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Moodle How-to Videos
Moodle Password Salting: An Introduction to this New Feature
Moodle Password Salting: An Introduction to this New Feature and How to Add it to Your Moodle Site ... Moodle Security "Moodle Security" "Moodle 1.9" "Moodle 2.0" "Moodle Training" "Moodle Features"
How to insert a label to moodle
WEBSITE: www.teachertube.com Video tutorial on how to insert a label into moodle.
How to add flash cards to moodle
WEBSITE: www.teachertube.com How to add the flash card activity to moodle.
How to add a choice activity to moodle
WEBSITE: www.teachertube.com How to add choice activity to moodle.
Moodle Videos @ iTunes
Breaking into Moodle
Moodle what it can do and what it can do with help. Moodle is a dynamic content creation system that allows for content creation.
LMS 2.0 - Engaging Learners Using More Advanced Techniques and the Odd Mash-up inside Moodle (video) - Jason Hando
A series of screencasts showing people how to bend and stretch Moodle to allow for authentic, web 2.0 style, participatory engagement and learning for their students. These screencasts will be accompanied by support files where appropriate, such as backed-up Moodle courses that can be restored on people’s sites as well as any instructional material such as worksheets in pdf form. I’d also like to provide some way for people to screencast their own work in Moodle and share with the rest of the community - perhaps using screen-o-matic, a free screencasting tool that works from your browser. This will allow other people to share new ways they have used Moodle.
AT&T Classroom Podcast 6 - Geography & Government
Stow Ohio, Geography, History and Government Julie Obraza’s third grade students were moodling in the classroom during their six week study of their community, Stow Ohio. Moodle is an online community where students can exchange ideas by posting information. Mrs. Obraza was the first teacher in attendance at the AT&T classroom to utilize this form of communication for reflection. Students learned to use a compass as well as a GPS instrument to determine direction and location. A ranger from the Cuyahoga Valley National Park Environmental Education Center, Pam Barnes, did a hands-on activity with the children using the GPS system. A daily activity using the Interwrite Board and a projected map of the world, provided students with an opportunity to give and follow directions. The study of Stow government was launched with a field trip to the City Hall. Here Mayor Fritschel addressed the class and students got a glimpse of the council chambers. The Geographic Information System Coordinator, Steve Gibbons, used a variety of Stow maps to show how the population has grown from the early 1950s to the present. Upon returning to the classroom, students were given the choice to run for elected offices. A primary election (along with voting booth) was conducted and the final slate of candidates was posted on a Turning Point slide show which allowed the students to vote anonymously using the personal response system. Timelines using Inspiration software and Palm handhelds were constructed to document all of the fun and educational activities the third graders experienced. Video
Moodle Keynote Presentation
slideshow and audio recording from the keynote presented by Jeff Flynn and Chris Curtis at Ann Arbor Pioneer High School’s Spring Professional Development Day.
Third Session
My third installment of my moodlecast. Moodle has made it possible for me to have a substitute teacher in class and still get high performance from my students!
Fifth Session
A new class begins... Moodle from day one and we all love it. The students have connected with the class at a record setting pace. I think it has to do with hitting digital natives right where they live. These kids can’t believe that they are chatting, blogging, and surfing and I’m calling it class!
Fourth Session
The fourth update on Moodle in my Senior Seminar Class. The first class that I taught all the way through with Moodle is now in the books. I loved it, the students loved it, the administrators love it. I can’t live without it!
Two Weeks Into It
An update after two weeks of Moodle in my Senior Seminar Class. Where would I be without it?!
Moodle LMS - The Very Basics
LMS, CMS or VLE?
So what is an LMS? It's short for "Learning Management System". Technically, Moodle is a CMS or content management system for teachers. It is also referred to as a VLE or virtual learning environment.Teaching tool for teachers
Teachers can create and manage courses using Moodle and invite students to participate in courses. Moodle's features can be extended with the use of third party "modules", which are listed on Moodle.Moodle downloads and installation
Moodle can be downloaded from http://www.moodle.com/ Moodle is installed on a server, which runs as a complete website after installation. Typically, teachers need to contact a website administrator to install and configure Moodle but if you are technically sound, you can do it yourself. If you need an independent Moodle website, you would need to buy a domain and hosted Web space as a pre-requisite to Moodle installation. The Moodle community is very helpful if you get stuck at anything. You can simply search the Moodle forums or start a new post. For an idea of how Moodle works, have a look at the demo site hereIf you are a Moodle expert, please feel free to share your expertise by blogging, hosting events or interacting in forums here at iMoodle. If you are a newbie, simply start a discussion with your questions in the forums.
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Started by Laurie Korte. Last reply by Jagdeep Singh Pannu Nov 6.
Integrating Technology For Active Life-Long Learning (IT4ALL)
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Moodle Twitter Integration
We wanted a way to dynamically integrate the users Twitter accounts with Moodle.
In order to do this we needed to know the users Twitter ID, so we set up a User Profile Field called Twitter ID where Moodle Users can enter their ID on their Moodle Profile Page
Next we looked at the Twitter Widgets (http://twitter.com/goodies/widgets) and found one that would work well with our Moodle.
