For any content author there is nothing worse than applying formatting in a WYSIWYG editor, and then finding it all looks different when they publish it. This applies to our tutors in moodle too. Making the WYSIWYG editor content look the same as when its publish is something we did a while back in moodle. […]
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8.4.2011
Moodle Moot UK 2011 presentation
Our abstract to present at the UK Moodle Moot 2011 has been accepted. Hurrah! We will be presenting at Senate House, University of London, on Wednesday at 11:45. Hopefully I’ll have a suntan as I will have just returned from Tenerife. We have made a post on the Moot blog, which has just been published. […]
Read this post →16.3.2011
Technology Enhances Learning Infographic
Nice infographic from good.is showing teachers’ responses after being asked to gague the effectivness of various forms of education materials.
Read this post →8.3.2011
Using Echo360 personal capture using Echo360 personal capture
OK, so that all sounds a bit circular, but this blog post is about one of the ways in which we are creating guidance for those thinking about using Echo360 personal capture (PCAP). One of the outputs that we hope will have a really positive impact is the short screencasts that we are asking project […]
Read this post →7.3.2011
Making Moodle a scaleable enterprise solution
An early task after installing Moodle is to integrate as much existing data held within an institution that would be helpful in the virtual learning environment (VLE) context. Even though Sussex has had an institutional Moodle installation since 2006 there are still many possibilities for further integration. Pre-existing Sussex systems Sussex has a history of ORACLE development […]
Read this post →2.3.2011
Moodle Developments – Giving Moodle courses visual identities
Good web experiences usually implies one which is intuitive and visually appealing. This implies using visual identifiers in conjunction with texts, reducing the need to read in order to make meaning and navigate the site. Off-the-shelf Moodle has no way of giving course sites a visual identity. This means that list of sites such as […]
Read this post →1.3.2011
Moodle history/extended memory issue – cache with $USER->display & course_display
The problem : When a user in moodle chooses to view a single section of a site, they are shown the section as expected. Moodle stores which section you are viewing, so that when you go to a resource or activity and then return to the site, you are still viewing the section you last […]
Read this post →22.2.2011
Moodle Developments – Quick editor toolbar
In Moodle some of the things users need to quickly do can be buried in the middle of a form, without an obvious label. In order to help out our staff and tutors we added a quick editor toobar which has the common settings that Moodle editors often need to change in their sites. The toolbar is […]
Read this post →10.2.2011
Looking for patterns in students’ use of Echo360 screencasts
As part of the Me2U project we are evaluating student use of the short screencasts that have been created by lecturers. Some of this information will come from student questionnaires and focus groups, but we can also look at the reports that Moodle creates when students view pages where the screencasts are held. One of […]
Read this post →9.2.2011
Maintaining sites for the students’ programme duration
At Sussex we made a decision that Moodle sites which related to a Sussex course should be maintained for the duration of the students’ degree programme. This means for any particular course we have sites for every year it is run. For example Sussex 3rd year students have Moodle sites for all the course modules […]
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