‘This just in!’ Archives
Meet Moonbeam the Moose and get ready for the Ohio Moot #MootOHUS11
The Ohio Moodle Moot will take place this August 11th, 2011 in Mansfield, OH. The event will be only $75 to attend. For more information visit http://www.ohiomoot.org. The Moot's mascot was recently unveiled at Moodle.org in the forum, meet Moonbeam the Moose: According to the site, Moodle is fast becoming the educator's choice for [...]
A new Country Moodle Song…
We all heard (and loved) the techno-pop Moodle song by Dawn of Thunder. Well now there's a new country Moodle song on the interwebs for you to enjoy (no matter your musical taste it sounds like Moodle-pop music is hitting all genres). This song is by Kent Brooks (@kentbrooks) and was shared by Tim Hunt on Moodle.org. It chronicles the switch [...]
Take a peek at Joule’s Social layer by Western Nevada College
Starting from myMoodle, students at Western Nevada College who want to connect socially now have a new online tool part of Joule 2 from Moodlerooms: Joule Social. Looks like a Facebook activity and Twitter post stream mashup with easy access to courses, blogs, instant chat and other important resources and documents. The video was created by [...]
1000th post at Moodlenews (thanks for reading)
This is actually the 1006th post at Moodlenews and I wanted to quickly thank all the readers for sticking with us and providing all of the great feedback, comments and questions. Keep them coming and I'll try to reciprocate. 1000 posts is a lot but I have to admit the last 18 months at Moodlenews have flown by and I've been blessed to be able [...]
Folderview course format will not be in 2.1 release
Unfortunately we got a quick update on the status of Folderview, the new course format from Moodlerooms and it will most likely not be ready for inclusion in the 2.1 release coming at the end of the month. Folderview is a contribution from some folks with a really strong interest in improving and maintaining Moodle, so I was reviewing it in an [...]
Moodle Docs was down…but Space Invaders was up.
It's not all the time when I have a few minutes to spare to go read the Moodle Docs, which is why I was bummed when I saw that it was down this morning with the following message: Luckily "this interesting utility" was Space Invaders (which promptly wasted 10 minutes of my time). High score for Joe? 6580 before I had to close the browser [...]
In latest release, mPage adds file management and upload capabilities #mobile
mPage 1.2.5 was released this past Sunday and now includes a nifty "mFolder" tool which lets you, upload/manage files in the app upload files to activities in Moodle from your mobile device (including to forums) access the files on your phone/handset for easy uploading (including images and more). It's a pretty slick little feature that [...]
@Moodlerooms Seeks Additional $1.5 in funding
As partners and use of Moodle proliferate around the world, one Moodle partner and start-up is lengthening its runway and raising additional financing (1.5 million this 3rd round) according to a Baltimore Sun article. As it grows to compete with the LMS giants (Blackboard namely) it has been snapping up colleges and university systems around [...]
#MMVC11 MoodleMoot Virtual Conference of 2011 to take place in August
Here's another virtual Moodle Moot which takes place August 17-21. This Moot will employ WizIQ's webinar tool. According to the MMVC landing page the conference will be bilingual (English and Spanish) and is now open to submit your presentations or register for participation. The topic tracks for MMVC11 are: Moodle for instruction and [...]
Take a peek at the “FolderView” course format by @Moodlerooms
I have to thank Derek Chirnside for finding this link in the Joule documentation in the comments recently. Check out a few screenshots of the new FolderView course format for Moodle 2.0 and Joule 2.0.
