LMS April Pulse: Sakai, Totara, Canvas, BOLMS And More Software Updates
Welcome to another edition of software update roundups. You will find new releases, versions and overviews of Moodle, Blackboard Open LMS (BOLMS), Canvas, Totara, Sakai and the top open and proprietary LMS.
Best Free LMS Hosting Alternatives And Premium Trade-offs, Featuring MoodleCloud, Gnomio, TrySakai And More
Do premium LMS hosting solutions actually save you money? It’s the first question most of us ask the first time we are looking to host a system. Where should I put it? We thought it was a difficult question to answer 10 years back, when technology was not very user friendly. It seemed you needed […]
3 Entrepreneurial Lessons Moodle Partner eCreators CEO Took Or Gave During His Silicon Valley Visit
Dean Saunders, Founder and CEO of top certified Moodle Partner from Australia, eCreators, went on a mission of technology and wisdom transfer to the Valley. He shared some of the insights made along the way in a blog post. 1. Big challenges replicate at every scale In the Moodle and Open LMS space, eCreators is […]
Moodle Gradebook: The Ultimate Productivity Guide
When it comes to make your time useful in Moodle LMS almighty Gradebook, the secret mat very well lie in the features you decide not to use.
3 Features You Might Not Know About Moodle’s Top Performance Management Tool
Updated in April 18th, 2019 The Gradebook is often regarded as the teacher’s control tower in their LMS course. As it centralizes course and student information, it is almost of mandatory use for teachers that grade student course performance. Overview of the Moodle Gradebook In Moodle, the components of this tool are powerful and intricate. […]
Online Program Managers: What The Huffington Post Takedown Gets Wrong About 2U, Cengage, iDesign, Udacity
What was supposed to be a recount of practices by Online Program Managers (OPMs) became a historical tirade of malfeasance by for-profit colleges in the face of limited, if not tainted regulation. New America’s Kevin Carey wrote “The Corporations Devouring American Colleges” and was published in early April. As the author mentions a couple of […]
Gamification: It Works. Most Sweeping Research Review To Date Suggests Best Case Scenarios
Read a summary of the most comprehensive recollection of scientific evidence in ‘gameful’ systems, dating back from 2011.
Influencer Marketing In Learning: Internet Personalities Leading To Better Skills
It’s Pi day and we have something exciting 3.1FOR you!!! See how our amazing scholars are changing the world with STEM. If we can STEM, so can you. @shecanstem pic.twitter.com/kUofGppDsC — Kode With Klossy (@kodewithklossy) March 14, 2019 By the time you learn about Klossy, a dozen more “instfluencers” will have pop up to make […]
LMS Slideshows Guide: PowerPoint, Prezi, H5P, Piktochart and More
We love to claim we cannot stand PowerPoint. But can we afford to live without slideshows? Is there a better tool that is not a simpler, easier, less… powerful solution? And why should you worry if there is not? (And yes, there are several that can be easier and better. But more powerful? That remains […]
LMS Learning Analytics In 2019: An Update
We’ve come a long way since conflating student clicks with engagement. But after an explosion of approaches, techniques, solutions and buzzwords, it can be a real challenge to identify Learning Analytics roadmaps worth pursuing. Follow our Learning Analytics Competency Roadmap series. Excited about the arms race for better, more intuitive and useful Learning Analytics from […]
