‘Resources’ Archives
Check out new courses at the MOOCH
If you haven't been following what's happening at the MOOCH, today's a good day to go visit, http://hub.moodle.org. The MOOCH has lots of published courses already posted and available for download. Go browse or search for your favorite! Here are a few of the most recent additions of courses you can download, Biology PHP/MySQL [...]
Moodle all atwitter (a Twitter-like Theme for Moodle by @Moodledan)
Here's a great new theme for Moodle 1.9 which we previewed a few months ago. The theme was developed by Dan Humpherson (@moodledan). The theme features a familiar layout borrowed from Twitter but also boasts a cool, consistently available navigation style bar at the top of the page (for courses, profile and messages), a two column (both to the [...]
An indepth introduction to Moodle 2.0 by @titantechtrain
Here's a much longer tutorial which covers Moodle 2.0 (installed at Cal State LA). The video is about 34 minutes long and covers: Setting up your profile Editing course details Adding activities and resources The video is part of a 'video training course' created by Titan Tech Training (@titantechtrain) and the quality is great. The [...]
Watch a Presentation highlighting Poodle for Moodle (Offline Portable Moodle)
Poodle for Moodle (Portable Moodle) is a desktop client which lets you host your own Moodle site right on your Windows computer. It's very easy to setup and easy to use (I've personally used it to play around with themes and to install new modules...it's a snap to use). The product is created by Mission Aviation Fellowship Learning [...]
Doc of the Day: Adding/Editing Assignments
Moodle.org is such a wealth of information and documentation; here's some great (updated) documentation for the Assignment module which covers pretty much everything you could possibly want to know about adding assignments to your Moodle course. Adding/Editing an Assignment: http://docs.moodle.org/en/Adding/editing_an_assignment And just in [...]
11 Moodle tutorial videos
Here are some tutorial videos which were linked/embedded from the Moodlerooms blog recently. The videos were created by Katie Regan of the Cayuga-Onondaga BOCES and they cover using forums, creating activities, and several additional standard (and non standard, like the Questionnaire module) modules and activities in [...]
10 Things you can do with a Moodle webpage
Here are a couple of ideas for what you can do with Moodle's webpage, which are generally blank canvases in your classroom that might be under utilized. By knowing how to toggle the plain text view in any html editor you too can embed some of these great little tools. Here's a quick list, with a link to my test course where you can see these [...]
Video: A great illustration of the Lesson Module by @red20twenty
Below you'll find a video by Mike Walters (@red20twenty) which showcases his design and use of the lesson activity in Moodle to try to stave off the "scroll of death". The lesson is an all inclusive exercise that includes complete instructions, a quiz, 3 assignments and additional resources (even PDF downloads) of the resources students need to [...]
Breaking down the Walls of the ‘Walled Garden’ LMS (presentation by @paulbmckenzie)
Here's a pretty great presentation by Paul McKenzie (@paulbmckenzie) which highlights the pros and cons/problem and solution of using Moodle in the classroom. The pros, Paul says, are that Moodle has a great community, is open source, free to adopt (no license). The cons include it's course development learning curve and "walled garden" [...]
Video: Converting web pages to activities (cleaning up your Moodle with @grant_harbor)
Here's a quick video from Grant Harbor (@Grant_Harbor) of SCIL who shows us how to clean up a Moodle by changing a resource already created in Moodle to pretty much any type of Moodle activity. The tip, while simple, is a great tool which can help you reduce the number of links and resources available to your students. It's a great way overall [...]
