‘Modules & Plugins’ Archives
Sharing Cart: The Easy Way To Copy And Move Activities In Moodle
This post is republished with permission from the Moodle Association of Japan Newsletter (Vol. 1) from February 2012. Do you have more than one course? Do you want to copy activities from one Moodle course to another? Have you wanted to copy something from your colleague's course? If you answer yes to any of these questions, then the [...]
The MyNotes block – a simple yet effective ToDo list for Moodle 1.9
If you ever needed a ToDo list in a block on your Moodle 1.9.x site, look no further than Hugo Santos 2007 MyNotes block. You can use it as a reminder system, a ToDo list, or to manage personal notes for own convenience. Sounds a bit like the MediaBird Study Notes module. However, this Portugese-made block is less complex, but simpler to [...]
Letting students add select Gifs/Animations to the Online Users block (Moodle 1.9.x and Moodle 2.2!)
An Adaptation of the Online Users block Fourteen days ago, I set out to modify Andy J. Davis' Online Users block. My objective was to make my Moodle site more engaging. I think that with the generous help of PHP developer, Matteo Scaramuccia of Italy, and Stephane Gully's Shoutpro Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 License code, [...]
Showing off Student Awards/Badges with a Stamp Collection block (Moodle 1.9.x)
The Stamp Collection module by David Mudrak is one of my all-time favourite modules on my Moodle 1.9.15 site. It's a great tool to provide feedback to students and to reward them whenever work has been done. I like to think of it as a motivational tool. I had always wished that there could be a block that shows the student how many stamps he or [...]
#Moodlewish: Improved nav via arrows (#Chrome -style)
If you're a Chrome user like me, then you've noticed their cool window navigation when you open a new tab. Click in the left margin of the tab to see your most frequented sites, click in the right margin to see your list of Chrome apps. It's all very simple and totally intuitive. What I'd like, is a course format that borrowed a little [...]
How to increase forum participation exponentially with the New Forum Replies block by Niall Barr
I am sure that you are familiar with the Recent Activity block. This block does what its name indicated, which is to list recent activity, most commonly, forum posts. You can also get a full report by clicking on the link "Full report of recent activity". This is useful when you want to view recent forum posts. Information Overload It [...]
How to increase the width of the Book module’s reading area (Moodle 1.9.15)
Peter Skoda (http://skodak.org) and Mojmir Volf are the authors of the Book resource. The Book resource is one of the major reasons why I love Moodle. It's a brilliant resource because it allows me to group related articles and webpages in a nice package. Something like the HTML frameset objects which were very common during the early days of HTML [...]
Feeling moody? Show off your mood on the Online Users block for Moodle 1.9 and Moodle 2.2!
WHAT IF you could display your mood or status on the Online Users block by Andy J. Davis? Imagine with me if you will. You're on your Moodle course page. Just before you go to make phone call, you display a BRB (Be Right Back) status next to your username on the block. Or before you attempt a quiz for the next one hour, you display a Busy [...]
@Moodlefairy shows off the Subpage module: another way to prevent Scroll of Death
The Sub-page module gives Moodle course design additional flexibility in creating nested activities and organizing resources on their own page. If you've ever used Blackboard for course creation you'll be very familiar with the concept. Sub-page is developed/maintained by the Open University for Moodle 2.1+ but has not been officially [...]
How to be invisible on the Online Users block. A Moodle 1.9.x and 2.x solution.
Learning Outcome: at the end of this post, you will know how to allow your Moodle 1.9 and 2.0 users to hide themselves on the Online Users block. Now I don't know about you, but I like, no, LOVE, the Online Users block by Andy J. Davis. It lends an air of Web 2.0 for Moodle. The feeling of a learning community that the block helps to foster is [...]
