Curing The ‘Scroll of Death’ In Moodle
Ah, the “scroll of death” – that processes we’ve all been through of logging into your LMS some weeks into the academic calendar, and becoming painfully aware of how much you are spinning the mouse wheel to find the week’s content. But did you know that Moodle offers several alternatives to prevent this? At moodlefacts.nl, the Dutch blog of […]
Dynamic Mathematics In Moodle With Geogebra Plugin Family
I can pinpoint the moment physics became a source of fascination to me. I was in middle school when I found out the idea that rest is not the natural state of matter. Even if I did not understand all the math throughout, it made me aware that there are laws of nature. They rule us, we […]
Work With Source Codes Inside Moodle With This Plugin
With the Virtual Programming Lab plugin, or VPL, Moodlers including students have access to a source code editor and console for a variety of software applications in many programming languages inside Moodle. This deeper level of interaction enhances practical experiences for skills that require coding, including scientific computations and simulations, or just plain old code learning. VPL encompasses a […]
Team Evaluation At The Core Of A Valuable Massive Course Experience. Morgan Harris and John Paul Posada at MoodleMoot Australia 2016
Think of John Paul Posada and Morgan Harris at the University of New South Wales, as a five year old Moodle task force on large classrooms implementations and assessment. More than starting anew, they looked to centralize a conversation about some of the recurring challenges of organizing a massively populated discussion, in ways that […]
Better Interaction Between Third Party Web Services And Your Moodle Through User Key Authentication Plugin
Moodle Partner Catalyst IT shares the User Key Authentication plugin, that will allow SSO (Single Sign On) for Moodle, from third party applications. SSO is a mechanism that validates a user between different online services to avoid repeat logins. It usually works by storing identifying keys on a cookie, readable by each authorized service. With […]
Add A Slideshow To Moodle 3 With This Plugin
If you want to add a slideshow to your Moodle, look no further. A block type plugin, Slideshow uses JQuery to handle the transition of images and ensures the DOM maintains the moving gallery on the page header. To install, download then extract the plugin contents on moodle/blocks. Go to the menu to set gallery (Global) […]
Give Your Moodle Students Custom Certificates With This Plugin
The Custom Certificate plugin provides a rich canvas for customizable certificates you can make for your students. After the completion of a course, the student can access his certificate and download it. The plugin provides a versatile options page to customize the size and content of the certificate. See a full list of variables here. […]
Automatic Marking For Peer Assessment In Moodle Workshop With The Participation Credit Plugin
Participation Credit works alongside the Workshop activity. With this plugin you give symbolic rewards to your students to let them know you are aware of their contributions to grading the work of other students. A Moodle Workshop activity is a multi-stage submission assignment. On its initial phase, a students submits their original work. A following phase […]
Mouse-Free Markdown Text Editing In Moodle With The Marklar Plugin
Marklar is a Markdown friendly alternative to the default Atto text editor in Moodle. Markdown is an easy way to give some format to a text without having to select and click anything. Unlike HTML, it depends on characters to give format instead of hard-to-memorize labels. Many professionals and academics like Markdown because it is […]
Bring A New Level Of Grading Standards Into You School With Moodle Coursework
The University of London Computer Centre (ULCC) has gifted the Moodleverse with the Coursework Plugin. It gives extra functionality to the grading of written activities. It also shows one of the greatest things about open source technologies. When you create a solution for yourself, you end up making thousands more lives easier! I’m sure the […]
