‘Resources’ Archives
Moodle 2.0 Video Playlist by @ghenrick
Here's great resource pulled together and shared by Gavin Henrick (@ghenrick) who's also been systematically documenting and reviewing the modules and features of Moodle 2.0 at his blog: http://moodle.drupalgardens.com/. A great resource that's highlighting some of the new and improved features of Moodle (and additional newly released modules [...]
A Good Looking Moodle and 5 Basic Steps
Here's a slick-looking site and course that you can check out. There isn't much content yet, but the overall site design (which is part of a commercial site setup by http://www.xelium.co.uk/) is pretty nice: http://www.moodler.me.uk/. The course , which consists of a few tips ("5 Basic Steps for Using Moodle" is nice) and some discussions [...]
Quizzes: there’s an App for that (The Moodle Quiz Mobile for 1.9 and 2.0)
Here's a new resource that was shared with me recently. It's Moodle Quiz Mobile and you can see the teaser presentation below (or at this link: http://www.slideshare.net/tjuly/moodle-quiz-mobile). Moodle quiz mobile View more presentations from Yulia Ivanova The Moodle Quiz Mobile app was created by Yulia Ivanova and her team who [...]
A few tips on Moodle security (ReCaptcha, Passwords and more)
Moodle security, especially in the classroom setting is very important. There are always ways you can better secure your Moodle. There are a few that you have direct control over while others you might not even know exist. Password difficulty: today in Moodle you can set various password requirements for new users to increase the level of [...]
Top 5 Posts of the Week
In case you missed one, here are the 5 most popular posts from this week on Moodlenews, 10 Things you can do with a Moodle webpage 100+ Moodle feeds: The Ultimate Moodle News RSS Feed Bundle 42 Interesting Ways to Use Moodle in the Classroom (started by @TomBarrett) Moodle all atwitter (a Twitter-like Theme for Moodle by @Moodledan) 17 [...]
DarkMoodle 1.1 Theme Updated and re-released (Batman’s Moodle Theme)
I joke of course. Batman's Moodle theme is top-secret. If it wasn't though, DarkMoodle might be the theme he used on his 1.9.11 Moodle site. Re-released and updated by creator, Mike Glover (@twitr_mike), the DarkMoodle theme is now fully usable on the newest release of 1.9 and available for download from his site. Check out the theme in [...]
New Conversionthingy2 1.9 to 2.0 conversion process video
Here's a video that highlights one of the easy ways available for converting course content from 1.9 to 2.0 (the other way is upgrading the entire site on which a course has been restored/built). The process uses ConversionThingy2 (by Peter Friesen), which we've highlighted here before . It works pretty well converting the standard Moodle [...]
@OpenUniversity Working to update several Modules for Moodle 2.0 (OUWiki, OUblog, ForumNG)
Sam Marshall, a Moodle developer at Open University recently announced that the OU is working to update their popular contributed modules for use on Moodle 2.0. The OU contributions have been popular among modules and plugins from Moodle.org due to the additional features each modules adds to the basic/standard Moodle module version. Open [...]
@LPCreps brings a Moodle 2 course navigation tutorial
Here's are a few videos by Life Pacific College which highlight the basics of being a student in a Moodle 2.0 course. Part 1 highlights some nifty simple tricks for navigating any Moodle, including how to open new tabs and windows to ensure you don't close your course page, how to show only 1 topic area, how to save relevant files/documents [...]
100+ Moodle feeds: The Ultimate Moodle News RSS Feed Bundle
I have been collecting Moodle related RSS feeds via Google Reader since 2007. There are some that I've followed since my first login (like Around the Corner--who you might say was my inspiration for getting into blogging in the first place), other gems have come and gone, and still Google Alerts suggest new blogs and posts on a daily basis. The [...]
