Ways to check student activity in your Moodle course using Reports and Logs
Here’s a quick video that highlights the ways that you can look up student activity to verify that students have reviewed material, participated in course and completed required exercises. The reports and logs in Moodle are a great way to validate whether or not students are staying pace and reading what they need to be […]
WIRIS for Atto available
The WIRIS editor is a visual mathematical equation editor that you can use to create rich mathematics and science equations in your Moodle (anywhere there’s a text editor: quizzes, labels, pages, etc.). Students can also use the editor to answer questions by creating their own equations with the editor for use in essay or short […]
New Quiz Feature in Moodle 2.9: item dependencies
Tim Hunt has published a quick discussion on a new feature coming to Moodle 2.9 which provides additional settings to control how quizzes display their questions to students. The particular settings help to limit visibility to quiz items until a student has met the criteria (kind of like a conditional release of questions within a […]
Webinar: “Using Office Mix with Moodle to create lesson plan content”
This free webinar by Remote-Learner is focused on the recently released Office Mix plugins for Microsoft Office 365. The webinar will focus on Office Mix and creating interactive lessons using familiar tools like PowerPoint. According to the notice, Integration between Moodle and Office 365 allows instructors to easily embed interactive online lessons created in PowerPoint […]
The Moodle Association is Coming to help You Drive the Future Roadmap
What is the Moodle Association? The term was first used publicly in a post by Sam Gartner from Moodle HQ at OpenSource.com speaking to how Moodle is driven by user and community feedback [read the post here]. At the end of the article the author explains, Moodle also is establishing the Moodle Association, a new, […]
August LearnMoodle MOOC is now enrolling
The 3rd running of the LearnMoodle MOOC is now open for registration. This upcoming MOOC for new Moodlers once again will run through the updated curriculum for “Teaching with Moodle: An Introduction” starting August 9th, 2015. This free course is designed for anybody who wants to use the Moodle learning platform for teaching, whether it […]
Simple Trick: Moving Discussion Threads from Forum to Forum
If you’re using forums similarly to how Moodle.org does (where a course may have many different forums all for a different subject or purpose) keeping order within the forums can be important so that enrolled users aren’t getting automatically notified by new threads that are not relevant. Moving threads from forum to forum in Moodle […]
Cool UX/UI elements for course editing in the new Blackboard Learn
I’ve been looking at a few other LMSes and how they handle editing and the student view of content for inspiration (always good to keep tabs on what new UI/UX trends are in the marketplace). Recently that brought me to the “New User Experience” which is purportedly coming to Blackboard Learn and is covered in […]
Video: how to reset a course in Moodle
If you’re rolling a course over year to year or semester to semester and want to remove user data and all interactions, you can quickly do this using Moodle’s Reset feature which will do all the housecleaning for you). Note that if you need to save user data or provide students access indefinitely to their […]
2U moving off of Moodle in favor of their proprietary LMS
2U, which started off as 2Tor announced in their Q4 results call that they are working on the final steps of their transition off of Moodle as the backbone of their LMS. As previously reported on Moodlenews, 2U started using the open source learning management system early on as they started growing their private label […]
