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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 en...
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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 en...
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Here's the Moodle list on twitter. It's perhaps the quickest way to get in touch with the Moodle buzz. Suggestions are welcome.
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the closed caption are great, does anyone can help me for more information how can i write xml code for closed caption! please.
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where do i can read more information about the moodle users search! there are no link to mread more information!
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Here's a link to registered sites from India using Moodle: http://moodle.org/sites/index.php?country=IN
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Grupo de discusiones en Español acerca de Moodle. Todos son bienvenidos a unirse a esta comunidad de debate acerca de Moodle en Español.
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The purpose of IT4ALL workshops is to discuss and demonstrate techniques that facilitate active life-long learning. The workshops will demonstrate how Moodle Course Management System (CMS), Nings, WikiEducator, Twitter, Facebook and WiZiQ can be c...
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Moodle How-to Videos

Primary School Moodle theme installation


How to install Primary School moodle theme.

How to setup a chat room


This Moodle training video will show you how to create and setup a chat room on your course home page.

How to setup a discussion forum


This moodle training video will show you how to setup a discussion forum on your course home page. ... forums moodle training

Moodle How to Reset a Course


Moodle, How, to, Reset, a, Course

How to setup email block on your course home page


This video will show you how to setup the mandatory email block on your course home page. This block can be used by instructors and students to manage their emails.

Moodle Videos @ iTunes

Moodle - Aktuelle Informationen per RSS-Feed


RSS-Feeds sind zusammengefasste Informationen einer Web-Seite im XML-Format, die im Kursraum in einem Block – laufend aktualisiert – angezeigt werden.

Moodle - Wie funktioniert Moodle?


Dieser Film bietet technische Hintergrundinformationen zur Funktionsweise von Moodle.

Episode #113: Moodle and 21st Century Skills


This is a smaller copy of a video that we produced for Goochland County Public Schools to share with central Virginia administrators at the EdTech 2008 conference in Ashland, VA on February 6, 2008. GCPS uses Moodle in grades 3-12 for enhancing traditional classroom experiences with an online environment. Contact John Hendron (www.glnd.k12.va.us) if you have questions about our use of Moodle.

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.

Online learning – an introduction


These are notes from my session with Performing Arts, 27th February 2008. Online learning – getting started Session outcomes: • Identify uses for online learning in your teaching. • Find help for your own Moodle development. What is Moodle? Moodle is a virtual learning environment (VLE) or Learning Management System (LMS). It is an [...]

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.

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!

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 here

If 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.

Total Moodle powered sites


Moodle installations worldwide

Dark colors = more concentration

See all statistics on Moodle

Moodle Tweets

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The Moodlers list on Twitter

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Laurie Korte

Moodler Twitter names? 10 Replies

Started by Laurie Korte. Last reply by Jagdeep Singh Pannu 1 day ago.

Sukhpreet Kaur

Moodle for Teachers 1 Reply

Started by Sukhpreet Kaur. Last reply by Jagdeep Singh Pannu Sep 7.

Blog Posts

Sukhwant Lota

Moodle Twitter Integration

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

Maryel Mendiola

Outcomes Tutorial for Moodle 1.9

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Posted by Maryel Mendiola on October 11, 2009 at 9:08am

Jagdeep Singh Pannu

How to Run Moodle on a USB Flash Drive - Presentation Tutorial

Here's a useful tutorial showing how to install and run Moodle from a USB Flash drive:

Continue

Posted by Jagdeep Singh Pannu on September 2, 2009 at 8:14pm — 2 Comments

Jeffrey A. Roth

Shaking Up Blended Learning

Blended Learning as a concept is widely used in the academic, corporate and non profit sectors throughout the world. We're seeing a great deal of change in it's utilization, and in my blog today, I'll try to highlight some of the changes.

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

Wendy Cotta

The Value of the Moodle 1.9 Gradebook

We are rolling out Moodle this year to replace Blackboard. I am frantically trying to get up to speed to lead a faculty training this week. In posting, I am asking faculty to go through the trouble of posting in such a way that their posts will be pushed to the Gradebook. (In the past, many faculty have just uploaded Word files with a full week's worth of homework assignments.) Now, I am attempting to "train" them to primarily use the "Add activity/Offline activity" and "Add activity/Advanced Up… Continue

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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More from Moodle

Helen Foster: Moodle 2.0 QA testing

This week I've made a start on setting up tests in the Moodle Tracker for our Moodle QA / functional testing - see MDLQA. (Thanks to Jerome Mouneyrac for figuring out how to use Jira as a Test Case Management Software and to Martin for creating the project.)

