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noreply@blogger.com (Christopher Pappas) — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 02:35:00 -0700

How to control who sees a Moodle block on the front page?

noreply@blogger.com (Christopher Pappas) — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 06:47:00 -0700

Hello fellow Moodlers,

Do you want to learn how to control who sees a Moodle block on the front page?
Mrs UsingMoodle demonstrates it on the following video.

Enjoy and do not forget to leave your comments!

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Attendance Module

noreply@blogger.com (Christopher Pappas) — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 01:58:00 -0700

Hello fellow Moodlers,

Today I would like to present you the Attendance Module.

There are two version of the attendance module:

Dmitry Pupinin, and
Human Logic

My opinion is, that Dmitry’s module is more stable.

The installation of Dmitry’s module is easy if you follow the directions provided by Richard Webb in the following post.

Those using the attendance module are able to:

Add attendance activity
Set attendance categories and grading options
Ass sessions
Take attendance, and
Have reports.

Also, I would like to present you 2 YouTube videos created by John Locke Director of Instructional Design at Keuka College.

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Microsoft Live Services Plug-in for Moodle

noreply@blogger.com (Christopher Pappas) — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:19:00 -0700

Hello fellow Moodlers,

On July 21 the Microsoft Education Labs group release the first CPLv2 software for Moodle.
Here is a list with some of the benefits that Moodlers can take advantage of:

Moodle site Administrators can include Microsoft Live Services,
Students and Teachers can use their Windows Live IDs to sign in to Moodle,
Students and Teachers can access Live Services like email, instant messenger without leaving Moodle.

Is that sounds good?

I highly encourage you to watch the following video and visit the following links:
Video about Microsoft Module for Moodle
Microsoft Live Services Plug-in for Moodle
Microsoft Integrates Live@edu with Moodle, Launches Education Labs
Microsoft Live Services Plug-in for Moodle by Marting Dougiamas

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Make your Moodle course page look like a webpage

noreply@blogger.com (Christopher Pappas) — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:49:00 -0700

Hello fellow Moodlers,

Do you want to learn how to make your Moolde course page look like a webpage?
Mrs UsingMoodle demonstrates it on the following video.

Enjoy and do not forget to leave your comments!

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Is Moodle the only Open Source LMS? - 11 Open Source LMS

noreply@blogger.com (Christopher Pappas) — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 09:06:00 -0700

In my personal opinion, Moodle is one of the best options for an open source Learning Management Systems (LMS). However, Moodle is not the only open source LMS.

Here is the list of 11 Oper Source LMS with a brief description. I highly encourage you to visit each LMS site and explore its capabilities pros and cons.

eFront Easily extended with modules available from the site.

Claroline This system is based on specific pedagogical principles. Supports online content tools such as SCORM and Wiki.

ATutor Offers tools for management of learning.

OLAT The winner of the “IMS Learning Impact ‘Leadership Award’ 2009 for best open source learning platform”.

Sakai Aimed at Universities was created by the Sakai Foundation.

Docebo Compatible with SCORM 1.2. Two cool tools that it offers is video conferencing and HR systems like SAP and Oracle

Dokeos Supports converting Office documents into Flash and user synchronization with Oracle and SAP.

ILIAS It offers collaboration tools such as chat and forums, and distribution technologies like RSS and podcasts.

openelms A business solution used by Merrill Lynch.

Ganesha This LMS developed in French but it can be translated.

.LRN Developed at MIT.

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Links that I recommend!

Moodle Blocks & Themes

noreply@blogger.com (Christopher Pappas) — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 12:16:00 -0700

Hello fellow Moodlers,

Do you want to learn about Moolde Blocks and Themes?
Mr Paul Tannahill demonstrates Blocks & Themes in Moodle.

Enjoy and do not forget to leave your comments!

