‘Moodle Monday’ Archives
Moodle Monday: Extra Question Types by @timdalton
Did you know that as well as blocks and activities the Moodle modules and plugins directory also contains extra question types for the quiz? They're no more difficult to install than any other add-on, and can quickly add an extra dimension to your quizzes. Here are my top 3: 1) Drag and drop ordering (Moodle 1.9 and Moodle 2.0) Nice [...]
Moodle Monday: Progress Bar by @timdalton
My current favourite thing about Moodle 2 is the combination of activity completion tracking and conditional activities. With these two additions it has become so much easier for us as staff to keep track of student progress on our courses, and for the students to understand how they should move through the courses we build. This week I [...]
Moodle Monday: Galleries by @timdalton
One of my favourite add-on modules for Moodle is the Lightbox Gallery Resource. If you're still a 1.x school and haven't seen and installed this you really should get it now... Simple, fast & visually appealing way to add a gallery style component to your courses. The bad news is we found on upgrading one of our partner schools to 2.0 that [...]
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 [...]
Moodle Monday: Big Blue Button by @timdalton
Following on from the post on Moodlenews announcing the activity module for Big Blue Button we have had it installed and in testing for a little while now. Big Blue Button is a fantastic piece of open source software for delivering remote classroom/training type sessions. Having spent a fair amount of time using GoToMeeting I can say with some [...]
Moodle Monday: Using the Game Module by @timdalton
Got yourself a good set of quiz questions or glossary entries built up on your course? Good... We keep telling you to use more activities with your students... With those in place you can install the Game module on to your Moodle server and create some new activities using your existing content. Saves you time, gives your students [...]
Moodle Monday: 6 Tips to Manage Course Sizes by @timdalton
A while ago I wrote about the reports available to admins to see how courses were being used. These reports very much cover staff/student access which is useful, but as a Moodle admin I'm also interested in the disc space these courses are taking up. The amount of disc use is important, particularly if you are paying for your hosting. [...]
Moodle Monday: Tagging by @timdalton
After looking at the user profile in a previous week this post moves on to look at profile tags. When editing their profile a user can add tags of their interests. Simply type them in, if it already exists you get added to that tag, if not Moodle creates a new tag for you. When viewing a user profile you can see what interests they have [...]
Moodle Monday: Using Avatars by @timdalton
Do you have an avatar as part of your profile? Do you encourage your students to add their own? I've been thinking about creating a sense of community in our Moodle sites this week, will write a few posts on it. Today I wanted to look at the avatar, and some of the things we could do with it. Adding your avatar To add an avatar to your [...]
Moodle Monday: Forums for individual groups by @timdalton
After something of a delay due to other commitments I'm hoping the Moodle Monday posts will now return to a regular schedule, apologies all... I'm sure most of you are aware of the groups function in your Moodle courses. They are a nice way to divide your course participants up into more manageable sizes. Not really a concern if you only have a [...]
