Posts Tagged ‘2.0’
Offline Moodle Docs (your personal Moodle encyclopedia on the go)
Moodle Docs are an invaluable resource for Moodlers around the world, which is why you might want to download an offline copy for your own records (for those pesky moments when you're not online but have Moodle questions). The Docs are available as a complete .zip download from http://wimski.org/docs/ and the 250MB download, once unzipped [...]
What’s new in Moodle 2x? guide from @FIU
If you're still waiting to make the jump, here's a resource that you might use to convince yourself, convince your administrators or to put students at ease. "What's new in Moodle 2" is a resource created by the Moodlers at Florida International University (http://fiu.edu/) and it has a great overview (in easy to read text with graphics). It's [...]
New Theme for 2.x: Zebra 2.1
Zebra is a great customizable theme that allows easy color changes and other customizations right from the Admin panel. It's been upgraded and released as Zebra 2.1 recently, bringing a fresh look with the same control. Change colors, logos, background images and more through the Admin panel and with FTP access. I tried it out and [...]
Read this now: @Ghenrick’s Moodle 2 Theme White Paper
Gavin Henrick (@ghenrick) has a great white paper out about themes in Moodle 2.0. He highlights and points out all of the things you should consider when thinking of upgrading from 1.9 or simply making the jump to the new Moodle platform. As you may know, themes are a lot different in Moodle 2, providing dockable navigation and full [...]
Course Format for 1.9 and 2: Grid View
This is a really unique course format that allows course topic sections to be identified with a specific image. The Grid View allocates an image to each topic area and when clicked from the course homepage a nifty popup appears highlighting the information held within. It's easy to use, easy to configure and is a great way to simplify course [...]
Top 30 reasons to move to Moodle 2 by @ghenrick
Gavin Henrick has pulled together 3 (three) top 10 lists for why to move from Moodle 1.9 to 2.0. The three presentations are available at his blog and the each already has a voice over presentation video available on Youtube. Each presentation highlights another set of new/changed Moodle features and discusses (quickly) how they impact the [...]
OneTopic Format for Moodle 2.0
I love course formats and lately I've seen some really cool ones. Here is the OneTopic format for Moodle 2.0 which provides a tabbed format (similar to the Animated Slide and Tabbed formats we've seen previously). The tabs can each have a custom name (so you can increase the navigability of your courses with text cues) and it's automatically [...]
Great New Theme for 2.0: Aardvark Postit by Mary Evans
Here's a cool new theme based on the Aarvark 2.1 theme released earlier this summer by Shaun Daubney. The slight variation is called "Postit" and was developed and released by Mary Evans, moderator of the Moodle Themes forum on Moodle.org. According to Mary, This is a re-make of the original Aardvark 2.1 theme which Shaun created, and I have [...]
Free Moodle 2 logo from Plymouth State University & @JustinLitalien
This logo for Moodle 2 was created and shared by Justin Litalien (@JustinLitalien) of Plymouth State University. Last year Plymouth adopted Moodle moving away from Blackboard and is now piloting Moodle 2.1 with faculty. To commemorate the upward march of version numbers Justin created this slick Moodle 2 logo and shared it for all to use. [...]
Embedding a Whole Website into a Moodle Course (securely)
Here's a really awesome use of Moodle: embedding a complete website and all of it's HTML/videos/link structure, etc. This provides a secure environment, protecting your website creation and also keeps students within your Moodle course. I use the same process for linking to Articulate presentations (some 200 slides with audio!) just by zipping [...]
