Category Archives: Moodle

Moodle in top 10 of Learning Tools

Posted on November 15, 2011 by ghenrick

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

Posted on November 14, 2011 by ghenrick

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

Posted on November 10, 2011 by ghenrick

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

Posted on November 9, 2011 by ghenrick

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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Whitepaper: A look at Themes for Moodle 2

Posted on November 4, 2011 by ghenrick

This paper takes a look at the default themes that come with Moodle 2 and at a selection of themes which have been contributed to the community. If are you planning to move from Moodle 1.9 to Moodle 2 you … Continue reading →

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Review: Course contents block for Moodle 2

Posted on October 31, 2011 by ghenrick

Today I am reviewing the Course contents block for Moodle 2. This block provides an alternate in-course navigation to the standard navigation block. Background This Moodle plugin has been around for a few years, originally for Moodle 1.9 but now has … Continue reading →

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