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Integrating Drupal, Moodle and Elgg

Stumbled across this interesting, but old, article that focuses on an example integration of Drupal, Moodle and Elgg, relating to Matt’s earlier post about collaboration with Columbia and Brown. Some interesting ideas here – enabling connections between VLE, portfolio and content management systems, including public facing web sites. I would expect some political implications regarding who runs (owns) what though! If you have time it’s worth reading the discussion/comments too.

Kris.

January 18th, 2007|Tools & Technologies|Comments Off|

Idaho State Moodle Pilot

See http://www.edtechpost.ca/mt/archive/000856.html

Includes link to report… WebCt 4 users expanding Moodle pilot from 20 to 50 lecturers.

January 15th, 2007|Tools & Technologies|Comments Off|

CourseGenie 2.1 & Moodle

Horizon Wimba Releases Course Genie 2.1
See http://www.horizonwimba.com/about/press_detail.php?id=105 for press release.

Better integration with Moodle from Course genie. Quizzes can now be created in CG and scored by Moodle (ie recordred in GradeBook). Will now also export CG quizzes as a CE 6 quiz.

Must upgrade and take a look at some point…

August 4th, 2006|Tools & Technologies|Comments Off|

Moodle & Elgg

A new Moodle plugin that promises

a means to transfer submissions to online assignments from moodle to an eportfolio system, namely elgg

Once elgg improves its user interface this will be worth investigating. Something to keep an eye on definitely

Reports from Moodle Pilot

EdTechPost: Reports from Collaborative Moodle Pilot in BC

This seems to be quite detailed, for example this is one document forming only part of one of the 10 study objectives: Process & Time to Migrate a WebCT Course to Moodle v1.6 On the downside it’s lots of Word docs which doesn’t make for such a great web experince…

Matt

March 20th, 2006|Announcements, Tools & Technologies|2 Comments|

Resetting Moodle courses

While trying to find out how to reset a Moodle assignment I found that you can’t even reset the course as a whole! And it looks like I’ll have to recommend that a teacher deletes an assignment and creates it again.

See this Moodle forums entry:
http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=36874#170711

Kris.

March 16th, 2006|Announcements, Tools & Technologies|1 Comment|

CourseGenie 2 and Moodle

Interesting that Horizon Wimba are now touting CourseGenie as a tool for Moodle. The text below is from their latest mailout, while no mention of it on their web site.

This new version most notably features the ability for instructors to create Flashcards, insert code such as HTML and Java, and export their course content to new Blackboard, WebCT, and SCORM formats (ideal for Moodle users). Course Genie allows faculty to quickly and easily convert their Microsoft Word documents into content for their Blackboard, WebCT, Moodle, and other online courses.

Wild speculation, but I wonder if this might mean possible future support for Moodle from HorizonWimba’s other products. More likely that SCORM is just a happy coincidence for them I guess.

Kris.

February 16th, 2006|Tools & Technologies|Comments Off|

Moodle v Sakai

A very interesting discussion with some statistics on this blog that support Moodle.

February 9th, 2006|Tools & Technologies|Comments Off|

Webct6 and Moodle

There is now a comparision at Edutools between webct6 and moodle 1.5. Maybe it has been there a while but I have only just seen it.

The decsion tools looks interesting. You identify a series of criteria, weight them, score the 2 products on a scale and it will give you a “decision”. You need to be pretty familiar with the products to do it properly but as it will allow you at add your own criteria, we may be able to adapt itas part of our evaluation.

February 2nd, 2006|Tools & Technologies|Comments Off|