Posts Tagged ‘2.0’
Moodle Doc of the Day: Beginning Moodle 2.0 Administration
For those of you brave enough to take the Moodle 2.0 plunge (or just want to flatten that learning curve in advance of a migration) here's the "Beginning Moodle 2.0 Administration" docs from http://docs.moodle.org/en/Beginning_Moodle_2.0_Administration. This is a great source of information on the errors and issues that have been met when [...]
Conversionthingy2 update: Convert Moodle backups from 1.9 to 2.0
Peter Friesen, creator of ConversionThingy2 has just released an update which makes this tool much more useful to Moodle users than ever before. Previously CT2 was designed to specifically help Angel users managed their course conversions to Moodle a little more easily. According to the site CT2 now, converts their course content into native [...]
Moving to Moodle 2.0? Do NOT upgrade your production server without testing first
There have been a quite a few "URGENT"/"HELP!" threads at Moodle.org recently which all refer to difficulties users have had in upgrading from Moodle 1.9+ to Moodle 2.o. While the Moodle code was released generally to the public and is listed at stable the Moodle docs are explicit in asking all users to refrain from upgrading a production server [...]
Mt Orange Presentation (with @lasic and @Moodler) Take-aways
This morning at 8am EST I attended Tomaz Lasic's (@lasic) demonstration and overview of the Mt. Orange School Demo site. It was very well attended and after a quick welcome by Martin Dougiamas featured Tomaz diving into the "guts" of the Mt. Orange School. The school, if you're not familiar with it, is a demo site which helped to test and now [...]
Live Tour of the Mt Orange School Demo by @Lasic and @Moodler (12/22/10 @ 8am EST)
Just in time for the holidays there's a very special event coming up featuring two of the foremost Moodlers: Martin Dougiamas and Tomaz Lasic. The event, a showcase of the Mt. Orange School, will feature this working Moodle 2.0 demonstration site with commentary and Q&A with Martin and Tomaz. When: December 22nd (Wednesday) at 8am EST [...]
Mini Moot in Western North Carolina: Call for Presentations
The Moodle Mini-Moot at Mars Hill College will take place on March 18th, 2011 in picturesque Mars Hill, North Carolina. The all day event is only $45 to attend (early bird rate). Organizers have announced their call for presentations, so if you're in the western North Carolina area and have a good idea for a Moodle presentation, submit a [...]
Exploring and Designing a Database Activity in Moodle 2.0 (by @jpatten)
John Patten (@jpatten) of the Sylvan Union School District in Modesto, CA (see their Moodle: http://eett.sylvan.k12.ca.us/moodle/) has some great tutorials at his blog which cover the settings, features and design of the Moodle Database Activity for Moodle 2.0. Check out the three great videos ~15 minutes in all) at his blog [...]
Now 25 how-to’s for Moodle 2.0 from @ThinkTutorial
ThinkTutorial has added about a dozen new tutorials for learning simple Moodle 2.0 functions. Added since their original batch (link) are some step by step walk throughs of how to customize the myMoodle page, how to amend the notification emails, and how to register/connect to Moodle.org as a user. Enjoy all 25. Note that these tutorials [...]
Mobile Moodle 2.x (@OpenUniversity’s new mockups for optimized mobile course interactions)
Not too much information here, except that Open University is making headway in their effort to put Moodle 2.x on mobiles. Check out the two announcements of their progress here: Next stage of Mobile VLE (Moodle v2.x) New Mobile VLE design planning The coolest part (I think) is taking a gander at their annotated screenshot of a [...]
New Theme, “Université” by the designer of Créatif
Rolley Tickner, creator of the great Moodle 2.0 theme Créatif, has released a new theme in development for Moodle 2.0 at his blog. The theme is called Université and it's got a nice simple layout and color scheme. Université is available for download from Rolley's blog (bottom section) and has been listed in the Moodle.org theme [...]
