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Extensions on RSS module

eFront

News from the e-learning frontier Pages Home About Community Free e-Learning Resources Contribute to the e-Learning Community 8/02/2010 Extensions on RSS module eFront had for some time now an RSS module that could fetch and present an RSS feed inside a lesson or on administrators panel. Well, things have changed.

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The gradebook module

eFront

The gradebook module uses a formula to convert scores for activities to an aggregated lesson score at a range from 1 and 100 - and subsequently to a grade (e.g, As a professor now we have to activate the gradebook module for lessons. Just go to the administration page of a lesson and make sure that the gradebook module is active.

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Course-instances on eFront 3.6.3

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which has just been released by the way) introduces a shift from a Lesson-centric to a Course-centric eFront. A Course-instance can share the same lessons with its father, have unique instances of the lessons or have a different set of lessons all together. eFront 3.6.3 Each classroom has its own teacher(s) and students.

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10 tips for using eFront

eFront

3) [professor] Use the open-source version to create locally lessons and then just upload them to you distant server. 5) [professor] Create the structure of the lesson prior adding content 6) [professor] Copying from word directly to the integrated editor is possible but it adds unecessary word-specific tags. Add dozens.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: All Work And No Learning.

Learning Visions

No conscious time to stop and smell the roses; to reflect on whats been going on and why; to incorporate any lessons learned. Theres barely any time to even think if Ive learned any lessons. Lessons learned meetings (do people still do this? So how do you keep your passionate learning mind open when youre working your butt off?

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Building Better Learning Games

Learning Visions

Creating a library of casual games to teach simple lessons (credit cards, personal budgeting, saving, loans, etc.) Lessons Learned Know your audience Games are popular form of digital media Listening to peoples needs and preferences is important Evaluation is Important. D2Ds vision is financial entertainment.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Online Schooling for the K-12 Set

Learning Visions

All the projects provided standalone, asynchronous lessons. The less-fascinating lessons were mostly HTML text and static images. The more fun lessons were completely original Flash, highly interactive, with humor not only allowed but encouraged. In both modes, the lessons were designed to meet very specific academic standards.

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