‘Resources’ Archives
A WIRIS giveaway: 5 Yearly Site Licenses just for contributing questions!
Good news for math teachers across the globe, WIRIS, a provider of a math equation editor plugin for Moodle is giving away site licenses to teachers that contribute to the WIRIS collection of questions on their site: http://collection.wiris.com/quizzes. According to their newsletter published before Thanksgiving this year: WIRIS will give [...]
Moodle and Gaming presentation by @Lasic
The Australian Flexible Learning Framework hosted its recent Learn 11- E-learning conference and Tomaz Lasic presented a session titled "Level Up: Learning to Moodle with games". The session slides are available at Slideshare.net. Definitely not as good as I can imagine Tomaz's presentation was in person but the slides do include some cool [...]
Siri, what can you do with Moodle? #Apple
Here's a cool tidbit if you're following some of the new iOS features, specifically the voice recognition and personal assistant software that was introduced as Siri (a witty, helpful automated assistant and search tool). Unfortunately it can't tell you what your homework is or how many students have yet to finish that quiz within a Moodle course [...]
Introducing FreeMoodle.org: A free, Moodle Partner-backed hosting option
Great news on the free Moodle hosting front recently, HRDNZ, an official Moodle Partner in New Zealand has launched http://www.freemoodle.org/ as a free and open Moodle resource with an eye towards sharing. There are various stipulations and conditions if you upload your course on the site (which beckons back to the eSocrates.org sharing [...]
Dear Mr. Moodle: How do I hide myself from the online users block?
Here's a question that came in recently to Mr. Moodle: Dear Mr. Moodle! Some lecturing staff where I work are requesting the option to change their Moodle status from online to offline as/when it suits them. They state privacy reasons - that if they choose do a lot of Moodle work online at odd hours they would rather this not be public [...]
Joule 2: alerts, streams and interactive theme components
Here's a new video from Moodlerooms that highlights their joule 2 alerts and streams. Streams is a block of the most recent activity in any course which can be pulled/displayed right on a student's myMoodle page. Alerts are course notifications which show as an interactive theme element/drop down, just like a Facebook notification. Of [...]
QuickStructure released for Moodle 2
If you're looking for yet another way to jazz up your site, you might want to check out the QuickStructure block for Moodle 1.9 and 2.x released by Dr. Checkers (Iain Checkland) a Moodle developer in Hong Kong. The original release of QuickStructure occurred this past July and the code was recently ported to Moodle 2. QuickStructure allows [...]
The 2nd Annual Global Education Conference Starts today! #GlobalEd11
At 11am EST Alan November (one of many great speakers) kicks off the 2nd Annual Global Education Conference, while it's not necessarily Moodle-focused or -related, it does offer a host of professional development, discussions and top-notch presenters and keynote from around the world. GEC is hosted entirely on Elluminate/Wimba (now Blackboard [...]
New Theme for 2.x: Zebra 2.1
Zebra is a great customizable theme that allows easy color changes and other customizations right from the Admin panel. It's been upgraded and released as Zebra 2.1 recently, bringing a fresh look with the same control. Change colors, logos, background images and more through the Admin panel and with FTP access. I tried it out and [...]
Read this now: @Ghenrick’s Moodle 2 Theme White Paper
Gavin Henrick (@ghenrick) has a great white paper out about themes in Moodle 2.0. He highlights and points out all of the things you should consider when thinking of upgrading from 1.9 or simply making the jump to the new Moodle platform. As you may know, themes are a lot different in Moodle 2, providing dockable navigation and full [...]