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Moodle Magic: Make It Happen

noreply@blogger.com (Christopher Pappas) — Tue, 7 Jul 2009 08:28:00 -0700

Hello fellow Moodlers,

Three days ago I meet online a really innovative and creative Moodler. Her name is Laurie Korte. Laurie is the author of a highly recommended book with the title, Moodle Magic, Make it Happen.

About Moodle Magic
These are amazing times for the Internet and online learning. We are seeing a rapidly increasing commitment to internet-based learning from teachers, students, and institutions of all kinds. Online learning is being used to increase flexibility and communication within existing courses and to enable courses that could never exist before. Moodles have been implemented for users at all age levels. Online classroom are here NOW! Colleges and Universities offer Distance Learning NOW! There are even Virtual High Schools NOW! Moodle is designed to help educators create online courses with opportunities for rich interaction. It is a learning management system that lets you provide documents, graded assignments, quizzes, discussion forums and more. In this book, you will learn some tips and tricks to using Moodle to expand your classroom's virtual learning environment.

About the Author
Laurie Korte is a Technology Integration Specialist at Northbrook School District 28. She is a passionate Moodler and excited about making new technology available to everyone. For more information on Laurie, Moodle and what amazing things you can do with a little Moodle training, go to http://moodlemeet.ning.com

Moodlers' Reviews
By Jeffrey R. Anson "beginning moodler" (Kalamazoo, Michigan United States)
Moodle really is magic
As a moodle beginner, I found Laurie's book informative and easy to use. It is very easy to follow, and I am enjoying creating new moodles for both students and staff to use. I'd like to see her expand with Moodle Magic Intermediate, or Moodle Magic using specific modules. If you're new to moodle, this is a great book to help get you started.

By J. Meierdirks
A must-have resource!
This easy-to-read manual provides step-by-step directions for creating courses using the latest in online learning. Moodle is fast becoming an invaluable tool for educators and anyone wanting to expand learning beyond the classroom walls. An excellent resource for school libraries and technology coordinators to help students move into the 21st century online learning experience.

By Lorijo Metz "Lorijo"
You don't need magic to use this book!
Moodle Magic is precise, detailed and easy-to-use. Korte's step by step instructions make creating moodles simple even for non-teachers and those not technologically at ease.

By M. LaCerra
Tech Taught Easily
Moodle Magic is helpful to anyone who is getting started with this technology. It's clear organization makes it easy to use. Having this book while creating and working with Moodle allows the user to have a 'hands-on' tool with them right along side the computer. This book would be useful for resource centers at schools which use Moodle. Teachers need a tool like this!

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Students Adore Moodle - Moodlerooms Recognized for Helping to Improve Education

noreply@blogger.com (Christopher Pappas) — Sat, 4 Jul 2009 16:25:00 -0700

Hello fellow Moodlers,

As a Moodleroom Certified Trainer I was extremely happy with the article "Students Adore Moodle" that Phil Shapiro wrote on PC World about Moodlerooms and I would like to share it with you.

The co-founder of Moodlerooms, Sheila Gatling, and the president of Moodlerooms, Tom Murdock, were featured in an article on PC World's Web site. In the article, the writer, Phil Shapiro, asserts that Moodle and Moodlerooms are changing the way people learn.

Read the Article at PC World

Moodlerooms is an official Moodle Partner!

Adding YouTube videos to Moodle

noreply@blogger.com (Christopher Pappas) — Sat, 4 Jul 2009 15:53:00 -0700

Hello fellow Moodlers,

Do you want to learn how to add YouTube videos to Moodle?

I have a video that explains you all the steps that you need to follow.
Enjoy and do not forget to leave your comments!

Moodle - Uploading Files

noreply@blogger.com (Christopher Pappas) — Sat, 4 Jul 2009 15:48:00 -0700

Hello fellow Moodlers,

Do you want to learn how to upload files on Moodle?

I have the perfect video for you thanks to Mr. Brent Jones.
This mini movie was prepared for Business English students at Kobe Gakuin University and discusses how to get around in Moodle.

Enjoy and do not forget to leave your comments!

