Posts Tagged ‘leeds’
Read this now: @Ghenrick’s Moodle 2 Theme White Paper
Gavin Henrick (@ghenrick) has a great white paper out about themes in Moodle 2.0. He highlights and points out all of the things you should consider when thinking of upgrading from 1.9 or simply making the jump to the new Moodle platform. As you may know, themes are a lot different in Moodle 2, providing dockable navigation and full [...]
Front Page Settings: the world’s window to your Moodle
Your Moodle's front page is generally the first impression of your Moodle site that visitors and students receive every time they point their browser at yourmoodlesurl.com. In general Moodle front pages look surprisingly similar to the interior of an individual course, with some type of welcome, a list of possible links (generally on the front [...]
What students Want from Moodle is not always what Teachers build @sukhwantlota
This is a great graphic/poster from Sukhwant Lota, one of the main Moodlers at Leeds City College in the UK. The comic is a quick over view of what students generally want from any web-based resources (perhaps especially a course resource like Moodle) and what teachers provide more often than not. Paired with the Moodle Do's and Don'ts and the [...]
A Customizable, flexible and beautiful Theme from @lewiscarr
Lewis Carr (@lewiscarr) has done it again. Now available for download from his site is one of the best looking themes available for Moodle. The theme is Moodle with Mootools, which borrows from the striking theme at Leeds Community College's Park Lane Campus Moodle and provides teachers a crisp three column course environment and students with [...]
@Moodlemonkey Contextualization in Moodle and #elearning
MoodleMonkey (http://twitter.com/moodlemonkey) part of the Leeds City College in the UK recently finished building a course to help explain the importance (and how easy it is) to build courses in Moodle (and really any online LMS) that present materials contextually. Often, courses built in Moodle are a series of links to various webpages, [...]
