Posts Tagged ‘tips’
@kineolearning unveils “E-learning Top Tips” iPhone app for on the go tips and ideas
Kineo, a Totara (Moodle for business) vendor and eLearning firm (affiliated with Catalyst IT Limited for official Moodle training in the Pacific) has just released a mobile app that provides a collection of 40 tips, tricks and insights to improving your learning management system, course and elearning environment in general. The app is free in [...]
Back to School Week is coming (What do you want to learn about?)
I need a hand: back to school week is approaching and as a follow up to our popular series last year I want to continue the tradition and publish some tips, tricks, lists and tutorials to help teachers get back into the swing of Moodling at school. http://www.moodlenews.com/tag/back-to-school/ If you could, take a second to fill out the [...]
Starting with Moodle 2 by @Moodle1: 15 Moodle Admin Tasks before launching a site
Here's a great presentation by Mark McCall at Remote-Learner which covers the major changes between Moodle 1.9 and 2.0 and provides 15 tasks for Server Administrators and 6 tasks for teachers as they get started on a Moodle 2.0 site. Practical and easy to navigate. Tips include setting default course features, languages, time zone, course [...]
47 Interesting Ways to Use Moodle in the Classroom (started by @TomBarrett)
There's a great Google Documents presentation going around which features 42 (and growing) "interesting ways to use Moodle in the Classroom". It was originally started by Tom Barrett (@Tombarrett) but many other Moodlers and educators have continued building upon the original slides to create a dynamic encyclopedia of tips, tricks, Moodle-uses [...]
Go Green With Tech’s Great Moodle Resources
Link: http://gogreenwithtech.wikispaces.com/Moodle This is a great collection of Moodle resources, videos and tips which might be used by anyone doing a training or learning Moodle on their own. I especially liked the "Reasons for Use" section which helps to answer the "why Moodle" question that teachers often ask. Rounding out the [...]
Moodle Help, Tips, Tricks and How-tos from @icmcwaffle
Quick post for a great (and getting better) Moodle course resource over at http://onlinelearning.calhounisd.org/. The resource was originally announced at Melinda Waffle's blog, Waffle Bytes, which is a great destination for Moodle posts (especially on Moodle Mondays). The resource includes some nifty tips and tricks and is a great template [...]
3 Tips in 3 Minutes presentation for newbie Moodlers
This intro presentation found on Prezi was created by "Ian (Teacher in China)". It's a great look at a few handy tips for new teachers working with Moodle. Tip 1: Focus on the Middle (remove the blocks/clutter around the edges) Tip 2: Turn editing on! Tip 3: Add Assignments These entry level tips are highlighted with screenshots and [...]
Moodle Power User Tips (7 video tutorials by Sara Pisarchick-Rech)
Sara Pisarchick-Rech, an Assistant Professor at Wilkes University, has a great collection of Moodle videos and "Power User Tips" at Vimeo. The videos range from an intro to Moodle, managing screen real estate, assignments, organization and discussions and are geared towards students learning the system. Each video is around 3 minutes [...]
@Lasic’s “Three keys” to a good Moodle course (from the comments)
I love a great conversation. Tomaz Lasic (@lasic) shares his 2 cents (maybe 99 cents) on a Moodlenews post from earlier this summer, check it out and read the whole comment (excerpted below). Post: Where are the good Courses? http://goo.gl/niB4 Comment: http://goo.gl/lWdg ‘what does a good Moodle course look like’? It has at [...]
Moodle’s Do’s and Do Not’s docs (more tips via Moodle.org)
Surfing the Moodle.org site the other day I found the home of the Moodle Do's and Do Not's which make up the classy poster I took a crack and recreating and releasing. http://docs.moodle.org/en/Teaching_Do's http://docs.moodle.org/en/Teaching_Don'ts The bullets from the poster are lifted directly from that resource (and it's great to know [...]
