https://kumu.tru.ca/api.php?action=feedcontributions&user=Tagarwal&feedformat=atomKumu Wiki - TRU - User contributions [en]2024-03-28T08:36:04ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.35.8https://kumu.tru.ca/index.php?title=Help:Using_the_TRU_Wiki_for_Course_Work&diff=8218Help:Using the TRU Wiki for Course Work2015-04-02T22:34:51Z<p>Tagarwal: </p>
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<div>__NOEDITSECTION__{{Help Nav}}The Kumu Wiki is an excellent tool for managing, creating, and sharing course content. You can use it for a wide range of activities: from creating a central repository of course info to hosting online student discussions. The possibilities are endless and how you use the Wiki is really up to you.<br />
<br />
==Organizing your Course Content== <br />
<br />
One of the most important steps when using the Kumu Wiki is organizing your content within the Wiki. There are three basic levels of organization that all course pages should meet:<br />
<br />
====First, Put Your Course Pages into the Course Space====<br />
Make sure your course work is in proper space. The Kumu Wiki is organized into different [[help:namespaces|spaces]]; course work fits best into the [[Course]] space. <br />
<br />
Putting course pages into the [[Course]] space keeps the UBC Wiki organized and structured. For example, if you create a page entitled "Student Assignments" and it is in the main space on the wiki, users of the wiki will think that it is a general knowledge article on the topic of student assignments at UBC and not something that relates specifically to your course. <br />
<br />
'''''Please note''''': if you create course pages that are not located in the Course space, we may move your pages into the Course space for you.<br />
<br />
====Second, Use Your Course Number====<br />
<br />
Another good practice when creating course pages is to organize the pages by the course number. For example, if you create a page entitled "Course:Student Assignments", it is not clear to which course the student assignment page belongs. Instead Course:ABCD123/Student Assignments shows that the student assignment page belongs to course ABCD123. <br />
<br />
====Finally, Use Subpages to Keep Course Pages Together====<br />
<br />
We suggest that every course have a main page and that this main page be the course number. The main page for the example course ABCD123 would be Course:ABCD123. Additional content can then be added as [[help:subpages|subpages]]. To create a subpage for a course page, put a forward slash '/' after the course name and type in the name for that subpage. For example, a subpage for the course ABCD123, would follow this pattern: Course:ABD123/subpage. Subpages automatically create links to their parent pages.<br />
<br />
==Examples of Course Organization==<br />
<br />
Here are some ideas on how you could setup your course:<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable" <br />
!width="60%"|Course Name (URL)<br />
!width="40%"|Description<br />
|-<br />
|<nowiki>kumu.tru.ca/Course:ABCD123/ </nowiki><br />
|Your course homepage, please keep it up to date with the contact info, registration information and other important information.<br />
|-<br />
|kumu.tru.ca/Course:ABCD123/2015WT1/ <br />
|The course homepage for 2015, Winter Term 1. If you plan to keep and differentiate information for the course over different terms it might make sense to have separate subpages for different terms. <br />
|-<br />
|kumu.tru.ca/Course:ABCD123/2015WT1/Course_Notes <br />
|Your course notes could go here; please use subpages to separate different content <br />
|-<br />
|kumu.tru.ca/Course:ABCD123/2015WT1/Course_Notes/Unit1 <br />
|Typical lecture notes<br />
|-<br />
|kumu.tru.ca/Course:ABCD123/2015WT1/Student_Activities<br />
|section of your course where students contribute, write assignments, etc...<br />
|-<br />
|kumu.tru.ca/Course:ABCD123/2015WT1/Student_Activities/Assignment_1/John_Doe <br />
| John Doe's first Assignment<br />
|-<br />
|kumu.tru.ca/Course:ABCD123/2015WT1/Student_Activities/Assignment_1/Jane_Smith<br />
| Jane Smith's first Assignment<br />
|}<br />
<br />
Please visit [[Course:ABCD123]] to see how the above organizational examples work.<br />
<br />
{{Create_Course_Page_Box}}<br />
<br />
==Using Categories==<br />
<br />
[[Help:Categories|Categories]] can help you keep all pages related to your course together as well as make the course findable in larger contexts. For example, if you are teaching class ABCD123, you might want to create a category called ABC123 and add every course page to that category. You can do this by adding the following code to your pages: <nowiki>[[Category:ABCD123]]</nowiki>. <br />
<br />
You can also add your course to broader categories. For example, if course ABCD123 were an economics class, adding the main page to the [[:category:economics|economics category]] will help create a broader picture of all physics topics at TRU as well as make your course easier to find.<br />
<br />
If you categorize the top level page of your course with it's four letter subject code, it will be automatically added to the [[Course#Course_Space_Contents|course space index]]. For example, the category <nowiki>[[Category:MATH]]</nowiki> has been added to the top level page for the [[Course:MATH110| Math 110]] course.<br />
<br />
See [[Help: Categories]] for more information.<br />
<br />
==Using Dynamic Page Lists (DPL)==<br />
In its most basic form, the [[Help:Dynamic Page Lists|Dynamic Page Lists]] (DPL) function displays a list of pages in one or more categories or subpages. This could be useful to organizing course content if you want to display all the pages or subpages that relate to your course. <br />
<br />
===Listing subpages===<br />
Copy the following code and put it in the body of a page (such as your main course page) to list all the subpages of that specific subpage (please note that if the page on which the below code has been placed has no subpages, an error will be generated). See [[Help:Dynamic Page Lists]] for more information.<br />
<pre><br />
<dpl><br />
titlematch={{PAGENAME}}/%<br />
namespace={{NAMESPACE}}<br />
shownamespace=false<br />
</dpl><br />
</pre><br />
<br />
===Listing categories===<br />
Copy the following code and put it in the body to list all the categories.<br />
<pre><br />
<dpl><br />
category= categoryname<br />
</dpl><br />
</pre><br />
<br />
Categoryname is a placeholder for whatever category you wish to list.<br />
<br />
See [[Help:Dynamic Page Lists]] for more information.<br />
<br />
== Copyrighted Material ==<br />
Only upload materials that you own the copyright to or have permission to share.<br />
