Posts Tagged ‘block’
Letting students add select Gifs/Animations to the Online Users block (Moodle 1.9.x and Moodle 2.2!)
An Adaptation of the Online Users block Fourteen days ago, I set out to modify Andy J. Davis' Online Users block. My objective was to make my Moodle site more engaging. I think that with the generous help of PHP developer, Matteo Scaramuccia of Italy, and Stephane Gully's Shoutpro Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 License code, [...]
How to increase forum participation exponentially with the New Forum Replies block by Niall Barr
I am sure that you are familiar with the Recent Activity block. This block does what its name indicated, which is to list recent activity, most commonly, forum posts. You can also get a full report by clicking on the link "Full report of recent activity". This is useful when you want to view recent forum posts. Information Overload It [...]
Feeling moody? Show off your mood on the Online Users block for Moodle 1.9 and Moodle 2.2!
WHAT IF you could display your mood or status on the Online Users block by Andy J. Davis? Imagine with me if you will. You're on your Moodle course page. Just before you go to make phone call, you display a BRB (Be Right Back) status next to your username on the block. Or before you attempt a quiz for the next one hour, you display a Busy [...]
Want to see some cool course design? Checkout the Moodle at University of Sussex
From the great looking theme to the awesome course format (with linear organization and pages) the University of Sussex Moodle is one of my favorites around. And you can get a look by just checking out the site with guest access. Login as guest at https://studydirect.sussex.ac.uk/login/index.php I really like the feature which by clicking [...]
How to be invisible on the Online Users block. A Moodle 1.9.x and 2.x solution.
Learning Outcome: at the end of this post, you will know how to allow your Moodle 1.9 and 2.0 users to hide themselves on the Online Users block. Now I don't know about you, but I like, no, LOVE, the Online Users block by Andy J. Davis. It lends an air of Web 2.0 for Moodle. The feeling of a learning community that the block helps to foster is [...]
QuickStructure released for Moodle 2
If you're looking for yet another way to jazz up your site, you might want to check out the QuickStructure block for Moodle 1.9 and 2.x released by Dr. Checkers (Iain Checkland) a Moodle developer in Hong Kong. The original release of QuickStructure occurred this past July and the code was recently ported to Moodle 2. QuickStructure allows [...]
Navigating Moodle with hotspots
How would you like your Moodle site to be more navigatable? Nicholas Walker of Collège Montmorency has shared an interesting and instructive post on how to create a Moodle block that contains a image with hotspots that link to various parts of your Moodle course. For those of you who would like a different approach for your users to navigate [...]
Create a form in a block the easy way with the Form Maker block – no HTML needed
Some of the simplest blocks on Moodle.org are also the most elegant and easy to use. Caio Almeida's Form Maker block for Moodle 1.9 (March 2009) on Moodle.org is one such example. At the end of this post, you will be able to create a basic form in a Moodle block to capture input from users. This block allows a site administrator or teacher to [...]
Moodle Monday: Progress Bar by @timdalton
My current favourite thing about Moodle 2 is the combination of activity completion tracking and conditional activities. With these two additions it has become so much easier for us as staff to keep track of student progress on our courses, and for the students to understand how they should move through the courses we build. This week I [...]
Drag and Drop File upload Block by @Davosmith
Here's a really slick application of drag and drop for Moodle. The block, according to Davo Smith, the developer, is simply a proof of concept for adding easy drag and drop functionality to Moodle courses. That said, for Moodle 2.0 it works like a charm. Install the block and voila: drag and drop functionality to the topic/week areas within [...]
