Unless you are sat in front of your Moodle installation 24 hours a day, how will you know if the site goes down? Wouldn't it be nice to receive an email or a text if Moodle stops responding? I happened to stumble upon the website below:
As many of you may know, journal feedback in Moodle is via a text box and not a WYSIWYG editor. So when a tutor leaves feedback containing an apostrophe, a stripslash (backslash) is inserted into the text. This is fine and I understand the (MySQL) reasons why, however... my tutors do not! Each time a tutor saves new feedback, an extra stripslash is added. After many edits the feedback is littered with stripslashes.
So as a temporary fix I have removed the stripslashes by modifying /mod/journal/report.php.
By replacing the line: Read more »
Today I finished working on a new learning resource for our photography department. As part of the course, tutors must explain how to correct exposure using aperture and shutter speeds. I was approached by a member of staff who had the idea of a Flash resource. I have not really used Flash since version 8 so the new CS3 interface was an eye-opener! But after a few hours I was able to create the resource below: Read more »
This tool is still very much in beta but I thought I'd write about it's developments.
I often refer to my Online Users page to see who's on Moodle but this doesn't tell me where the activity is. I wanted a tool like TweetDeck that would display all the activity on Moodle and show me where people are so I can guage what goes on at certain times of the day. Read more »
Courtesy of Packt Publishing
Recently I was asked by Packt Publishing to read and review the Moodle Administration book by Alex Buchner. So here goes... Read more »
There are literally dozens of open source content management systems available to download, plus many commercial ones, not to mention Microsoft Sharepoint, so why would anyone consider using a VLE as an intranet tool.
Well in short, we did.
Moodle has some great interactive tools (activities) and some unique ways of displaying information (resources). And we felt that these tools could be used effectively in an intranet environment. Read more »
This is a simple idea, but very effective nevertheless.
I have made it even easier to find courses in the MyMoodle course list by placing category icons next to each course name.
Courses in the Sport Category have a small football icon, IT courses have a floppy disc, Tutorial courses have a question mark symbol and so on.
The script works by first checking for a .png file with the name of the category ID. If it finds the file it will include the icon, if an icon has not yet been created for the category then it will show the default icon. Read more »
In order to maintain compatibility standards we use FLV files for all of our videos in Moodle. This then uses JPlayer to stream the video. However, JPlayer is a flash tool and therefore videos do not work on the iPhone.
To get around this I have embedded my iPhone detection script into mod/file resource on Moodle. I then upload an .mp4 version of the same file, in the same folder as the .flv version. Read more »
UPDATE: Due to popular demand I will be releasing this block to the Moodle community. I will start working on this in September 2010.
I have just finished work on the beta of the Moodle Course Report Block. An automatic course checking and points scoring system to encourage a balanced blend of resources and activities. Read more »
Using Jplayer 4.5.230 it is possible to include subtitles on Moodle videos. The subtitles are encoded in an XML file which includes the timings and content.
In order to achieve this in Moodle there are a few core code tweaks to perform including a Jplayer upgrade.
To see Moodle Subtitles (close captions) in action visit the link below: Read more »
