Posts Tagged ‘synchronous’
Amvonet now available for Moodle 2.0
Amvonet, another option for synchronous webinars and meetings with integration to Moodle is now available for version 2.0 according to a company announcement. AMVONET is pleased to announce that it has just released its new plugin for Moodle 2.0+. For those organizations utilizing the latest Moodle technology, AMVONET now provides a seamless [...]
Ajax Replacement Chat – an improved chat room for your Moodle 1.9 site
I was thinking about Moodle's chat module yesterday. I thought about how my Moodle 1.9.7 site's chat module could be improved. This post is all about chatting in Moodle. Ah yes, online chatting. A major addictive time-waster in most cases. Raise your hand if you have ever wasted more than an hour chatting with others online. My right hand is up. [...]
The Chat Console Block; A new chat for Moodle?
Here's a new Mod that's now available for Moodle 2 and 1.9 which provides an overlaid chat box for logged in users. It works pretty well for 1-to-1 chat for students and teachers (and even admins) and according to the new settings also stores history/logs of all conversations occurring over the platform. The Gmail/Facebook-like chat for [...]
Win Blackboard Collaborate (a 50 seat classroom) for a year!
Here's a cool promotion which would integrate with your current Moodle course: win a Blackboard Collaborate (formerly Elluminate) 50 seat license for a year, just by registering on a site and posting a proposal for how you'd use it in the coming year. According to Steve Hargadon, the man behind the scenes, Join the contest site [...]
Ask Mister Moodle: Can I use a white board with Moodle?
Here's a recent question about Moodle which I think has a couple different answers: Can I use a white board with Moodle? First off, it depends on if you mean a physical Whiteboard/Smartboard with Moodle. In that case, yes kinda. Early in my career as a Moodle trainer around the state of Vermont one of the teachers I was working with had [...]
BigBlueButton releases activity module integration for Moodle 1.9 & 2.0
Please note that this release is for testing purposes only. Just yesterday Blindside Networks released it's integration module for both Moodle 1.9 and Moodle 2.0. The beta integration is for the synchronous webinar tool for which they both created and provide commercial support: BigBlueButton. This is a timely release in the wake of the [...]
Some may say “Good bye, Elluminate/Wimba. Hello, BigBlueButton”
On the recent post, "What the Blackboard Acquisition means for Moodle", Denis Zgonjanin commented that a possible open source alternative to both Wimba and Elluminate resides in BigBlueButton. BBB is only 2 years old and is an open source synchronous education tool. In response to the acquisition, the official BigBlueButton blog says, But [...]
What the #Blackboard Acquisition means for Moodle
Wimba and Elluminate, both synchronous learning tools, have been purchased by the leading proprietary learning management company, Blackboard and have been re-branded already as Blackboard Collaborate. The news comes as a surprise to many (considering the similar market of both companies). Implications for Moodle users are not yet known, but [...]
