Win a pass to iMoot sponsored by @wirismath #imoot
My sponsors over at Wiris have been kind enough to keep the Moodlenews.com train chugging along (covering our hosting costs, the Moodle Mug budget, our contributions to Moodle.org and some take-away when required...blogging gives me an appetite). Enter to Win here! They were also kind enough to let us revise the advertising space on the site to include an iMoot banner to help drive traffic and [...]
New Block: User Information Block
Here's a cool new block that provides a great way to either spice up a user's myMoodle page or to create a sticky block experience that verifies a student's identity for the duration of their Moodle activities. The block is the "User Information Block" and was created/contributed by Federico Botti. You can download it for Moodle 1.9 or 2.0 at Moodle.org. Download . Please note: there is [...]
iMoot Speaker Spotlight: @Josephthibault (that’s me!)
iMoot 2011 is just a week away and it's shaping up to be a really great event. I am extremely excited (and nervous) as this year I will be giving 2 sessions. Last year I presented my experiences using a completely standard Moodle installation and Paypal for a small-scale training and certification program (the business is still going and credentialing students). You can see my recap post [...]
Gone Moodle: Elon University, University of Portsmouth and Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences
As usual, here are a few educational organizations and institutions who've either made the switch to Moodle or are considering it: Elon University, Elon, NC, USA : Elon students and faculty are considering a move to Moodle from Blackboard over the summer of 2012 once the current LMS contract has expired. The move is driving by cost savings per student user and by the growing movement from [...]
Moodle for Dummies (a text/image based tutorial)
The " for Dummies" series provides distillations of popular topics and content areas. It makes perfect sense perhaps that they've finally made one for Moodle. A printed version of the book, written by Radana Dvorak is available for $29.99 at the Dummies.com website, but they also have a handy "cheat sheet" that can get you started. The cheat sheet covers three main topics: Navigating [...]
The 2011 iMoot Schedule has been released
Check out all the sessions and plan your iMoot viewing down to the minute with the easy to read program/schedule at http://2011.imoot.org. All of the confirmed sessions are listed with easy to read time zone comparisons. Use this roadmap to plan your best possible 2011 iMoot. Have you registered yet?
Check out @Moodlerooms’ new Joule Mobile video
Love the music. Below is the video embedded which showcases the Joule Mobile app in action, highlighting the various features like event notification, contact lookup and more. Check out all their videos and subscribe at http://www.youtube.com/user/MoodleroomsVideo Direct video link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBmKMXcT6Bo
Free Moodlebites Moodle tutorial course posted to the MOOCH
Following the RSS feed from the MOOCH is pretty interesting, it's a great way to see new Moodle sites and to stay up to date on what courses are available for both download and enrollment. The most recent course that caught my eye is the Moodlebites (official Moodle training partner) "Understanding Moodle Free Introduction" which is available [...]
Interested in what’s happening at #MootUK11? Follow @KristianStill
Kristian Still (@KristianStill) is on the ground and reporting from the UK Moot this year and has five recaps of the sessions he's attended already posted at his blog: http://www.kristianstill.co.uk/. For realtime updates from other participants you should watch the #MootUK11 Twitter stream: http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23mootuk11. Here's a full list of his postings/recaps: Day one [...]
@Davosmith’s UploadPDF Assignment Activity for Annotating/Editing PDFs via Moodle
Here's a pretty slick module for Moodle that allows you to have students upload PDFs and then you can annotate and correct them with some in-browser tools before "handing" them back via the Moodle module. The module was created by Davo Smith (@davosmith). Installation notes: on shared hosting (Bluehost.com) I did not need to install GhostScripts as suggested in the installation process on [...]
