Moodle Journal

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

Setting up a Turnitin Activity Student assignment submission Checking for Similarity Using GradeMark If you are interested in taking a look, I have placed the first of these onto a local web server, which you can see from here. The outcome rather than my usual bound set of hard copy Click-n-Go guides was a set of four videos.

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Moodle Journal

JUNE 28, 2011

I guess my first impressions are that we should introduce the technology to one of our media courses and see if we can start to make use of the mobile activity / learning potential, but that needs some thinking into at the meeting.

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iPad Camera Movie Performance Support 145

Moodle Journal

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

If you are reading this blog, then the chances are that you also actively produce eLearning content. That said there is the whole area, and I am not sure upon reflection that I give it the attention it deserves of accessibility.

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Moodle Journal

MARCH 9, 2011

Definition of Moodle use at Phase 1 -Schemes of work Available for student review from a Moodle link -Assessments calendar A document or use of Moodle Calendar -Assignment hand-outs Typically Word documents -Assignment submission Electronic hand-in of material and feedback -Learning materials Word documents, presentations, spread sheets, images etc (..)

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Wimba Project Wiki Moodle 157

Moodle Journal

MARCH 17, 2013

Of course we have dedicated tracking systems in place, but I really wanted something a little more lightweight and so I have started experimenting with the Moodle Target feature that has become available as an Activity option.

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Moodle Journal

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Beware, because if you look at the user profile screen, Blog is an active tab, allowing anyone to post. I discovered somewhat belatedly, that by simply not having the blog block running in a course, will restrict the use to only those courses and students where blogs are enabled.

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Blogging VLE Moodle RSS 113

Moodle Journal

FEBRUARY 3, 2013

Given that I do still retain a very active presence in virtual worlds and that includes Second Life and Open Simulator, it was a shame that these did not seem to be in evidence.

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VLE Augmented Reality Simulations Gartner 113

Moodle Journal

SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

A couple of points come to mind for me: 1 by far the most active group is the BTEC National General, but this is a year 2 group, so they already know each other well by now. I have given the rounded figures in the table.

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Social Networks Social Network Network Social 100

Moodle Journal

JANUARY 11, 2010

In essence similar to Twitter, but with some functionality to support classroom activities. So how about a microblogging system that has been designed specifically for teachers and students? If you have not seen it yet, then take a look at Edmodo. Students on the other hand can belong to multiple groups.

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Moodle Journal

MARCH 6, 2010

The idea, is that now teaching staff are beginning to make more use of the vle, which after all is really little more than an e-Learning delivery platform, they should now start to think in terms using it deploy and track learning activities rather than just as a means of distributing course notes, which so often is how these systems end up.

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Project VLE PDF Learning 113

Moodle Journal

JULY 12, 2011

Last week was our official end of term and so classes are now over for the academic year, which opens the way for other activities such as staff training, and this morning I delivered the Introduction and Web 2.0 sessions for our Moodle vle.

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Moodle VLE News Training 113

Moodle Journal

MARCH 22, 2012

I went along to an RSC Moodle Forum round table in London yesterday that posed the question ‘What makes for a good Moodle activity’. Without looking at my members list there were about 20 of us there, so it turned into a very sociable and informative event, most enjoyable.

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Moodle Journal

OCTOBER 25, 2011

My experience is, and a recent effort on my part just last week proved to be little more than a self fulfilling prophesy, that unless a grading outcome is clearly established as part of the activity, as was the case for the transaction results in the screen shot, then all to often I find Forums are empty and chat rooms silent, do you find the same?

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Social Networks LMS Wiki Moodle 100

Moodle Journal

OCTOBER 13, 2009

Now not withstanding the problems that you may or may not experience with wireless technologies, one of the issues that soon make itself apparent is the activity of note taking in an electronic environment.

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Moodle Journal

APRIL 29, 2010

Course: Level3 Networking Project: Use tiny chat discussions Anticipated outcome/benefits: Make use of web audio / visual real-time communication service in order to engage students in effective class learning activities beyond the normal table tabled delivery.

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Case Study Simulations Portfolio Moodle 100

Moodle Journal

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

I was not particularly enthused by this one, as I am already an active and consulting member of the College Wide ILT strategy group anyway, which is by its nature fed by department needs, and so it all felt a little like replication. I went away from the meeting and decided to think outside the box on this one a little.

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Strategy ILT Forum Consulting 124

Moodle Journal

APRIL 11, 2008

At the time my students thought this was a bit of a novelty, and by tracking their activity I found they seemed to be making good use of them, very encouraging for me. All these recordings I then posted onto Moodle.

