MoodleMoot returns to Ireland: The Ireland/UK MoodleMoot April 2-4, 2012 in Dublin #mootieuk12
After a several year hiatus the Ireland/UK Moodlemoot returns and will be held in Dublin on April 2-4, 2012. The call for presentations is open; deadline to submit is Feb 3rd, 2012. The Moot is focusing several strands for Moodlers including Implementing & Developing Moodle, Teaching & Learning with Moodle, Academic takeup of Moodle, Student engagement, Moodle 2 and more. [...]
@DrChuck shows off the Moodle LTI Provider addon (Video)
This ~6 minute video by Charles Severance (@DrChuck) is showing off the Moodle 2+ LTI (Learning Tools Interoperability) Provider that was recently created by Juan Leyva (@jleyvadelgado) and released on Moodle.org/plugins. The video shows how you can use Juan's addon to share Moodle resources, activities and enrollments (or even a full course) to another LMS using LTI. It's pretty slick and I [...]
12 Moodle tools to interact with your students online by @WizIQ
Full disclosure, WizIQ (@wiziq)is a sponsor of Moodlenews (see the ad space to the right) providing financial support for our operating/hosting costs. Here's an easy to digest list of good tools for Moodle that you might consider using. Many are not standard activities/modules but each is available below as a list from the Moodle.org/plugins repository. The whitepaper, "12 Moodle Tools [...]
Moodlebook = Facebooky theme for Moodle 2.2+
Julian Ridden (@Moodleman) has just updated/released his new "Facebook" theme for Moodle which is based on the core Decaf theme by Lei Zhang. The theme mimics the world's favorite social network in color and layout and also includes some nifty drop down navigation. Dropdowns from the main menu bar across the top link to a users course enrollments, their settings and other main blocks [...]
Schedule your Summer around the Ohio Moodle Moot #Mootohus12
This June 21st marks the 2nd annual Ohio Moodle Moot in Mansfield, OH. The date was just announced for 6/21/2012. Find out more information at http://www.ohiomoot.org and be ready to join MoonBeam (the Moodle Moose, mascot of the Ohio Moot) and his friends. The call for presentations is now open. Accepted presenters get free registration to the event. There are three strands to [...]
Is Your Moodle “Cheatable”?
Here's a cool resource I picked up around the twittersphere last week which helps to "score" your Moodle classroom based on how easily it is to cheat or game the system as a student. It asks simple questions like how much of your course is assessment based, how the assessments are setup, if you use the same test pools every year, if students can take exams more than once, how long they're open, [...]
Start 2012 off by winning a free book #MDL2CC from @Packtpub
Win Free Copies of Moodle 2.0 Course Conversion Beginner's Guide Moodlenews has teamed up with Packt Publishing to give two lucky winners a copy of Moodle 2.0 Course Conversion Beginner's Guide book by Ian Wild. Keep reading to find out more about the book and giveaway. Overview of Moodle 2.0 Course Conversion Beginner's Guide Move your existing course notes, worksheets, and resources into [...]
Melbourne theme by Danny Wahl upgraded for Moodle 2.x
Melbourne was a really great theme for Moodle 1.9 by Danny Wahl and he's now done a quick port to Moodle 2.x (actually 2.2). You can download it from Github (he hasn't officially released it to the Moodle database) and use it at your own risk. If you're not on Moodle 2.2 you'll need to nix the version.php file within the theme folder (that's what I did and got it to work on Moodle [...]
iMoot 2012 gets a date! (April 21-24)
This is a tentative date (yet to be confirmed by the official iMoot site) but it was posted recently to the Moodle announcements by Helen Foster (@Moodlehelen). Looks like the iMoot will be held online from the 21st through 24th of April 2012. Watch this site for more information: http://2012.imoot.org/ And if you're interested in many more events in Moodledom visit our newly updated [...]
Enrich your users’ learning experience with Mediabird Study Notes
One of my joys in life as a Moodle site administrator is scouring the Net to unearth gems of Moodle activity modules of earlier years. Such is the case with Mediabird Study Notes. It allows you to add private and community note-taking to your Moodle site! Never heard of it Mediabird Study Notes? This blast-from-the-past (April 2009) is a real gem of an activity module for [...]
