Moodle.org is fully operational again. Moodle.org: open-source community-based tools for learning. Moodle.org: open-source community-based tools for learning. Moodle.org in read-only mode. Moodle.org: open-source community-based tools for learning. Moodle Mobile apps now available! The first version of our new HTML5 Moodle Mobile app was recently released on Google Play (for Android) and Apple iTunes (for iOS)!
We’ve called it version 1.2 because the feature set is inherited from the deprecated iOS-only app “My Moodle” which reached version 1.1. Thanks to all the developers who’ve worked on delivering this version of the app: Juan Leyva, Jerome Mouneyrac, Barbara Ramiro and Josep Gifreu. The new app has been designed as a platform with the following strengths: It is secureIt can work offlineIt makes some Moodle operations faster and more convenientIt will support notifications on all platforms (coming soon)It can be branded by any Moodle site easily using CSSIt can be customised and expanded by an institution (the code is open source) Our strategy going forward is two-fold: The development of the official Moodle Mobile app will continue under the main guidance of CV&A Consulting (our trusted Moodle Partner in Barcelona, Spain). Doc of the Day: Moodle Features Tour
Welcome to Moodlenews.com A resource site for all Moodle-related news, tutorials, video, course content information and original resources. If you're new here, you may want to subscribe: RSS feed| Weekly Email Newsletter | Moodle News Twitter Thanks for visiting! Ever had to explain Moodle to someone only to dwell on the most valuable things you do with it but miss the things they may be keen on? Moodle Docs has a solution for that: The Features Tour. This Moodle doc breaks down the basics for Teachers, Students and Administrators complete with visuals and a punch list of a lot of the most popular and valuable features. For example, teachers can: and much more. Google Summer of Code Outcomes for 2013. Moodle – what exactly is it? (Part 1 of 2) | StAC e-Learning Stories.
One of the questions that is commonly asked by new students and parents alike is: What is this thing called Moodle we keep hearing about? It’s a fair enough question and, as with many things on the internet, a quick Google will often find you answers of one kind or another. Unfortunately, these quick and easy answers are not always that helpful, evidenced by this definition: The word Moodle was originally an acronym for Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment, which is mostly useful to programmers and education theorists. Simply put, Moodle is a Learning Management System - more jargon for what is effectively a website with a focus on learning online and one that aims to engage students through interactive activities.
In the past, St Andrew’s College has used older versions of Microsoft Sharepoint to deliver content from teachers to students. Pedagogy – that’s probably a good place to link back to a Moodle description again: Like this: Like Loading... Moodle is again voted best LMS in Top 100 Tools for Learning survey. Moodle 2.5.2, 2.4.6 and 2.3.9 are now available.
Moodle HQ invites you to a Moodle MOOC. Happy Birthday Moodle! Call for MRC2013 Workshop proposals. Moodle 2.5.1, 2.4.5, 2.3.8 and 2.2.11 are now available. New database of projects requiring crowdfunding. Upcoming MoodleMoots around the world. Moodle 2.5 is now released! Hello all Moodlers, It's my pleasure to put this cherry on the top of the collective cake that is Moodle 2.5, and to announce that it is now ready for you to use! (Download a package or use Git) This is the first release under the new May/November release schedule, so we had one less month than usual. Still we collectively managed to close an impressive record 705 issues in that time, and we had code contributions from 112 developers, the most ever in a single major release. This release has also been the most-tested in history.
For a more user-friendly tour of the highlights see our New Features page. There are three major features in 2.5 I'd particularly like to highlight here: Badges: Moodle is (I think!) In addition, we also released updates for our stable branches: 2.4.4, 2.3.7 and 2.2.10. I hope you enjoy all the new releases and that they are helping you improve the quality of education wherever you are. Moodle on! Moodle 2.4.4, 2.3.7 and 2.2.10 updates are now available! Moodle 2.5 QA tests - 100% passed. Moodle Mobile apps now available! New features. Moodle 2.5 brings a lot of exciting new features for teachers, students and administrators. This page highlights a few of the most interesting! Full details of the release, with technical information, can be found in the Moodle 2.5 Release notes. (Click any screenshot below to see it enlarged.) For teachers and students: Badges Badges are a nice way to acknowledge good work, and it's now possible for teachers to award course badges based on a variety of chosen criteria.
These badges are fully compatible with Mozilla Open Badges. This blog post has some interesting reflection on when badges might be most appropriate: The Badges of Oz Forms are much shorter Moodle has a lot of settings and features, which means some of our forms have been getting rather long. We've made changes so that non-essential settings on forms are collapsed by default, yet you can quickly access them when you need them. The rich text editor is collapsed and can be expanded: Reports moved to the Administration block See also.
