Responsive design in moodle A cross platform vle? With the increasing predominance of smart phones and tablets it is highly likely that any institution running some form of analytics will have seen the rise in their moodle site being accessed by Blackberry, IPhone & IPad and the ever increasing march of Android. It’s predicted that by 2013 […]
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8.11.2011
Brighton UX 2011 notes
Brighton UX 2011 notes + linkdump Dunbar’s number (approx. 150) can be a good guide for cohort sizes in e-learning as well as soical media Boys like to ‘do stuff’ together to re-enforce social groups, girls like to ‘chat’ to re-enforce friendships – what implications does this have for the types of online activities you might […]
Read this post →31.10.2011
moodle dashboard
The information architecture of moodle can be rather confusing for both students & tutors. One of the reasons for this, suggested by our users, is that in comparison to most other web based content management systems moodle has no clear separation between the course editing settings and the front end. Having this separation of a front end user interface & an […]
Read this post →17.8.2011
Course yearly transition tool
At Sussex we maintain Moodle courses for the students’ programme duration (see this post). This means that each academic year we create new empty Moodle courses for academics to develop. Unsurprising most academic want to copy their courses from the previous year. However the native tools for doing this (import and backup-and-restore) are over complicated. […]
Read this post →10.8.2011
Recent activity in Moodle
We want our Moodle to be a dynamic online space, but there is a barrier to this. Currently to spot if any changes have occured to their moodle sites users have to rely on getting email updates or playing spot the difference for each site they have in moodle – often not a simple task. […]
Read this post →12.7.2011
Moodle breadcrumb
When navigating a web site I like to know where I am so I do not feel disorientated or lost. Most web sites have a breadcrumb bar to help me with this. The metaphor is that the user has left a trail of breadcrumbs whilst traversing the site so he or she can retrace their […]
Read this post →3.6.2011
Data data everywhere…
The Me2U project that’s investigating the use of Echo360 personal capture is – as far as data collection is concerned – entering its final phase. We have been going along to the teaching sessions for those courses that have been using Echo360 PCAP to distribute questionnaires to students and invite them to participate in focus […]
Read this post →26.5.2011
Echo360 Community Conference Europe 2011
I went to the Echo360 Community Conference, Europe on 25th May 2011. I presented a poster at the conference, that provided an overview of the project I’m leading on the use of personal capture to support student learning. A PDF version of the poster can be downloaded by clicking on the image below. I also […]
Read this post →11.5.2011
Moodle pages format
Here is a short video of a new format (for moodle2 and 1.9) we are currently calling pages. [vimeo width=”700″ height=”490″]http://vimeo.com/23476517[/vimeo] We hope the pages format is similar to design patterns used in other websites, CMS and web based apps and as such familiar and intuitive for users. A by-product the pages format is that there […]
Read this post →10.5.2011
Creating groups automatically in Moodle
At their MoodleMoot UK 2011 presentation, Paolo and Stuart outlined some of changes that have been made to Study Direct (Moodle at Sussex) to improve the user experience for both staff and students. Improving the ‘groups’ feature in Moodle was one such development and the changes made went live at the start of the Summer […]
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