Moodle Monthly – An awesome new site by Joseph Thibault

Moodle Monthly is a collaborative project bringing order to news and information pertaining to the open source project and learning management system called Moodle.

First look at Moodle 2.0: html editor – From Moodle Monthly

Posts from Helen Foster

• New Moodle QA testing site (1-20-10)
• More Moodle twitter accounts (1-22-10)
• YouTube block update (1-26-10)

Moodle Moots coming up!

• Register for the 2010 iMoot! The schedule is now up.
• Midwest Moodle Moot – July 26-28th in Indiana – Martin Dougiamas will be attending and will be the key note speaker!

• Moodle 1.9.7 and Moodle 1.8.11 have been released (12-05-09) – Important fixes in this upgrade*

Other

• Review of Moodle 1.9 and Math(s)! – Book Review
• Did You Know Moodle 2.0 Will….? (Online Educa 2009) – Great post!
• Twitter #tourdemoodle – Great idea, share your Moodle site! Started by @catspyjamasnz

• Moodle Partner offers Moodle integrations (11-13-2009)

Other

Great Post: “Moodle is an Airport!” (GlobalClassroom)

On another note, I plan to write a few posts about our district’s experience with the Moodle-Google SSO module. I will be co-presenting at the TIES 2009 Conference about this and in January I will be giving a short presentation to another district with my co-worker.

I hope to write up a few posts with bits and pieces and maybe attach some of the slides or parts of our presentation. Happy Moodling!

Similar to the “upload a single file” type where students can browse and send you their work for marking , the nanogong assignment presents them with a little sound recorder into which they can record themselves , play back to check and then send to you. read more

I just wanted to post a quick link to her post and screecast. This looks like a great module that I know the teachers in our district would use! I hope to test this out soon and possibly add it to our Moodle site if I get some time for it. Thanks Mary!

Read the full post and watch the screencast explaining how to install and use it.

Related Links
Mary Cooch
Moodle Blog
Follow Moodlefairy on Twitter

• Meeting moodlefairy 10-23-09 (Helen Foster)
• Moodle 1.9.7 supports IMS CC import 10-20-09 (Helen Foster)

Other

• Testing Moodle for Accessibility 10-21-09 (Around the Corner-MGuhlin.org)

….and More

Recently I’ve been helping out with getting our district’s Moodle-Google SSO fully working. It had been working but we ran into a few issues. I think we have solved our problem…we’ll see tomorrow! I plan to write a complete blog post about our situation and how we were able to get it working which will hopefully help others out there in the same situation. We’re using Ubuntu 8.0.4, Moodle 1.9.1+ and the LDAP Authentication.

• New course format: Timeline 9-25-09 (Helen Foster) – Great new course format, can’t wait!

Planet Moodle

• Cool Course Competition opening soon! 10-14-09 (Helen Foster)
• Seven new particularly helpful Moodlers 10-09-09 (Helen Foster)
• Moodle features list 10-09-09 (Helen Foster)
• Moodle 1.9.6 coming soon! 10-06-09 (Helen Foster)

Around the Corner-MGuhlin.org blog posts

• PHP INI Settings for Moodle 10-11-09
• Moodle Use Guideposts for Student (Revised) 10-9-09
• Comment Hoist – Suzanne Dreyer on Moodle Messaging 9-28-09

Other Links

ischool Learning Network – videos

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Here are a few “introductory” type videos and presentations

• Show your colleagues what Moodle is all about (presentation) (GlobalClassroom)
• Moodle Student Induction Video 2009/2010 (via @sukhwantlota)
• How can Moodle change a school (Part 1) (thanks @edtechsandyk)
• Moodle Presentation [Version 2.0, HD] (thanks @edtechsandyk)

Moodle blogs

• GlobalClassroom – This blog has many great Moodle related posts. It’s updated frequently and it’s a great Moodle (as well as educational) resource for new learning, discovering new tools and getting some great links.
• Around the Corner-MGuhlin.org – Another awesome blog with educational and Moodle posts. This blog is also frequently updated and I find myself visiting it quite often.
• Moodleblog.org – A blog all about Moodle. Posts consist of tips and tricks, ideas, how tos and more. Another blog to bookmark!
• Check out all of the other equally as great Moodle blogs on my Resources page

Moodle.org Help

• Moodle Docs (official documentation – I use this all the time)
• Using Moodle – This is an actual course on moodle.org. It consists of all forums. If you have a question, this is the place to go! This is the best source for Moodle help.

Other Moodle Resources

• WeFollow Moodle – Looking for fellow Moodlers using Twitter? Here is a dynamic list of Moodle Twitter users. Awesome!
• Moodle Administration book – Great book for Moodle admins. I highly recommend this book for future admins or even current ones. I was a Moodle admin for more than 1 year and I still learned a bunch.
• Moodle Course Conversion: Beginner’s Guide – Another great book targeted towards teachers. This is an excellent book to help you convert your current course into an online Moodle course. By the end of this book you will have an engaging Moodle course. What I like about this book is that it gives real life examples and less step-by-step directions.
• MoodleTutorials.org – A YouTube-like site with all Moodle video tutorials.

This is another official update to the original “Shift Happens” video.

“Did You Know 4.0″

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ILQrUrEWe8

For credits and more information visit the xplanevisualthinking YouTube Channel.

There are so many more great Moodle sites, these are just a few. Check out my Resources page for a more complete list. I plan on updating and organizing that resources page soon, so if you have any I’ve missed please let me know!

• More chances to meet other Moodlers

Planet Moodle

• Moodle 2.0 progress updates (Helen Foster)
• Mathematics and Understanding Moodle demo courses (Helen Foster)

• Moodle Reject 9-14-09 (Around the Corner-MGuhlin.org)
• MoodleTip – Recording Audio into Discussion Forum Posts 9-4-09 (Around the Corner-MGuhlin.org)

• Navigation in Moodle 2.0 8/28/09
• Congratulations to our GSOC 2009 students 8/28/09

Moodle Announcements

• Moodle Partner network continues to grow 8/28/09

Blog Posts

• Moodle Administration Book Review (Packt) (Lewis Carr) 8/26/09
• Using Moodle as an intranet (Lewis Carr) 8/19/09
• 10 Moodle Instructional Use Scenarios (Around the Corner-MGuhlin) 8/23/09
• 10 Things to Like About Moodle (a presentation)