We then modified the code of the… Continue
Posted by Sukhwant Lota on November 6, 2009 at 4:13pm
How to Run Moodle on a USB Flash Drive - Presentation Tutorial
Posted by Jagdeep Singh Pannu on September 2, 2009 at 8:14pm — 2 Comments
Shaking Up Blended Learning
Historically, as Margaret Driscoll pointed out in her paper for IBM Global Services "Blended Learning: Let's Get Beyond the Hype" when institutions consider blending learning they are considering four slightly different scenarios.
* To combine or mix modes of… Continue
Posted by Jeffrey A. Roth on August 28, 2009 at 7:18pm
The Value of the Moodle 1.9 Gradebook
Posted by Wendy Cotta on August 25, 2009 at 6:38am
Moodle favorite how-tos
Web Conferencing for Moodle
WiZiQ's Live Class module for Moodle can be downloaded here. The free version, which required registrations at WiZiQ from teachers and students has been now changed with a paid version for organizations and tutoring businesses. Registration is not required from teachers and students on WiZiQ if you are using this version but website administrators do need to register to get the module.
Moodle users can start an “activity” from within Moodle to schedule, and activate a “block” to launch sessions in WiZiQ’s virtual classroom. Detailed instructions for installation are available here:
http://org.wiziq.com/moodle/
On Moodle here:
Activity: http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=13&rid=1113
Block: http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=13&rid=1114
Moodle administrators or webmasters need to install these modules on the server for teachers and students.
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Helen Foster: Links to English version of documentation
Our documentation wiki, Moodle Docs, has a nice feature for users browsing in one of the 27 languages other than English. If you view a page which is not yet translated, a message is displayed encouraging you to translate it and also providing a link to the English version of the page e.g. http://docs.moodle.org/nl/backup/restore. Thanks to Moodle developer and Czech language pack maintainer David Mudrák for figuring out how to do this (MDLSITE-90).
This feature came up in our developer chat when deciding upon the wording of the 1.9.7 upgrade notification message. Rather than having lots of explanatory text in Moodle, a neater solution is simply to include a documentation link.
Helen Foster: Password policy enabled on upgrade
A heads up for anyone upgrading to the latest Moodle 1.9.6+, you'll find the password policy (in Site Administration > Security > Site policies) has been enabled and admins will be prompted to change their password on next login. Thus, if your site is for testing purposes only, you may wish to disable the password policy.Sam Marshall
I asked Ray if he would make a screencast about his new ForumNG features, and (after a little bit of convincing) he agreed! Finally, some variety in this blog.
Play screencast (note: will not work in IE7 - please use Firefox or IE8).
The screencast covers three minor features in about four minutes. The features will be included in the OU's March update.
- Permalink (posts are always shown within discussions, but this gives you a link to the discussion with #p1231312 or whatever so that it jumps straight to the post and expands it automatically)
- Important posts (moderators etc. can mark a post as important, this makes it a different colour and adds an ! icon)
- Alert (if somebody posts an offensive message, students can report it; this directly sends email to a nominated person so they can check)
Ray was a bit negative about it but I think the screencast is really great! However it did take him a long time (mostly outside work time) to make, which isn't really fair, so I probably won't ask him to do another one... at least not for quite a while.
Two notes for those considering using our forum at other institutions:
1) The screencast shows our version, but outside the Open University, default text on the 'Alert' form obviously won't mention the OU or our code of conduct. Instead there is generic text that should be suitable everywhere. You can replace the text with something specific to the institution using a local language file, which is what we've done here.
2) We haven't updated the community version with these features yet - going to do a batch update around the end of the year or start of next.
Helen Foster: Password salting
Today I have been learning about password salting, a method of making encrypted passwords more secure and practically impossible to crack. Please see the documentation Password salting for the collected wisdom of posters in the forum discussion Moodle Salting and in our developer chat.Elsewhere in Moodle Docs, I loved a talk page comment regarding a typo fix from documentation writer Chris Collman to Tim Hunt:
Keep doing the heavy lifting, sometimes I will find a grain of sand to put in the right place.
Helen Foster: Moodle benefits from OU developers
A couple of weeks ago I came across an interesting report about the Open University (OU) and Moodle, The Open University UK: creating a win-win situation by sharing code and content. The report explained how cooperating with the worldwide Moodle community resulted in everyone benefiting.Following his return to the UK after working at Moodle HQ in Perth for twelve months, Quiz module maintainer Tim Hunt has continued to contribute to Moodle in lots of areas. In addition to writing the documentation Development:Security, Tim has recently created a Custom SQL queries admin report.
OU wiki, OU blog and conditional activities developer Sam Marshall has recently announced ForumNG (new alternative forum for moodle 1.9). Like Tim, Sam is also a particularly helpful Moodler in the Using Moodle forums. For details of what other OU developers are currently working on, please see Sam's development update blog post.
A big thank you to all the OU team for their contributions to Moodle.
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