‘Tech Tip’ Archives
Moodle Doc of the Day: Hacked site recovery
Here's a handy docs page to be familiar with if/when disaster strikes your Moodle. Whether it's cleaning up spam profiles or fixing hacked files for your installation this is a great place to start; especially the section about Prevention. http://docs.moodle.org/20/en/Hacked_site_recovery A few of the suggestions for prevention: update [...]
Starting with Moodle 2 by @Moodle1: 15 Moodle Admin Tasks before launching a site
Here's a great presentation by Mark McCall at Remote-Learner which covers the major changes between Moodle 1.9 and 2.0 and provides 15 tasks for Server Administrators and 6 tasks for teachers as they get started on a Moodle 2.0 site. Practical and easy to navigate. Tips include setting default course features, languages, time zone, course [...]
Moodle “How-to Setup your Moodle 1.9 Class” document by @francesblo
Here's a really concise and descriptive document that would be a great addition to any new Moodle user training course. It highlights all of the "editing on" features of a Moodle class page and covers the basics. A great cheat sheet for beginning Moodlers. The document was created by Frances Lo (@Francesblo) and is [...]
Cloning activities in Moodle 2.0 by @Moodlefairy
Here's a great short video that highlights one of the newest features in Moodle 2 (to be released with Moodle 2.1 this week). Enjoy the video by Mary Cooch and read more about the 2.1 release here: http://docs.moodle.org/dev/Moodle_2.1_release_notes Direct video link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rV4_Z-hNMoc
Mapping a Moodle Upgrade Roadmap by @kristianStill
This guest post was originally published at Kristian Still's education-focused blog: http://www.kristianstill.co.uk Over the pass few weeks, away from my day-to-day duties, I have been either Moodling or in Moodle conversation. Most of my time has been spent investigating and applying the new Moodle features, supported by a very useful [...]
Easy TinyMCE Port for Moodle 1.9
John Ehringer recently posted at Moodle.org about the new TinyMCE 3 installation instructions for 1.9.12. I was able to install this successfully for Moodle 1.9.10* using only the three-step process outlined by the TinyMCE team at Github: https://github.com/WebCourseworks/moodle/tree/tinymce. Specifically you'll want to peruse the readme [...]
Moodle Monday: Text editor tips by @timdalton
Two quick tips for you today, the credit for both goes to Crofton School- our newest partner moving to Moodle. We started looking at Moodle 2.0 with staff last week, discovered a couple of neat little tricks when using the text editor. Tip 1: Make it bigger Two tips for the price of one here... You can make the tiny little text box you are [...]
Tweaking Marginalia for better visual cues and feedback
Tweak the look-and-feel of Marginalia and you get a whole new visual experience. Ever since my last post on Marginalia on Moodlenews, I'd been thinking about how to adjust the colour to suit (1) my Moodle theme; and (2) my own taste. I thought to myself, "Why not show the grammar mistakes in red, and the corrections is green?". Plus I really [...]
eyeOs and Moodle, Optimized for #ChromeOS?
Imagine this scenario: you start-up any computer with internet, login into your Education portal and voila, easy 2-click authentication to Moodle and instant access to your own personal, safe online file repository; all in the cloud. Sound good? Sounds like you need to check out eyeOs. eyeOs is a cool browser-based program that looks as [...]
Moodle 2: Feedback Vs. Questionnaire
I've been working on a Moodle site for a client who needs to have students complete an end of course survey for external review. I've been playing with both the Feedback and Questionnaire modules for Moodle 2.0 and I have to say that I'm struck by how mature and user-friendly both of the modules are. It's a shame that with this level of [...]