<br />
== Additional Resources ==<br />
*[http://www.smartteaching.org/blog/2008/08/50-ways-to-use-wikis-for-a-more-collaborative-and-interactive-classroom/ 50 Ways to Use Wikis for a More Collaborative and Interactive Classroom]<br />
*[http://ascilite.org.au/conferences/perth04/procs/augar.html Teaching and learning online with wikis]<br />
*[http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.113.7307&rep=rep1&type=pdf Wikis and Wikipedia as a Teaching Tool]<br />
*[http://www2.uwstout.edu/content/profdev/rubrics/wikirubric.html Ruberic for Wiki Work] <br />
<br />
First draft of this page derived from: http://wiki.ubc.ca/Help:Using_the_UBC_Wiki_for_Course_Work<br />
<br />
[[Category:help]][[Category:Course space]]</div>Tagarwalhttps://kumu.tru.ca/index.php?title=Help:Using_the_TRU_Wiki_for_Course_Work&diff=8217Help:Using the TRU Wiki for Course Work2015-04-02T22:33:28Z<p>Tagarwal: </p>
<hr />
<div>__NOEDITSECTION__{{Help Nav}}The Kumu Wiki is an excellent tool for managing, creating, and sharing course content. You can use it for a wide range of activities: from creating a central repository of course info to hosting online student discussions. The possibilities are endless and how you use the Wiki is really up to you.<br />
<br />
==Organizing your Course Content== <br />
<br />
One of the most important steps when using the Kumu Wiki is organizing your content within the Wiki. There are three basic levels of organization that all course pages should meet:<br />
<br />
====First, Put Your Course Pages into the Course Space====<br />
Make sure your course work is in proper space. The Kumu Wiki is organized into different [[help:namespaces|spaces]]; course work fits best into the [[Course]] space. <br />
<br />
Putting course pages into the [[Course]] space keeps the UBC Wiki organized and structured. For example, if you create a page entitled "Student Assignments" and it is in the main space on the wiki, users of the wiki will think that it is a general knowledge article on the topic of student assignments at UBC and not something that relates specifically to your course. <br />
<br />
'''''Please note''''': if you create course pages that are not located in the Course space, we may move your pages into the Course space for you.<br />
<br />
====Second, Use Your Course Number====<br />
<br />
Another good practice when creating course pages is to organize the pages by the course number. For example, if you create a page entitled "Course:Student Assignments", it is not clear to which course the student assignment page belongs. Instead Course:ABCD123/Student Assignments shows that the student assignment page belongs to course ABCD123. <br />
<br />
====Finally, Use Subpages to Keep Course Pages Together====<br />
<br />
We suggest that every course have a main page and that this main page be the course number. The main page for the example course ABCD123 would be Course:ABCD123. Additional content can then be added as [[help:subpages|subpages]]. To create a subpage for a course page, put a forward slash '/' after the course name and type in the name for that subpage. For example, a subpage for the course ABCD123, would follow this pattern: Course:ABD123/subpage. Subpages automatically create links to their parent pages.<br />
<br />
==Examples of Course Organization==<br />
<br />
Here are some ideas on how you could setup your course:<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable" <br />
!width="60%"|Course Name (URL)<br />
!width="40%"|Description<br />
|-<br />
|<nowiki>kumu.tru.ca/Course:ABCD123/ </nowiki><br />
|Your course homepage, please keep it up to date with the contact info, registration information and other important information.<br />
|-<br />
|kumu.tru.ca/Course:ABCD123/2015WT1/ <br />
|The course homepage for 2015, Winter Term 1. If you plan to keep and differentiate information for the course over different terms it might make sense to have separate subpages for different terms. <br />
|-<br />
|kumu.tru.ca/Course:ABCD123/2015WT1/Course_Notes <br />
|Your course notes could go here; please use subpages to separate different content <br />
|-<br />
|kumu.tru.ca/Course:ABCD123/2015WT1/Course_Notes/Unit1 <br />
|Typical lecture notes<br />
|-<br />
|kumu.tru.ca/Course:ABCD123/2015WT1/Student_Activities<br />
|section of your course where students contribute, write assignments, etc...<br />
|-<br />
|kumu.tru.ca/Course:ABCD123/2015WT1/Student_Activities/Assignment_1/John_Doe <br />
| John Doe's first Assignment<br />
|-<br />
|kumu.tru.ca/Course:ABCD123/2015WT1/Student_Activities/Assignment_1/Jane_Smith<br />
| Jane Smith's first Assignment<br />
|}<br />
<br />
Please visit [[Course:ABCD123]] to see how the above organizational examples work.<br />
<br />
{{Create_Course_Page_Box}}<br />
<br />
==Using Categories==<br />
<br />
[[Help:Categories|Categories]] can help you keep all pages related to your course together as well as make the course findable in larger contexts. For example, if you are teaching class ABCD123, you might want to create a category called ABC123 and add every course page to that category. You can do this by adding the following code to your pages: <nowiki>[[Category:ABCD123]]</nowiki>. <br />
<br />
You can also add your course to broader categories. For example, if course ABCD123 were an economics class, adding the main page to the [[:category:economics|economics category]] will help create a broader picture of all physics topics at UBC as well as make your course easier to find.<br />
<br />
If you categorize the top level page of your course with it's four letter subject code, it will be automatically added to the [[Course#Course_Space_Contents|course space index]]. For example, the category <nowiki>[[Category:MATH]]</nowiki> has been added to the top level page for the [[Course:MATH110| Math 110]] course.<br />
<br />
See [[Help: Categories]] for more information.<br />
<br />
==Using Dynamic Page Lists (DPL)==<br />
In its most basic form, the [[Help:Dynamic Page Lists|Dynamic Page Lists]] (DPL) function displays a list of pages in one or more categories or subpages. This could be useful to organizing course content if you want to display all the pages or subpages that relate to your course. <br />
<br />
===Listing subpages===<br />
Copy the following code and put it in the body of a page (such as your main course page) to list all the subpages of that specific subpage (please note that if the page on which the below code has been placed has no subpages, an error will be generated). See [[Help:Dynamic Page Lists]] for more information.<br />
<pre><br />
<dpl><br />
titlematch={{PAGENAME}}/%<br />
namespace={{NAMESPACE}}<br />
shownamespace=false<br />
