‘Moodle Monday’ Archives
Moodle Monday: Using images in your courses by @timdalton
Ages ago I wrote about adding images into the topics to make your Moodle courses look a little more attractive. This week I wanted to extend the idea a little, looking at how we can use Flickr to do some neat things. For those that don't know, Flickr is an online photo sharing site. Sign up for an account, share photos/galleries with the world. I [...]
Moodle Monday: Meta Courses by @timdalton
The meta course function in Moodle is a really neat way to speed up enrolling your users. The idea is nice and simple- if you have one course set up with your teachers and students all enrolled you can have this exact same set of enrolments copied on to any other course. For example, in one of our partner schools they have a course for each of [...]
Moodle Monday: Course Requests by @timdalton
This week I want to mention a Moodle feature that has been around for ages but people often don't know about. Creating new courses is one of those jobs for Moodle admins that comes up over and over again- I get loads of emails from teaching staff asking for new courses. There is a way to automate this process and save yourself a bit of [...]
Easily Customizing your Moodle’s Login Screen
On Moodle Monday this week Tim Dalton gave a great tip about customizing your Moodle's login page. In this post we're going to take it a little further and show what a customized login page can look like with a few little tweaks. As Tim specified, access the page to customize your Moodle login by going to Users -> Authentication -> [...]
Moodle Monday: Editing the log in page by @timdalton
We all spend lots of time developing our Moodle homepages and our courses for our students, but often the log in page is the first thing your users see when visiting your site. Have you thought about what they see? By default the Moodle log in page just contains the most basic information. The username/password box, and the standard Moodle [...]
Moodle Monday: Moodle XML Converter by @timdalton
Short post this week, but a quick recommendation for a nice Moodle tool I got sent to have a look at. The Moodle quiz and glossary modules are great, but entering all of your questions/entries can take up a lot of time when doing them all through the web interface. It is possible to import questions into your quiz (and entries to the glossary) [...]
Moodle Monday: Use groups to share information with parents by @timdalton
One of the schools we work with was looking for a way they could use the existing Moodle structure to share their end of day report for each student with their parents. The school write a short report about the progress of each student at the end of every day, and wanted to know if Moodle could be used to share this privately with their parent. We [...]
Moodle Monday: Google Analytics by @timdalton
Last week we looked at the reports and logs in Moodle as a way to find out how your courses are being used. I wanted to extend the idea slightly this week by looking at Google Analytics. Analytics is a free tool that you can add to any website to help track in a huge amount of detail what your visitors are doing. I use it on this blog, it's on our [...]
Moodle Monday: Course reports and logs by @timdalton
So, you've created your Moodle course and your students are using it. Ever wondered how many of them actually do? Using the reports pages in the admin area of your course you can find lots of information about this. Head to the course you are interested in and click the 'Reports' link from the administration menu. From here we can do a few things, [...]
Moodle Monday: Banning users from messaging by @timdalton
We like the Moodle message block, but it can be open to student misuse. This simple little trick allows you to create a new role that stops certain users from using the message block. You could use this to ban particular students, or whole groups of users. The Moodle permission system has a set of rules about what certain types of users are [...]
