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In Moodle 1.9, assigning Teacher role to a user in the Category context means the user will have access to ALL courses under the category as a Teacher.
In Moodle 2.0, this no longer applies. Assigning Teacher role in the Category context do not automatically gives Teacher access to all the courses as Teacher.
So how does one group courses under each category, say Science subject and give Science Teachers the appropriate access to all the courses contained within? Read more…
With fierce competition from social networking sites, it has become increasingly difficult to get students’ screen time. Learning platforms need to evolve and be more interactive and engaging, in other words to be more social. So how can we achieve this on Moodle. Here are 5 easy steps to make Moodle more social. Read more…
Below are some Ready-made Term Date calendars built in Google Calendar. Schools, Local Authorities, Parents, Teachers and generally anyone who has an interest is welcome to download or import these calendars in to their own.
If you don’t yet use Google Calendars, find out why Every School Should Be Using Google Calendars.
A quick guide on how to import Google Calendars
The use of Google Calendar as a tool within schools has the ability to transform the way Administrators, Teachers, Students and Parents, coordinate and plan term dates, work, events and even exams. Here we highlight 5 simple reasons why schools should move on to using Google Calendars (instead of Word documents or Excel spread sheets).
To make it easier for you to start, we have created some Ready-Made UK Term Dates Calendars. (If you’re not sure how to start, look out for our next post on How to set up your own Google Calendars) Read more…
Facebook is the greatest and biggest social networking site at the moment and Moodle has the largest user base as the learning platform of choice for education and professional training world wide. To begin to take advantage of Facebook on Moodle, there have been attempts at developing Facebook modules and plug-ins for Moodle in the past but nothing concrete.
What if adding Facebook widgets or buttons to Moodle is as easy as copying and pasting some lines of codes, similar to Add Twitter Widget to Moodle tutorial we just ran. So here we go again, in 5 easy steps on how to embed Facebook widget into Moodle (and WordPress). Read more…
A quick and easy way to add a twitter widget is to copy and paste the widget codes into Moodle’s HTML block but where does one start. Here is a quick guide on how to get what you need without much effort. These steps are also useful for those looking to add Twitter Widget to their website or blog such as WordPress or Blogger.
A Quick 5 Steps Guide on Embedding a Video into Moodle
While there numerous of video resources for teaching and learning on the Internet, finding the absolutely best one for your lesson can sometimes be be tricky BUT once you have found it, it is useful to have this in your lesson plan in relation to the topic you are covering. So, what better place to do this than embedded it straight into your VLE. The following steps show you How to Embed a Video into Moodle.
Here is a quick tutorial on how to embed an E-book into Moodle. When planning and creating resources on the VLE for the topic and subject you wish to cover, www.scribd.com is a good place to start apart from wikipedia.com, encarta.msn.org, bartleby.com, merriamwebster.com and britannica.com.
We used the following scribd.com document to build this tutorial.
Resource Referenced: http://www.scribd.com/doc/52586960/Royal-Weddings-Through-Time
Last month, I wrote an article on using Gadgets and Apps for Learning and it featured the Clicker as one of the must have learning gadgets in the classroom. Quite simply, the wireless device allows teachers to engage students with technology common to every household and not very different to the television remote. The clicker lets teachers access to instant feedback and answers from a whole class in a matter of seconds and anonymised feedback means students are not afraid to get the wrong answer and learn from it. While there are plenty of software and hardware vendors out there selling their own versions of the clicker, we have come across something even more familiar…
(WITHOUT a Photo Editor programme)
Requirements: Email programme (e.g. Outlook or Outlook Express to be configured on your Windows computer)
Digital cameras are a fantastic invention, none more so than for Schools. The pace of technological development however, has enabled us to take photos of immense quality. Tiny little compact digital cameras now come packed with at least 8 Megapixels. While this is great for photos that are to be printed, it does cause issues when the photos are to be shared online or by email.
Apple Mac computers, automatically resize photos when they are sent by email. This is actually also possible in a Windows computer.
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