At Sussex we encourage the use of user profile images (avatars) in our Moodle installation because it provides a more personal learning experience, encourages interaction and improves usability of the system by having more graphic representations of data. However many students and staff haven’t uploaded an avatar in Moodle. We have therefore initiated a Spring […]
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4.2.2011
Moodle guest access
If you login as a guest on the Sussex Moodle, Study Direct, you’ll see something very different from a standard Moodle install. Guest users are presented with sites – by academic year – to which the creators have allowed guest access. When Moodle became our institutional VLE a minority of staff had issues with users having […]
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Teaching groups imported into Moodle
At Sussex our course modules may have a number of teaching activities, including : seminars tutorials workshops laboratory classes Each of these might split a module cohort into groups. We call these teaching groups. Like our course modules at Sussex, Moodle has a notion of groups and teaching groups which they call ‘groupings’. Using these groupings […]
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Things we love about moodle2 pt3 – section name
Edit the summary of any section in moodle2 and you’ll see a new field – Section name. This is another step in bringing moodle into line with other content management systems, and we like it. The section name text box isn’t WYSIWYG – so it’s less confusing and will inherit any stylesheet – also its […]
Read this post →28.1.2011
First phase of Me2U coming to an end…
So, we are now already four months into the project and this blog post provides an overview of where we’ve got to…. The project aimed to recruit ten lecturers to participate in the project and we decided to enlist three participants for the first phase (October – December) – the rationale being that any teething […]
Read this post →24.1.2011
Things we love about moodle2 pt2 – experimenting with themes
One of the changes in moodle2 has been in the implementation of themes. We already talked in a previous blogpost about the ability in moodle2 themes to include and exclude css & javascript from a themes parent. We appreciate this inheritance model which makes it simpler to have a base css, and vastly change the appearance of your whole site with […]
Read this post →17.1.2011
Things we love about moodle2 pt1 – minify, gzip & exclude
In moodle 1.9 we spent a lot of time optimising the page load speeds and improving the quality of our code. Using tools including: Firebug for Firefox, Yahoo’s Yslow, Google’s Page Speed, allowed us to analyses what was slowing pages down, and how to improve this. 1. Minify and compress Moodle2 comes with built in minify and gzipping […]
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