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Reporting

Extend the reporting capabilities of your Moodle site with these plugins.

In June I wrote a blog post on the use of Gamification to engage users more effectively. I also looked at automation and ways to keep users connected to the content and limit the drop-off. Now that we have engaged learners and the usage has increased, it only stands to reason that we should look for ways to measure this activity in Moodle. This brings me to this month’s blog – Reporting. I am…

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LUMI - H5P for Desktop

LUMI – H5P for Desktop

I recently come across this article “Making Interactive Learning Accessible With Lumi’s H5P For Desktop | H5Pulse” on LMS Pulse about H5P and Moodle. The article talks about using Lumi, a Windows (Linux and Mac also available) app for creating H5P content on your desktop. We typically create our H5P content directly in Moodle. I had not even though that there could be desktop app that would…

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Automation in Moodle

Creating automation in Moodle using standard plugins available.

Last month I wrote a blog post about gamification and how the use of gamification plugins could be used to increase user engagement. Another way this could be achieved is through automation. We could look at automation as the removal of barriers and allow learning to happen without third-party intervention. Moodle has recently sent out their own newsletter about automated processes in Moodle…

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Moodle Course Gamification

Using Gamification in your Moodle course to enhance user engagement.

We recently built a course that would include Several gamification elements. The reason for this was: To see how engaging we could make a Moodle course.How well the gamification plugins worked. At iLite, we build a fair number of SCORM modules using Articulate Rise and Articulate Storyline. But once they are built, we add them to a Moodle course and things fall a bit flat. The Moodle course is…

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The move to Virtual Classrooms

The move to Virtual Classrooms

I come across an interesting article recently by Titus Learning, a Moodle Premium partner based in the UK. The article was about video conferencing applications that integrate with Moodle. You can read that article here. The article reminded me of how our own client’s requirements have changed. In July last year, I set up two BigBlueButton servers. Thinking – build it and they will come…. but…

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iRecognition Reporting

About a month ago I posted a YouTube clip in which we demonstrated version 2 of the iRecognition plugin that we are currently working on. I am including the video below for those who have not yet seen it.

In the video above, Ryan does a really good job of showing the new features of this release. He very briefly also…

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PepAfrica's Road to Growth

PepAfrica’s Road to Growth

Towards the end of May, iLite launched a Moodle site for PepAfrica.

For those who may not know what Moodle is, Moodle is an open-source learning management system (LMS), used for online learning. In that sense, Moodle is no different from any of the other players in the LMS space. But that’s not completely true… Moodle is very customizable, and this allows us to create unique learning…

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UAT at last

After many months of development, we have finally reached the first round of UAT testing on our latest Moodle site. It always feels good to get to the UAT stage, even if the client returns with a bug list or change requests. The whole point of the UAT is exactly that.

Truth be told I never thought we would even get to a UAT cycle with the client. The relationship started off a bit rocky.…

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Top 3 reasons to have a branded LMS app for your organisation

Top 3 reasons to have a branded LMS app for your organisation

Source: https://moodle.com/news/top-3-reasons-to-have-a-branded-lms-app-for-your-organisation/

More than 80%1 of adults worldwide own a smartphone, and global mobile traffic is increasing steadily2 every year. The massive adoption of mobile devices as an affordable and flexible way to accessing the internet worldwide has transformed many of our day-to-day activities, including learning.

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University of Zagreb uses Moodle to support e-learning in over 115 higher education institutions in Croatia

University of Zagreb uses Moodle to support e-learning in over 115 higher education institutions in Croatia

Source: https://moodle.com/news/university-of-zagreb/

University of Zagreb University Computing Centre (SRCE) is currently the main institution for planning, designing, building and maintaining the e-infrastructure in the Academic and Research community in the application of information and communication technologies (ICT) in Croatia.

In this case study, learn how SRCE became the key…

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Best Free Themes For Moodle LMS — 2019 Summer Cut Update

Best Free Themes For Moodle LMS — 2019 Summer Cut Update

Source: https://www.lmspulse.com/2019/best-moodle-themes-summer-cut/ By Cristian T. Duque -July 11, 2019

Welcome to yet another exciting time for Open Source Beauty lovers!

Below you will check out the community’s picks for Moodle themes, one of the best reasons why Moodle is the top LMS worldwide.

These themes have gained the raving love of the community for being modern,…

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Watch Moodle Grow and Blossom

Watch Moodle Grow and Blossom

Source: https://moodle.com/news/watch-moodle-grow-and-blossom/

Moodlers around the world are currently exploring the latest release of our open-source LMS, Moodle 3.7. Behind the scenes, many developers worldwide over many years have written thousands of lines of code to produce the high quality LMS we enjoy today.

Moodle: a growing and evolving project

Since the beginning in 2002,…

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Create Awesome Course Layouts With These Top 11 Moodle Course Formats (2019 Updated)

Create Awesome Course Layouts With These Top 11 Moodle Course Formats (2019 Updated)

Source: https://www.lmspulse.com/2019/moodle-top-course-formats-plugins/ By Jaswinder Singh -June 23, 2019

Updated on June 23rd, 2019. Since we last checked, the Grid course format skyrocketed in popularity. Here are the top 10 Course Format plugins by downloads in the last 12 months:

Grid (11,873 downloads in the past 12 months)

Collapsed Topics (10,650)

Onetopic (10,607)

Buttons (7,045)

Ti…

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Discover Moodle’s latest learning app

Discover Moodle’s latest learning app

Source: https://moodle.com/news/discover-moodles-latest-learning-app/

Our mobile app fosters student engagement and offline learning to bring instant access to education and training from anywhere

Moodle App 3.7 brings the latest features of our open source LMS to mobile devices for learning on-the-go. It is now available for download in Google Play and the Apple Store and will be…

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Giving Moodle a "Boost"

Giving Moodle a “Boost”

Over the weekend I read a post on LMS Pulse ( https://www.lmspulse.com/2019/ugly-lms/ ) entitled, “Is The LMS Ugly?”.

  In the article the author mentions that 80% of people surveyed found some form of dissatisfaction with Moodle. When talking to my own clients they often tell me that they want a Moodle site, that does not look like Moodle.

  Being a passionate Moodler, I would always jump to it’s…

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Moodle 3.7 has arrived!

Moodle 3.7 has arrived!

Source: https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=386516

by Sander BangmaMoodle 3.7 is here! Over the past 6 months the Moodle Core team have worked hard on the new features for this latest release.  As always, this release has been supported by our dedicated community who have contributed their time and effort towards feature improvements, bug fixes, documentation and translation, helped…

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Moodle welcomes Google Summer of Code students

Moodle welcomes Google Summer of Code students

Source: https://moodle.com/community/moodle-welcomes-google-summer-of-code-students/

We are proud to announce that Moodle has been selected again as a mentor organisation for Google Summer of Code

Google Summer of Code is an annual global program that encourages university students to participate in open source software development. The program pays developer students to work on a programming…