November 2010
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Moodle Group coming up soon 16th November 2010....
We’re looking forward to our next Moodle Group Meeting on Tuesday 16th November 2010 we have an interesting range of speakers who will be sharing their real world experiences of implementing and maintaining Moodle sites. Full details at: http://www.howtomoodle.com/moodle-groups Richard Summers, Pickfords Group Compliance Manager will be explaining how Pickfords made the decision...
September 2010
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Moodle Monday: HowtoMoodle Course Creation Guide...
via tdalton.co.uk A great review of our Course Creator Reference Manual by Tim Dalton. Thanks Tim! Posted via email from HowToMoodle blog | Comment »
August 2010
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Screenpresso - free screen capture software
via screenpresso.com I’m a long term advocate of SnagIt for screen shots but if your needs are casual then Screenpresso is likely to have everything you need. If you need a bit more the paid for version is only US $10. Posted via email from HowToMoodle blog | Comment »
June 2010
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Moodle seminar - a few pics
We had great evening on Tuesday at June’s seminar. Will blog about it more when I have a moment but in th emean time here are afew snaps from the evening. Posted via email from HowToMoodle blog | Comment »
May 2010
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Nice new menu options for themes in Moodle 2.0
Spotted this brand new development for themes added to Moodle 2.0 Preview 1. As you can see in the screenshots the theme has some drop-down menus in the header. The neat thing is that these are already incorporated in the theme and can be edited and extended by the site administrator without access to the server. Excellent. I’m sure this will be really popular and be massive aid to site...
April 2010
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A useful tip to extend specific permissions in...
We have a situation where we want to allow a facilitator (who is assigned to the the Non-Editing Teacher role for the course) to be able to edit a label on the course page so that they can personalise their welcome message. However we don’t want them to be able to have permission to be able to change any other aspect of the course design. These are the steps: 1. Login as admin or another...
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Need to contact all users on your site?
If you’re using Moodle 1.9.x (sorry 1.8. users) tucked away at Bulk User actions (Home -> Administration -> Users -> Accounts -> Bulk user actions).Filter users as required and add them to the “Selected” column and then from the “With selected users” drop-down select “Add / send message” to bring up the messaging interface. One thing to watch...
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Samaritans: making elearning effective for...
Over the last year or so we’ve been working with Samaritans, a charity that offers 24-hour confidential emotional support via volunteers to anyone in emotional distress. Samaritans has developed a series of elearning courses to provide a cost effective and convenient way for volunteers to be trained at home. Read more in our case study here Posted via web from HowToMoodle...
Samaritans: making elearning effective for...
Over the last year or so we’ve been working with Samaritans, a charity that offers 24-hour confidential emotional support via volunteers to anyone in emotional distress. Samaritans has developed a series of elearning courses to provide a cost effective and convenient way for volunteers to be trained at home. Read more in our case study here Posted via web from HowToMoodle...
Samaritans: making elearning effective for...
Over the last year or so we’ve been working with Samaritans, a charity that offers 24-hour confidential emotional support via volunteers to anyone in emotional distress. Samaritans has developed a series of elearning courses to provide a cost effective and convenient way for volunteers to be trained at home. Read more in our case study here Posted via web from HowToMoodle...