Source: https://moodle.com/education/moodles-calendar-feature/ It is now easier than ever to manage events and deadlines efficiently using Moodle’s calendar feature! Calendars are useful ways to help organise your learners by highlighting important dates and activities. Moodle’s events key, shown below, displays the different types of events which can be added to the calendar. This includes site, course, group,…
Source: https://www.moodlenews.com/2018/take-an-early-look-at-the-expanded-question-bank-manager-coming-along-for-moodle-3-5/ The brainchild of the Moodle Users Association, its first-half-of-2017 Project Development Cycle, and University of Alberta’s Trevor Jones, the “Expanded Question Bank Management” functionality is close to finished and will be a part of Moodle 3.5, set for a May release. A prototype is available at Moodle’s sandbox. We logged in as a test teacher to give it a…
Source: https://www.moodlenews.com/2018/interact-more-with-h5p-check-out-a-scoop-of-upcoming-features-for-moodle/ Not ones to rest on their laurels, the team behind H5P pushed through after continued success and recognition, including their “Best Free and Open Source Software for Education” nod from the Open Consortium’s 2018 Open Education Awards. Here are the main highlights of what H5P is working on, to be ready throughout the second quarter of the…
Source: https://moodle.com/uncategorized/moodlers-monday-talk-things-mobile-moodle-mobile-team-lead-juan-leyva/ We have mentioned in a few previous blog posts about the importance of mobile learning, as more people access information and their learning from their devices. Here at Moodle, we work hard to make sure that our Moodle Mobile app compliments the web experiences that our users have and we continue to expand the…
Source: https://moodle.com/development/moodle-3-5-scheduled-land-second-monday-may/ Moodlers, a couple of months back we talked about what is happening with Moodle 3.5 that is scheduled for release on the second Monday of May (14 May). You can read about our current major work for Moodle 3.5 in our latest post. Just to reiterate, here are the features and projects we are focussing…
Source: https://www.moodlenews.com/2018/recaptcha-v2-how-to-update-the-defenses-of-your-moodle-site-against-unwanted-robots/ Moodle-based e-learning company Pukunui is offering warning and advice for Moodle site administrators or job roles involving data security. As reported on Pukuni’s blog, this month Google will discontinue reCAPTCHA v1, the original tool designed to verify the identity of users login into pages. The new version, reCAPTCHA v2, brings an improved, machine learning-based…
Source: https://moodle.com/uncategorized/moodle-minor-release-features-youd-want-know/ Heads up Moodlers. Moodle 3.4.2 (and 3.3.5) are now available at download.moodle.org. As mentioned by our Open Source Development Coordinator, Sander Bangma, in his moodle.org post a couple of weeks back, the new minor version of Moodle comes with two important additions, which we would like to share again today. GDPR functionality Recently, we…
Source: https://moodle.com/development/feature-friday-mobile-support-plugins/ Have you used our Moodle Mobile App as an educator or a learner? If you haven’t it may only be a matter of time until you do as there is a growing requirement to take learning outside of the classroom and to make your learning accessible everywhere and anytime. In keeping with this trend and our…
Source: https://blog.howtomoodle.com/10-reasons-to-love-moodle-infographic by Gemma Mellings on | Mar 14, 2018 | infographic, what is moodle, moodle features, elearning | 0 comments Our long-standing blog followers may remember that we produced a blog a few years ago on why we love Moodle. As our name suggests, we are renown for delivering expert Moodle services since we began in 2004. Despite since extending our service offering and also…
Source: https://www.moodlenews.com/2018/keep-your-moodle-site-sharp-by-planning-for-moodles-release-cycle/ “Chart of the decemnovenale cycle, the cycle of epacts, and the cycle of the “claves.”” by Sacro Bosco, Joannes de (fl. 1230) is licensed under CC0 1.0 By Claire Machia, eThink Education The Moodle release cycle follows a major or “1-point” release schedule every 6 months, spaced with minor (“2-point”) releases every other month.…