‘Tech Tip’ Archives
Ajax Replacement Chat – an improved chat room for your Moodle 1.9 site
I was thinking about Moodle's chat module yesterday. I thought about how my Moodle 1.9.7 site's chat module could be improved. This post is all about chatting in Moodle. Ah yes, online chatting. A major addictive time-waster in most cases. Raise your hand if you have ever wasted more than an hour chatting with others online. My right hand is up. [...]
Quick Design Tip: the 80/20 rule
Stephan Schmidt (@ozesteph1992) who did this great set of Moodle design tutorials (link) had a great suggestion when it comes to planning/building your Moodle course. I'm keen on aesthetics and quality flow within the online learning space (eliminate the learning curve of navigating your course, if possible by cutting the extraneous and [...]
Get some ideas about course design/aesthetics from this “Using Moodle” video
Here's a quick video tour of a Moodle course that has some pretty nice design (lots of images) and additional resources for students which explains the course in full detail (expectations, plagiarism, course outline, total points per assignment and more which are all plainly provided to students). The video is by Tamara Wong and highlights an [...]
Moodle Course Design: a high-wire act presentation by @catspyjamasnz’s #MootNZ11
Here's a great presentation by the same source who brought you the excellent Moodle Tool Guide for Teachers: Joyce Seitzinger (@catspyjamasnz). The presentation focuses on learning design and suggesting that teachers working with educational technologists can achieve great things when combining forces for learning. The full [...]
Presentations from #MootCAUS11 are now available!
Nearly 20 presentations from the North American Moot which took place this July 2011 are now available at http://www.moot-us.com/home/presentations/. PDFs of the Presentations slides include many of the daily sessions (no keynotes) for your perusal. Here's a nice presentation titled "Making your Moodle course Student Friendly" which features [...]
I’m okay, you’re okay. Introducing OKMindMap!
So you like using mindmaps, do you? Having fun time drawing all those little nodes and links on paper? Using highlighters and colour markers to spruce up the diagram, eh? Ever since Tony Buzan popularised the mind map in the 1970s, the world has never been the same. If you also use Moodle, then it might interest you to know that there is a free [...]
Marginalia and Nanogong co-existing in your Moodle 1.9 forums – a match made in heaven
In this post, I explain how YOU can fortify your standard Moodle forum by getting the non-standard mods Marginalia and Nangong to co-exist in harmony. With Marginalia you can annotate forum posts, whilst with Nanagong you can embed voice recordings. As Hannah Montana would sing, "it's the best of both worlds!". At least on a Moodle 1.9 [...]
Embedding a Whole Website into a Moodle Course (securely)
Here's a really awesome use of Moodle: embedding a complete website and all of it's HTML/videos/link structure, etc. This provides a secure environment, protecting your website creation and also keeps students within your Moodle course. I use the same process for linking to Articulate presentations (some 200 slides with audio!) just by zipping [...]
How to use the humble comma delimited (CSV) file to display private coursework marks on a Coursepage
In 2007, Serafim Panov created a Moodle mod named Display Data (it works for Moodle 1.6, 1.7, 1.8.2, 1.9.3 and 1.9.7.). By using Serafim's mod with Notepad or Excel to produce a comma-delimited (CSV) file, you can place a table containing an entire class' coursework marks on your Moodle coursepage, and yet just allow the user to see only his [...]
Adding Youtube videos by link with the Youtube Multimedia Filter plugin
Here's a time saver for those of you using Youtube videos in your Moodle courses. Did you know that a simple link like "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Six2mhNeJcg" will embed the video automatically in Moodle if you have the Youtube Multimedia Filter enabled? No more flipping to plain text or configuring the embed code: just paste and [...]
