8 Reasons Why A Premium Moodle Theme Might Be The Right Thing For You
By the Edwiser team. We often come across these questions about Premium Moodle themes. They are, of course, from people who have never bought one: Why opt for a premium theme when there are so many existing free themes? How are premium themes different from free themes? Are we being charged for just a few […]
The Importance of a Recommendation Engine for Moodle
By the Edwiser team Recommendation engines for Moodle, or recommender systems, are an excellent way to keep users engaged. By suggesting similar courses based on areas of interest or courses they have enrolled in the past, they make sure students always have a reason to stay on the site. Think of the “Products You Might […]
6 Themes For Moodle 3.1 To Distinguish Your Form And Function
Themes have often been a topic of posts at Moodlenews: making Moodle look great is a key driver of being able to get teachers to take a 2nd look at it or to engage students (you can’t judge a book by its cover, but first impressions do matter!). Over the years, Moodle has included many different themes […]
French Friday: Les Badges Dans Moodle
Aujourd’hui j’aimerais vraiment vous parler des badges que l’on peux obtenir dans Moodle.org. Avezvous déjà remarqué que des utilisateurs avaient un ou plusieurs badges ? Depuis 2013 Moodle décerne ces récompenses et je vous propose de les découvrir. Moodler particulièrement utile: Ce badge est attribué aux personnes qui ont écrit beaucoup de messages utiles dans […]
Power-up Your Moodle LMS Reporting: IntelliBoard Releases New Content Pack for Power BI by Microsoft
IntelliBoard, the premier reporting and analytics provider for Moodle and recipient of Best of eLearning 2015 Award of Excellence, in partnership with Microsoft, announced Thursday the release of the IntelliBoard content pack for Power BI by Microsoft. The IntelliBoard content pack for Power BI, a suite of business analytics tools to analyze data and share […]
Interested In Integrating SharePoint With Moodle?
Paradiso Solutions released its Microsoft SharePoint Moodle integration recently as it continued to develop integrations with third party applications. This latest integration from Paradiso sees the gap between Moodle and SharePoint, Microsoft’s team collaboration tool, grow smaller. SharePoint is one of Microsoft’s fastest growing business and in 2014 was worth $2bn in revenue for Microsoft. SharePoint […]
Let it Snow in your Moodle: Add Falling Snow to Any Moodle Site with this script
Here’s a great script that you can add to the Body section (additional HTML, http://yourmoodle.com/admin/settings.php?section=additionalhtml) of your site which will add falling snow. A fun/cool addition for the holidays. Commented code below provides the details on how to edit timing, number of flakes, colors and more. Enjoy! Check out http://rainbow.arch.scriptmania.com/scripts/bg/snow_fall_1.html for the original source. <!–Simply copy […]
A Moodle IPO: The Moodle Users Association Launch
Instructure made news this month with it’s IPO, where it raised over $70 million USD to fund its push to become the premier learning management system worldwide. The war chest will help to fund sales, development, and growth as it aims at capturing and establishing a market lead in North American and starts to make a […]
Back to School 2015: OER and free resources for your courses
Each year we’ve focused a bit of our September posts to helping teachers get their academic year started right. Each day this week we’ll publish a simple trick, tip or resource list which we think will help to make it easier to use Moodle in the classroom and to use it better. Building a Moodle […]
Short Video recap from the Vienna Moodle Dev Camp
This short video slide show includes all the pictures from the Dev Camp which occurred last month at Vienna University. You can learn more about what happened at the event in these two recent posts where we covered the recap and one of the products/outcomes from the event: Translated recap Bootstrap Grid for Atto Check […]
