LMS v CMS? An Unconventional Contest To Defy Your Assumptions About Moodle
For some, the idea to pit Moodle, an LMS, versus a CMS the likes of WordPress, Drupal, or Joomla, is akin to comparing apples to oranges. In reality, many organizations must find practical ways to support both a learning platform and an outbound communications platform. Sometimes it could make sense to think of one system […]
Moodlerooms Launches App Branding Service
Moodlerooms, the Blackboard-flavored version of Moodle, is launching its very own App Branding Service. Comparable to Moodle’s Branded Mobile Apps, the new service transcends the desktop LMS experience and brings it into the mobile arena. A new video describes the opportunities, challenges, and ways Moodlerooms customers can get started. With the mobile device as an […]
Check Out Mootivated, A New Concept In Moodle Gamification
Disponible en Español. Mootivated adds a gamification layer on top of a Moodle Site. It consists of a mobile app that provides virtual rewards to students in the form of coins, which they can later spend on a virtual store. It is connected to Moodle via a plugin, which gives admins a dashboard to manage rewards […]
Why Is It So Hard To Search For Things In Moodle?
The technology, but more specifically, the underlying habit of having a search engine close, to deliver any kind of information within seconds, is a game changer. Not only in our work or daily lives, but deep in the way our brains work. We no longer have to worry about forgetting facts, at least those that […]
Moodle Conferencing Plugin BigBlueButton Updated [UPDATED]
Corrections made on June 6th. BigBlueButton, the company behind the Moodle plugins for video and audio conferencing and recording of the same name, announced the launch of version 1.1 last month. The May 24th release includes four key features: Breakout Rooms. When a conference has multiple attendees, the moderator can break the group into smaller venues […]
The Learning Analytics Roadmap: A Powerful Interfaces Paradox [LAR Series #10]
Follow The Learning Analytics Roadmap series here. We may have been expecting flying cars by now, but did anyone expect we all were expert flying car drivers? I have stumbled upon this conundrum every time I try to dive deep into new technologies. We want newer, better and mightier gadgets, that at the same time […]
4 Astonishingly Free Courses In The Official Moodle OER Hub
As a learning economist, I will never not be amazed by how the Open Source markets —if you can call them that— seem to run. For reasons beyond what standard microeconomic theory can explain, people keep giving stuff away for free on the web, creating incalculable amounts of value. Incalculable because, to a large extent, […]
End-To-End Moodle Mobile Testing Project Chosen For Google Summer Of Code 2017
Adding several technologies and frameworks into one streamlined workflow for the Moodle Mobile apps is the goal of the Moodle-focused project approved for 2017’s Google Summer of Code (GSOC) program. The twelfth edition of GSOC is also the twelfth where Moodle has been present. Since 2005, Google gives students with above-average computer skills the opportunity […]
Let Moodle’s Navigation Make Sense For You With This Plugin
For all the benefits of the “NavBar,” the collapsible menu at the left of the new default “Boost” Theme for Moodle 3.2 and above, developer Alexander Bias felt a pet peeve had to be addressed. The NavBar offers a handy way to access sections, resources, and configuration options, which can be hidden under the hamburger […]
Turn Your Moodle Into A Web Coding Forest With The CodePen Filter Plugin
Disponible en Español. Initiatives to teach coding, from K-12 to professionals, keep popping up in more places each day. But they all seem to fall into one of two booby traps. They are either too linear when illustrating the many moving parts of the operation, or give too limited a view of the true power […]