</dpl><br />
</pre><br />
<br />
===Listing categories===<br />
Copy the following code and put it in the body to list all the categories.<br />
<pre><br />
<dpl><br />
category= categoryname<br />
</dpl><br />
</pre><br />
<br />
Categoryname is a placeholder for whatever category you wish to list.<br />
<br />
See [[Help:Dynamic Page Lists]] for more information.<br />
<br />
== Copyrighted Material ==<br />
Only upload materials that you own the copyright to or have permission to share.<br />
<br />
== Additional Resources ==<br />
*[http://www.smartteaching.org/blog/2008/08/50-ways-to-use-wikis-for-a-more-collaborative-and-interactive-classroom/ 50 Ways to Use Wikis for a More Collaborative and Interactive Classroom]<br />
*[http://ascilite.org.au/conferences/perth04/procs/augar.html Teaching and learning online with wikis]<br />
*[http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.113.7307&rep=rep1&type=pdf Wikis and Wikipedia as a Teaching Tool]<br />
*[http://www2.uwstout.edu/content/profdev/rubrics/wikirubric.html Ruberic for Wiki Work] <br />
<br />
First draft of this page derived from: http://wiki.ubc.ca/Help:Using_the_UBC_Wiki_for_Course_Work<br />
<br />
[[Category:help]][[Category:Course space]]</div>Tagarwalhttps://kumu.tru.ca/index.php?title=Help:Namespaces&diff=8173Help:Namespaces2015-03-23T20:55:49Z<p>Tagarwal: </p>
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<div>This is a collaborative space for the student success trial project. This space is for contribution of ideas, and finalization of documents.<br />
This is a basic orientation to setting up your pages in the Learning Commons namespace. For information about writing your content for the wiki refer to [[Learning Commons:Writing Guidelines]]<br />
<br />
== What Is a Namespace? ==<br />
Basically a [[Help:namespaces|namespace]] is a collection of pages which have content with a similar purpose and where the intended use is the same. For more information about using namespaces, refer to this brief screencast below:<br />
<br />
{{#widget:YouTube|id=yV48jHC4SY0|400}}<br />
<br />
== Adding Pages/Subpages ==<br />
Create your own page under the Learning Commons namespace by simply adding a colon after Learning Commons and the name of your page (for example - Learning Commons:'''Chapman Learning Commons'''). Keep your page title short - basically just the name of your learning or research commons. This will be your '''index page''', where you will keep track of the subpages you create under your section. Once your namespace is created, you will mainly be adding [[Help:subpages|subpages]] to your space. Review the screencast below for instructions on how to set up your pages. <br />
<br />
{{#widget:YouTube|id=-VR6PKl9Ylg|400}}<br />
<br />
==Dynamic Page List (DPL)==<br />
<br />
When you create your index page (or page for your Commons) under the namespace Learning Commons, you will need to add in the [[Help:DPL|dynamic page list]] code. This will allow automatic aggregation of any page that is created under your title. To see how this works, click the edit button for the Chapman Learning Commons. Any page that is created under <nowiki> Learning Commons:Chapman Learning Commons </nowiki> will be added automatically to that section. Here is a brief screencast explaining how to use the DPL:<br />
<br />
{{#widget:YouTube|id=BtebPWOkOGI|400}}<br />
<br />
First draft of this page derived from: [[http://wiki.ubc.ca/index.php?title=Learning_Commons:Namespace_Orientation&action=edit]]</div>Tagarwalhttps://kumu.tru.ca/index.php?title=TRU_Wiki_Organization&diff=8172TRU Wiki Organization2015-03-23T20:43:57Z<p>Tagarwal: /* In Summary... */</p>
<hr />
<div>[[Category:Resource Framework]]<br />
{{draft}}<br />
=Overview=<br />
This page was developed as a product of a meeting where a few of us were discussing how to better organize the resources we are developing on the wiki - mainly related to flexible learning. We realize that the wiki can be confusing to navigate and we are hopeful that we can improve on this by suggesting some organization.<br />
<br />
This page will answer the following questions:</br><br />
* When should I use Notepad: and Documentation:? What's the difference between these two?<br />
* How can I contribute to ongoing organization and maintenance of the wiki? <br />
* What categories are suggested to organize Flexible Learning related resources?<br />
<br />
=When to use Notepad: and when to use Documentation:?=<br />
<br />
The help documentation offers a guide to helping you learn [[Help:Namespaces|how the wiki is organized]] and is useful for a general overview.<br />
<br />
When we are creating new resources (to support Flexible Learning, Connect or Learning Toolkits), we are often making a decision between Notepad or Documentation as the home for the content.<br />
<br />
===In Summary...===<br />
*Notepad: is ideal for brainstorming and collecting ideas.<br />
*Documentation: is ideal when your wiki page is ready to be shared.<br />
<br />
<br/><br />
<br />
=Organizing your pages=<br />
<br />
==Dynamic Page Lists==<br />
Aggregating [[Help:Subpage|subpages]] (automatically, as they are created) is easily done using dynamic page list (dpl) code. <br />
An example of that approach in Documentation is the way we have organized content for the [http://elearning.ubc.ca/toolkit/ eLearning Toolkits]. <br />
<br />
<br />
==Using Categories==<br />
Categories add a layer of metadata to your pages to make them findable on a search. More about [[Help:Categories|categories]].<br />
<br />
One of our challenges is that there is not consistency in how we assign categories - which hampers the search function - meaning that flexible learning may be called: FlexibleLearning, Flexible Learning, FL, Flexible, Flex Learning (you get the picture).<br />
<br />
We have proposed some categories (specific to our work on Flexible Learning related resources, below).<br />
<br />
=How should I categorize Flexible Learning related resources?=<br />
Below is a suggested beginning list of categories that may be associated with Flexible Learning related resources. <br />
<br />
Top level (always include this one):<br />
*Flexible Learning (not FL or FlexibleLearning) <br />
<br />
Theme level(examples):<br />
* Video<br />
* DIY Video<br />
* Screencasts<br />
* Mobile<br />
<br />
Sub-theme level(examples):<br />
* Video Production<br />
* Video Tools<br />
* Video Planning<br />
* Video Editing<br />
* Video Hosting<br />
<br />
=Resources=<br />
[[Documentation:MediaWiki Basics/Transclusion|Media Wiki Basics: Transclusion]]<br />
