‘Resources’ 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 [...]
Ask Mr. Moodle: Can I access Moodle and not be listed in the course participants?
Here's a question from a student of the American University of Beirut (check out their Moodle at http://moodle.aub.edu.lb/); I would like to know if there is a way to be able to access Moodle without being listed in the participants' page. Well, yes and no. For the most part, allowing anonymous access is controlled by the editing teacher of [...]
Benefits of K-12 Online Learning using Moodle
Here's a presentation less about the in's and out's of Moodle but the reasons for adopting and the benefits of implementing LMSs such as Moodle. It was created and shared by Mark Schmoll on his blog. It's a simple, straight forward presentation which then gives a brief overview of a standard Moodle install. View the video at this link: [...]
Moodle Monday: 30+ Moodle resources from @NJIT
The New Jersey's Science and Technology University (www.NJIT.edu) uses Moodle and has over 30 Moodle videos, tutorials and PDF documents that highlight the basics to the more advanced and 3rd party modules specific actions and procedures in Moodle (i.e. Turnitin integration). It's a great page to peruse if you're looking for documentation to [...]
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 [...]
Happy Friday: 3 Moodle Sessions Streaming Live Today from #et4Online (5 more archived)
The Sloan Consortium is in it's final day of the 3rd Annual Emerging Technologies for Online Learning Symposium out in San Jose, CA. For the last few days educators, administrators and technologists have met and shared their best practices and research at the ET4Online conference (including the West Coast Moot event). There's still a chance for [...]
MoodleMayhem: A growing community of helpful Moodlers
MoodleMayhem has only been active since March but already has established itself as one of the best resource communities outside of Moodle.org. Miguel Guhlin and Diana Benner (among a cast of others) have stepped up to answer questions, preemptively create tutorials and provide extracurricular resources such as podcast interviews with the [...]
“To Moodle or Not…?” video (brief history of Instructional Tech)
This is a great video from Humboldt University and California State University, Monterey Bay focused on a colleges decision about adopting a new LMS. It's about the research study that teachers utilized to compare a (unnamed) commercial LMS with Moodle and their findings. It's about 10 minutes and is one of the first thorough (and [...]
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 [...]
