Moodle “It’s not a whole new Moodle; it’s just the best one yet!”

Presented at the “Yorkshire/ Humber FE Moodle User Group” November 2015Creative Commons License

Lewis Carr

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Headline Features

Question Types that made core- Select Missing Word- Drag and Drop Into Text- Drag and Drop Onto Image- Drag and Drop Markers

Reports- Workshop Submission Report- Resources display upload date

Other- Resources display upload date- Enrollment Screen Filters- Improved Course Section

Editing- Reset Dashboard Button for

Admins- Plugins and Dependencies and

easier upgrading- ATTO Table Improvements- Message Deletion

https://youtu.be/KsX-czBEy4w

Cheeky little features

- Option to delete wiki pages on course reset

- Unapproved databases entries highlighted

- Gradebook “categories and items” now labelled as “Gradebook Setup”

- More maths equation buttons in ATTO

- Upgrade Key required on upgrade/admin page

- Automated backup setting to remove old backups

Features that don’t make the headlines but are invaluable!

https://youtu.be/KsX-czBEy4w

LIVE DEMOLive Demo of Moodle 3 and questions

Moodle Mobile 2http://prototype.moodle.net/mobile/moodlemobile2/

New FeaturesSupports Choice ActivitySupports Chat ActivitySupports SurveysCourse SearchSelf-enrolment

Recently Approved Pluginshttps://moodle.org/plugins/report/index.php?report=approved_plugins

Approved Plugins for Moodle 3 Some of my favourites

Progress Bar OAuth Level Up!

Questionnaire Attendance Poster

Approved Plugins for Moodle 3 Some of my favourites

Checklist Collapsed Topics

Moodle Welcome

Approved Plugins for Moodle 3 Some of my favourites

Microsoft Word Quiz Export

Scheduler Lightbox Gallery

Approved Plugins for Moodle 3 Some of my favourites

Plugins that have got my attention(Trawling the Moodle plugins directory so you don’t have to)

Group Choicehttps://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_choicegroup

This module allows students to enrol themselves in a group within a course.

The teacher can choose from which groups the students can chose, and the maximum number of students allowed in each group.

Depending on the activity settings, the students can view the members of each group before making a choice, and change their selected group until the deadline.

One Topic Formathttps://moodle.org/plugins/view/format_onetopic

Format to course that allows showing each topic in a tab, keeping the current tab between calls to resources, in such a way that when it returns from a module as the blog or the glossary it returns to tab from where you started.

This format is based on the Moodle standard format: “Topics”. It accepts edition by AJAX.

Notifications Blockhttps://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_notifications

Not always logged in, you want to be up to date about new content, discussions or events in your Moodle courses?

This moodle block implements a solution that periodically notifies learners about new content or activities included into a Moodle course.

This solution will act as a sentinel that detects whether new contents or new activities have been included into the Moodle course, and notify the learners and/or the instructors about that.

Notifications methods are:

e-mail message RSS aggregator SMS message

Course Checks Blockhttps://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_bcu_course_checks

This block carries out a number of automated checks on a course, that are all user configurable. The checks were designed to encourage a minimum standard of course quality and highlight possible opportunities for improvement.

The block also has the option to allow users to "clear down" a course, simply removing any sections that don't have content. It won't delete any sections that have content and/or a summary.

Sandboxhttps://moodle.org/plugins/view/local_sandbox

Moodle plugin which programmatically restores courses to predefined course states. It can be used to provide playground moodle courses which will be cleaned periodically.

TaskChainhttps://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_taskchain

The TaskChain module allows several elearning "tasks" to be connected together into a "chain" which forms a single Moodle activity. The activity is accessed by clicking on a link on a Moodle course page.

Mass Actions Blockhttps://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_massaction

This block allows instructors to perform actions upon multiple resources or activities, rather than having to perform repeated actions on individual items.

File Trashhttps://moodle.org/plugins/view/report_filetrash

Utility for listing, downloading and deleting orphaned files (file no longer referenced in the files db table but still present in the Moodle data and/or backup directory

Essential Plugins

Bootstrap Grid

Essential Plugins

Extends the Atto editor so that bootstrap grids can be inserted into user generated content.

ATTO Fullscreen

Essential Plugins

This plugin adds a button to the toolbar which will expand the Atto editing window to fill the entire browser window. All other parts of the page are hidden.

ATTO Chemistry

Essential Plugins

Edit chemistry equations in Moodle 2.7, or later, using the mhchem extension to the MathJax or TeX filter. Useful for full and ionic equations, isotopes, equilibrium reactions, thermochemistry and reaction kinetics. Includes a periodic table of element symbols.

Fullscreen Toggle

Essential Plugins

The Fullscreen toggle button expands the content area by hiding all side blocks. Themes based on bootstrapbase / clean theme are supported.

Course Contents

Essential Plugins

Course contents block produces a table of contents for the course - that is a list of all visible sections (topics or weeks) in the course. Clicking at one of these links will display that particular section.

Auto Enrol

Essential Plugins

Enrol users into a course automatically, either as they log into your Moodle site or as they click on the course. In addition the plugin has advanced functionality to support automatically grouping and filtering users based upon their attributes.

The next Learn Moodle MOOC will be starting on 17 January 2016

https://learn.moodle.net/

What’s going on in the Moodle World?

What’s going on in the Moodle World?

No money in Further Education?Free Sandboxes for tutors!

https://moodle.com/cloud/

What’s going on in the Moodle World?

Google Summer of Code Projectshttps://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=319112

Bulk Meta Course LinkAn improved version of enrol_meta plugin which allows you to add multiple courses in a single enrol instance.https://moodle.org/plugins/view/enrol_metabulk

Moorsp - Plagiarism Toolhttps://github.com/danmarsden/moodle-plagiarism_moorsp

What’s going on in the Moodle World?

PHP 7 for Moodlehttp://catalyst.net.nz/blog/moodle-and-php7-are-we-there-yet

What’s going on in the Moodle World?

Overview Report in Moodle 2.9http://www.moodlenews.com/2015/have-you-checked-out-the-overview-report-in-2-9/

What’s going on in the Moodle World?

Facial Recognition for Moodlehttps://vimeo.com/125665833

What’s going on in the Moodle World?

Gavin Henrick’s Presentation on Improving the Student Experiencehttp://www.slideshare.net/ghenrick/improving-the-student-experience-gavin-henrick

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