Connect Moodle To Your Student Information System With Lingk’s ‘Connector’
According to a recent press release, LingkSync, a “lifecycle data synchronization” service, is now able to connect Moodle with the commercial Student Information System (SIS) Colleague. Large education institutions often use Moodle or another LMS to deliver content, track performance, record grades, and track academic history. They also use SIS for administrative management tasks related […]
How To Make Your EdTech Product xAPI Compliant
In an effort to increase the level of engagement with the EdTech development community, ADL has released a series of documents on the requirements for conformance and certification of learning applications. (For those who don’t know, ADL is the US government organization leading the development of specification standard xAPI.) The series will serve as a guide […]
Mr. Moodle: Can I Prevent Teachers From Viewing Or Editing Their Own Gradebook?
Dear Mr Moodle, I’m an admin for our Moodle 3.2 site. I have been asked to restrict gradebook settings access to teachers but don’t know how. I have been instructed that only admin and managers have access to gradebook settings. Please help! A big thank you!! Melissa Dear Melissa, As you have experienced, teachers […]
Mr. Moodle, How Can I Add Superscripts And Subscripts In Moodle Text Editing?
A telegram Mr. Moodle recently received read: Dear Mr. Moodle. How can I add subscripts and superscripts in Moodle? Thank you. Kate. Dear Kate, There are several ways users can add basic expressions such as XYZ or XYZ in their Moodle text editors. The most straightforward of all is to use the appropriate button on […]
Australian Fitness Academy And Branded Moodle App, A Match That Just Fits
There is no better way to describe in one word the partnership between the Australian Fitness Academy and Moodle as they develop a branded Moodle mobile app: Fit. In an interview with moodle.com, James Poynter, Business Operation Manager at the Victoria-based provider of educational programs for aspiring fitness trainers and teachers, discusses the Academy’s decision […]
What Will Moodle Look Like In The Next 10 Years? The Creator Wonders
During his brief tour of Europe’s EdTech, Moodle Founder and CEO Martin Dougiamas spoke at MoodleMoot Germany to discuss all things Moodle, explore the future of open learning, and share quite a few traveling anecdotes. Leaving Australia for a whirlwind #moodle tour in Europe: #mootde17 in Mannheim, then #mootfr17 in Lyon, and then #icalt2017 in Romania! […]
The Best Browser-Based Developer Tools For Moodle, According To MoodleBites
New Zealand Moodle Partner HRDNZ is sharing another sample of one of their popular “MoodleBites” courses. This time, the course covers the tools available for designers and developers (and teachers, too) that enable them to test and create Moodle functionality. The video focuses on the tools available on browser-based tools. The most popular modern browsers […]
¿LMS versus CMS? Una Comparación no Convencional para Desafiar tus Ideas Acerca de Moodle
Read this story in English. Para algunos, la idea de comparar Moodle, un LMS, frente a un CMS como WordPress, Drupal, o Joomla, es como comparar manzanas con naranjas. En realidad, muchas organizaciones buscan formas prácticas de contar con una plataforma de aprendizaje y una plataforma de comunicaciones y contenidos. Usualmente podría tener sentido pensar […]
SUNY Plattsburgh Shows A Better, More Open College Experience Is Possible
A recent confluence of events is making SUNY, the State University of New York, worth keeping tabs on in the national debate around education policy, free tuition, college debt, and the role of Open Source content, considering SUNY’s committment to Moodle and OER initiatives. The Plattsburgh campus alone creates close to a thousand Moodle Courses each new […]
How To Plug Outcomes From Interactive H5P Activities Into The Moodle Gradebook
H5P has received an open and warm embrace by the Moodleverse. It might be time you too learned how to adopt it into your Course. H5P offers a number of snappy interactive “content types,” fulfilling a variety of interactive experiences. If the type can provide information about user performance, chances are it can be compatible […]
