As I've said many times before, I love the MyMoodle page and I'm always looking for ways in which to improve it. So my colleague and I, Sukhwant Lota (@sukhwantlota) set about creating Moodle Folders.

We needed something new for the start of the summer term and we needed a custom way to sort long course lists on the MyMoodle page. Being avid fans of Google Mail and Docs we liked the idea of using tags and labels, so in effect this is how Moodle Folders works. The user simply creates a tag/folder which is assigned to a course. Read more »

Here is the first beta preview of my "Moodle with Mootools" theme.

I am always been asked about funky theme development so I decided to create this Mootools-based theme.  I chose to use Mootools for 2 reasons:

1) I love Mootools

2) It sounds like Moodle so I couldn't resist. Read more »

This has quickly become of my favourite Moodle books as it offers something completely different.  The book focuses on using Moodle as a teaching tool and mixes both the technical know-how and the pedagogical theory to great effect.

This book is ideal for any teacher/tutor who wants to use Moodle interactively.  The book teaches the reader how to build an effective online course by promoting the use of the book module, forums, workshops, wikis and other core activities. The use of groups and groupings are not only explained but also put into practice.  Read more »

Recently I've been working flat out on a new Moodle theme.  It's heavily AJAX driven and very web 2.0. 

My aim is to create one of the most beautiful and most user-friendly themes available to the Moodle Community.

The theme currently has smooth dropdown menus, customisable colour palettes, real-time font size changer, column selectors and much more including a dynamic dashboard style panel. Read more »

Today I created the first ever Moodle themed persona for Firefox 3.6!

To view it please visit: http://bit.ly/d7ZJgc

I hope to create many more!

 As promised, I have released the Moodle Bar.   The release date coinsides with the iMoot 2010.

It is available direct from this website by following this link:

http://bit.ly/du5RNQ

Please feel free to use it, hack it, modify it and do with it what you will.

Do send me an email though so I can see it in action on your Moodle sites.

I am very pleased and proud to announce that Leeds City College have chosen Moodle as the new college VLE. The decision to use Moodle as the single VLE will help lead the college in its vision to relentlessly pursue excellence and innovation, and because it's free it promotes the colleges value and commitment to an efficient use of resources and helps to ensure future solvency.
Click here to read the official press release (PDF)

I am now gearing up to release several of my coding projects into the Open Source World.  These will be released over the next 4 months and will be available for download via this website and moodle.org.

I am working quite exhaustively on the following Moodle projects:

Moodle Bar
Course Report Block
Twitter Block with support for Moodle Bar status updates
Twitter Wall Activity for Moodle
Moodle Task List as a block
Moodle Glass Theme and Moodle Professional Theme

and finally...the big one.... Read more »

I have just finished an early release of my Moodle Twitter Block.  The block simply allows you to post a tweet to a Twitter account.  At present it asks you to enter your Twitter username and password but I will be customising this to pull the data from user profile fields already in Moodle.  A lot of work has already been done on a similar block by M3 (http://m3.jiscemerge.org.uk/) but I wanted to create my Read more »

My Moodle bar is almost ready for public release.  I have cleaned the code up (a lot), the bar now installs with just one simple PHP include tag in the footer of your Moodle theme.  The buttons now have a CSS based tooltip rollover (like Facebook).  I just have a few Internet Explorer 7 glitches to take care of.

I am also planning a notifications module for the bar which will alert users of messages, deadlines and calendar events.