Posts Tagged ‘forums’
A Closer Look at Moodle.org’s Forums: Using Moodle and the Lounge
If you've never been to Moodle.org, um...why not? It's the best resource for all of your Moodle needs, help and a great place to touch base with the community of like-minded Moodlers either seeking answers to a technical issue, sharing a joke in the lounge or just seeking new and interesting information and development on the LMS. I highly [...]
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 [...]
@LPCreps brings a Moodle 2 course navigation tutorial
Here's are a few videos by Life Pacific College which highlight the basics of being a student in a Moodle 2.0 course. Part 1 highlights some nifty simple tricks for navigating any Moodle, including how to open new tabs and windows to ensure you don't close your course page, how to show only 1 topic area, how to save relevant files/documents [...]
Doc of the Day: Moodle.org Forums Code of Conduct
If you're a Moodler in search of easy answers from the community, really the best possible destination is Moodle.org's very helpful forums. There are ongoing threads and discussions covering a huge array of Moodle products, modules, development efforts, bug issues and more, you just need to know 1. where to look and 2. how to ask. Which is [...]
CLAMP 1.9.9 Liberal Arts Edition v1.1.4 Moodle Distribution has been released
The Collaborative Liberal Arts Moodle Project (CLAMP) distribution of Moodle is based on the stable 1.9 core but incorporates a few additional and nifty tools which the collaborators have either developed themselves or vetted with input from their users in order to create the perfect Moodle installation for use in Liberal Arts College settings. [...]
Opinion: Moodle 2.0 Message Inbox (room for improvement)
When you received a message in Moodle (versions 1.9.9 and previous) there was a window popup which listed incoming direct messages (user to user). It wasn't pretty, but it was succinct and manageable: providing an easy way to respond to users and to see new messages. With it's inherent connectivity to email it was less important (since it [...]
Get great ideas for creating awesome quizzes/tests with this presentation by @pstencel
Here's a great Slideshare.net presentation which highlights a few of the more advanced question types in the quiz module, and provides some tips/tricks for creating a rich, engaging experience for your students using a few of Moodle's other modules and configurations (forums, RSS, filters, roles and more). The presentation was created by [...]
Moodle in Real-Life: one Academic’s pre and post Moodle story
Gaurav Parashar, a staff member at Inmantec Institution in Delhi, India just shared a great post that outlines his institution's struggles with providing students information and instruction via hybridized courses using a non-Moodle system and how Inmantec was able to mitigate many of the issues with the adoption of Moodle. It's a great story of [...]
@sandrapires Schools us on the Forum
A cool site came across my Google Reader this week, e-Blahblah, which is published by Sandra Pires. The site has videos, Moodle tips and a lot of other cool stuff for educators: http://e-blahblah.com. Here's a cool clip about how (and the all important "why") to use forums in Moodle from the video section of the site: Visit the site: [...]
User Bank Account: Moodle Bucks!
Here's a novel idea from the Moodle.org forums (http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=144963) that I wanted to share. It was submitted originally by Wayne Carroll of New Zealand. The idea is to create an informal points system in Moodle that represents "Moodle Bucks". Basically a bank account for student users so that they can [...]