http://wiki.ubc.ca/index.php?title=Documentation:Wiki_Organization&action=edit</div>Tagarwalhttps://kumu.tru.ca/index.php?title=TRU_Wiki_Organization&diff=8171TRU Wiki Organization2015-03-23T20:43:17Z<p>Tagarwal: /* In Summary... */</p>
<hr />
<div>[[Category:Resource Framework]]<br />
{{draft}}<br />
=Overview=<br />
This page was developed as a product of a meeting where a few of us were discussing how to better organize the resources we are developing on the wiki - mainly related to flexible learning. We realize that the wiki can be confusing to navigate and we are hopeful that we can improve on this by suggesting some organization.<br />
<br />
This page will answer the following questions:</br><br />
* When should I use Notepad: and Documentation:? What's the difference between these two?<br />
* How can I contribute to ongoing organization and maintenance of the wiki? <br />
* What categories are suggested to organize Flexible Learning related resources?<br />
<br />
=When to use Notepad: and when to use Documentation:?=<br />
<br />
The help documentation offers a guide to helping you learn [[Help:Namespaces|how the wiki is organized]] and is useful for a general overview.<br />
<br />
When we are creating new resources (to support Flexible Learning, Connect or Learning Toolkits), we are often making a decision between Notepad or Documentation as the home for the content.<br />
<br />
===In Summary...===<br />
*Notepad: is ideal for brainstorming and collecting ideas.<br />
*Documentation: is ideal when your wiki page is ready to be shared.<br />
<br />
=Organizing your pages=<br />
<br />
==Dynamic Page Lists==<br />
Aggregating [[Help:Subpage|subpages]] (automatically, as they are created) is easily done using dynamic page list (dpl) code. <br />
An example of that approach in Documentation is the way we have organized content for the [http://elearning.ubc.ca/toolkit/ eLearning Toolkits]. <br />
<br />
<br />
==Using Categories==<br />
Categories add a layer of metadata to your pages to make them findable on a search. More about [[Help:Categories|categories]].<br />
<br />
One of our challenges is that there is not consistency in how we assign categories - which hampers the search function - meaning that flexible learning may be called: FlexibleLearning, Flexible Learning, FL, Flexible, Flex Learning (you get the picture).<br />
<br />
We have proposed some categories (specific to our work on Flexible Learning related resources, below).<br />
<br />
=How should I categorize Flexible Learning related resources?=<br />
Below is a suggested beginning list of categories that may be associated with Flexible Learning related resources. <br />
<br />
Top level (always include this one):<br />
*Flexible Learning (not FL or FlexibleLearning) <br />
<br />
Theme level(examples):<br />
* Video<br />
* DIY Video<br />
* Screencasts<br />
* Mobile<br />
<br />
Sub-theme level(examples):<br />
* Video Production<br />
* Video Tools<br />
* Video Planning<br />
* Video Editing<br />
* Video Hosting<br />
<br />
=Resources=<br />
[[Documentation:MediaWiki Basics/Transclusion|Media Wiki Basics: Transclusion]]<br />
http://wiki.ubc.ca/index.php?title=Documentation:Wiki_Organization&action=edit</div>Tagarwalhttps://kumu.tru.ca/index.php?title=TRU_Wiki_Organization&diff=8170TRU Wiki Organization2015-03-23T20:42:52Z<p>Tagarwal: /* When to use Sandbox: and when to use Documentation:? */</p>
<hr />
<div>[[Category:Resource Framework]]<br />
{{draft}}<br />
=Overview=<br />
This page was developed as a product of a meeting where a few of us were discussing how to better organize the resources we are developing on the wiki - mainly related to flexible learning. We realize that the wiki can be confusing to navigate and we are hopeful that we can improve on this by suggesting some organization.<br />
<br />
This page will answer the following questions:</br><br />
* When should I use Notepad: and Documentation:? What's the difference between these two?<br />
* How can I contribute to ongoing organization and maintenance of the wiki? <br />
* What categories are suggested to organize Flexible Learning related resources?<br />
<br />
=When to use Notepad: and when to use Documentation:?=<br />
<br />
The help documentation offers a guide to helping you learn [[Help:Namespaces|how the wiki is organized]] and is useful for a general overview.<br />
<br />
When we are creating new resources (to support Flexible Learning, Connect or Learning Toolkits), we are often making a decision between Notepad or Documentation as the home for the content.<br />
<br />
===In Summary...===<br />
*Notepad: is ideal for brainstorming and collecting ideas.<br />
*Documentation: is ideal when your wiki page is ready to be shared.<br />
<br />
To let people know your intent for the pages you have been working with, use templates to mark for deletion or highlight as a draft in progress:<br />
*If you have used Sandbox: to test the organization of your content, etc., '''make sure you delete your unused Notepad wiki by''' [[Help:Deleting_a_page|marking for deletion]]. Alternatively, if the page is suitable for your needs, move it to the Documentation space.<br />
*If the Documentation: you are working on is still '''work in progress''', add the template for''' "[[Template:Draft|Draft"]] to your document.<br />
<br />
=Organizing your pages=<br />
<br />
==Dynamic Page Lists==<br />
Aggregating [[Help:Subpage|subpages]] (automatically, as they are created) is easily done using dynamic page list (dpl) code. <br />
An example of that approach in Documentation is the way we have organized content for the [http://elearning.ubc.ca/toolkit/ eLearning Toolkits]. <br />
<br />
<br />
==Using Categories==<br />
Categories add a layer of metadata to your pages to make them findable on a search. More about [[Help:Categories|categories]].<br />
<br />
One of our challenges is that there is not consistency in how we assign categories - which hampers the search function - meaning that flexible learning may be called: FlexibleLearning, Flexible Learning, FL, Flexible, Flex Learning (you get the picture).<br />
<br />
We have proposed some categories (specific to our work on Flexible Learning related resources, below).<br />
<br />
=How should I categorize Flexible Learning related resources?=<br />
Below is a suggested beginning list of categories that may be associated with Flexible Learning related resources. <br />
<br />
Top level (always include this one):<br />
*Flexible Learning (not FL or FlexibleLearning) <br />
<br />
Theme level(examples):<br />
* Video<br />
* DIY Video<br />
* Screencasts<br />
* Mobile<br />
<br />
Sub-theme level(examples):<br />
* Video Production<br />
* Video Tools<br />
* Video Planning<br />
* Video Editing<br />
* Video Hosting<br />
