University of Phoenix Goes ‘Ultra’ With Blackboard SaaS
Hybrid secondary education pioneer and one of the largest providers of online education in North America, the University of Phoenix has chosen to leverage the Blackboard ecosystem to “enable a next-generation digital learning platform” for its estimated 140,000 students. A 2022 partnership extension announcement is available at blackboard.com. The workplace-designed University already offers a virtual […]
The Best xAPI Moodle Plugins And Tools To Spice Up Your LMS Data
Did you, by any chance, just hear about xAPI (also known as the “Experience API”) for the first time, and ever since haven’t been able to stop hearing about it? While you should not rule out the Baader-Meinhof cognitive reassurance bias, it is also possible that the learning world is finally starting to pay attention […]
Moodle y H5P, en Perfecta Armonía para el Progreso Social en un Brasil ‘Industria 4.0’
Available in English. La demanda global de diseñadores instruccionales de alto nivel continúa creciendo, así como sus oportunidades profesionales, gracias a un competitivo entorno corporativo y académico. Sin embargo, para hallar ejemplos de potencial incomparable, es difícil pensar en un mejor lugar que entre las contadas oficinas públicas promotoras de formación técnica y emprendimiento que […]
Interactive Lesson Ideation-Creation Tools In Moodle, Compared
Moodle provides a rich array of interactive formats that fit practically every instructional need and subject matter. But how does it fare in tools that let creators’ minds run wild and help them polish an idea into a professional-grade learning solution? Recent announcements regarding third-party tools and plugins signal that the Moodleverse is catering to […]
The Most Outstanding Moodle-H5P Team-Up Yet Helps Equip Thousands Of Brazilians With Next-Gen Technical Skills
Facebook Tech-savvy instructional designers continue to thrive on an expanding landscape of learning technologies and new knowledge demanded by industry and academia. But for the best examples of technical expertise and creativity devoted to higher impact, sparsely-funded teams at education agencies across Latin American cities can prove as places ripe with inspiration. Meet Sill Pontes, […]
No Monetization Plans In Sight, MoodleNet Attempts To Answer The Community’s Pressing Questions
In a commendable effort of transparency, the MoodleNet team updated a Moodle Docs page with questions and concerns arising from the community from the recent MoodleMoot Spain 2018. Sorted in a traffic light-like arrangement, community interactions were sorted as green (praise), yellow (questions), and red (concerns). The green section features a lot of “love,” “greats,” […]
GDPR-Proof Your Plugin With Moodle’s Privacy API And This Screencast
If you are interested in making your plugin compliant with GDPR and staying on the European Moodle admins’ friendly side, the latest screencast by Moodle HQ is a must-see. It guides you towards implementing the Privacy API, Moodle’s solution for a compliant process of personal data management and traceability. Plugins can use the Privacy API […]
Moodle Users Association Votes ‘Course overview block in dashboard improvements’ As 2018 January-June Project
Exactly 60,000 votes did the job. Swiss Moodlers and MUA members Thomas Korner and Luca Bösch comfortably earned the community’s majority vote for their project, “Course overview block in dashboard improvements,” which sets out to fix several issues in the existing student dashboard. The current Course Overview Block available in Moodle is in fact the […]
La Aplicación Moodle 3.5 para Móviles Android y iOS Ya Está Disponible
Available in English. La nueva aplicación para móviles Moodle 3.5 ya está disponible para dispositivos iOS y Android. Importantes cambios en su apariencia y su funcionalidad están enmarcados en un cambio de nombre, dejando la anterior denominación “Moodle Mobile” atrás. Herramientas para cumplimiento de legislación RGPD europea, solución de errores comunes, y continuas mejoras en […]
GDPR Watch: From California To Vietnam, The ‘GDPR Wave’ Gains Momentum, Likely Helping Civil Liberties Worldwide
Moodle 3.5 gave a definitive solution on the technical side to site privacy-responsible roles and concerns about the LMS’s ability to handle rules and user requests for their data and “information about their information.” However, it bears repeating: Moodle’s tools provide a technical solution, but actual compliance depends on the information manager’s ability to respond […]
