‘Tech Tip’ Archives
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 [...]
3 simple tips for using Discussion Forums (video) by @BBCS_eLearning
Here's a quick video that highlights each of the common forum types and how to use them, including the benefits of each. Worth a watch if you're trying to make sense of the different views and settings for forums. More great videos from Baptist Bible College and Seminary (@BBCS_eLearning | http://bbc.edu). Direct video [...]
Video – How to Show Topic Titles in the Navigation block
If you're aiming to give more context to students with their navigation block, removing the numbers and having the topic titles display is one option. Here's a quick 1 minute video from Daniel Stanley of Flinders Christian Community College showing you how (no audio). Direct video link: http://vimeo.com/45780793
Book Giveaway: Packt Publishing’s newest Moodle Book, Moodle Gradebook
If you're a Moodle user you're likely to have run into the sometimes confusing but very handy features of the Moodle Gradebook. Over the years it's morphed into a fully functional and customizable online gradebook tool that allows categories, advanced calculations, extra credit and more. Setup properly it can save you loads of time and effort [...]
Moving the Choose link to the left column of the file picker in Moodle 1.9
Moodle's marching on strong with the release of Moodle 2.3. For those of you who have yet to migrate over to Moodle 2.x, here's another hack for the venerable Moodle 1.9. I've used this on my production site, mainly out of necessity. One of the issues I face of the file picker in Moodle 1.9 is that the Choose link is on the far right of the file [...]
Merging two classes the easy way
Here's a scenario: you have two courses that should actually be one. Combining them as is will intermix all of the resources and activities in the original topics you have. Perhaps there's a chronological sequence that makes but it will be easier to do once you have the courses merged. The import feature of Moodle is a great resource for [...]