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Moodle Journal

MAY 7, 2006

I ran the first Quiz training, though with hours reduced from 3 to 2, I have had to devise a strategy of core and optional activities for the candidates, but judging from the feedback reviews it went extremely well. My Moodle training programme is going well at the College.

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Moodle Journal

AUGUST 3, 2007

This week thanks to some major groundbreaking efforts from my fellow Moodle VLE administrator Clive, we now have our DSpace content repository accessible through common authentication with Windows Active Directory via Free Radius server.

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VLE Moodle Server Network 113

Moodle Journal

SEPTEMBER 12, 2005

And apart from the obvious use, I realised that its going make an interesting chronicle of how my activities change with the rollout.

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VLE Change Moodle Newsletter 100

Moodle Journal

APRIL 20, 2006

This will prove a good move I am certain, however with Moodle accounts only available via Bromley College Windows Active Directory authentication, and many ECDL students not actually Bromley College students in the traditional sense, this is going to require some creative thinking on the part of some of us.

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Moodle Journal

SEPTEMBER 9, 2006

Uploaded the content as a Moodle Scorm Activity, finished, isn’t this the way it should be though? Then I remembered that I had uploaded all that stuff to our DSpace content repository, great, logged in found them straight away no problems, of courses no folders to navigate, because there are none, meta-data discovery is the way.

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Moodle Journal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2006

Its early days but be assured I shall be collecting and posting feedback from the groups on these and other online activities. I am reassured however given recent finding by Bev Plester and Claire Wood at Coventry Uni.

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MySpace Moodle Forum Exercise 100

Moodle Journal

NOVEMBER 8, 2005

My idea of running the Moodle training as a self study pack seems to have fallen on hard ground, after I discovered virtually zero activity on the training accounts, and of course quite reasonably the problem is time, or lack of it for everyone involved.

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Moodle Journal

MARCH 9, 2006

But now as we have LAMS installed on the Moodle Activities dropdown, I have produced a sequence that posses some questions to which they can respond with solutions in the form of current project material.

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Moodle Journal Classes Project 100

Moodle Journal

AUGUST 5, 2007

I used Moodle reports to produce a student-by-student activity for the Social forums throughout September 06. Now being a software person, my first reaction was to go looking for some tools, free ones anyway and I found Agna , a superb little piece of Java freeware.

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Social Networks Social Network Network Social 100

Moodle Journal

JANUARY 29, 2006

In the last couple of weeks I conducted an audit of user activity. The implications and impact of the VLE have begun to filter out far beyond just teaching staff, with our Quality Manager now chairing a new steering group, which is good, should be interesting, goes without saying.

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Stock VLE Moodle Exercise 100

Moodle Journal

OCTOBER 10, 2005

Then when you next go in to Moodle, switch Editing On and the Add an activity… drop down has an Object option, just select it and follow the dialog, superb, worked first time, congratulations and thanks to Helen Foster on a first class addition to the Moodle suit.

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Moodle Journal

AUGUST 23, 2005

Login and go to configuration/modules and there you will see Hot Potatoes in the list, simply click-on the closed eyelid , then go to a course, Turn Editing on, then from the Add an activity drop down you will see the Hot Potatoes Quiz option.

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Moodle Journal

JANUARY 13, 2012

The question arises however, if and indeed when learning activities such as these take place beyond the class, as for instance as part of an eLearning experience, how are they going to be captured by observers? As part of Learning and Teaching QA, observations by the quality team are carried out at regular intervals.

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Moodle Journal

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

On winding up this lunchtime, I invited suggestions for activities, upon which one of the group enquired would it be possible to design, construct and fly a rocket, well I have done more than a little of that in my time, all very STEM, so literally, please watch this space.

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Moodle Journal

JANUARY 6, 2012

This change in practice will inevitably begin to influence those activities that we would normally associate with the more traditional expectations of class work and lectures, specifically learning, collaboration and assessment.

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Moodle Journal

AUGUST 12, 2007

If you recall group ‘A’ displayed a very low level of social activity and group ‘B’ a far more impressive set of connections. The less well-connected group ‘A’, have between them achieved results that are skewed toward Pass and Merit, while the more active network of group ‘B’ displays a skew toward Merit and Distinction.

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Social Networks Social Network Network Social 100

Moodle Journal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2005

While I had the candidates in class, it proved to be a good opportunity to try out the common authentication between the college Windows network and Moodle, where Moodle can validate against an account in Active Directory using the RADIUS plugin, this means a single login for everyone, including students!!

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