Posts Tagged ‘administration’
Handy Enrollment Cap tool for Moodle 1.9
Here's a plugin that allows you to set a max enrollment number for a course. It's a way to limit the number of total students who can self-enroll in your course. According to the entry, once extracted/installed: This setting specifies the maximum number of students that are allowed to be enrolled on the course. The number of available [...]
Moodle 2.1 Administrator Map (your guide to everywhere) by @synergylearning
Synergy Learning (@synergylearning), a Moodle Partner and vendor has created a nifty "subway" style infographic that shows all of the navigation trees for Administration in Moodle 2.1. It's a handy go to if you're trying to find where a particular setting or function is located within the new navigation. View the whole resources (full size) [...]
Moodle Flavours–a site admin setting replication tool–now available in the Plugin Repository
Moodle Flavours, which was one of the Google Summer of Code projects for 2011 by David Monllaó has just been released. This is a pretty cool tool for managing multiple Moodle sites and sharing the settings between them through an import/export process. According to the documentation page, With this plugin Moodle Administrators will be able [...]
Interview with David Monllaó, Developer of Moodle Flavours #GSOC
The Moodle Flavours project is one that I'm currently watching with much anticipation. As a Google Summer of Code Project this is development work that Moodle is receiving in exchange for providing mentorship to a student (the student is paid through a Google stipend, learn more about the GSOC here). Michael de Raadt is acting as mentor for [...]
A Partial Possible Alternative to Legacy Course Files: Dropbox
Finding a nice transitional file system that teachers can understand might be one of the main challenges of moving from Moodle 1.9 to 2.0. The course files directory and how files are stored on your Moodle site has changed significantly from 1.9 to 2.0 which has created the challenge. There is a very simple partial solution however, which I [...]
Moodle Monday: Google Analytics by @timdalton
Last week we looked at the reports and logs in Moodle as a way to find out how your courses are being used. I wanted to extend the idea slightly this week by looking at Google Analytics. Analytics is a free tool that you can add to any website to help track in a huge amount of detail what your visitors are doing. I use it on this blog, it's on our [...]
Moodle 2 Preview: Course Based Filters
There's a cool new feature in Moodle 2.0 that I had previously overlooked and is not listed on the Moodle 2.0 release notes . Thanks to "Moodle 2.0 First Look" by Mary Cooch (which I'm currently reading) I was introduced to this one. In previous Moodle releases, site filters allow the embedding of content, auto-linking of terms and resource [...]
Moodle Feasibility Study Survey
At the Moot in Austin we covered a great presentation about the feasibility study conducted by North Carolina Community College's Open Source Collaborative and now we've found a collaborative opportunity to tackle the question of feasibility of Moodle in schools and organizations. It's a short survey, but from it we hope that Moodle [...]
Short Assigning Roles Video (quick reference)
Here's a short, concise and accurate video on assigning roles as the editing teacher or site Administrator on a Moodle site by Edutechnorevolution. Check out the other 7 videos they have about Moodle admin functions (deleting, reseting, etc.) as well, http://www.youtube.com/user/edutechnorevolution Here's a direct link to the video: [...]
@moodletuts Quick Tutorial of Creating a Course and Course Content
@Moodletuts created a quick (4:40) tutorial on the process of creating a course and integrating several activities and resources (an embedded video, and 2 SCORM packages made with Articulate Presenter and Quiz Maker). Check out Moodletuts.com for more great content. If you've never created a course from the Administrator view or embedded [...]
