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 […]
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 […]
Moodle Rubrics 101: Understand, Design, & Deploy Them In Moodle
Moodle offers tools to implement advanced grading methods, using, for example, several rules or formulas. One of the most widespread methods available is Rubrics, which compares student achievement against a predefined set of criteria. The teacher, or whoever takes care of grading, determines the criteria required to reach each given level. Each level corresponds to […]
Latest H5P for Moodle Upgrade Propels Interactivity Collaboration (And More H5P News)
Disponible en Español. The Moodleverse has spoken, and the H5P Core team has listened. Over the past few weeks, the Norway-based developers have made key improvements to the H5P plugin for Moodle, one of the fastest and easiest ways to add interactivity to a Moodle course. Even though the Moodle plugin is younger than its […]
Get An Early Taste Of This Moodle Enrollment Time-Saver
Disponible en Español. The race for the fastest possible way to enroll on a Moodle course is on at Dearborn. The developers at this Public Schools District from the Greater Detroit area, to whom we also owe the “Fordson” theme, are working on “Easy Enrollment”, an Enrolment Type plugin. While it is still in development […]
Popular Moodle Service BigBlueButton Launches Greenlight Meeting Interface
Disponible también en Español. BigBlueButton, eponym for the popular web conferencing plugin for Moodle, is launching GreenLight. A simple meeting interface based on BigBlueButton that does not require Moodle, but it does need a server where to install it. A demonstration in demo.bigbluebutton.org shows how simple it is to create a virtual room. All it […]
MOODLE 3.2 RELEASED To Change The Way You See The Open Source LMS
Moodle 3.2 is now available for download. It is not a beta or a release candidate. Moodle.com has released an infographic highlighting the changes that come with the release. Thanks to the community of volunteer education technologists that has supported it throughout the years, some of the feature that become default with Moodle 3.2 were available […]
Introducing Brandable By Moodle, The New Mobile App
Australia-based house Moodle, developer of the eponym Learning Management System, has launched brandable mobile apps, flankers that will allow customers to transport their Moodle installation into a handy mobile experience for their sophisticated learners. Brandable Moodle Mobile is currently exclusive through Certified Moodle Partners. Magnetic and bewitching, Brandable Moodle Mobile combines the hedonic appeal of ubiquitous […]
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 […]
