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 to migrate to a Moodle based platform in 2009, migrating from an existing system. The entire evaluation, development and roll out has been achieved using internal resources and pre-existing materials.
Pickfords is the leading removals firm with a 400 year history. Both personal and business clients rely on high levels of knowledge and customer service to ensure that all goes well at this potentially stressful time. Pickfords are Commercial Mover of the Year 2010.
Lorne Stather, Director of Education at The Gemmological Association of Great Britain will share the issues faced by Gem-A as part of its migration, including choosing a system that could grow and expand to encompass future expectations while ensuring ease of use for both students and tutors, migration costs, database interaction with existing systems and the increased administration requirements of running an on-line system.
Gem-A offered its first on-line course on Moodle in September 2008 and two years later it is still developing and improving its on-line education facilities.Plus I’ll be doing a short session on considerations for managing a busy stand alone Moodle site.
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.
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.
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 navigation.
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 role that allows role assignment.
2. Create the label with the default welcome message, save and return to course.
3. Re-open the label.
4. Click the “Locally assigned roles” tab.
5. Click Teacher and assign the facilitator to that role.
The facilitator will now see the “Turn editing on” button and when in editng mode they will be able to edit the required label to personalise their welcome message. As the Teacher role was only assigned for the label they won’t be able to adapt other resources or activites.
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 out for is that the messaging system at Home -> Administration -> Security -> Site policies must be enabled.
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.
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.
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.