How much do you know about writing good test questions?

noreply@blogger.com (Christopher Pappas) — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:50:00 -0700

How much do you know about writing good test questions?

The quiz is based on research literature including Criterion-referenced Test Development by Sharon Shrock and Bill Coscarelli and Validating Multiple-Choice Tests Items by Thomas M. Haladyna. So the guidelines it offers relate to criterion-referenced rather than norm-referenced score interpretations. Different domains might require different approaches. We regard resources like this quiz as a way of contributing to the ongoing process of learning about assessment. In that spirit, we welcome your suggestions and would be happy to modify our current learning resources and/or create new ones to address the needs of other domains.

Take the Quiz to find out!

QUIZ

Moodle Forums Basics

noreply@blogger.com (Christopher Pappas) — Sat, 30 May 2009 10:50:00 -0700

Hello fellow Moodlers,

Do you want to learn the Moodle Forum Basics?

I have the perfect video for you thanks to Mr. Brent Jones.
This mini movie was prepared for Business English students at Kobe Gakuin University and discusses how to get around in Moodle.

Enjoy and do not forget to leave your comments!

Moodle Wikis Basics

noreply@blogger.com (Christopher Pappas) — Sat, 30 May 2009 10:47:00 -0700

Hello fellow Moodlers,

Do you want to learn the Moodle Wikis Basics?

I have the perfect video for you thanks to Mr. Brent Jones.
This mini movie was prepared for Business English students at Kobe Gakuin University and discusses how to get around in Moodle.

Enjoy and do not forget to leave your comments!

Moodle Navigation Basics (9:07)

noreply@blogger.com (Christopher Pappas) — Tue, 26 May 2009 16:05:00 -0700

Hello fellow Moodlers,

Do you want to learn the Moodle Navigation Basics?

I have the perfect video for you thanks to Mr. Brent Jones.
This mini movie was prepared for Business English students at Kobe Gakuin University and discusses how to get around in Moodle.

Enjoy and do not forget to leave your comments!

Join FREE Live Online Instructor Led Class "MS Excel - Tips'n'Tricks"

noreply@blogger.com (Christopher Pappas) — Thu, 21 May 2009 12:29:00 -0700

Join FREE Live Online Instructor Led Class "MS Excel - Tips'n'Tricks"
1 hour, completely FREE, in English. You need speakers and Flash plugin!

Monday, May 25th 2009. JOIN US!

Training agenda:

demistify relative and absolute formulas
fill a list of workdays, numbers etc.
get unique value from list
extract substrings
format cells with specific values (ex. max and min) in the list
solve equations with multiple variables

http://www.cognita.hr/services/InstructorledTrainingClassesOnline/MicrosoftExcelTipsNTricks/tabid/191/Default.aspx

I am looking forward to participate in this FREE class!

Moodling in a Business School in Slovenia

noreply@blogger.com (Christopher Pappas) — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:26:00 -0700

Dear Moodlers,

Today I would like to present you a paper that describes the continuous adoption of the Moodle system at the faculty of management Koper, Slovenia. The authors of the paper present their experience in using Moodle to support e-learning, teacher and tutor training, project management and the building of a community of Slovenian Moodle users (Moodlers). In this paper the authors focused on presenting the pedagogical approach to using Moodler for e-learning.

Join the paper and do not forget to leave your comments!

Also, join our Moodlers group of Scribd where you can upload and download several documents conserning Moodle. If you would like to join this group, click on the following link (or copy and paste it into your web browser).

http://www.scribd.com/group/74132-moodlers

Moodling in a Business School in Slovenia Moodling in a Business School in Slovenia Viktorija Sulcic

Publish at Scribd or explore others: School Work Education-eLearningO higher education

Free Intro to Teaching with Moodle Class

noreply@blogger.com (Christopher Pappas) — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:37:00 -0700

My fellow Moodlers take advantage of a free intro to teaching with Moodle Class. Mrs. Allisun O'Connell offers a free introduction class to teach with Moodle.

