Posts Tagged ‘design’
Responsive Design: Mobile Development Considerations for Moodle
Stuart Lamour has a really interesting post about Moodle Mobile apps vs. responsive design at the eLearning Team Blog for University of Sussex. In the video that accompanies his overview of best practices in design and the future of mobile development he highlights how Moodle might be factored for Mobile viewing right out of the box (or theme [...]
Quick Design Tip: the 80/20 rule
Stephan Schmidt (@ozesteph1992) who did this great set of Moodle design tutorials (link) had a great suggestion when it comes to planning/building your Moodle course. I'm keen on aesthetics and quality flow within the online learning space (eliminate the learning curve of navigating your course, if possible by cutting the extraneous and [...]
Get some ideas about course design/aesthetics from this “Using Moodle” video
Here's a quick video tour of a Moodle course that has some pretty nice design (lots of images) and additional resources for students which explains the course in full detail (expectations, plagiarism, course outline, total points per assignment and more which are all plainly provided to students). The video is by Tamara Wong and highlights an [...]
@KristianStill’s Magnificent Seven Gradebook/Course Design Tips
This post is cross-posted at Kristian Still's personal blog, a great resource for Moodle tips and educational technology links . I have spent a fair amount of time reflecting on course design and why the gradebook is somewhat of a late bloomer, in terms of Moodle core features. I don’t mean to harp on about gradebooks, but if you do think [...]
#imoot recap: Course Creator Challenge Entries
One of the coolest things about the iMoot this year was that there was an interactive synchronous challenge given to all interested iMoot attendees. The Course Creator Challenge was for attendees only, but was nearly like a poster session as you might see at a regular face-to-face educational technology conference. Attendees were able to [...]
A must watch Moodle Design Presentation by Stephan Schmidt @ozesteph1992 (+ 13 helpful videos)
If you're not planning on attending any upcoming Moot or local presentation, have no fear: you can have your own personal professional development session about Moodle just by sitting back at your computer and listening to Stephan Schmidt's "Think Outside the Square with Moodle" presentation recorded this past April 6th. Of the session Stephan [...]
17 Great Student-Created Moodle Logos
Here's a great use of student talent by City of Stoke-on-Trent Sixth Form College. Students in the graphic design course were encouraged to redesign the School's Moodle logo which is featured at their installation: https://www.moodle.stokesfc.ac.uk/. It's a great way to engage students and give them ownership of their virtual spaces. Not [...]
Video: Converting web pages to activities (cleaning up your Moodle with @grant_harbor)
Here's a quick video from Grant Harbor (@Grant_Harbor) of SCIL who shows us how to clean up a Moodle by changing a resource already created in Moodle to pretty much any type of Moodle activity. The tip, while simple, is a great tool which can help you reduce the number of links and resources available to your students. It's a great way overall [...]
How Students View a Moodle page (Research on Eye tracking across a Course)
Moodlefacts.nl had an interesting PDF/Paper posted about eye tracking research done on Moodle users in Australia (thanks for the post and information!). The article was written by Gergely Rakoczi of Vienna University of Technology and was presented at the Slovenian Moodle conference in May 2010. The paper is in English and is a very [...]
Sandy Hirtz: “the Good, the Bad and The Ugly” of Moodle course layouts
A Google alert turned me onto this glowing review of a presentation by Sandy Hirtz (@Edu_Digi_World). The presentation is titled Moodle Do's and Don'ts: "The Good the Bad and the Ugly" and focuses on Moodle course layouts. I'm glad I took the time to watch and learn from the presentation recording and slideshow. A link to the presentation [...]
