Check Out Mootivated, A New Concept In Moodle Gamification
Disponible en Español. Mootivated adds a gamification layer on top of a Moodle Site. It consists of a mobile app that provides virtual rewards to students in the form of coins, which they can later spend on a virtual store. It is connected to Moodle via a plugin, which gives admins a dashboard to manage rewards […]
Moodle Conferencing Plugin BigBlueButton Updated [UPDATED]
Corrections made on June 6th. BigBlueButton, the company behind the Moodle plugins for video and audio conferencing and recording of the same name, announced the launch of version 1.1 last month. The May 24th release includes four key features: Breakout Rooms. When a conference has multiple attendees, the moderator can break the group into smaller venues […]
Let Moodle’s Navigation Make Sense For You With This Plugin
For all the benefits of the “NavBar,” the collapsible menu at the left of the new default “Boost” Theme for Moodle 3.2 and above, developer Alexander Bias felt a pet peeve had to be addressed. The NavBar offers a handy way to access sections, resources, and configuration options, which can be hidden under the hamburger […]
Turn Your Moodle Into A Web Coding Forest With The CodePen Filter Plugin
Disponible en Español. Initiatives to teach coding, from K-12 to professionals, keep popping up in more places each day. But they all seem to fall into one of two booby traps. They are either too linear when illustrating the many moving parts of the operation, or give too limited a view of the true power […]
This Plugin Gives Anonymity To Your Students In Moodle Forums
Can a fully functioning democracy work in the absence of anonymity to protect freedom of speech? While armies of political scientists spend century after century in this debate, you can go a more practical route, by using the anonymous posting in forums plugin for Moodle. Anonymous posting in forums provides straightforward functionality. It enables any […]
Adding And Refreshing Media PoodLL Players In Moodle
Even after it became a paid service, PoodLL 3 is still the favorite plugin of many Moodlers who routinely deal with A\V recording. Among the many reasons why is the attention paid by Justin Hunt, the “PoodLL guy,” to small details, which are visible with every new release of the PoodLL plugin family for Moodle. The […]
Get An Early Taste Of This Moodle Enrollment Time-Saver
Disponible en Español. The race for the fastest possible way to enroll on a Moodle course is on at Dearborn. The developers at this Public Schools District from the Greater Detroit area, to whom we also owe the “Fordson” theme, are working on “Easy Enrollment”, an Enrolment Type plugin. While it is still in development […]
Validate The Learning Gained From Your Moodle With Credly Badges
From a consumer perspective, two concurrent races are taking place in the internet’s service economy. The first race concerns security – from encryption to authentication, to preventive measures against threats and fraud attempts. The second race can be characterized as “seamlessness,” and refers to a individual’s ability to easily navigate and transact online without fear. The ultimate winner of […]
Curing The ‘Scroll of Death’ In Moodle
Ah, the “scroll of death” – that processes we’ve all been through of logging into your LMS some weeks into the academic calendar, and becoming painfully aware of how much you are spinning the mouse wheel to find the week’s content. But did you know that Moodle offers several alternatives to prevent this? At moodlefacts.nl, the Dutch blog of […]
Dynamic Mathematics In Moodle With Geogebra Plugin Family
I can pinpoint the moment physics became a source of fascination to me. I was in middle school when I found out the idea that rest is not the natural state of matter. Even if I did not understand all the math throughout, it made me aware that there are laws of nature. They rule us, we […]