"I have another live Edufire class on Introduction to Teaching with Moodle scheduled for May 3, 10:30am-Noon PST. Sign up with Edufire and register here:
http://edufire.com/classes/2056-introduction-to-teaching-with-moodle

I am looking forward to participate in this FREE class!

Buddy2 - Resource Central

noreply@blogger.com (Christopher Pappas) — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 17:29:00 -0700

Hello my fellow Moodlers,

Today I am going to present you one of the most awesome Moodler Resouces... Of course my blog is the best but still exist some other good resources.

I am presenting you the Buddy Project.

The Buddy2 have several handouts that apply to Moodle 1.8. The best thing is that these resources are freely available to the general public to download or use to support individual learning of Moodle course development skills and features!

Is not awesome? Yes it is!

Open Invitation (Moodlers Power)

noreply@blogger.com (Christopher Pappas) — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 16:33:00 -0700

Do you want to network with Moodlers?

The Moodlers Online Community connects moodlers from around the world!

Ning Online Community: Join us today!

Ning is an online service to create, customize, and share a social network.

Linkedin Community: Join us today!

LinkedIn is an interconnected network of experienced professionals from around the world.

Facebook Group: Join us today!

Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them.

Scridb Group: Join us today!

Scribd is a social publishing site, where tens of millions of people share original writings and documents.

Lets connect, interact and share the Knowledge!!!

Moodle Free E-Book

noreply@blogger.com (Christopher Pappas) — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 22:30:00 -0700

For an open source software we need a free e-book!

E-book

Using Moodle - Teaching with the Popular Open Source Course Management System by Jason Cole and Helen Foster is published by O'Reilly as part of the Community Press series.

The first edition of the book, written by Jason Cole and released in July 2005, is based on Moodle 1.4. The second edition, released in November 2007, has been updated to cover all the features in Moodle 1.8, such as the new roles and permissions system, blogs, messaging and the database module.

Book download

The second edition of Using Moodle is now available for download as a zipped PDF file:

Using Moodle (approx 4MB)

Thanks to members of the worldwide Moodle user community for their discussion and documentation contributions, many of which have been included in the book.

Resource: (http://docs.moodle.org/)

Moodle Resources

noreply@blogger.com (Christopher Pappas) — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 22:27:00 -0700

Videos

How to start a course

This tutorial guides you through the basic steps of creating an online tutorial in Moodle LMS. To view the full length tutorial go to http://www.moodletutorials.org

Tip on how to create a homepage

Use 'unseen'resources to make your course homepage look more like a regular website

Theme for Category

In this tutorial, we learn how to set a category theme which will apply to all sub-categories and courses in Moodle 1.9. To view the full size video, go to www.moodletutorials.org

Tutorial in Spanish

Introducción a la plataforma Moodle, ésta es una Bienvenida a la plataforma Moodle del la Universidad Mayor de San Simón

Free Moodle Workshop

noreply@blogger.com (Christopher Pappas) — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 22:20:00 -0700

Join a free Moodle workshop on Wikieducator.

Please watch a live online recording of a session given on WiZiQ by Dr. Anne Thorpe on Moodle and how it can be used for teachers interested in integrating technology into their classes.

Moodle Books

noreply@blogger.com (Christopher Pappas) — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 22:14:00 -0700

Are you looking for a book about Moodle?
If yes, the only thing that you have to do is to visit Moodle Books database, which contains a variety of books and manuals, for both teachers and administrators, written by members of the Moodle community.

It should be noted that when you buy a book from the Moodle Books database, you're helping support Moodle development, as a percentage of all sales goes to the Moodle Trust

Moodle Tutorial On Setting up Parent Accounts

noreply@blogger.com (Christopher Pappas) — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 22:11:00 -0700

This is a tutorial for administrators running moodle who wish to set up an account for parents so that they can view their child's progress.

Really nice approach and easy to follow!