Moodle Mobile for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store. Moodle 2.5 QA testing. 2.5 release notes. Releases > Moodle 2.5 release notes Release date: 14 May 2013 Here is the full list of fixed issues in 2.5. See New features for a user-friendly tour with screenshots. Many thanks to all the developers that worked on fixes and features in this release. Our release process continues to evolve and improve with more testing (human AND automated) than ever before. Requirements These are just minimums. Recommended minimum browser: Google Chrome 11, Firefox 4, Safari 5, Internet Explorer 8 (IE 10 required for drag and drop of files from outside the browser into Moodle) Moodle upgrade: Moodle 2.2 or later (if upgrading from earlier versions, you must upgrade to 2.2.9 as a first step) Minimum DB versions: PostgreSQL 8.3, MySQL 5.1.33, MariaDB 5.2, MSSQL 2005 or Oracle 10.2 (oci_native_moodle_package.sql needs to be executed before upgrade on Oracle servers) Minimum PHP version: PHP 5.3.3 New PHP extension requirements: GD Major new features Open Badges integration Add-on installer Themes Enrolment.
Moodleman: #moodle 2.5 now has an interface... Moodle Mobile. This official app will ONLY work with Moodle sites that have been set up to allow it. Please talk to your site administrator if you have any problems connecting. If your site has been configured correctly, you can use this app to: - Browse the content of your courses, even when offline- Receive instant notifications of messages and other events- Quickly find and contact other people in your courses- Upload images, audio, videos and other files from your mobile device- View your course grades- and more!
Please see for all the latest information. We’d really appreciate your feedback on what else you want this app to do! The app requires the following permissions: Moodle in the GSoC 2013. Open Badges. Call for Papers: 2nd Moodle Research Conference (MRC2013) Call for Papers 2nd Moodle Research Conference (MRC2013) 4th and 5th of October, 2013 Sousse, Tunisia The Moodle Research Conference (MRC) is a unique annual event dedicated to research and development (R&D) in learning and teaching carried out with Moodle. We invite scientists and practitioners to submit full papers or posters that critically report on quantitative and qualitative research concerning learning and teaching with Moodle. After a systematic double-blind review process, papers and posters will be presented covering: experimental research,case studies,surveys and analyses,reports andposition papers. Topics Prospective authors are invited to submit manuscripts reporting original unpublished research and recent developments.
Paper submission guidelines Prospective authors are invited to submit: research papers up to 8 pages (including figures and references) orposters up to 1000 words in length. Important Dates 17 June 2013: Submission of manuscripts. Moodle 2.4.3, 2.3.6 and 2.2.9 are now available. Moodle 2.4.3, 2.3.6 and 2.2.9 are now available via the usual open download channels ( or Git). Following the releases of Moodle 2.4.2, 2.3.5 and 2.2.8 on Monday 11 March 2013, it was discovered that a serious regression (MDL-38474) had been introduced immediately prior to the release.
Due to the severity of the issue we have release new versions with this issue fixed and removed the previous versions from download channels. If you have upgraded your site to 2.4.2, 2.3.5 or 2.2.8 then we strongly recommend that you upgrade your site again as soon as possible. There were no security issues fixed in these new versions, however there were security issues resolved in 2.4.2, 2.3.5 and 2.2.8, so if you have not yet updated, you are encouraged to do so. Security notes for these releases will be delayed for a further week to give time for administrators to update to the latest versions. Full details about the releases can be found in the release notes: Regression discovered in Moodle 2.4.2, 2.3.5 and 2.2.8. Moodle 2.4.2, 2.3.5 and 2.2.8 are now available. Moodle demonstration sites. Are you new to Moodle and want to explore a real site and discover what can be achieved? Or perhaps you're using an older version of Moodle and want to check out all the new features in the latest version?
If so, you'll be pleased to hear of our Mount Orange School site, a Moodle site which has been set up to replicate a real school, with students and teachers engaging in learning activities. You can choose a role such as teacher, then log in and browse the list of live examples of things teachers can do in Moodle. Thanks to Tomaz Lasic for creating the site, Mary Cooch for adding lots more content, and authors of courses used on the site.
We also have a plain site, the Moodle demonstration site, which shows how Moodle looks when freshly installed. We hope you find the demo sites useful for learning about Moodle and trying new features. SL Training 2.3. Give me your Moodle map | Synergy Learning Mini Site – authorised Moodle, Mahara and Totara partner. Jonnymcalister : The @synergylearning #moodle... Changes to Release Calendar. Using Moodle: Open Badges and Moodle. Doc of the Day: Course Formats New Feature Highlight: Drag and Drop Images to Moodle video by @Moodlefairy Welcome to Moodlenews.com A resource site for all Moodle-related news, tutorials, video, course content information and original resources. If you're new here, you may want to subscribe: RSS feed| Weekly Email Newsletter | Moodle News Twitter Thanks for visiting!
