Posts Tagged ‘Frankie Kam’
Making Moodle more SOCIAL and FUN by Frankie Kam
Here's an interesting presentation by Frankie Kam posted to his blog: http://moodurian.blogspot.com/. The presentation highlights a few modifications Frankie's made to the Stamford Moodle to make it more fun and easy to use (such as autohide of editing, modifications to the online users block and badges/stamps). Check out the full [...]
Moving the Choose link to the left column of the file picker in Moodle 1.9
how do i get a girl back Moodle's marching on strong with the release of Moodle 2.3. For those of you who have yet to migrate over to Moodle 2.x, here's another hack for the venerable Moodle 1.9. I've used this on my production site, mainly out of necessity. One of the issues I face of the file picker in Moodle 1.9 is that the [...]
Using OKMindMap for Moodle and Educational Purposes (Full video transcript)
Dr Ho of Kongju University has produced a series of Youtube videos that show the features of OKMindMap cloud-based service. In his latest June 2012 videos, Dr. Ho, or Won, as he prefers to be called by his first name, demonstrates how you can use OKMindMap his main software mind mapping tool. In those videos, he walks you through some cool [...]
Welcome to dev.moodlebites.com – a single location to demo Moodle 2.x plugins
Moodle is a rich LMS. It is made richer by the wealth of third-party plugins that extend your Moodle site's functionality. When sourcing for plugins, where does one start? The most obvious would be to go to Moodle.org's Plugins Directory. For those who are still using Moodle 1.9.x, I would like to recommend this French-Canadian [...]
'Motivating' users to quickly change their default user icon in Moodle 1.9.
Do you use Moodle's default user icon (avatar), or have you substituted it with an icon of your choice? In this post, I will talk about what I consider for my site, an ideal default user icon. The purpose of this post is find a way to encourage users or students to quickly change their default Moodle user icon. In my classes, I insist that my [...]
Reduce clicks by enabling Multiple File Uploads for Moodle 1.9.x
Learning Outcome At the end of this post, you will know how to enable multiple file uploads to save on the amount of work (and mouse-clicks!) needed to upload N number of files in a link resource or assignment activity. Necessity, (who) is the Mother of invention, said Plato. Two days ago, I gave my Information Technology [...]
Upload multiple response files for an Assignment activity in Moodle 1.9. What a time saver!
Totara LMS supports the work of Frankie Kam as he explores the many possibilities of Moodle for fun and to improve his college's course site. Learning Outcome At the end of this post, you will know how to enable multiple uploads of Moodle assignment response files. This post is the companion post to my previous post on Moodlenews.com [...]
Download student assignment uploads for Moodle 1.9 in one fell swoop. What a time-saver!
Totara LMS supports the work of Frankie Kam as he explores the many possibilities of Moodle for fun and to improve his college's course site. Do you use the Assignment activity for your students to upload their work? Do you have relatively large numbers of assignments to laboriously download and grade? If you answered "yes!" to both questions, [...]
Spicing up the Forum module for Moodle 1.9 with a word and post count.
Totara LMS supports the work of Frankie Kam as he explores the many possibilities of Moodle for fun and to improve his college's course site. Introduction Good things come in threes. For example Love, Hope and Charity. What else? Nasi Lemak, Roti Canai and Char Kuey Teow (yummy Malaysian food). In this post, I would like to introduce you [...]
Motivating students through Badges with the Stamp Collection module (Moodle 2.2.x)
Totara LMS supports the work of Frankie Kam as he explores the many possibilities of Moodle for fun and to improve his college's course site. William Arthur Ward, an American author, pastor and teacher once said, “The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” In [...]
