‘News’ Archives
Youtube Assignment addon released by @poodll4moodle
Justin Hunt (@poodll4moodle), developer of Poodll for Moodle has just released his Youtube Assignment module which allows students to upload directly to Youtube to make a submission. The YouTube assignment submission plugin is for the Moodle assignment (2.3 and above). It allows teachers to accept video submissions from students. The video is [...]
CanadaMoot Starts Tuesday! Attend Virtually for $225
CanadaMoot February 12 - 15 2013! http://moodlemoot.ca From Coding to Networking: Building Moodle on a Human Scale MoodleMoot Canada next week! Registrations are still coming in from coast to coast to coast! We're overflowing but the 2013 Canada Moot Program Committee is excitedly looking forward to connecting and reconnecting with [...]
Minor changes to the Moodle release calendar announced
As you know Moodle's major releases now are every six months and progress on new features, enhancements and overhauls has been excellent since the new schedule was instituted. A tweak to the calendar now puts minor releases on a schedule with a more frequent regularity. We have decided to change the Release calendar to bring minor releases [...]
2013 Germany MoodleMoot is coming February 26th – March 1st
The 2013 Germany MoodleMoot preconference has sold out, but the two day conference is still open and expecting the largest turnout in the Germany Moot's history. The Germany Moot is brought to you by University of Munich, eLeDia, MoodleSchule, Goethe Institute, and Dillingen Academy. Around 100 presentations/sessions are scheduled throughout [...]
CanadaMoot is just 2 short weeks away!
Release from MoodleMoot.ca From Coding to Networking: Building Moodle on a Human Scale http://moodlemoot.ca | REGISTER HERE: Attending online for the full conference is $225 and in person registration fees are now $435. We're excitedly looking forward to connecting and reconnecting with Canadian Moodlers! Thanks to our presenters, we [...]
Saylor.org Increases Traffic by 500%; 280 courses assessed via Moodle
Saylor.org, a provider of free college level courses which we profiled on Moodlenews a year ago has seen a dramatic increase in web traffic this year and an overall increase in the number of courses that it offers via it's custom Wordpress CMS and Moodle LMS for assessments (quantitative examinations). The two sites work well together with [...]
Core Moodle features that make our @StraighterLine courses awesome
In December we launched our new Moodle course platform for about 75 courses on Moodlerooms' joule 2 software. Thanks to some great conversion work by Sam et al at Move2Moo (who successfully converted around 160,000 test bank items in six weeks) and a few extremely skilled staff members at StraighterLine we launched successfully and without any [...]
WizIQ lands new round of funding to allow “anyone to teach or learn, anytime and anyplace”
WizIQ, a synchronous online learning tool that integrates with Moodle (http://www.wiziq.com/moodle/) announced earlier this week that it has received a 4 million dollar investment to help integrate it's web properties and further establish itself as an educational platform for teaching and learning. The education market, especially for entities [...]
Moodle 2.4.1, 2.3.4, 2.2.7 and 2.1.10 are now available
New releases of Moodle's versions are out recently with bug fixes and a few enhancements. Nothing groundbreaking at first glance, but if you're now using a version now out of date there are benefits to upgrade (security fixes and bug fixes). One additional feature to keep an eye on is the ability to update functionality from the Admin panel [...]
WIRIS tackles accessibility and performance in it’s latest release
Wiris Math editor for Moodle provides an easy way to create and administer mathematic equations in quizzes or through the text editor generally. Recently they've focused on improving accessibility and performance. Their recent announcements highlights the accessibility improvements which have been made and works based on the native language of [...]
