Tag Archives: moodle

Apr 2 2012

Free Cloud LMS: Opportunity, Threat or Irrelevance?

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Posted in: Teaching & Learning, Tools & Technologies

With Blackboard’s announcement of the takeover of Moodlerooms and NetSpot last week the VLE/LMS market is clearly undergoing a fair amount of change after a few years of relative inactivity. I originally wrote this piece for a talk at a … Continue reading →

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Aug 31 2011

Introducing Moodle 2

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Posted in: Announcements, Tools & Technologies

We are planning our move to a new version of Moodle in Summer 2012 and need volunteers to pilot it during Lent 2012. There is a new version of Moodle: Moodle 2. Earlier this year we explained Why LSE is … Continue reading →

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Aug 16 2011

CLT Moodle Tool Guide

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Posted in: Open Education

Last year Joyce Seitzinger released her Moodle Tool Guide poster on her blog, under a creative commons licence (attribution, non-commercial, share alike). It’s a useful overview of the strengths and weaknesses of various Moodle activities. I’ve adapted and updated this … Continue reading →

Posted by: Posted on August 16, 2011 by Sonja Grussendorf   Tagged with: , , ,

Aug 10 2011

CLT Survey 2011

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Posted in: Surveys

We had 165 responses to our call to take the annual CLT Staff Survey and while we always appreciate the the praise, the gratitude, the pure love, we usually concentrate on the constructive criticism to make sure we improve accordingly! … Continue reading →

Posted by: Posted on August 10, 2011 by Sonja Grussendorf   Tagged with: , , ,

Jul 19 2011

Moodle End of Year Arrangements

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Posted in: Announcements

Students & student data from 2010/11 will be removed from Moodle in August/September and courses will be hidden We will be resetting courses – removing students and their data – on two dates: Tuesday 30th August – most courses will … Continue reading →

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Apr 1 2011

Why LSE is sticking with Moodle 1.9

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Posted in: Teaching & Learning, Tools & Technologies

A little while ago LSE decided that it would stick with Moodle 1.9 and not move to Moodle 2.0 for the academic year 2011-12. The LSE Centre for Learning Technology (CLT) started looking at Moodle 2.0 pretty much as soon … Continue reading →

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Jan 31 2011

Moodle service update

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Posted in: Announcements

CLT sincerely apologise for the Moodle outage which occurred at 0632 on Sunday 30th and continued until 1033 Monday and for the inconvenience caused. Technical explanation of the problem. The SSL certificate for moodle.lse.ac.uk expires on 17th February this year.  … Continue reading →

Posted by: Posted on January 31, 2011 by Athina Chatzigavriil   Tagged with:

Nov 26 2010

Publishing Echo recorded lectures in Moodle

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Posted in: Images, Audio & Video, Tools & Technologies

EchoSystem, the lecture recording service we are running at LSE, provides various methods for publishing links to recorded lectures in Moodle, our VLE (LMS). The “Moodle Publisher” places the links in the course calendar, with each recording listed as a … Continue reading →

Posted by: Posted on November 26, 2010 by Chris Fryer   Tagged with: , , , , ,

Aug 24 2010

Moodle unavailable: Thursday 2nd September

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Moodle will be unavailable all day on Thursday 2nd September from 10am onwards. This downtime is for an essential end of year process to prepare Moodle for 2010/11. Further details: End of Year arrangements

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Jul 20 2010

Text Message (SMS) Pilots

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Posted in: Teaching & Learning, Tools & Technologies

Volunteers needed! The CLT is looking for LSE teaching staff to pilot the use of text messages (SMS) in teaching.   If you would like to participate in the pilots let us know by email to clt-support@lse.ac.uk Some ideas of how … Continue reading →

Posted by: Posted on July 20, 2010 by Matt Lingard   Tagged with: , , ,