‘Tech Tip’ Archives
What do a peacock, Emily Dickinson and Class have in common? (Word Censorship in Moodle)
Profanity censorship. The purpose of today's post is to share with you how I enable a-Year-2008 improved Moodle censorship filter on my site. I will let you know how I tweaked it to achieve the desired effect. So at the end of this post, you will know how to enable the 'new' Censorship filter that allows a good word list while censoring bad words. [...]
Create a form in a block the easy way with the Form Maker block – no HTML needed
Some of the simplest blocks on Moodle.org are also the most elegant and easy to use. Caio Almeida's Form Maker block for Moodle 1.9 (March 2009) on Moodle.org is one such example. At the end of this post, you will be able to create a basic form in a Moodle block to capture input from users. This block allows a site administrator or teacher to [...]
Using the Presentation Mode in OKMindMap
Last month I featured OKMindMap on Moodlenews.com. Within a month, I had over 430 pageviews of my blog post and Dr. Won's OKMindMap site experienced an influx of visitors. In today's post, I touch on another one of OKMindMap's features - the Advanced Presentation. Did you know that OKMindMap has this feature that allows nodes to be displayed as a [...]
Back to School 2011: “Moodle Mondays” (regularly scheduled training sessions)
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. One suggestion I made to all teachers who are going it alone or just starting to help other teachers get up and running on [...]
Introduction to Teaching with Moodle (4 week online course in October for as low as $55)
@ONEforTraining is a professional development arm of the California Community Colleges and offers low-cost teacher training via the web. This upcoming course has been offered before by @One and covers the basics of using Moodle in the classroom. For as low as $55 dollars for the 4 week session it's a great deal (non CA institutions are only [...]
Making the “Web’s best php shoutbox” even better for your Moodle site
In my post on FreeEmbedChat, if you were observant enough, you would have noticed an interesting-looking block on the lower right-hand corner of my Moodle course page. That's the section with the red border. Today's post is about that intriguing block with the text "Whisper" inside it. One the most useful feedback tools on my Moodle site is [...]
@kineolearning unveils “E-learning Top Tips” iPhone app for on the go tips and ideas
Kineo, a Totara (Moodle for business) vendor and eLearning firm (affiliated with Catalyst IT Limited for official Moodle training in the Pacific) has just released a mobile app that provides a collection of 40 tips, tricks and insights to improving your learning management system, course and elearning environment in general. The app is free in [...]
FreeEmbedChat – you’ve never seen a free PHP chat like this for your Moodle site before!
Julie slaps Frankie with a large trout. Remember that line "...slaps... with a large trout"? The early 1990s were the good old days of the Internet age where text ruled the roost. Internet connections were mainly dial-up lines. Chat clients like mIRC and ICQ were all the rage. I should know. I once wasted the equivalent of one whole week's [...]
Doc of the Day: Youtube Videos as a Repository in Moodle 2
Here's a cool feature of Moodle 2+'s file picker which lets you embed Youtube videos easily into your course. Check it out for how to configure, how to use it and how to leverage the picker to add more dynamic/multimedia content to your course: http://docs.moodle.org/20/en/Youtube_videos.
Moodle 2 on an iPad (without any apps)
If you were curious what can be done with an iPad when accessing your Moodle site then you might be a little confused by the plethora of App options for using Moodle on an iPad. Each has their own benefits/drawbacks, but did you know that you can forego any purchase and just access the Moodle site using the built-in browser? While file upload [...]
