Free Moodle™ Hosting Options To Start Your Online Learning Portal
Are you looking for a free Moodle™ hosting platform to start your online learning portal, be it as an individual or part of an organization of any size? Once you go Moodle as your preferred LMS core, it’s hard (or regretful) to go back. Most likely your choice becomes whether to stick with “vanilla” Moodle, […]
Examulator Approaches You To The Information Design Of Moodle™-Based LMS
It all started with a post on Moodle.org forums from developer Marcus Green, of Titus fame, when he showcased the Entity Relationship diagram for the Moodle™ 2.7. The Entity Relationship diagram is a graphical representation of entities and their relationships to each other, within databases. It has been created using MySQL Workbench. Download the ER […]
Open Source Encryption Still Rocks!
In 2016, Jonathan Moore, Founder of Elearning Consultancy, later My Learning Consultants, now Moodle™ US, shared a presentation on encrypting and protecting your Moodle™ site for free by using Let’s Encrypt. In 2012, employees at nonprofit open source advocacy Mozilla decided to build a free and open certificate authority. Until then, only commercial and proprietary […]
Wavefront Renderer Plugin For Moodle™ Now Supports Augmented Reality
Using 3D models in your online course can be a great tool to make your course more interesting and easy to understand for your students. This will make it easier for them to understand the concepts and make the learning process more effective and productive. Most of us teachers would be looking for a solution to […]
Feedback Versus Questionnaire: Which Moodle™ Tool Is Best For What?
Do you know how effective your moodle course is for your students? Are you taking their opinion about the course? By default, Moodle includes Choice, Feedback and Survey activities for gathering student’s data. Survey Activity has preloaded surveys, which help you get to know students better, while Choice and Feedback activities allow the instructor to […]
Data, Data, Data! Get
Moodle Administrators are very much interested in running different SQL queries to extract various reports and information from the Moodle database. For a new Moodle administrator, it may be a daunting task at first but if you are aware of the tools which can be used for running SQL queries then it may become very […]
Start Your Moodle Plugin Dev Journey With Moodle Plugin Skeleton Generator
Updated in February, 2021. ‘pluginskel‘ has evolved from a Summer of Code student project, and into an essential tool for new plugin developers. Find the latest version here. Original post: Moodle as the name suggests is highly modular in nature and the functionality can be extended to all areas using plugins. Moodle plugin database has […]
Best Moodle plugin for Gamification based courses
Is there a place for Casual Games in Teaching and Learning? Vasilis Daloukas thinks yes. He even has some research behind his belief. Gamification in terms of online teaching is the art of applying game playing elements in your online courses. Researches show that gamification of your online courses results in less dropout rate and […]
How to learn Moodle development? Check out the Moodle 3.x Developer’s Guide by Ian Wild
A prime reason behind Moodle’s success as the most popular LMS is its “modular” architecture. This provides not only the complete source code of Moodle to developers but allows the inclusion of third-party plugins, but it allows them to enhance and adapt the core functionalities through the use of Moodle plugins, in a way that […]
Want to learn Moodle Development? Check Out These Expert Resources — 3.10 Edition
Are you also among those “Moodlers” who wants to learn the process of Moodle development? Do you also want to learn about writing Moodle plugins from start to finish? Then, get ready for learning Moodle development through a crisp and short tutorial by Moodle experts. Moodle community experts have collaborated with each other in past […]