<br />
=Resources=<br />
[[Documentation:MediaWiki Basics/Transclusion|Media Wiki Basics: Transclusion]]<br />
http://wiki.ubc.ca/index.php?title=Documentation:Wiki_Organization&action=edit</div>Tagarwalhttps://kumu.tru.ca/index.php?title=TRU_Wiki_Organization&diff=8169TRU Wiki Organization2015-03-23T20:40:25Z<p>Tagarwal: /* Overview */</p>
<hr />
<div>[[Category:Resource Framework]]<br />
{{draft}}<br />
=Overview=<br />
This page was developed as a product of a meeting where a few of us were discussing how to better organize the resources we are developing on the wiki - mainly related to flexible learning. We realize that the wiki can be confusing to navigate and we are hopeful that we can improve on this by suggesting some organization.<br />
<br />
This page will answer the following questions:</br><br />
* When should I use Notepad: and Documentation:? What's the difference between these two?<br />
* How can I contribute to ongoing organization and maintenance of the wiki? <br />
* What categories are suggested to organize Flexible Learning related resources?<br />
<br />
=When to use Sandbox: and when to use Documentation:?=<br />
<br />
The help documentation offers a guide to helping you learn [[Help:Namespaces|how the wiki is organized]] and is useful for a general overview.<br />
<br />
When we are creating new resources (to support Flexible Learning, Connect or Learning Toolkits), we are often making a decision between Sandbox or Documentation as the home for the content.<br />
<br />
===In Summary...===<br />
*Notepad: is ideal for brainstorming and collecting ideas.<br />
*Documentation: is ideal when your wiki page is ready to be shared.<br />
<br />
To let people know your intent for the pages you have been working with, use templates to mark for deletion or highlight as a draft in progress:<br />
*If you have used Sandbox: to test the organization of your content, etc., '''make sure you delete your unused Sandbox wiki by''' [[Help:Deleting_a_page|marking for deletion]]. Alternatively, if the page is suitable for your needs, move it to the Documentation space.<br />
*If the Documentation: you are working on is still '''work in progress''', add the template for''' "[[Template:Draft|Draft"]] to your document.<br />
<br />
=Organizing your pages=<br />
<br />
==Dynamic Page Lists==<br />
Aggregating [[Help:Subpage|subpages]] (automatically, as they are created) is easily done using dynamic page list (dpl) code. <br />
An example of that approach in Documentation is the way we have organized content for the [http://elearning.ubc.ca/toolkit/ eLearning Toolkits]. <br />
<br />
<br />
==Using Categories==<br />
Categories add a layer of metadata to your pages to make them findable on a search. More about [[Help:Categories|categories]].<br />
<br />
One of our challenges is that there is not consistency in how we assign categories - which hampers the search function - meaning that flexible learning may be called: FlexibleLearning, Flexible Learning, FL, Flexible, Flex Learning (you get the picture).<br />
<br />
We have proposed some categories (specific to our work on Flexible Learning related resources, below).<br />
<br />
=How should I categorize Flexible Learning related resources?=<br />
Below is a suggested beginning list of categories that may be associated with Flexible Learning related resources. <br />
<br />
Top level (always include this one):<br />
*Flexible Learning (not FL or FlexibleLearning) <br />
<br />
Theme level(examples):<br />
* Video<br />
* DIY Video<br />
* Screencasts<br />
* Mobile<br />
<br />
Sub-theme level(examples):<br />
* Video Production<br />
* Video Tools<br />
* Video Planning<br />
* Video Editing<br />
* Video Hosting<br />
<br />
=Resources=<br />
[[Documentation:MediaWiki Basics/Transclusion|Media Wiki Basics: Transclusion]]<br />
http://wiki.ubc.ca/index.php?title=Documentation:Wiki_Organization&action=edit</div>Tagarwalhttps://kumu.tru.ca/index.php?title=TRU_Wiki_Organization&diff=8168TRU Wiki Organization2015-03-23T20:36:26Z<p>Tagarwal: Created page with "Category:Resource Framework {{draft}} =Overview= This page was developed as a product of a meeting where a few of us were discussing how to better organize the resources w..."</p>
<hr />
<div>[[Category:Resource Framework]]<br />
{{draft}}<br />
=Overview=<br />
This page was developed as a product of a meeting where a few of us were discussing how to better organize the resources we are developing on the wiki - mainly related to flexible learning. We realize that the wiki can be confusing to navigate and we are hopeful that we can improve on this by suggesting some organization.<br />
<br />
This page will answer the following questions:</br><br />
* When should I use Sandbox: and Documentation:? What's the difference between these two?<br />
* How can I contribute to ongoing organization and maintenance of the wiki? <br />
* What categories are suggested to organize Flexible Learning related resources?<br />
<br />
=When to use Sandbox: and when to use Documentation:?=<br />
<br />
The help documentation offers a guide to helping you learn [[Help:Namespaces|how the wiki is organized]] and is useful for a general overview.<br />
<br />
When we are creating new resources (to support Flexible Learning, Connect or Learning Toolkits), we are often making a decision between Sandbox or Documentation as the home for the content.<br />
<br />
===In Summary...===<br />
*Notepad: is ideal for brainstorming and collecting ideas.<br />
*Documentation: is ideal when your wiki page is ready to be shared.<br />
<br />
To let people know your intent for the pages you have been working with, use templates to mark for deletion or highlight as a draft in progress:<br />
*If you have used Sandbox: to test the organization of your content, etc., '''make sure you delete your unused Sandbox wiki by''' [[Help:Deleting_a_page|marking for deletion]]. Alternatively, if the page is suitable for your needs, move it to the Documentation space.<br />
*If the Documentation: you are working on is still '''work in progress''', add the template for''' "[[Template:Draft|Draft"]] to your document.<br />
<br />
=Organizing your pages=<br />
<br />
==Dynamic Page Lists==<br />
Aggregating [[Help:Subpage|subpages]] (automatically, as they are created) is easily done using dynamic page list (dpl) code. <br />
An example of that approach in Documentation is the way we have organized content for the [http://elearning.ubc.ca/toolkit/ eLearning Toolkits]. <br />
<br />
<br />
==Using Categories==<br />
Categories add a layer of metadata to your pages to make them findable on a search. More about [[Help:Categories|categories]].<br />
<br />
