Collaborative working is a useful practice to enhance learning. Online document sharing such as that possible with Google docs provides a platform for collaborative working online. This is one of the reasons why we are excited by the possibility of a Google docs and Moodle integration. Another reason we are excited by the integration is that […]
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18.1.2012
Moodle help
Academics are increasingly expected to make resources for their students available online, however few are skilled at creating web pages. Ideally their online platform (VLE) should be as intuitive as possible for them to use. Where it is not intuitive the help for using the system should be as good as possible. In December we redesigned our […]
Read this post →9.11.2011
Moodle mobile & the future of moodle
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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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 →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. […]
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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 →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 […]
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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 […]
Read this post →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. […]
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