‘Tech Tip’ Archives
@jasontbedell gets #WP and Moodle to play nice
Jason Bedell, who just ran a successful TeachMeet event in Nashville recently posted a great tutorial on how to authenticate users from WordPress Multi User into Moodle. This means that the most popular open source blogging platform was linked via single sign on (SSO) to the most popular open source learning management system. For any school [...]
Mr. Moodle Answers: Why are inactive students appearing on the online users block?
This question originated from and then was answered by Silvia Ines Borro, a MoodleMonthly reader. The question was: I've got in my Online Users block , a list of users that are not really connected. How can I close their sessions? Here's her answer (which she found after troubleshooting): To remove the users from the user block, open [...]
Mr. Moodle Answers: Why is moodle.org hidden behind login?
Here's another question from a reader: Why is moodle.org hidden behind login? The short answer is that Moodle.org is actually not hidden behind a login. Users can easily click "login as guest" and be transported to nearly any corner of the Moodle.org knowledge base, including the vast forums that have some of the most up to date (but not [...]
@Talis Awards Funding to @JosephThibault @bseanvt for the Moodle Course Repository
Today the Talis Education Incubator announced it's winners for this 1st round of funding. I am proud and extremely honored to have my open education project selected as a recipient (with my partner Sean Behan/@bseanvt). From their announcement (http://goo.gl/63PS) Talis has announced the winners of its Talis Incubator fund set up in [...]
Quick Tip: Office Add-in for Moodle and getting it to work @markdrechsler
Mark Drechsler (@markdrechsler) covered the OAM (Office Add-in for Moodle) which was released by Microsoft recently and posted a little known usability issue. you must have the ‘Courses’ block showing on your Moodle site for it to work If you plan to use the Add-in, do check out Mark's blog post: http://www.markdrechsler.com/?p=158. The [...]
Mr. Moodle Answers: Can I assign students to groups and make assignments conditional?
Greg, a reader, asks, Is it/will it be possible for conditional activities to be set on a per-user basis? For example, if I'm grading a rough draft of a paper, and I see a kid is confusing the different types of "there", could I log into moodle and require that he do a "there" exercise prior to submitting his final draft? and, Can I [...]
Versions 1.8.12 and 1.9.8 Released: Important security fixed included
Martin Dougiamas (@moodler) send a message to all registered Moodle administrators last week discussing new security patches within versions 1.8.12 and 1.9.8 (to register you need to opt in from your administration dashboard). The announcements for security fixes always come a few days earlier than the general release of versions. Why? [...]
Web 2.0 Tools and Techniques Presentation by @markdrechsler and a wiki video by @josephthibault
Mark Drechsler, @markdrechsler has a few great presentations concerned with Moodle on Slideshare.net. Here's a good one that covers the comparison and integration several web2.0 tools into a Moodle classroom (http://www.slideshare.net/mark.drechsler/web-20-tools-and-techniques). Web 2.0 tools and techniques View more presentations from Mark [...]
Converting #Blackboard to Moodle
Here's a quick tip that I learned both from the Moodlemeet.ning.com social network and MoodleMayhem Google group recently: To convert Blackboard course cartridges to Moodle, just give Louisiana State University's course conversion apparatus a try. http://moodleconverter.lsu.edu/index.html LSU moved from Blackboard to Moodle officially and [...]
@sandrapires Schools us on the Forum
A cool site came across my Google Reader this week, e-Blahblah, which is published by Sandra Pires. The site has videos, Moodle tips and a lot of other cool stuff for educators: http://e-blahblah.com. Here's a cool clip about how (and the all important "why") to use forums in Moodle from the video section of the site: Visit the site: [...]
