Documentation:Learning Environment/Moodle Exploration

This page documents the exploration of the capabilities of Moodle to enhance the student learning experience.

A small closed development environment has been created to try out various tools and themes that might enhance the student experience.

Moodle Development Install: 2.8.2

Potential Moodle Plugins
Other Tools: Intelliboard.net analytical tool : Commercial Analytics - http://www.intelliboard.net/  Cost Ephorus Plagiarism : Plagiarism tools

Wishlist of Features
Relative date setup - activities based on enrollment date Request in to Moodle.org see: https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-48185

LTI's
A potentially useful listing of LTI's: http://developers.imsglobal.org/catalog.html

Technical Questions/Issues
Error caused by fact this is an internal server and is not setup to make this type of connection. Will be trying test with a WordPress install on same server.
 * Registering an external blog. When I put in the feed address of my blog, I receive a "invalid feed address" message. I know the feed address works because it is used on other contexts.

May be caused by theme not yet being fully 2.8 compliant
 * When editing text, in the elegance theme, when I expand the edit box, it overlaps with the second column and then become non-responsive. Kind of a pain.

Will need a more detailed description/screen shot as the type of text can cause change. Paragraph text close to top while H1 much further down.
 * After using a label, there is default spacing underneath the label that is relatively large compared to space above. Visually, this makes the label appear related to the information above rather then below. It would take a programmer to change this code.

Result of not being an externally connected server. Will not be able to test until on server that has external security settings
 * When trying the bring Big Blue Box into my course, I get a 505 Server Error.

Links

 * http://opensource.com/education/12/1/designing-aesthetically-pleasing-moodle-courses
 * http://iy103-w14.hibbittsdesign.com/course/view.php?id=2
 * Discussions on Moodle file structure:
 * http://mattcornock.co.uk/moodle/moodle-2-file-repository-course-files
 * http://www.somerandomthoughts.com/blog/2010/06/15/ftp-files-into-moodle-2-0-with-the-repository-api/
 * https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=168868#p741355
 * https://docs.moodle.org/28/en/File_system_repository