LTI Store: share your demo connections
LTI and Moodle’s External Tool are great for connecting to 3rd party sites seamlessly and without forcing students to login elsewhere. But where are all the services and demo account information? There are a growing number of LTI certified connections listed at http://developers.imsglobal.org/catalog.html. Do you have demo account information for one of those LTI tools or […]
Two modern forum alternatives for Moodle: @Prulu and @Piazza
There is a wave of new services that help faculty and professors to curate student created questions, and in the days of the MOOC where there may be 1000s of students in a course online these are providing a solid alternative to standard Moodle discussion forums. The goal of services like these is to allow […]
Basic Moodle: A Comprehensive Video Primer for Instructors
This 55 minute video from Southern Nazarene University is a comprehensive look at the basics of Moodle. From best practices, getting started, creating a course (note that SNU provides course creation to the instructor), course formats, copying and pasting in Moodle and much more. The video highlights SNU’s Moodle which is 2.x. If you’re looking […]
Core Moodle features that make our @StraighterLine courses awesome
In December we launched our new Moodle course platform for about 75 courses on Moodlerooms’ joule 2 software. Thanks to some great conversion work by Sam et al at Move2Moo (who successfully converted around 160,000 test bank items in six weeks) and a few extremely skilled staff members at StraighterLine we launched successfully and without any […]
The Wikipedia Block for searching right from Moodle
If you want to provide students with a quick and easy means of searching Wikipedia right from your Moodle site, try out the Wikipedia Block: https://moodle.org/plugins/view.php?plugin=block_wikipedia. The block is available for Moodle 2.x (tested on my 2.0 site). Easy to use, language can be toggled and searched terms open as a new window leaving Moodle open […]
New in Moodle 2.4: ICONS
Earlier this year Moodle.org added a graphic designer to their team which might be a driver of some aesthetic changes in Moodle core. A first of many improvements will soon be realized on Moodle sites far and wide. For a sneak peek of the new Moodle icon set you can checkout QA.moodle.net which is running […]
Merging two classes the easy way
Here’s a scenario: you have two courses that should actually be one. Combining them as is will intermix all of the resources and activities in the original topics you have. Perhaps there’s a chronological sequence that makes but it will be easier to do once you have the courses merged. The import feature of Moodle […]
Architecture of Open Source Applications: Moodle (by @tim_hunt)
The Architecture of Open Source Applications, Volume II: Structure, Scale, and a Few More Fearless Hacks, a book edited by Amy Brown and Greg Wilson, is about the thinking and process behind many popular open source applications. Each chapter is written by an expert of the software, for Moodle this expert is Tim Hunt (@tim_hunt) […]
Final Questions with @MoodleMan: iMoot Unconference and his favorite part about the Moodle community
Our final installment of the interview with Julian Ridden regarding the iMoot coming up in May. Julian let us know about a very exciting first ever “Unconference” stage at the virtual iMoot which will let participants post, collaborate on and then launch short presentations on the fly. Sounds like an exciting addition. MNs: What makes […]
4 options for Moodle hosting on Amazon Web Services Marketplace
Amazon just announced its AWS Marketplace and Moodle has a place at the table (actually 4 places). You can now get Moodle from three different vendors all suited to run Moodle in the cloud and have the choice of 32 or 64 bit. Moodle 2.2+ anyone? I am currently running Moodle 2.2 for a test […]
