‘Tech Tip’ Archives
Moodle Success (video looking back at a successful Moodle integration)
Here's a great video (~15 minutes) by Daniel Winson (@danwinson) of the ICT Department of TAFE NSW Riverina Institute Wagga Campus which implemented Moodle over the last few years. Daniel shares a brief history of their Moodle implementation experience and some helpful tips about using Moodle to the fullest. From getting started, building [...]
Friction-less Learning with Quizzes in Moodle
In a few of the online courses I run the goal is to create the most friction-less learning environment for students so that they can pace themselves exactly as they want. Once enrolled, students can progress through the course as quickly or slowly as they want/need (choosing their own pace unconstrained by any external factor) working to the [...]
MP3 Quickie – now with MP3 download and upload features.
Here's news on my latest work on the MP3 Quickie. MP3 Quickie is a modification of the GUI of Vimas Technology's MP3 Recorder demo version. To get the full version applet that allows audio recordings of more than the 20-seconds limit of the demo, click here. MP3 Quickie now incorporates an upload MP3 files button and two selection lists. One [...]
48 text/image Moodle Tutorials from @OfficialTildee
Like the great resource at Thinktutorial.com, Tildee is another crowd sourced tutorial site. Good news for Moodlers there are already 48 tutorials there. The tutorials are laid out in an easy to follow step by step process with images and text directions. Nearly 50 have already been created. If you're looking for a quick reference for [...]
OKMindMap – make sibling nodes into a parent-and-child: a simple but not obvious operation
Hi there. If you're using OKMindMap to build your mindmaps, this is something that may not be obvious to you. How to make two sibling nodes into parent and child node relationship. I want to go from here: to here, which is to regroup the original children nodes into two new categories named Fruit Category and Drink [...]
Moodle 2.1 Administrator Map (your guide to everywhere) by @synergylearning
Synergy Learning (@synergylearning), a Moodle Partner and vendor has created a nifty "subway" style infographic that shows all of the navigation trees for Administration in Moodle 2.1. It's a handy go to if you're trying to find where a particular setting or function is located within the new navigation. View the whole resources (full size) [...]
Copyright and Moodle: “What can I put on my course?”
Here's a great copyright resources from UNC Charlotte and Peggy Hoon which shows what you can legally put in/on your Moodle course for educational purposes. From the post, While it is great to have a course management system that makes it easy to upload material to your online course, keep in mind that these same features also make it easy to [...]
How to embed an OKMindMap inside your blog or Moodle webpage resource.
Hi. In this post, I will show you how to embed an OKMindMap in your website or Moodle webpage resource or label. This method is different from adding an OKMindMap activity to your Moodle site as mentioned previously in this post. That was a pretty long post wasn't it? Don't worry, this article is short(er) and sweet(er). The method oulined in [...]
Back to School: Words of Wisdom from the Community
It’s Back to School 2011! We’ll be running back to school focused posts throughout the week of September 2nd, highlighting some good tips and suggestions for making the most out of your Moodle usage in 2011-2012. It's the last day of our Back to School series and I wanted to share a few of the tips and tricks that were shared with me [...]
Bitty Browser magic – how to embed a website inside your Moodle webpage
Bitty Browser is truly an amazing web application. It allows you to embed a website within a website. So you can embed a entire working website inside your blog or Moodle site. The embed code that I used for the "embeded iframe" website above is: <!-- BITTY BROWSER : WWW.BITTY.COM : {BEGIN} --> <table cellspacing="0" [...]
