Moodle Mobile & Desktop Heat Up With Release 3.4.1, Ahead Of Revolutionary 3.5 Launch
A minor or “second point” release of the Moodle Mobile and Moodle Desktop apps has been announced by Moodle HQ’s Juan Leyva on the Moodle Forum. This is a scheduled release whose main goal is to continue to tighten the security of Moodle’s active versions for every relevant device and operating system. As always, site […]
Get Started With R/Exams And Dynamic Data Science Teaching In Moodle
R/Exams is an extension of the popular, open source, scientific bundle, R, which in the past decade has experienced a significant adoption growth courtesy of increasing interest in data science. Today, R shares (with programming language Python) top-ranking status as a tool to aid in the processes of data cleanup, analysis, and visualization. R/Exams has […]
This Chatbot Aspires To Be a Full-Blown Moodle Voice Interface. MoodleMoot India 2017
The need for a chatbot in education is obvious, but making the case for how to do it is not generally straightforward. The first step in Farhan Karmali’s process to build a relevant and useful chatbot was to undergo a period of user research. While an automated concierge or academic counselor sounds cool, Karmali’s evidence […]
Blackboard Holds Analytics Symposium, The Bullseye On LMS Data
A reported 450 customers from all over the world, in person or via web, joined Blackboard Analytics Symposium on February 1st and 2nd to exchange “emerging and high impact practices.” Throughout the event, the company made evident how LMS data used for predictive modeling is their next frontier and, as some might agree, that of […]
Ben Reynolds, Johns Hopkins’ Gift To The Moodleverse
A riveting story is hinted at with only the first three words of Ben Reynolds’ interview for the brand new “community” section of moodle.com: «Spring of 2008.» A little familiarity with the subject, and the person –an easy feat for Moodle Forum regulars– reveals that Reynolds, Senior Program Manager at the Johns Hopkins Center for […]
What An Online Program Manager Is, And How LMS Fits In
For organizations that produce and commercialize learning products, from pieces of content to courses to complete programs, online education is the next frontier. But if the reasons why going digital are as appealing as straightforward, lots of critical decisions must be made with care. Perhaps the first and foremost of all is finding the expertise […]
Evidence The Moodle Gradebook Enhances University Course Quality? MoodleNews EdTech Labs
Read more on MoodleNews EdTech Labs here. Garmann, Robert et al. “Moodle, Grappa, aSQLg, Graja – Neue Entwicklungen bei der Grading-Software der Hochschule Hannover (New Developments in the Grading Software of the Hanover University of Applied Sciences and Arts).” Automatische Bewertung von Programmieraufgaben (2017). An unusually interesting case study delves into the technical details of […]
9 Moodle Plugins To Spur A More Quantified Teaching Practice In 2018
Not all of education’s most pressing questions have answers in the form of tidy sets of numbers that are easy to graph and scrutinize. This could be part of the reason analytics could actually kick off a “qualitative renaissance” of sorts within Moodle. But, as long as we don’t give them more importance than they justly […]
Enhanced Analytics Tools, Moodle Users Association’s First Voted In Project For 2018
With a comfortable advantage over 7 other titles including “UX Redesign for Course Restore” and “Advanced Grading for Workshop” (second and third, with over 20,000 votes each), the project “Fix analytical tools for random quiz questions for consistency across use cases” has been voted as the Moodle Users Association’s (MUA) focus of the 2017 July-December […]
The Brand New “Learn Moodle 3.4 Basics” MOOC Is Officially Open
#learnmoodle 3.4 Basics starts a week today! Come and introduce yourselves now so we can get to know each other https://t.co/KiThTudjJU — Moodle Academy (@moodleacademy) January 1, 2018 The official “Learn Moodle” MOOC begins today, Monday, January 8th, with a few sensible tweaks over previous editions. But even though this MOOC is considered the starting […]
