‘This just in!’ Archives
Start 2012 off by winning a free book #MDL2CC from @Packtpub
Win Free Copies of Moodle 2.0 Course Conversion Beginner's Guide Moodlenews has teamed up with Packt Publishing to give two lucky winners a copy of Moodle 2.0 Course Conversion Beginner's Guide book by Ian Wild. Keep reading to find out more about the book and giveaway. Overview of Moodle 2.0 Course Conversion Beginner's Guide Move your [...]
Melbourne theme by Danny Wahl upgraded for Moodle 2.x
Melbourne was a really great theme for Moodle 1.9 by Danny Wahl and he's now done a quick port to Moodle 2.x (actually 2.2). You can download it from Github (he hasn't officially released it to the Moodle database) and use it at your own risk. If you're not on Moodle 2.2 you'll need to nix the version.php file within the theme folder (that's [...]
Gone Moodle: Middlebury College, eMints and GCC
As usual here are a few organizations who have switched to Moodle or simply made my radar as Moodle users, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT : Moodle was selected as the main Middlebury LMS this past summer 2011. Ongoing efforts at supporting new Moodlers on campus have increased its usage since 2007 when its use started in Middlebury's [...]
Study: Perceived Usefulness and Perceived Ease of Use for Moodle LMS
I had a chance to read this research paper recently submitted at Moodle.org and it was pretty interesting (the authors are Şule Taslis Pektas and Halime Demirka of Bilkent University in Turkey). The study gauged student thoughts on their Moodle (in several areas) experience for a course specifically using Moodle to help facilitate and manage [...]
A look back at 2011 (by the numbers)
2011 was a huge year for Moodle and for Moodlenews. Here's a peek at our analytics for the last 12 months (as tracked by Google): Posts in 2011: 558 Total visits: 247,000 Total uniques: 156,894 Pageviews: 868,190 Average time on site: 2:41 Total countries: 199. The largest visitor populations (from highest to lowest) are from the [...]
Help drive development in 2012 by filling out this survey
Posted by Martin Dougiamas, Head Moodler in the Moodle.org forums today. This is your chance to help steer development towards your priorities. Speak up now by takeing this quick 4 question survey or forever hold your peace! Moodle AAARRGH! survey for 2012 My wish for 2012? Better usability through fewer clicks and fields.
On the 7th day of #Moodlemas the community shared with me…
mobile Moodl-ing! 6 Course-for-matting 5 a course about Jiiing 4 pretty themes 3 plugins 2 Cheery images and A freebie Christmas themed Glossary! If you haven't yet checked out all the goodies in our Mobile Moodle Matrix, check it out here: http://www.moodlenews.com/mobile/. But that's not all there is, there's a new [...]
On the 3rd day of #Moodlemas the community shared with me…
3 plugins! 2 Cheery images! and A freebie Christmas themed Glossary! There are awesome plugins at Moodle.org available in the new plugin/addon repository. If you haven't checked some of the recent submissions from the community you should. Here are a few that I really like: Drag and Drop file Upload Progress [...]
On the 2nd day of #Moodlemas the community shared with me…
Cheery images! Get some holiday cheer on your Moodle with the logos and Moodle themed cards available on the web. Sources include Julian Ridden, Moodle.org, Mark Drechsler, Coleg Gwent Online, Moodle @ CafePress, and the Moodle Shop. The cupcakes look delicious. Stay-tuned for more #Moodlemas.
#imoot2012 is coming!
No event information is yet published, but the website has a new landing page: http://2012.imoot.org/ I'm getting excited.