Here’s a quick video that highlights a brand new (beta) drag and drop feature of Moodle, specifically image embedding. Video by Mary Cooch (@Moodlefairy | UsingMoodle on Youtube). Direct video link: The tracker mentioned in the video (as this is not yet a core feature) is available here: Minor changes to the Moodle release calendar announced Welcome to Moodlenews.com A resource site for all Moodle-related news, tutorials, video, course content information and original resources. If you're new here, you may want to subscribe: RSS feed| Weekly Email Newsletter | Moodle News Twitter Thanks for visiting! As you know Moodle’s major releases now are every six months and progress on new features, enhancements and overhauls has been excellent since the new schedule was instituted. A tweak to the calendar now puts minor releases on a schedule with a more frequent regularity. We have decided to change the Release calendar to bring minor releases in-line with major releases, rather than keeping them offset by one month, which will achieve tighter security still.
Minor releases are now every two months (starting after a major release). Jobs. Why you should join Remote-Learner At Remote-Learner, we deliver e-learning solutions using Moodle open source technology to business, education and government clients so they can provide online learning, training and certification to their employees, customers and partners. We are a company dedicated to open source technology with a people friendly atmosphere. We seek to hire people interested in working with bright, energetic professionals who want to further their technology careers. Our continued year-to-year growth has created exciting opportunities within our Sales team. Your Opportunity: We are recruiting a Regional Account Manager to join our Sales team selling e-learning solutions to business and government clients.
The regional sales manager will be responsible for selling our products and services to existing and new clients in an assigned territory. Your Qualifications - Required: Your Qualifications - Desired: How to apply: 10 Tips for Getting Started in E. Do you remember your first E-Learning project? You know what I mean, the one that started it all? Some of you are sitting there reading this with a smile on your face as you laugh at the thought of stumbling your way through your first project. We’ve all been there. And that is what this post is all about. So, in an effort to ease the pain of new beginnings, I’ve put together a little list. One that I hope will help you on your journey as you get started in the crazy and often frustrating world of E-Learning. This list certainly doesn’t cover everything – no mere blog post could, but its a great place to start and will hopefully give you a few new things to think about as you put together your own E-Learning new initiative. 10 Tips for Getting Started in E-Learning 1.
You have to start somewhere, and the only way to learn is to do. 2. Before you start a new project you always need to have a plan in place. 3. If you run across something that you don’t understand, then find someone who does. Bulk course upload. Bulk course upload is a contributed code that creates a course with a teacher and basic course settings from a CSV file. There is also a bulk course deletion tool. These work in 1.8 and 1.9. Tips & Tricks To use this code successfully, the site administrator must create the teacher accounts before creating the courses.
The role for the teacher in the csv is the role short name. The bulk course delete tool uses a txt file with the course short names. Moodle has a unique constraint combining a course's category and its sortorder, in other words two courses in the same category shouldn't have the same sortorder. Sample data First line in csv file Example 1st record in csv file Greatest Course,GC101,Education Portfolios,1,,University Portfolio,topics,0,0,Owner,Owners,Visitor,Visitors,1/14/2008,10,15728640,0,0,1/12/2008,1/12/2008,portfolio,0,0,0,,,,0,2,1,1/14/2008,5/10/2008,0,0,10,editingteacher,lastname1.firstname@email.edu Example 2st record in csv file See also Alternatives.
Synergylearning : #moodle running on Android... Moodleman : This will be my new image... Using Moodle: HEADS UP: Moodle 2.4.1 and other minor versions coming Mon 14 Jan. 1082416 “XMLRPC with Firefox 17.0 not possible” : Bugs : Mahara. Drag & Drop with IE. @markdrechsler The Activity Chooser with new #Moodle icons Photo - Michael de Raadt.
Using Dropbox Repository with Moodle. Managing users in Totara (and Moodle?) Talk:Logging stage2. #Blackboard usage drops 6%; Moodle grows to 10% market share according to ITC Survey Conference Program. Totara_comparison.pdf. Happy 10th Birthday Moodle! EduSpace Blog: Great Moodle 2.3 changes for Teachers/Course Creators. Upgrading to Moodle 2. Totara Learning to build Open Badges infrastructure for Moodle. New Enrolment Plugin: Enrolment upon approval. Blogs. 2.3 release notes. Moodle Mobile for Android: Unofficial Moodle Mobile App (#android #blackberry) Plugins Directory: Navigation buttons. Startups Say a New Platform is Dawning in the Wake of LMS. Moodle App Store [Leaked]
5 things BB should do immediately with Moodle Iceland swaps Windows for Linux in open-source push | News. Main Page. MOOCH: Moodle.org Open Community Hub. RSC Wales information and resources. JISC RSC Northwest Moodle. Main Page. Moodle Development May 2011.