‘Tech Tip’ Archives
Moodle Do’s and Don’ts Comic
Caught this on Twitter yesterday (thanks @wagjuer); it's a comic style tips sheet for Moodle. Not as robust or in depth as the Moodle Tool Guide for Teachers; but helpful (and fun) nonetheless. I love the design and layout (maybe it's time for an updated comic version?). It was originally uploaded to Moodle.org in 2006 and created in part [...]
The “Moodle Museum” from CLAMP-IT.org
CLAMP-IT, the developers of the Moodle 1.9.9 + LAE distribution announced last week have a great archive of Moodle tips and tricks called the MoodleMuseum. Tips are anything from advanced uses of the wiki, using the summary field appropriately, tips on organization of resources and your course page, forums and glossaries. All in all there [...]
Happy Friday: 11 Free Moodle hosting options
We just put the finishing touches on our 9 part Special Summer Series on Hosting (http://www.moodlenews.com/tag/special-summer-series/). Now you can see them all (and more) at our special resource on hosting: http://www.moodlenews.com/hosting/ You'll find information on limits, basic plans, business plans and notes about the various variables [...]
How to change your Moodle’s Favicon
What's a Favicon? A Favicon is the little image that shows on most browser tabs or in the address bar next to the URL of the site that you're visiting; this is based on a file usually named "favicon.ico". For Moodle sites it looks something like this:. This little icon is one of the first impressions someone gets from your site and is [...]
Goomoodleikiog Prezi (the classic mash-up of Moodle and web2.0) @HeidiBeez @leighmurrell
Goomoodleikiog is a presentation (originally a Youtube) that shows the power of mashing-up Moodle, Google Apps, Wikis and Blogs in the classroom. The creators, Leigh Murrell and Heidi Beezley, have created a companion site and just presented at ISTE in Denver on their "invention". The Prezi is very well done (but the video is a classic (in [...]
Tech Tip: How to test your Moodle install using JMeter @migheille
Mireille Raad (@migheille) has a post over at http://migh.info that highlights how to test your Moodle for speed using JMeter, a "desktop application designed to load test functional behavior and measure performance" . I'm not as technical as Ms. Raad, but if you're looking for ways to test your Moodle install and create some benchmarks for [...]
@joe_deegan joins @moodletuts and brings some SCORM tutorial love
Joe Deegan (@joe_deegan) has joined the Moodletuts.com team and published his first video recently on how to utilize Moodle to track SCORM activities/resources created using Articulate. To subscribe to the Moodletuts feed click the image to the left. Moodletuts are video tutorials (5 minutes or less) all focused on showing how easy it is [...]
Redaction: Local file linking prohibited
Thanks to some helpful Moodlers on Moodle.org's forums we were able to work out that the local file linking trick highlighted yesterday is not allowed by modern browsers (younger than IE4) and will be completely phased out of the Moodle 2.0 release this summer (there will be no administrative setting to enable it). Read more at: [...]
Ask Mrs Moodle: linking to files on the local area network
Update 6/30 - this feature is no longer allowed on modern browsers and will be removed completely from Moodle.org. Caught this little tip from the Moodle.org forums and Mary Cooch (aka @moodlefairy). With a quick check box you can easily enable the linking of files from the local area network. This will let you link to files in a shared [...]
What’s in your HTML Block? new video from @moodlerooms
The HTML block in Moodle is a blank slate for pulling in content dynamically to your course. There's a great new video from Moodlerooms that highlights the flexibility of the HTML block and how to embed dynamic content such as Twitter searches right into your course. What's in your HTML block? More videos and information at [...]
