‘Tech Tip’ Archives
Process for Setting Up a Staging Moodle Site in IIS7 by Mari Cruz Garcia
This work by Mari Cruz García is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial 3.0 Unported License. Mari Cruz is an educational technologist at the University of Dundee and supports an online postgraduate programme there. According to her note to Moodlenews, I have elaborated a guide about how to set up a staging Moodle, [...]
Use Labels to Create Menus in Moodle
Here's a great HD video on Vimeo that showcases one of the ways to fight scroll of death on a Moodle page: adding image links to a label. Simple an effective in a regular course (though recently a commenter did mention that tables could affect accessibility for some students) this is easily accomplished using the Moodle text editor (any [...]
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 [...]
Free Course on the MOOCH: Mobile Learning and Teaching with Moodle 2
Here's a free course available via the MOOCH (hub.moodle.org), "Mobile Learning and Teaching with Moodle 2. The course was shared by Nadav Kavalerchik and is available to download or view. You can check out the MOOCH entry here or the course here. The course focuses on opportunities to learn about mobile computing in classrooms (with [...]
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 [...]
Super Simple navigation with a little HTML and the Topics format
Some simple HTML + the "Show One Topic" option in the Topics Course Format can be used to create a much improved course interface. No more scroll of death and students can easily navigate the course. This can be accomplished in both Moodle 1.9 and Moodle 2.x. First things first you'll want to construct your course and have it all ready to [...]
