Posts Tagged ‘1.9’
How to increase the width of the Book module’s reading area (Moodle 1.9.15)
Peter Skoda (http://skodak.org) and Mojmir Volf are the authors of the Book resource. The Book resource is one of the major reasons why I love Moodle. It's a brilliant resource because it allows me to group related articles and webpages in a nice package. Something like the HTML frameset objects which were very common during the early days of HTML [...]
Offline Moodle Docs (your personal Moodle encyclopedia on the go)
Moodle Docs are an invaluable resource for Moodlers around the world, which is why you might want to download an offline copy for your own records (for those pesky moments when you're not online but have Moodle questions). The Docs are available as a complete .zip download from http://wimski.org/docs/ and the 250MB download, once unzipped [...]
Moodle 2.x Accessibility a few thoughts and a report by NC State University
North Carolina State University recently published this webpage which highlights their exploration of Moodle 2.x's accessibility vs accessibility in 1.9.x releases. The thorough paper provides a lot of use case scenarios and outcomes when testing Moodle with various assistive technologies and standard tools (screen readers, mouse only, keyboard [...]
Course Format for 1.9 and 2: Grid View
This is a really unique course format that allows course topic sections to be identified with a specific image. The Grid View allocates an image to each topic area and when clicked from the course homepage a nifty popup appears highlighting the information held within. It's easy to use, easy to configure and is a great way to simplify course [...]
Convert Blackboard Learn courses to Moodle with Reteach.org
This is a new tool shared with us in the comments recently: it's a piece of code that you can use to automatically convert course exports from Blackboard Learn to Moodle 1.9 backup files. We haven't had a chance to try it yet but the original contributor did mention that it worked great: http://reteach.org. Reteach was created by Adam [...]
Top 30 reasons to move to Moodle 2 by @ghenrick
Gavin Henrick has pulled together 3 (three) top 10 lists for why to move from Moodle 1.9 to 2.0. The three presentations are available at his blog and the each already has a voice over presentation video available on Youtube. Each presentation highlights another set of new/changed Moodle features and discusses (quickly) how they impact the [...]
Ajax Replacement Chat – an improved chat room for your Moodle 1.9 site
I was thinking about Moodle's chat module yesterday. I thought about how my Moodle 1.9.7 site's chat module could be improved. This post is all about chatting in Moodle. Ah yes, online chatting. A major addictive time-waster in most cases. Raise your hand if you have ever wasted more than an hour chatting with others online. My right hand is up. [...]
Embedding a Whole Website into a Moodle Course (securely)
Here's a really awesome use of Moodle: embedding a complete website and all of it's HTML/videos/link structure, etc. This provides a secure environment, protecting your website creation and also keeps students within your Moodle course. I use the same process for linking to Articulate presentations (some 200 slides with audio!) just by zipping [...]
Moving the Open University to Moodle 2.1 Presentation by @rossmackenzie
This presentation highlights the internal road-map for moving Open University's enormous Moodle installation to 2.1. The presentation is by Ross MacKenzie and highlights the current status of Open University's daily usage and stats and some of the considerations they are being forced to make as they move forward and toward an [...]
ELIS Community Package now Available at Moodle.org
Download it now and give it a test drive. The full community package and documentation is now available at Moodle.org in the Plugin Repository: http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=13&rid=4894. From the entry, As a highly flexible system, ELIS(TM) is widely used in a variety of learning programs. ELIS(TM) is a set of add-ons to [...]
