Theming Moodle

Now despite Kelvin telling me that I am not allowed to change things anymore I am a firm believer in innovate or die and if I don’t continually play with Moodle it bores me and the kids so I figured why not have a bit of a play around with the Newbury College themes created [...]

When the Flu strikes E-Learning comes into its own.

As the whole family has now had the flu it has been a decidedly average week. It has however been a good chance to use Moodle to set my class their work and still give feedback without being there. Our Year 11 History site has been used extensively while I have been away, coupled with [...]

Unlock Moodle Potential

One of the effects of the latest flu pandemic is that a school can be shut down at anytime.  Our particular school policy states that we will provide materials online while students are away so that they may continue with their studies.  Unfortunately in a practical based subject that is a little difficult and rather [...]

Moodle Glossary Import

Moodle Glossary Import

How to import glossaries into moodle from a text file in bulk. Using an xml converter.

Add a Moodle Glossary Then click on import entries

you then need to set up your import file. Do this in excel or open office. Text in one column then definition in the next, I have just used numbers [...]

Just for giggles I made our Moodle an approved platform

So for the past week I’ve been pretty busy moodling. I’d managed to stuff the database at school somehow but after a quick upgrade and backup during the changeover between periods all was settled. So now we carry on with the KAMAR (our school management system) and Moodle integration. We really want to get this [...]

Moodle Assessments

Over the past two weeks my year 11 History class has been completing an Internal Assessment Achievement Standard worth four credits of the 24 on offer in year eleven History.
They had two weeks to complete a task where they had to write a newspaper editorial from 1954 based around the events of the Civil Rights [...]

Moodle/KAMAR integration

After the recent KAMAR conference I thought I best share the Keynote file we created. You can download it from slideshare if you wish. I will remind you that this is still beta at present but the integration does look pretty good. I will endeavor to add a narration track at some point so you can further [...]

Moodle Maps

After the recent KAMAR conference I’m playing with my moodle plugins again. I really quite like the Maps plugin. You simply define the place you would like to map, students can add points of interest and annotate the maps. Very simple and clear for staff as well as students.

#lats09

Well so far Kelvin has made it to Learning @ School. I will be there Tomorrow for our Breakout in Session 6 on Moodle. Our group will be given a logon (this is their firstinitialsurname and firstname as password) to the Tek Moodle site so they can have a play around and add courses, work [...]

Using the Podcast feature in Moodle

Using the Podcast feature in Moodle

A quick how to for using the podcast feature in moodle. For more information visit moodle.org. To download this go here

First select the podcast block

Then fill in the blanks

Give it a title, description, category and language then click save changes. The podcast will then be empty. Select add an item.

Then [...]

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