Moodle Mobile for Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone is out!
If you’re using a Surface or Windows phone and wanted to use the Moodle Mobile apps like an Android or iOS user, you’re now in luck. The apps are now released in the Window’s App Store: Windows 8.1: http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/app/moodle-mobile/ Windows Phone: http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/moodlemobile/ The same familiar look and feel available from the official app for Android and iOS […]
Automatic saving in Moodle text editors (Try it out)
Yesterday I gave a quick update on the autodraft feature in Moodle’s text editors. This affects online text assignments, discussion forums and other places that uses encounter a text box. You can now try it out yourself at qa.moodle.net. While it’s not exactly as what was illustrated in the screenshot yesterday (I never experienced the “Draft […]
Crisp Theme for Moodle brings another responsive option to the table
Allowing users to access Moodle on their mobile devices is a must have feature for a lot of institutions these days and mobile traffic will only continue to grow. Moodle’s taken giant leaps forward in the past 12 months to unleash a host of Bootstrap-based responsive options for your Moodle site with Clean, More and […]
Video: Hot Pot for Moodle 2.x
The Hot Pot module was on the Moodle 1.8 site that I cut my teeth on. The handy 3rd party module provides a way for teachers to create and share various quiz and game questions and then upload them to Moodle for students to use. It does require a separate download and installation to your […]
Theme: Laura is a kid-friendly theme for Moodle
Laura theme by Themza.com is a kid-friendly theme with bright colors and approachable cartoon students in the header. The standard, fixed width theme (non responsive) is ripe for an upgrade to more current compatibility. But I was able to install it and the theme still looks good (it even has docking). Download it at https://moodle.org/plugins/pluginversions.php?plugin=theme_laura
Multi Select menu as a User Profile Field
If you’re looking to add a way for students/users to select more than one option as part of the user profile field, such as highlighting all of their organizational affiliations or certifications, the Multi Select Menu Custom User Profile Field plugin might be up your alley. The Custom Field provides a way for you to […]
CLAMP releases LAE 7.0 for Moodle 2.7.1 and other minor releases
The Collaborative Liberal Arts Moodle Project has released it’s first Moodle LAE for 2.7 (2.7.1) in addition to other minor Moodle releases: 2.4.11, 2.5.7 and 2.6.4 (LAE stands for Liberal Arts Edition and brings several plugins together for further development, testing and easy install for the CLAMP membership). Within the release are updated versions of […]
Move Your GIFT Formatted Quizzes With Images To Any LMS (2020 Dr. Chuck Update)
Updated on January, 2020. Once again, Charles Severance AKA “Dr. Chuck” comes to the rescue. Check out the video above to see how to use the GIFT format and export questions to any LMS that supports the IMS QTI 1.2 or the IMS Common Cartridge specifications. Now you can enjoy the powerful tools “Moodlers” have […]
Recap of the 7/22 General Developers Meeting
If you missed the General Developers Meeting yesterday (<–full minutes and links are available there) here’s a quick recap with approximate time of when the discussion switches to each of the topics covered during the meeting. 2 minutes: Justin Hunt, developer of Poodll, discusses the ease developing plugins for Atto Text Editor 48 minutes: User menu […]
Coming soon: replying to forums directly from email
Listening in on Martin Dougiamas’s keynote this morning at the MountainMoot there were a few new bits about the Moodle Roadmap that were new. The most interesting though is that coming soon to Moodle’s Forum enhancements will be the ability to reply directly to a forum thread from you email (no need to login to […]
