‘Resources’ Archives
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 [...]
Why Moodle? A new Moodle commercial by @Moodlerooms
Here's a Moodle commercial created by Moodlerooms that does a great job at explaining the various benefits of Moodle over other LMS products or not LMS at all. Benefits include cost, tools, savings, access and more. Enjoy the video
New Enrollment Plugin from @mouneyrac: Invitation via email
Here's a pretty cool concept for Moodle 2.1+, an enrollment plugin that let's you invite students via email. Great for a no-non-sense ease of use enrollment. If the plugin works as described you can simply enter the emails and students are enrolled as soon as they click the link (assuming they follow through the registration process or are [...]
A new view for the teacher dashboard?
This is another great example of UX changes to Moodle that could have a lasting impact on usability and aesthetics. Stuart Lamour of the University of Sussex (and of the Page format fame: http://wp.me/pPsqH-1vL) has posted and shared a new Dashboard that they created for their teachers; their inspiration comes from the many content [...]
News Flash: KeytoSchool’s free Moodle hosting shuttered
A quick notification from Jai Gupta, KeytoSchool's spokesman, announced today that registration and new site creation at KeytoSchool's free Moodle hosting has been shuttered effective immediately. More bad news for KeytoSchool users is that the free hosting service will be discontinued completely on January 1st. From the announcement, It has [...]
Plan to use Moodle? Training may be required
Depending on what state or country you live in you may now have a hurdle if you're interested in implementing/using Moodle in your classroom: required professional development and training. At least one state in the US now have a minimum training requirement for any teacher who wants to "teach an online course in a public school, including a [...]
Doc of the Day: Basic Site Structure
As a follow-on to the "intro" doc we posted about last week (Key Terms) this quick resource explains to newbies the basic site structure of a Moodle installation. From the front page to navigating around: it is a quick reference for getting started. http://docs.moodle.org/20/en/Moodle_site_-_basic_structure This page and others make up the [...]
Search for Moodle vendors and products easily with eLearningAtlas
This is a nifty little search tool created by the makers of SCORM cloud (Rustici Software). eLearning Atlas has aggregated over 1000 products and vendors for eLearning together and made them accessible through an easily filtered search. If you're looking for anything "Moodle", this is a great place to [...]
