‘Moodle Monday’ Archives
Moodle Monday: Moving resources between courses by @timdalton
Today I needed to move a whole set of resources from one course to another. Last year we had a 'Learning to Learn' course on Moodle that all students followed during tutor time. However, the page grew over the year to a point where there were too many resources so this year we are creating a different course for each year group. So, what I need to [...]
Moodle Monday: NanoGong Activity
The holidays give us a chance to try out some new things ready for September. The first activity we are adding to our Moodle installation for the new year is NanoGong. It's a great little activity that adds audio recording capability to Moodle. Setup of the module is as easy as any other. You have to fill in a short form to get a download link [...]
Moodle Monday: The fastest way to prepare courses/users for next year by @timdalton
End of the school year means start of the boring admin paperwork ready for next... This is a job I've just completed for one of our partner schools so I thought it was worth documenting as many others will be going through the same process at some point over the Summer break. We needed to do a few things- remove students that have left, move [...]
Moodle Monday: 30+ Moodle resources from @NJIT
The New Jersey's Science and Technology University (www.NJIT.edu) uses Moodle and has over 30 Moodle videos, tutorials and PDF documents that highlight the basics to the more advanced and 3rd party modules specific actions and procedures in Moodle (i.e. Turnitin integration). It's a great page to peruse if you're looking for documentation to [...]
Moodle Monday: Moodle and Twitter
This week I've been looking at some of the options for getting Twitter feeds to display in a Moodle course. I've written up two possibilities here- using the RSS feed or a widget. The Twitter Widget This can be used to display your own twitter feed either in a block on your course or as embedded HTML in a web page or label. It looks a [...]
Moodle Monday: Embedding Google Maps into Moodle @timdalton
This week I want to look at how you can embed Google Maps into Moodle courses. Google provides a very simple interface for generating the right code you need, all you have to do is make sure you copy and paste it into the right place. You can embed simple maps, or choose to add the satellite view or Google Earth plugin. Once in your Moodle [...]
Moodle Monday: Making the most of the topic box by @timdalton
Moodle Mondays are a new section of Moodlenews provided by Tim Dalton (@timdalton). You can read this, and many other helpful posts over at Tim's regular blog, http://tdalton.co.uk/. Tune in every Monday for a Moodle Monday tip. A frequent complaint we hear from teaching staff when starting Moodle is courses are too text heavy. However [...]
