‘Videos’ Archives
Use Labels to Create Menus in Moodle
Here's a great HD video on Vimeo that showcases one of the ways to fight scroll of death on a Moodle page: adding image links to a label. Simple an effective in a regular course (though recently a commenter did mention that tables could affect accessibility for some students) this is easily accomplished using the Moodle text editor (any [...]
Super Simple navigation with a little HTML and the Topics format
Some simple HTML + the "Show One Topic" option in the Topics Course Format can be used to create a much improved course interface. No more scroll of death and students can easily navigate the course. This can be accomplished in both Moodle 1.9 and Moodle 2.x. First things first you'll want to construct your course and have it all ready to [...]
@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 [...]
On the 9th day of #Moodlemas the community shared with me…
Tutorials for watching! 8 Site for Storytell-ing 7 mobile Moodl-ing 6 Course-for-matting 5 a course about Jiiing 4 pretty themes 3 plugins 2 Cheery images and A freebie Christmas themed Glossary! If it's one thing the Moodle community is good at it's creating video tutorials and screencasts to highlight Moodle's [...]
A Video Playlist all about the Gradebook (from Western Nevada College)
Here's a great set of videos by the Teaching and Learning staff at Western Nevada College that highlight all sorts of features and setup options in the Moodle 2 Gradebook, including calculated/weighted grades, extra credit, sum of grades, non-graded items and more. There are tons of great resources to be found at the WNC blog: I've put them [...]
Usability enhancements by LUNS (fewer page loads, easier resource/activity creation)
Here's a cool usability feature introduced by Andrew Nicols of the Lancaster University Network Services (LUNS) for what Moodle might look like post release in 2.3. Fewer page loads and easier to add resources and activities. I really like the fewer page loads and how the resources and activities are automatically paired with a quick [...]
How to use the Meta Course function in Moodle 2.x
Meta courses are great ways to automatically give students the resources they need on a Moodle site without having to enroll them into two areas. On several projects I've used Meta courses to speed up access to students and to create a 1 stop shop for supporting students that was easily update-able and centrally managed. In Moodle 1.9 Meta [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
