 2.x [video]
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Here's a quick video that highlights an indispensable tool to allow you to skirt your own default rules in Moodle quizzes for a specific student. Does a student need more time? Missed the quiz date due to sickness? This is your ticket to more flexible assessment administration. Video was created by Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary's [...]
New Timed Quiz options (in Moodle 2.3)
Our Moodle at StraighterLine is hosted by Moodlerooms which means we are about 1 cycle behind the main development release schedule of Moodle.org. I'm happy for it though as we are getting another round of QA testing before our students start banging on the features. This past December we got our Moodle 2.3 upgrade and I was surprised by a [...]
Save time by setting system default settings for your favorite activities
One of the greatest time savers in Moodle course creation (especially if that's a daily chore for your Moodle) is to properly set your module and course defaults to the most commonly used settings. I can't quantify the amount of time that this has saved me in both the configuration of courses (and in saved QA for check boxes and drop downs I [...]
Teach with Moodle course available on the MOOCH
This enrollable MOOCH course has 27 topics of information, quizzes and tutorials to help you build a Moodle course. Check it out at http://mytrainingsite.me/moodle/course/view.php?id=2* *note that self-registration is not available at the time of this post but you can contact Pascale, the site creator, to get an account. Just email her [...]
4 Moodle Gradebook Videos by @humboldtstate
Here are four helpful videos highlighting the gradebook in Moodle 2.3. Each video builds upon the last so watching them in order will be great. The gradebook functionality is covered from the basics to the advanced (though the narrator does suggest that Excel is a great way to export and import within Moodle, at least for those extra [...]
Sweet Feature: Completion Tracking of Forums
I've been playing a lot with completion tracking lately and am pretty excited at all of the actionable items that can be tracked in a course for each student. While webpages and LTI resources offer limited tracking, the Quiz and Forums do a lot more. Here's a closer look at the forum's completion tracking options which are pretty [...]
Interesting usability research by the Sussex eLearning Team
The Sussex eLearning Team recently shared some of their findings from a user survey that highlights the impetus for some of the usability changes they've made to the site and why. Sussex's Moodle site (https://studydirect.sussex.ac.uk) is one of the best looking Moodle's available (I highly encourage you to login as a guest and poke around); and [...]
Starting 1/1/13 Moodle.org will ditch CVS and continue with GIT only as it’s code repository
A recent post on Moodle.org notes that the community's use of Concurrent Versions System (CVS) as a code repository has fallen dramatically in the past few years with the introduction of the much more popular Git. Starting 1/1/2013 Git will be the sole code repository moving forward. For the average user (managers, students and teachers) this [...]
Upcoming Webinar 9/27: What’s new in Moodle 2.3 by @lambdasolutions
1pm EST on Thursday September 27th Lambda Solutions will be hosting a free webinar to highlight the new features and functionality of Moodle 2.3. You can register at this link: http://goo.gl/QUQ8D What: Moodle 2.x "half hour how to" webinars. Short, topical webinars on Moodle 2.x features, provided by Lambda Solutions' Ben Young and Chad [...]
Quick tip: Ungraded Questions
Ever have the need to try out some questions in Moodle quizzes that you might use later (but want to get some no-stakes feedback now)? Moodle assessments let you set a value for every question you ask, so setting any questions that you're piloting to zero will not affect student scores (though it will have an effect on the number of questions [...]
