Gone Moodle: Middlebury College, eMints and GCC
As usual here are a few organizations who have switched to Moodle or simply made my radar as Moodle users, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT : Moodle was selected as the main Middlebury LMS this past summer 2011. Ongoing efforts at supporting new Moodlers on campus have increased its usage since 2007 when its use started in Middlebury's renowned language-immersion summer programs, " [...]
Study: Perceived Usefulness and Perceived Ease of Use for Moodle LMS
I had a chance to read this research paper recently submitted at Moodle.org and it was pretty interesting (the authors are Şule Taslis Pektas and Halime Demirka of Bilkent University in Turkey). The study gauged student thoughts on their Moodle (in several areas) experience for a course specifically using Moodle to help facilitate and manage a computer aided design project. The students [...]
Ask Mister Moodle: How can I get a report of just one student’s activities?
This was asked recently in the comments at Moodlenews, I would like to know if there is any method of exporting the grades and info about one student, so I could send to it’s company. It would be a report of his lessons and when was the last time he got in to the course, and that kind of stuff. I often provide a detailed report and spot check of student progress for one of the clients I [...]
New Theme for Moodle 2.1+: FadeBlack
Here's a new theme from John Stabinger of New School Learning (Moodle Partner) called FadeBlack. Haven't had a chance to try it out (still waiting on 2.1 to be added to Bluehost's Simple Scripts) but from the plugin database entry it has a nice simple look and feel with raised/drop shadowed edges for blocks and content areas. Very slick indeed. I've been impressed with the recent themes for [...]
Nadav Kavalerchik’s Spelling Bee block for your Moodle 1.9.x site
Here's one from the deep recesses of Moodle.org - a very good Spelling Bee block for Moodle 1.9.x, to challenge your English linguistic and spelling prowess. Nadav Kavalerchik is a brilliant Isreali chap with a penchat for churning out Moodle custom code like the Spelling Bee. If ever there were a Nobel Prize for Moodle Open Source coding, this Moodler would be a serious contender (amongst [...]
Top 10 posts of 2011
Here's a quick run down of the 10 most popular posts from 2011 by total pageviews. Conversionthingy2 update: Convert Moodle backups from 1.9 to 2.0 Blackboard vs Moodle 2.0: 100+ metrics compared head to head by @MoodleRUB 4 new themes for Moodle 2.0 Great New Theme for 2.0: Aardvark Postit by Mary Evans 10 Things you can do with a Moodle webpage Aardvark 2.1.0 Theme released for [...]
A look back at 2011 (by the numbers)
2011 was a huge year for Moodle and for Moodlenews. Here's a peek at our analytics for the last 12 months (as tracked by Google): Posts in 2011: 558 Total visits: 247,000 Total uniques: 156,894 Pageviews: 868,190 Average time on site: 2:41 Total countries: 199. The largest visitor populations (from highest to lowest) are from the US (31% of traffic), UK, Australia, Canada, [...]
On the 12th day of #Moodlemas the community shared with me…
12 Wiggly icons for clicking! 11 Books for Reading 10 Courses for sharing 9 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! Here's a special present from Frankie Kam to the Moodle community. A simple way to add [...]
On the 11th day of #Moodlemas the community shared with me…(Win a book of your choice!)
Loads of books for Reading! 10 Courses for sharing 9 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! I'm sure you're shopped-out this close to the holidays, but if you're looking for that last person on your list [...]
On the 10th day of #Moodlemas the community shared with me…
Courses for sharing! 9 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 Moodle has done well is creating a community driven repository of courses that you can easily download and put to use on your own [...]
