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For the first time in quite a long while I have finally done a little bit of Moodle development gain. I love working with Moodle code and find it quite easy to manipulate. If you have a little coding skills under your belt I strongly recommend you head to the moodleDocs and start getting your [...]
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Recently I discovered the “Human” Blog created by Tomaz Lasic and have very quickly become a fan of his work. He is an avid Moodler who is not just using moodle in his own classroom but also has also demonstrated and proven the tool to many of his collegues as well.
Tomaz is a teacher and [...]
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My recommendation is to use something external to moodle (like Mahara). Especially with the upcoming release of the Portfolio API in moodle 2.0, this will allow for better integration with external Portfolio’s
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Many teachers feel very restricted when it comes to course design. I often here complaints that the course layouts built into Moodle are too limiting. But did you know that there are a growing number of community created (contrib) course formats are available? In todays blog I want to highlight some of the better additions [...]
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Often I am reminded of the reason why I chose Moodle as my LMS platform. It was not the rich feature list, it’s usability or component based architecture that allows easy expansion (although they all may have had some impact). No, it was the impact it has when directed by teachers who are keen to [...]
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What many teachers have yet to realise is that online games satisfy the basic requirements of learning environments and can provide engaging learning experiences for students
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Afternoon all and welcome to my latest blog post. This week I want to look at how we can use functions in Moodle to automatically assign students into class groups within a course.
As I am sure all of you reading this would know, Moodle is traditionally a “course based” system. And while this works great [...]
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I have had quite a few schools and clients of mine lameting the fact that Moodle no longer supports anything but LAMS 1.0, a now extremely outdated version. I also had accepted this as fact and had moved on. But how wrong I was!
At last weekends OLPC Techfest held at my college I randomly ran [...]
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Today I finally got around to installing Mahara, the new Open Source ePortfolio system from New Zealand on my server. What makes Mahara so special, well let me tell you.
To best summarise what Mahara is about in a succinct paragraph lets her it from Penny Leach, one of Mahara’s developers:
Mahara means to think, thought, reflection [...]
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I have just release my first block in a very long time, this one uses AJAX to populate Google search results into a block inside a course.
Now why would I want to do that you ask? I don’t want my students to have to leave the education site to go and complete searches for additional [...]
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