Video: Customizing and Styling Breadcrumb Navigation with CSS
This video from MoodleBites works through how to utilize your browser and some quick CSS to edit and customize the Moodle Breadcrumb: the main navigation element available to users. The video is part of a series of 11 themeing videos which are available from the HRDNZ Moodle Bites‘s Moodle-related Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL85A5759CCB2856A8 Check it out at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAm-zSku6Fg
Video: How to Change File Size Upload Limits in your Course
If you’ve ever been working with a file and it was too large to share with your students in your course, within limits you can increase the upload max to allow larger files. This quick video by Nick Shay demonstrates where to find the setting in your course administration: (direct video link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLa0eJUV6Ic) If you’re an […]
Presentation: Creating a Custom Moodle Mobile App
Juan Leyva presented at MoodleMoot Spain on the topic of “Creating a custom Moodle Mobile app” based on the official Native app sponsored by and maintained by Moodle HQ. He’s now published the slide deck from that presentation (co-presented by Daniel Palou) and you can follow the step by step required of creating your own […]
Video: How to add a file as a link to a text area in Moodle
Here’s a quick video by Brian Tittl which illustrates how to add and link to a file through any text area in Moodle (in a web page, label, or course description). An easy way to add new files to any where you can add text in Moodle (if you don’t just want to add it […]
CLAMP Releases LAE for 2.6.7, 2.7.4 and 2.8.2, first for 2.8 branch
The Collaborative Liberal Arts Moodle Project (CLAMP) has released it’s Liberal Arts Edition for Moodle 2.8.2, 2.7.4 and 2.6.7 recently. The release brings it’s suite of tools such as CLAMPmail, Anonymous Forums, News Forum, filtered course list, and more. Previously CLAMP’s LAE was a leader in providing a more usable grader view for teachers, however […]
Moodle Mobile Messaging Gets the Whatsapp Treatment
Moodle Mobile 1.10 was recently released and brought with it a few new features including new navigation, choices to sync only when you have a wifi connection (to keep Moodle-related data charges down) and plenty of fixes. The full list features, fixes and enhancements is available at http://goo.gl/iox935. Additionally the app’s messaging interface got an upgrade […]
Bootstrap Elements plugin for Moodle: add modal, toggles, etc. to your course UI
If you’re looking for ways to dress up your course and have moved far beyond the “magic” orphaned topic trick and images/links. Constructing course elements using Bootstrap might be the next big thing for you. Bootstrap elements such as Buttons can already be used on themes that use Bootstrap (Essential, More, Clean, etc.), however Jez […]
Next General Developers Meeting is Jan 20th at 8am EST
The next Moodle General Developer Meeting is scheduled for 8am EST on Tuesday January 20th. As usual this meeting will be live streamed via Youtube and recorded. General Developer Meetings are a great way to keep pace with all of the future and currently changing aspects of Moodle (and to contribute if you’re working on […]
October Moodle General Developer Meeting Recap: 2.8 and much more
David Mudrak took the reigns of the October General Developer Meeting as the new Community Developer Liaison. Check out the official minutes here https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Developer_meeting_October_2014 (my unofficial observations are below). No time was spared as they kicked off the meeting with Martin Dougiamas discussing: :1 minute – The eventual scheduled release of 3.0 which will simply […]
How to fix: “Cannot find the data record in database table question_multichoice”
I use GIFT format to import most of the question banks that I create or acquire from other sources. It’s a great, easy to use way to add lots of questions to Moodle very quickly. One word of caution though is that before you upload a file you should check your GIFT file in a […]