Up to now, we've not had any organised testing of Moodle features prior to the release of a new version. We're hoping for lots of help from the community to ensure Moodle 2.0 is the best release yet!

If you're wondering when Moodle 2.0 is likely to be released, the answer can be found in our Administration FAQ together with links to further information.

Helen Foster: Over 120 thousand Moodle downloads last month!

Our latest monthly download statistics show that Moodle is more popular than ever!

Following the release of Moodle 1.9.6 and 1.8.10, the download figures for October 2009 rose to a record high of 127052 downloads! (Note that this figure is just for packages downloaded from moodle.org/downloads and does not include site updates via a CVS mirror server as described in CVS for Administrators.)

For more statistics, including proportions of registered sites using different versions of Moodle (with a surprising number still using 1.5.x) please see moodle.org/stats.

Dan Marsden: Moodle and SCORM 2004 – certified already?

now that I’ve got your attention…. The guys at Rustici have written an plugin for Moodle to connect to their Commercial hosted SCORM player – which is SCORM Certified for 1.2 and 2004

Bascially, they “host” your SCORM object on their SCORM Cloud, and the Moodle plugin redirects the user to their site, and allows their site to pass back information like the grade and duration data. The Moodle module is free to download, and you pay Rustici for “hosting” your SCORM objects. You can create a free demo account to test their SCORM Engine but to use on a production site, you will need to pay them for the hosting.

The Moodle code and the SCORM Cloud are still in beta, (I’ve just had a quick look through the beta code and reported a couple of small issues) but in the near future, this could be an easy answer to those RFP’s that require a SCORM 2004 checkbox to be ticked.

something like this could be used in those RFP’s(and in the moodledocs):
Moodle 1.9.5 is SCORM 1.2 Compliant and Certified, it supports some SCORM 2004 content, but if SCORM 2004 certification is required then the commercial Rustici SCORM Cloud can be used to host SCORM objects that require full SCORM 2004 support

With the availability of the Rustici engine at an affordable price, the urgency for getting the SCORM module in Moodle SCORM 2004 compliant/certified has definately decreased.

Helen Foster: Last day of Moodle 1.7.x

Today is the last day of MOODLE_17_STABLE in the Moodle Tracker. As Martin mentioned in the moodle.org news back in February, New releases: Moodle 1.9.4, 1.8.8, 1.7.7 and 1.6.9,

Moodle 1.6.9 and Moodle 1.7.7 mark the last builds that the core team plan to release from those branches… please upgrade to later versions!

For anyone interested, our process of dropping support for older stable branches is detailed in Development:Stable branch support.

Keeping your site up-to-date is highly recommended in order to keep your site secure. Also recommended is to regularly run the Security overview report in Site Administration > Reports > Security overview (source: Hacked site recovery).

Sam Marshall: March ForumNG features

This week we've started work on development for our March release. They haven't even started testing the December release yet, but these things have to overlap or we'd never get anything done...

There's a lot of development on ForumNG scheduled because the March release is a big push here - we want lots of courses to start moving onto the new forum, for new course presentations that start from that point on. I'm spending the vast majority of my time on it, and Ray Guo is also doing some of the new features. Hopefully I'll get Ray to make a screencast of his stuff so it's not just me all the time.

By the way, the version for Moodle 1.9 contrib (optional install) should be getting made really soon. (Famous last words.)

Anyhow, some people like the screencasts, so I decided to make another one each time I have a new vaguely interesting feature to show. This week I had to spend a lot of time scheduling tasks and suchlike (and getting Tim to do things he doesn't really want to do because he wants to work on quiz... but he's already implemented a really cool admin report). But I did manage to implement a new feature as well.

The feature is 'forward by email'. You can send a whole discussion, or selected posts from a discussion, in an email to any email address.

Here's the screencast (about 6MB). As usual, the link requires Firefox or another browser that is happy to play .swf files when clicked.

By the way, I didn't mention it in the screencast, but the whole thing does work for non-JavaScript users (including our 'friends' using IE6; we turned off ForumNG's JavaScript in IE6 because trying to make it work was a nightmare). The interface is basically the same but with less of the fancy visuals and more of the 'click a button, wait for a new page to load'.

 
 

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