One of our challenges is that there is not consistency in how we assign categories - which hampers the search function - meaning that flexible learning may be called: FlexibleLearning, Flexible Learning, FL, Flexible, Flex Learning (you get the picture).<br />
<br />
We have proposed some categories (specific to our work on Flexible Learning related resources, below).<br />
<br />
=How should I categorize Flexible Learning related resources?=<br />
Below is a suggested beginning list of categories that may be associated with Flexible Learning related resources. <br />
<br />
Top level (always include this one):<br />
*Flexible Learning (not FL or FlexibleLearning) <br />
<br />
Theme level(examples):<br />
* Video<br />
* DIY Video<br />
* Screencasts<br />
* Mobile<br />
<br />
Sub-theme level(examples):<br />
* Video Production<br />
* Video Tools<br />
* Video Planning<br />
* Video Editing<br />
* Video Hosting<br />
<br />
=Resources=<br />
[[Documentation:MediaWiki Basics/Transclusion|Media Wiki Basics: Transclusion]]<br />
http://wiki.ubc.ca/index.php?title=Documentation:Wiki_Organization&action=edit</div>Tagarwalhttps://kumu.tru.ca/index.php?title=Help:Using_the_TRU_Wiki_for_Course_Work&diff=8160Help:Using the TRU Wiki for Course Work2015-03-12T20:54:55Z<p>Tagarwal: </p>
<hr />
<div>__NOEDITSECTION__{{Help Nav}}The UBC Wiki is an excellent tool for managing, creating, and sharing course content. You can use it for a wide range of activities: from creating a central repository of course info to hosting online student discussions. The possibilities are endless and how you use the Wiki is really up to you.<br />
<br />
==Organizing your Course Content== <br />
<br />
One of the most important steps when using the Kumu Wiki is organizing your content within the Wiki. There are three basic levels of organization that all course pages should meet:<br />
<br />
====First, Put Your Course Pages into the Course Space====<br />
Make sure your course work is in proper space. The Kumu Wiki is organized into different [[help:namespaces|spaces]]; course work fits best into the [[Course]] space. <br />
<br />
Putting course pages into the [[Course]] space keeps the UBC Wiki organized and structured. For example, if you create a page entitled "Student Assignments" and it is in the main space on the wiki, users of the wiki will think that it is a general knowledge article on the topic of student assignments at UBC and not something that relates specifically to your course. <br />
<br />
'''''Please note''''': if you create course pages that are not located in the Course space, we may move your pages into the Course space for you.<br />
<br />
====Second, Use Your Course Number====<br />
<br />
Another good practice when creating course pages is to organize the pages by the course number. For example, if you create a page entitled "Course:Student Assignments", it is not clear to which course the student assignment page belongs. Instead Course:ABCD123/Student Assignments shows that the student assignment page belongs to course ABCD123. <br />
<br />
====Finally, Use Subpages to Keep Course Pages Together====<br />
<br />
We suggest that every course have a main page and that this main page be the course number. The main page for the example course ABCD123 would be Course:ABCD123. Additional content can then be added as [[help:subpages|subpages]]. To create a subpage for a course page, put a forward slash '/' after the course name and type in the name for that subpage. For example, a subpage for the course ABCD123, would follow this pattern: Course:ABD123/subpage. Subpages automatically create links to their parent pages.<br />
<br />
==Examples of Course Organization==<br />
<br />
Here are some ideas on how you could setup your course:<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable" <br />
!width="60%"|Course Name (URL)<br />
!width="40%"|Description<br />
|-<br />
|<nowiki>kumu.tru.ca/Course:ABCD123/ </nowiki><br />
|Your course homepage, please keep it up to date with the contact info, registration information and other important information.<br />
|-<br />
|kumu.tru.ca/Course:ABCD123/2015WT1/ <br />
|The course homepage for 2015, Winter Term 1. If you plan to keep and differentiate information for the course over different terms it might make sense to have separate subpages for different terms. <br />
|-<br />
|kumu.tru.ca/Course:ABCD123/2015WT1/Course_Notes <br />
|Your course notes could go here; please use subpages to separate different content <br />
|-<br />
|kumu.tru.ca/Course:ABCD123/2015WT1/Course_Notes/Unit1 <br />
|Typical lecture notes<br />
|-<br />
|kumu.tru.ca/Course:ABCD123/2015WT1/Student_Activities<br />
|section of your course where students contribute, write assignments, etc...<br />
|-<br />
|kumu.tru.ca/Course:ABCD123/2015WT1/Student_Activities/Assignment_1/John_Doe <br />
| John Doe's first Assignment<br />
|-<br />
|kumu.tru.ca/Course:ABCD123/2015WT1/Student_Activities/Assignment_1/Jane_Smith<br />
| Jane Smith's first Assignment<br />
|}<br />
<br />
Please visit [[Course:ABCD123]] to see how the above organizational examples work.<br />
<br />
{{Create_Course_Page_Box}}<br />
<br />
==Using Categories==<br />
<br />
[[Help:Categories|Categories]] can help you keep all pages related to your course together as well as make the course findable in larger contexts. For example, if you are teaching class ABCD123, you might want to create a category called ABC123 and add every course page to that category. You can do this by adding the following code to your pages: <nowiki>[[Category:ABCD123]]</nowiki>. <br />
<br />
You can also add your course to broader categories. For example, if course ABCD123 were an economics class, adding the main page to the [[:category:economics|economics category]] will help create a broader picture of all physics topics at UBC as well as make your course easier to find.<br />
<br />
If you categorize the top level page of your course with it's four letter subject code, it will be automatically added to the [[Course#Course_Space_Contents|course space index]]. For example, the category <nowiki>[[Category:MATH]]</nowiki> has been added to the top level page for the [[Course:MATH110| Math 110]] course.<br />
<br />
See [[Help: Categories]] for more information.<br />
<br />
==Using Dynamic Page Lists (DPL)==<br />
In its most basic form, the [[Help:Dynamic Page Lists|Dynamic Page Lists]] (DPL) function displays a list of pages in one or more categories or subpages. This could be useful to organizing course content if you want to display all the pages or subpages that relate to your course. <br />
<br />
===Listing subpages===<br />
