Author Archives: ghenrick

How to separate students into two different activities using groups and groupings

As this has been a common query on mailing lists and twitter, so I thought I should do a short piece on the feature. This short article shows the process for setting up activities which are locked to group members only; … Continue reading

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Edublog Awards 2011 Nominations

The Edublog awards are upon us for this year, and I would like to nominate some very worthy blogs that I enjoy reading. I would love to have nominated quite a few for individual blog, but had to choose one, … Continue reading

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Moodle in top 10 of Learning Tools

Every year there is a crowd sourced list of the Top 100 Tools for learning curated by Jane Hart of the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies (C4LPT), and this week the 2011 list was finalised. 531 learning professionals worldwide … Continue reading

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Adding a file from Alfresco into Moodle 2

Following on from some videos I did last year about repositories and Moodle, I added one about Alfresco and Moodle 2. This video goes through two processes: the steps for adding a file into Alfresco the steps for pulling that … Continue reading

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Book Review: Moodle 2 Administration by Alex Büchner

I was lucky enough to get a copy of the new  Alex Büchner book on Moodle 2 administration from Packt Publishing. As the book says, it is “An administrator’s guide to configuring, securing, customising and extending Moodle“. In some ways, it’s an … Continue reading

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Converting a plugin from Moodle 1.9 to Moodle 2

For those looking to upgrade their Moodle 1.9 customisations and plugins to Moodle 2, there has been some very easy to read and follow blog posts by Mike Churchward on the topic. Mike as many of you may know is the Chief Information … Continue reading

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