Embed presentations in your Moodle course
Dear Colleagues, I have prepared a small presentation to show How to embed a powerpoint presentation in your Moodle course. You need to have an account on Microsoft Live site for embedding the powerpoint presentation.
Moodle Tip – How to make vertical scrollbars for the course description
Recently while doing a project I stumbled upon a problem about the very long course summary text which appears very bad on the front page course descriptions, so I thought of implementing the vertical scrolls in the course summary area for the courses which are having a large text in the course summary field.
Snap theme by Moodlerooms available for download
Moodlerooms, Inc has released their Snap theme for the Moodle community through their github account. The theme is still not available under the Moodle themes directory but you can download it through this link. Snap is a new, image centric, richer Moodle experience that increases engagement through a highly intuitive navigation across all devices. According […]
Video: How to configure the Tin Can Launch plugin for Moodle
Tin Can API launch link is an activity plugin for Moodle which allows you to launch Tin Can content and track that content to an external LRS configured in Moodle. The plugin then pulls data from the Learner Record Store (LRS) back into Moodle to feed Moodle’s completion tracking and give the learner that little […]
Configurable reports block updated to 2.3.5 supported for Moodle 2.9
Configurable reports block, one of the best plugins for creating custom SQL queries for getting custom reports, has been updated to version 2.3.5. In the recent version, according to the release notes the changes are:
Latest Moodle Jobs: Moodle Support technician at HowToMoodle and Moodle Developer
Since the last update, 2 more jobs are posted in the Moodle Jobs database which can be helpful to all Moodle developers. In the last week the jobs including the Moodle support technician job at HowToMoodle (Moodole Partner) which are posted are as follows:
Moodle 2.9 New Feature: "Time spent" as an activity completion condition
In a recent post on Moodle.org forums Mary Cooch (@moodlefairy) the Community Educator on Moodle.org posted about the new feature in Moodle lessons activity. In the new feature which will be available from Moodle 2.9 onwards you can restrict the lesson activity on time basis which means teachers will be able to set “time spent” […]
Useful SQL scripts
If you are a Moodle site administrator, then probably this is the best collection of SQL queries which can be utilized to make custom reports on your Moodle site.
PDF Document file can't be accepted
In a recent thread on Moodle.org forums, one of the fellow moodler posted that he was trying to upload the pdf file and it was showing the error “PDF Document filetype cannot be accepted”including zip files. He was able to upload only images.
Show remaining enrollment time to users via Enrolment Timer block
Enrolment timer block is a useful utility which can be used to display the remaining time enrolled in a course with live countdown to the users using JavaScript. This block provides the functionality to display the time a user has left in their enrolment period. There are many settings to choose from to customise the […]
