Moodle news, features and information.

The Eden Centre Learning Technology team are pleased to announce the launch of our new Moodle and lecture recording guides. As part of the review and reorganisation of the existing LTI website the Learning Technology team decided to move our guides to a new system that results in an easier to ...more

It’s this time of the year! Marking is in progress, and you will soon need to Release grades and feedback to students via Moodle! Don’t forget Marking Workflow is enabled for all Moodle Assignments! You need to Release the grades and feedback for students! Firstly, the Marking workflow in Moodle is a ...more

LTI hosted this year’s Moodle Recharge event on 12th June 2019. LTI highlighted new Moodle features on Moodle 3.5, and also reminded attendees of some underused ones, as well as aspects of Moodle design and interactivity. The event was attended by 70 attendees. We received 60 feedback forms, and the overall ...more

On 17th June 2019 we are upgrading Moodle from 3.1 to 3.5 and therefore Moodle will be unavailable during the day. The new version will include improvements and new features. Here’s a quick summary: Collapsible comments in assignments: when grading and adding comments from the annotation tools, comments are automatically collapsed and displayed ...more

Moodle Refresh for 2019 Each year, we refresh Moodle courses, by removing all student data and students' contributions to activities (i.e. forum posts, assignment submissions etc). This way courses are ready for the new cohort of students. Course materials uploaded by editors are not deleted. Please make a note of this ...more

The LSE Moodle Archive is a read only digital record of each course from previous academic years for staff and students. The 2018 copy was taken just before the annual refresh on 14th August 2018 and can be accessed at: https://moodle.lse.ac.uk/archive/1718/  From now on a read only copy of Moodle will be taken ...more

Each year, Moodle courses are refreshed to remove old student data and prepare for the next cohort of students. For 2018 the refresh will take place on: Tuesday 14 August and Wednesday 15 August 2018.  Moodle will be unavailable all day for all users. Tuesday 11th September 2018 for courses used to collect dissertation ...more

It's coming up to the start of term and time to get Moodle courses ready for the new cohort of students. We have refreshed most courses and upgraded to the new theme so it's the perfect time to clear out old material, delete and de-clutter! The LTI Moodle audit identified many ...more

We hope you like the new look of Moodle and can find you way around. When you first log in you will taken to your dashboard On your first access you should see a tour which takes you through the new layout.  Also see our online guide on finding your way ...more

Moodle will be unavailable all day on Tuesday 15 August and Wednesday 16 August for all users, and on 12th September for courses used to submit dissertations. Don’t forget: you must download any information and documents you will need from Moodle before the refresh date that applies to your course. Course ...more

The Moodle recharge event took place on Tuesday 27 June for those that couldn't attend a brief summary of what went on can be found below. This summer lots of changes are taking place so we split attendees up into four rooms and got them to rotate round to each room.  ...more

After we upgrade Moodle to version 3.1 this summer, one of the ways you currently link to reading lists won't work. The integration between Talis Aspire and Moodle was written by the University of Kent and has not been updated to work with the new system. How can I tell if I ...more

Following on from our post back in February on our plans for Moodle we will be holding an event for all Moodle editors on Tuesday 27 June from 3-4pm to give everyone a sneak peak of the changes that will taking place this August in time for the new academic ...more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOqFpLHi4S4 This summer we'll be using Moodle 3.1. It includes support for Competency Based Education, improvements to assignment grading, a Recycle Bin to help you retrieve deleted files, and enhancements to the Forum. Other institutions have been using it for more than a year and we're confident it’s stable. It's a Long ...more

Just before the start of term there was some exciting news in the world of copyright, when the Copyright Licensing Agency (CLA)’s new higher education licence was launched. Also importantly the limit of 5% of a work has been increased to 10% - hurray I hear you say! In case ...more

LTI have a one year site licence for Maple TA for this academic year. Maple TA is an online testing and assessment software designed especially for quantitative disciplines that involve the use of maths and statistics.  It has many features including: integration with Moodle; visualisation of mathematical problems; automatically generating questions; free response answers for questions that have more ...more

Light for LTI by Helen Page www.helenlouisepage.com Students are expected to do a substantial amount of their learning outside of the classroom and technology such as Moodle can be used to engage with resources and carry out active learning.  All too often staff and students use Moodle to simply access ...more

As the previous blog post in this series indicated students often experience dissatisfaction with inconsistencies among layouts and types of information provided on Moodle courses.  With over 1,307 standard Moodle courses and an additional 172 Summer School courses on Moodle there is a huge variety in approaches to using Moodle.  The ...more

Over the Summer LTI had a lively email discussion on the pros and cons of Moodle baselines and the issues raised prompted this series of blog posts on making more of Moodle.  Ways to standardise the VLE Some institutions use a baseline or template to ensure that all courses have a bare ...more

Here within LTI and in the wider learning technology community there has been a longstanding debate on how to make more of Moodle and ensure that it is used to it’s full potential as a learning tool.  In an ideal world the VLE(1), in our case Moodle, plays an essential ...more

Learning Technology and Innovation are pleased to announce the roll out of Turnitin originality check from within Moodle across the School from Tuesday 16th August. Turnitin provides originality checks against webpages, library catalogues, journals and publications but also other student submitted work (within LSE and other institutions). By integrating Turnitin into Moodle, ...more

This week two members of the LTI team were recognised for their work at the 2016 IMT awards. Chris Fryer the LTI Systems Manager was awarded 'unsung hero' for his behind the scenes efforts to ensure that Moodle is always up and running and working well with other LSE systems.   He is a very ...more

  Moodle was upgraded to version 2.7 as part of the reset process.  The changes to Moodle are minimal and can be seen below along with some features of Moodle that you may not be aware of.    Changes to Moodle New text editor Atto is the new default text editor in Moodle from version 2.7 onwards.  Clicking the top left icon (highlighted ...more