Copy the following code and put it in the body of a page (such as your main course page) to list all the subpages of that specific subpage (please note that if the page on which the below code has been placed has no subpages, an error will be generated). See [[Help:Dynamic Page Lists]] for more information.<br />
<pre><br />
<dpl><br />
titlematch={{PAGENAME}}/%<br />
namespace={{NAMESPACE}}<br />
shownamespace=false<br />
</dpl><br />
</pre><br />
<br />
===Listing categories===<br />
Copy the following code and put it in the body to list all the categories.<br />
<pre><br />
<dpl><br />
category= categoryname<br />
</dpl><br />
</pre><br />
<br />
Categoryname is a placeholder for whatever category you wish to list.<br />
<br />
See [[Help:Dynamic Page Lists]] for more information.<br />
<br />
== Copyrighted Material ==<br />
Only upload materials that you own the copyright to or have permission to share.<br />
<br />
== Additional Resources ==<br />
*[http://www.smartteaching.org/blog/2008/08/50-ways-to-use-wikis-for-a-more-collaborative-and-interactive-classroom/ 50 Ways to Use Wikis for a More Collaborative and Interactive Classroom]<br />
*[http://ascilite.org.au/conferences/perth04/procs/augar.html Teaching and learning online with wikis]<br />
*[http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.113.7307&rep=rep1&type=pdf Wikis and Wikipedia as a Teaching Tool]<br />
*[http://www2.uwstout.edu/content/profdev/rubrics/wikirubric.html Ruberic for Wiki Work] <br />
<br />
First draft of this page derived from: http://wiki.ubc.ca/Help:Using_the_UBC_Wiki_for_Course_Work<br />
<br />
[[Category:help]][[Category:Course space]]</div>Tagarwalhttps://kumu.tru.ca/index.php?title=Help:Using_the_TRU_Wiki_for_Course_Work&diff=8159Help:Using the TRU Wiki for Course Work2015-03-12T20:52:59Z<p>Tagarwal: </p>
<hr />
<div>__NOEDITSECTION__{{Help Nav}}The UBC Wiki is an excellent tool for managing, creating, and sharing course content. You can use it for a wide range of activities: from creating a central repository of course info to hosting online student discussions. The possibilities are endless and how you use the Wiki is really up to you.<br />
<br />
==Organizing your Course Content== <br />
<br />
One of the most important steps when using the Kumu Wiki is organizing your content within the Wiki. There are three basic levels of organization that all course pages should meet:<br />
<br />
====First, Put Your Course Pages into the Course Space====<br />
Make sure your course work is in proper space. The Kumu Wiki is organized into different [[help:namespaces|spaces]]; course work fits best into the [[Course]] space. <br />
<br />
Putting course pages into the [[Course]] space keeps the UBC Wiki organized and structured. For example, if you create a page entitled "Student Assignments" and it is in the main space on the wiki, users of the wiki will think that it is a general knowledge article on the topic of student assignments at UBC and not something that relates specifically to your course. <br />
<br />
'''''Please note''''': if you create course pages that are not located in the Course space, we may move your pages into the Course space for you.<br />
<br />
====Second, Use Your Course Number====<br />
<br />
Another good practice when creating course pages is to organize the pages by the course number. For example, if you create a page entitled "Course:Student Assignments", it is not clear to which course the student assignment page belongs. Instead Course:ABCD123/Student Assignments shows that the student assignment page belongs to course ABCD123. <br />
<br />
====Finally, Use Subpages to Keep Course Pages Together====<br />
<br />
We suggest that every course have a main page and that this main page be the course number. The main page for the example course ABCD123 would be Course:ABCD123. Additional content can then be added as [[help:subpages|subpages]]. To create a subpage for a course page, put a forward slash '/' after the course name and type in the name for that subpage. For example, a subpage for the course ABCD123, would follow this pattern: Course:ABD123/subpage. Subpages automatically create links to their parent pages.<br />
<br />
==Examples of Course Organization==<br />
<br />
Here are some ideas on how you could setup your course:<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable" <br />
!width="60%"|Course Name (URL)<br />
!width="40%"|Description<br />
|-<br />
|<nowiki>kumu.tru.ca/Course:ABCD123/ </nowiki><br />
|Your course homepage, please keep it up to date with the contact info, registration information and other important information.<br />
|-<br />
|kumu.tru.ca/Course:ABCD123/2015WT1/ <br />
|The course homepage for 2015, Winter Term 1. If you plan to keep and differentiate information for the course over different terms it might make sense to have separate subpages for different terms. <br />
|-<br />
|kumu.tru.ca/Course:ABCD123/2015WT1/Course_Notes <br />
|Your course notes could go here; please use subpages to separate different content <br />
|-<br />
|kumu.tru.ca/Course:ABCD123/2015WT1/Course_Notes/Unit1 <br />
|Typical lecture notes<br />
|-<br />
|kumu.tru.ca/Course:ABCD123/2015WT1/Student_Activities<br />
|section of your course where students contribute, write assignments, etc...<br />
|-<br />
|kumu.tru.ca/Course:ABCD123/2015WT1/Student_Activities/Assignment_1/John_Doe <br />
| John Doe's first Assignment<br />
|-<br />
|kumu.tru.ca/Course:ABCD123/2015WT1/Student_Activities/Assignment_1/Jane_Smith<br />
| Jane Smith's first Assignment<br />
|}<br />
<br />
Please visit [[Course:ABCD123]] to see how the above organizational examples work.<br />
<br />
{{Create_Course_Page_Box}}<br />
<br />
==Using Categories==<br />
<br />
[[Help:Categories|Categories]] can help you keep all pages related to your course together as well as make the course findable in larger contexts. For example, if you are teaching class ABCD123, you might want to create a category called ABC123 and add every course page to that category. You can do this by adding the following code to your pages: <nowiki>[[Category:ABCD123]]</nowiki>. <br />
<br />
You can also add your course to broader categories. For example, if course ABCD123 were an economics class, adding the main page to the [[:category:economics|economics category]] will help create a broader picture of all physics topics at UBC as well as make your course easier to find.<br />
<br />
If you categorize the top level page of your course with it's four letter subject code, it will be automatically added to the [[Course#Course_Space_Contents|course space index]]. For example, the category <nowiki>[[Category:MATH]]</nowiki> has been added to the top level page for the [[Course:MATH110| Math 110]] course.<br />
