‘Resources’ Archives
Congratulations to Marie Sciangula for winning the Moodle 2.0 Course Conversion book giveaway! #MDL2CC
Quick note to congratulate Marie Sciangula for winning the Moodle 2.0 Course Conversion book giveaway sponsored by Packt Publishing. Over 70 readers participated in the giveaway through tweeting and commenting. Thanks for reading!
Process for Setting Up a Staging Moodle Site in IIS7 by Mari Cruz Garcia
This work by Mari Cruz García is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial 3.0 Unported License. Mari Cruz is an educational technologist at the University of Dundee and supports an online postgraduate programme there. According to her note to Moodlenews, I have elaborated a guide about how to set up a staging Moodle, [...]
Use Labels to Create Menus in Moodle
Here's a great HD video on Vimeo that showcases one of the ways to fight scroll of death on a Moodle page: adding image links to a label. Simple an effective in a regular course (though recently a commenter did mention that tables could affect accessibility for some students) this is easily accomplished using the Moodle text editor (any [...]
Blast off with the new Rocket Theme by @Moodleman for Moodle 2.1/2.2
5...4...3...2...1... The Rocket theme by Julian Ridden (@Moodleman) is a customizable theme to make your site less Moodley (and it succeeds). The theme has customizable logo, header images and category images and just simply looks great. It just may be the least Moodley looking theme of all Moodle themes! Check it out in some screen [...]
Free Course on the MOOCH: Mobile Learning and Teaching with Moodle 2
Here's a free course available via the MOOCH (hub.moodle.org), "Mobile Learning and Teaching with Moodle 2. The course was shared by Nadav Kavalerchik and is available to download or view. You can check out the MOOCH entry here or the course here. The course focuses on opportunities to learn about mobile computing in classrooms (with [...]
Last chance at winning Moodle 2.0 Course Conversion by @PacktPub #MDL2CC
Don't forget that a copy of Moodle 2.0 Course Conversion for Beginners is still up for grab. The book is a very easy read and is definitely for new teachers looking for a guide on how to bring their current non LMS based course online and into Moodle. It's full of tricks, hints and easy to understand tutorial information on making a smooth [...]
Blackboard’s newest release to showcase major usability enhancements
In my day job we utilize Blackboard Learn 9.1 (we're on the latest service packs as soon as they become generally available). Upgrades for hosted services are upgraded as part of their cost, at our convenience as long as we schedule 1-2 weeks out. Recently Blackboard announced its newest Service Pack which was introduced by Ray Henderson and [...]
How to increase the width of the Book module’s reading area (Moodle 1.9.15)
Peter Skoda (http://skodak.org) and Mojmir Volf are the authors of the Book resource. The Book resource is one of the major reasons why I love Moodle. It's a brilliant resource because it allows me to group related articles and webpages in a nice package. Something like the HTML frameset objects which were very common during the early days of HTML [...]
Super Simple navigation with a little HTML and the Topics format
Some simple HTML + the "Show One Topic" option in the Topics Course Format can be used to create a much improved course interface. No more scroll of death and students can easily navigate the course. This can be accomplished in both Moodle 1.9 and Moodle 2.x. First things first you'll want to construct your course and have it all ready to [...]
Offline Moodle Docs (your personal Moodle encyclopedia on the go)
Moodle Docs are an invaluable resource for Moodlers around the world, which is why you might want to download an offline copy for your own records (for those pesky moments when you're not online but have Moodle questions). The Docs are available as a complete .zip download from http://wimski.org/docs/ and the 250MB download, once unzipped [...]
