Moodle

I very first started using Moodle back in the days of Moodle 1.4 and, although its feature-set was ‘limited’, its potential to positively influence teaching & learning was already obvious. Moodle HQ has been keeping on track with its 6 month ‘major’ release calendar since Moodle 2.0 was released last year and Moodle 2.3 will be released on June 18th 2012. The emphasis for this version was placed on usability, which is the main teachers’ complaint in every school I have worked at as a Moodle administrator/trainer....

I have used my trusty iMac 24″ for over 4.5 years with no issues whatsoever, until today that is when the heat got the better of it for a few hours. Fortunately all iMoot sessions are recorded and I was able to view some of the presentations that I missed. One of the presentations that caught my eye was about Big Blue Button, an open-source online conferencing system that “enables universities and colleges [and schools] to delivers a high-quality learning experience to remote students”....

Moodle & sleep deprivation I work at a secondary school where most of our students are between 11 and 18 years old. It is a known fact that teenagers need a lot of sleep for their brain to develop fully, yet I have noticed that many of our students do their homework on Moodle way past 11PM, some as late as 3AM! Some of my colleagues keep telling me that this is a ‘Hong Kong’ issue (where I work), but according to this study sleep deprivation is an international problem....

What it is The UploadPDF is an assignment type for Moodle, it allows you to collect files and comment directly on them using the custom marking interface. You can make some comments ‘Quick comments’ so that you can insert those comments anywhere on a document with a simple right-click of the mouse. I am confident that using this plugin will save you hours of marking every month. The good Mark straight inside Moodle No extra software is required for a teacher to use this plugin....

Whilst it’s relatively easy to find third-party Moodle plugins using the database on Moodle, I decided to compile my own list of favourites. 10. Online Audio Recorder The Online Audio Recorder is an assignment type that can be used to let your students record audio directly into their web browser. It uses Flash so it won’t work on iPhones or iPads (the iOS app allows students to record in other places)....