‘Modules & Plugins’ Archives
33 Examples of the Book Module providing passive professional development
AUB (the American University of Beirut) was a big contributor of traffic to our site last week from their very nice Moodle (http://moodle.aub.edu.lb) and I'm glad they were (otherwise I wouldn't have seen their really great use of the Moodle Book module which provides and easy to access "Guide to Moodle" for faculty). They've created various [...]
LAE Grader Report plug-in’s official release
The CLAMP-IT.org LAE Gradebook (just one piece of the 1.9.9 +LAE distribution highlighted earlier this month at Moodlenews) has been released in the Module and Plug-in repository on Moodle.org. You'll be able to download, see documentation and the various features which have made this mod a winner: easier manipulation of gradebook on the [...]
New Grader Report – Update
If you're interested in that New Grader Report that freezes student names and and makes the layout a little easier to manage you'll be happy to hear that the code is available online at Moodle.org: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=153718. Thanks to Bob Puffer of Luther College for letting us know.
Some may say “Good bye, Elluminate/Wimba. Hello, BigBlueButton”
On the recent post, "What the Blackboard Acquisition means for Moodle", Denis Zgonjanin commented that a possible open source alternative to both Wimba and Elluminate resides in BigBlueButton. BBB is only 2 years old and is an open source synchronous education tool. In response to the acquisition, the official BigBlueButton blog says, But [...]
Special Summer Series: Hosting – MoodleReader
Part five of our Special Summer Series on free hosting services. This part of the Special Summer Series on hosting highlights a different kind of Moodle hoster in MoodleReader. We highlighted MoodleReader recently because of its complete utility for teachers managing developmental writing courses. Literally this module comes with 100s of [...]
SCORM Cloud + Moodle = #SCORM 2004 conformance
SCORM.com has recently announced that Moodle + SCORM Cloud, it's own web hosted service has been certified for SCORM 2004. Until now Moodle has only supported SCORM1.2 (though steps have been taken to support SCORM 2004). The third party module is available at no cost and can be installed like other Moodle add-ons and plug-ins. Easy to [...]
What the #Blackboard Acquisition means for Moodle
Wimba and Elluminate, both synchronous learning tools, have been purchased by the leading proprietary learning management company, Blackboard and have been re-branded already as Blackboard Collaborate. The news comes as a surprise to many (considering the similar market of both companies). Implications for Moodle users are not yet known, but [...]
New Moodle Flavor in Beta: 1.9.9 + Liberal Arts Edition
CLAMP-IT, which was reported on earlier at Moodlenews and put on the Hack/Doc fest which took place last week at Depauw University has released a beta version (for testing only) of their Moodle "plus LAE" (Liberal Arts Edition). This distro was created to specifically suit their partners and participants and focused on meeting the needs of [...]
Advancing Music and Moodle with @stuartrmealor
Stuart Mealor, part of the team at official Moodle Partner Human Resource Development International Limited (HRD) in New Zealand has a site/domain with a cool Music motif and a handy tutorial. The site features "Audio and Podcasts in Moodle" tutorial to help anyone learn more about using audio and music in their Moodle classroom by using tools [...]
Moodle Graded Reader Quiz Module (Reading Comprehension Management)
Found this Youtube video (2008) on the site Moodle+ (http://www.moodleplus.com) which has some helpful links to Moodle information (but also some suspect, seemingly unfiltered bot postings, e.g. this one). Nevertheless, I'm keen on any site that alerts me to something I've never seen in Moodle before. The video was created by Tom Robb, PhD of [...]
