Posts Tagged ‘code’
How to embed an OKMindMap inside your blog or Moodle webpage resource.
Hi. In this post, I will show you how to embed an OKMindMap in your website or Moodle webpage resource or label. This method is different from adding an OKMindMap activity to your Moodle site as mentioned previously in this post. That was a pretty long post wasn't it? Don't worry, this article is short(er) and sweet(er). The method oulined in [...]
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 [...]
How to find Moodle programmers/developers for your project
Someone recently asked me, "how can I find a Moodle developer to help me with my Moodle project?" Through my own experience there are just a few basic ways to find someone with Moodle help. So if you're interested in finding a Moodle programmer, or if you have a project in need of some paid technical expertise, read on. The very first thing [...]
Embedding PDF files in Moodle – a concise tutorial by @LBCCeLearning
Editor's note: first and foremost I'd like to welcome a new author/contributor to Moodlenews, Frankie Kam. His first post is published below. Welcome to the team! LBCC eLearning Blog is the "the place to see the latest ideas for online education at Linn-Benton Community College" (follow them @LBCCeLearning). In a March 2010 post, Eric [...]
Moodle HQ moves to GIT: Steadier releases are coming
Martin Dougiamas announced last week that Moodle HQ will be migrating from CVS to Git as their main code sharing and management tool. According to Martin, several benefits will follow on the heels of this move: A more accurate portrayal of overall progress in the Moodle Tracker Minor releases (e.g. 2.0.x) happening regularly. Major [...]
Making Moodle work better on #Chrome browser
I use Chrome browser for my day to day internet browsing and work, even for accessing Moodle site. Which is why it kinda stinks that the HTMLArea text editor doesn't function in Chrome. There are 2 ways to get it to work though, so if you're a Chrome and Moodle fan and want to love them both at the same time, check out these two [...]
Moodle’s new Virtual Programming Lab (VPL) module
If you teach computer science and use Moodle as your LMS, good news: you can now have student submit snippets of code easily using the new Virtual Programming Lab created by ULPGC (University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain). It was posted recently to the Moodle.org forum by Juan Carlos Rodriguez-del-Pino . According to Juan, VPL is an [...]
Opinion – 1,000,000 lines of code
Disclaimer: I'm no programmer; so I don't have much more than a cursory understanding of the development behind software like Moodle. But this isn't so much of an opinion post as it is (I hope) a few thought provoking questions. A quote from Sean Behan's recent review of "Moodle 1.9 Extension Development" struck me. Moodle is nearly 1 [...]
Opinion: The Importance of Moodle Mobile
New at MoodleMonthly: every week we'll run one op-ed from the community or the staff. So if you have something to say about Moodle here's your chance. Use the contact us form to connect with us or just comment below and let us know you'd like to get on deck. I wrote an article on the relevance and importance of Moodle Mobile over at [...]
