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....
UploadPDF – Mark work directly within Moodle
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....
My Top 10 Moodle third-party plugins
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)....
Easy file management for Moodle
Davo Smith came up with a simple and elegant solution, the drag’n’drop upload block.
What it is It basically does what it says on the tin; you drag files from your desktop (or from any other folder for that matter) and you drop it onto Moodle. You can see it magically upload onto Moodle! Yes, you read right: file s, with an s. You can upload multiple files with this, and I’m yet to reach some sort of limit with this system....
Could the Moodle User Interface do with a facelift?
A Moodle developer meeting took place yesterday and the roadmap for Moodle 2.3 was discussed. Moodle 2.3 is poised to be released in June 2012 or thereabouts. I rejoiced when I read “Usability is the real big thing for 2.3. We really want to focus on it.” in the meeting minutes. It seems as though the developers at Moodle HQ are now happy with the core set of features and are eager to focus on the user experience....
