‘Videos’ Archives
iMoot 2011 Site is Live: Early Registration is only 50 AUD
Julian Ridden posted a quick note to all registered users of the iMoot2010 site as a notice that the new iMoot site is now open for business. This 2nd annual iMoot event is once again 100% online and will bring presenters from around the world together virtually to share Moodle best practices, stories and very, very cool customization tricks [...]
Great collection of Moodle resources by @Francesblo
Here's a great set of resources, including sample courses, videos, blogs, books and step-by-step tutorials from Fran Lo (@Francesblo). It's not necessarily an exhaustive list, but if you're just starting out and want to create your own repository of great Moodle help and content then Fran's Adventures in Online Teaching blog is a great place to [...]
8 Moodle Tutorial Videos: Forums to Chats to Assignments to Editing
Youtube user domanskiRPS has a great collection of Moodle tutorials for new users/teachers which might help clarify how to create forums, use assignments or embed videos. Check out the whole collection at http://www.youtube.com/user/domanskiRPS. The videos all have crystal clear audio, are well organized and concise while covering the [...]
Notes and Slides from the Mt. Orange School Demo provided by @lasic
Martin Dougiamas (@moodler) and Tomaz Lasic (@lasic) hosted a quick demo and call to action for the Mt. Orange School demo site right before Christmas. As a follow up Tomaz has provided the presentation recording in Elluminate, his slide notes and the full presentation from that day http://www.twitlonger.com/show/7m04ig. See a link to each [...]
Free Movie and Video Editing Course for Moodle 1.9 by Frankie Kam
Frankie Kam has posted a few free and open courses to his school's Moodle site (http://scm.moodleace.com). To access the courses you'll need to register (which is free) and once confirmed you'll have access to the various free resources for Moodle 1.9 and can also download the backup files. A few courses shared were not created by Frankie and [...]
Ask Mister Moodle: How do I create quizzes that randomly generates the tests for each student?
This one comes from the forums on Moodle.org, the Moodler asked: "I have 50 questions in a category, but I want each student to only answer 10 random questions in the quiz I've created, is that possible?" Mister Moodle says, "It is!" Here's a quick screencast created to illustrate the possibility of generating quizzes randomly by having it [...]
Need some ideas for Student Tutorials?
photo © 2008 USM MS photos | more info (via: Wylio)Look no further: Moodle.org has a great collection of student tutorial/documentation examples at: Student Documentation Examples. The page was created in an effort to provide more robust and detailed training options for students (as Administrator and Teacher training for Moodle is widespread); [...]
Theme-y Thursday: Finding, installing and selecting new themes
Generally there are two ways to upload themes to your Moodle site. The first is highlighted here by Dave Mozealous (@dmozealous) and is uploading to the theme directory on your Moodle installation using FTP. Via FTP Link to Dave's helpful post: http://www.mozealous.com/find-change-and-install-new-moodle-themes/ Via File Manager The 2nd way [...]
Learning to Moodle – Basics for Teachers (an open course for Moodle training)
"Learning to Moodle - Basics for Teachers" is a full Moodle course complete with videos and tutorials for showing the beginner teacher how to navigate, manage and create using a Moodle classroom. Course description: http://online-edu.cc.muroran-it.ac.jp/ Go directly to the [...]
Embedding Youtube Video in Moodle (a Video Tutorial)
It's probably the most handy feature to know and the most requested "how do I...?" at training sessions: Embedding videos and other resources from 3rd party sites is a very good skill to have. Enjoy this 3 minute video from the Emerging Technology Centre in New Zealand (http://etc.elearning.ac.nz/). Direct video link: [...]
