‘Resources’ Archives
@Moodlefairy shows off the Subpage module: another way to prevent Scroll of Death
The Sub-page module gives Moodle course design additional flexibility in creating nested activities and organizing resources on their own page. If you've ever used Blackboard for course creation you'll be very familiar with the concept. Sub-page is developed/maintained by the Open University for Moodle 2.1+ but has not been officially [...]
241 OER Courses with Assessments in Moodle: How Saylor.org has created one of the largest Free and Open Course Initiatives on the web
Among free education advocates Saylor.org is leader offering absolutely free educational resources online. The Saylor goal/vision is to create "a zero-cost alternative to those who lack the resources to attend traditional brick-and-mortar institutions" and to provide those mainstream learning providers a free complement of resources online. [...]
Want to see some cool course design? Checkout the Moodle at University of Sussex
From the great looking theme to the awesome course format (with linear organization and pages) the University of Sussex Moodle is one of my favorites around. And you can get a look by just checking out the site with guest access. Login as guest at https://studydirect.sussex.ac.uk/login/index.php I really like the feature which by clicking [...]
Doc of the Day: LTI Provider
Earlier this week I posted a cool video by Charles Severance (@DrChuck) that highlighted Juan Leyva's LTI provider. I just wanted to follow up that posting with two additional resources to help you get a handle on LTI and start exploring. Moodle Docs for LTI Provider is a nifty overview of the utility, how and why it might be used and some [...]
@DrChuck shows off the Moodle LTI Provider addon (Video)
This ~6 minute video by Charles Severance (@DrChuck) is showing off the Moodle 2+ LTI (Learning Tools Interoperability) Provider that was recently created by Juan Leyva (@jleyvadelgado) and released on Moodle.org/plugins. The video shows how you can use Juan's addon to share Moodle resources, activities and enrollments (or even a full course) [...]
12 Moodle tools to interact with your students online by @WizIQ
Full disclosure, WizIQ (@wiziq)is a sponsor of Moodlenews (see the ad space to the right) providing financial support for our operating/hosting costs. Here's an easy to digest list of good tools for Moodle that you might consider using. Many are not standard activities/modules but each is available below as a list from the [...]
Moodlebook = Facebooky theme for Moodle 2.2+
Julian Ridden (@Moodleman) has just updated/released his new "Facebook" theme for Moodle which is based on the core Decaf theme by Lei Zhang. The theme mimics the world's favorite social network in color and layout and also includes some nifty drop down navigation. Dropdowns from the main menu bar across the top link to a users course [...]
Is Your Moodle “Cheatable”?
Here's a cool resource I picked up around the twittersphere last week which helps to "score" your Moodle classroom based on how easily it is to cheat or game the system as a student. It asks simple questions like how much of your course is assessment based, how the assessments are setup, if you use the same test pools every year, if students can [...]
Start 2012 off by winning a free book #MDL2CC from @Packtpub
Win Free Copies of Moodle 2.0 Course Conversion Beginner's Guide Moodlenews has teamed up with Packt Publishing to give two lucky winners a copy of Moodle 2.0 Course Conversion Beginner's Guide book by Ian Wild. Keep reading to find out more about the book and giveaway. Overview of Moodle 2.0 Course Conversion Beginner's Guide Move your [...]
Melbourne theme by Danny Wahl upgraded for Moodle 2.x
Melbourne was a really great theme for Moodle 1.9 by Danny Wahl and he's now done a quick port to Moodle 2.x (actually 2.2). You can download it from Github (he hasn't officially released it to the Moodle database) and use it at your own risk. If you're not on Moodle 2.2 you'll need to nix the version.php file within the theme folder (that's [...]
