Posts Tagged ‘block’
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 [...]
Google Analytics Block for your Moodle 1.9
If you're interested in tracking visits and hits to your Moodle site and pages then I would recommend using Google Analytics as an additional tool (aside from the great site reports and user reports that are already created for you in Moodle). Google Analytics is easy to set up and manage and is great to tracking guest users to the site. This [...]
Slick new Block: Create Wordle-like Text Clouds based on course files
Here's a cool new block that lets you create text clouds automatically within your course based on the text and words of uploaded documents, posts and html within that course. The end result is similar to programs like Wordle or Tagxedo, but right in your course. It's called "TextCloud for Moodle" and it's already available in the Moodle.org [...]
Forum Block (how to show recent news from any discussion)
Here's a nifty little block that allows you to easily showcase recent posts from multiple discussion forums. The block, like the standard "Latest News" block, pulls recent posts from each designated discussion forum for a quick and easy measure of activity in the course. Easy to install (just unpackage the zip in the Blocks directory) and easy [...]
The Active Forum block: a short cut to the best discussions
The Active Forum block (http://docs.moodle.org/en/blocks/active_forums) is an easily installed mod for Moodle which pulls titles from the discussion forums and creates a tag cloud for quick reference and to see at a glance what discussions are happening in the online classroom. Just unzip the block in on your server, run Notifications and the [...]
Drilling down with the Navigation Block in Moodle 2.0
One part of Martin's keynote (highlighted yesterday) is the new persistent Navigation Block. If you're interested in seeing how deeply you can drill down into course information just check out http://qa.moodle.net. Here's a screen shot of how deeply you can jump into a course discussion by using the new functionality. From anywhere on the [...]
What’s in your HTML Block? new video from @moodlerooms
The HTML block in Moodle is a blank slate for pulling in content dynamically to your course. There's a great new video from Moodlerooms that highlights the flexibility of the HTML block and how to embed dynamic content such as Twitter searches right into your course. What's in your HTML block? More videos and information at [...]
Module: Enrollment Expiry Block
Here's a cool module from the archives that would be handy for any site that employs strict enrollment periods for their courses (either on a paid site or simply one that uses timed enrollments). The module is called the "Enrollment Expiry Date Block" and quite simply is, A very simple block that just displays when a student's enrolment to the [...]
Embedding #Twitter into Moodle and the Twitter Post Block
Here's a quick presentation posted to E-teachUK (http://muppetmasteruk.blogspot.com) that shows the process of embedding a Twitter widget into a Moodle page. A handy tutorial for adding all of your Twitter posts to an HTML Block in a Moodle classroom. Additionally, Lewis Carr also recently released a Moodle Twitter Post Block which allows [...]