<br />
See [[Help: Categories]] for more information.<br />
<br />
==Using Dynamic Page Lists (DPL)==<br />
In its most basic form, the [[Help:Dynamic Page Lists|Dynamic Page Lists]] (DPL) function displays a list of pages in one or more categories or subpages. This could be useful to organizing course content if you want to display all the pages or subpages that relate to your course. <br />
<br />
===Listing subpages===<br />
Copy the following code and put it in the body of a page (such as your main course page) to list all the subpages of that specific subpage (please note that if the page on which the below code has been placed has no subpages, an error will be generated). See [[Help:Dynamic Page Lists]] for more information.<br />
<pre><br />
<dpl><br />
titlematch={{PAGENAME}}/%<br />
namespace={{NAMESPACE}}<br />
shownamespace=false<br />
</dpl><br />
</pre><br />
<br />
===Listing categories===<br />
Copy the following code and put it in the body to list all the categories.<br />
<pre><br />
<dpl><br />
category= categoryname<br />
</dpl><br />
</pre><br />
<br />
Categoryname is a placeholder for whatever category you wish to list.<br />
<br />
See [[Help:Dynamic Page Lists]] for more information.<br />
<br />
== Copyrighted Material ==<br />
Only upload materials that you own the copyright to or have permission to share. However, if you wish to link to copyrighted material that is available through the UBC [[Library]], you may use the [[Template:UBC eLink |eLink Template]] or the [[Template:Permalink|Permalink Template]] to create hyperlinked icons to the material. Please visit [[Help:Linking to UBC Library Material]] for more information.<br />
<br />
*Visit http://copyright.ubc.ca for more information about copyright policies.<br />
<br />
== Additional Resources ==<br />
*[http://www.smartteaching.org/blog/2008/08/50-ways-to-use-wikis-for-a-more-collaborative-and-interactive-classroom/ 50 Ways to Use Wikis for a More Collaborative and Interactive Classroom]<br />
*[http://ascilite.org.au/conferences/perth04/procs/augar.html Teaching and learning online with wikis]<br />
*[http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.113.7307&rep=rep1&type=pdf Wikis and Wikipedia as a Teaching Tool]<br />
*[http://www2.uwstout.edu/content/profdev/rubrics/wikirubric.html Ruberic for Wiki Work] <br />
<br />
First draft of this page derived from: http://wiki.ubc.ca/Help:Using_the_UBC_Wiki_for_Course_Work<br />
<br />
[[Category:help]][[Category:Course space]]</div>Tagarwalhttps://kumu.tru.ca/index.php?title=Help:Using_the_TRU_Wiki_for_Course_Work&diff=8158Help:Using the TRU Wiki for Course Work2015-03-12T20:51:52Z<p>Tagarwal: </p>
<hr />
<div>__NOEDITSECTION__{{Help Nav}}The UBC Wiki is an excellent tool for managing, creating, and sharing course content. You can use it for a wide range of activities: from creating a central repository of course info to hosting online student discussions. The possibilities are endless and how you use the Wiki is really up to you.<br />
<br />
==Organizing your Course Content== <br />
<br />
One of the most important steps when using the Kumu Wiki is organizing your content within the Wiki. There are three basic levels of organization that all course pages should meet:<br />
<br />
====First, Put Your Course Pages into the Course Space====<br />
Make sure your course work is in proper space. The Kumu Wiki is organized into different [[help:namespaces|spaces]]; course work fits best into the [[Course]] space. <br />
<br />
Putting course pages into the [[Course]] space keeps the UBC Wiki organized and structured. For example, if you create a page entitled "Student Assignments" and it is in the main space on the wiki, users of the wiki will think that it is a general knowledge article on the topic of student assignments at UBC and not something that relates specifically to your course. <br />
<br />
'''''Please note''''': if you create course pages that are not located in the Course space, we may move your pages into the Course space for you.<br />
<br />
====Second, Use Your Course Number====<br />
<br />
Another good practice when creating course pages is to organize the pages by the course number. For example, if you create a page entitled "Course:Student Assignments", it is not clear to which course the student assignment page belongs. Instead Course:ABCD123/Student Assignments shows that the student assignment page belongs to course ABCD123. <br />
<br />
====Finally, Use Subpages to Keep Course Pages Together====<br />
<br />
We suggest that every course have a main page and that this main page be the course number. The main page for the example course ABCD123 would be Course:ABCD123. Additional content can then be added as [[help:subpages|subpages]]. To create a subpage for a course page, put a forward slash '/' after the course name and type in the name for that subpage. For example, a subpage for the course ABCD123, would follow this pattern: Course:ABD123/subpage. Subpages automatically create links to their parent pages.<br />
<br />
==Examples of Course Organization==<br />
<br />
Here are some ideas on how you could setup your course:<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable" <br />
!width="60%"|Course Name (URL)<br />
!width="40%"|Description<br />
|-<br />
|<nowiki>kumu.tru.ca/Course:ABCD123/ </nowiki><br />
|Your course homepage, please keep it up to date with the contact info, registration information and other important information.<br />
|-<br />
|wiki.ubc.ca/Course:ABCD123/2015WT1/ <br />
|The course homepage for 2015, Winter Term 1. If you plan to keep and differentiate information for the course over different terms it might make sense to have separate subpages for different terms. <br />
|-<br />
|wiki.ubc.ca/Course:ABCD123/2015WT1/Course_Notes <br />
|Your course notes could go here; please use subpages to separate different content <br />
|-<br />
|wiki.ubc.ca/Course:ABCD123/2015WT1/Course_Notes/Unit1 <br />
|Typical lecture notes<br />
|-<br />
|wiki.ubc.ca/Course:ABCD123/2015WT1/Student_Activities<br />
|section of your course where students contribute, write assignments, etc...<br />
|-<br />
|wiki.ubc.ca/Course:ABCD123/2015WT1/Student_Activities/Assignment_1/John_Doe <br />
| John Doe's first Assignment<br />
|-<br />
|wiki.ubc.ca/Course:ABCD123/2015WT1/Student_Activities/Assignment_1/Jane_Smith<br />
| Jane Smith's first Assignment<br />
|}<br />
<br />
Please visit [[Course:ABCD123]] to see how the above organizational examples work.<br />
<br />
{{Create_Course_Page_Box}}<br />
<br />
==Using Categories==<br />
<br />
[[Help:Categories|Categories]] can help you keep all pages related to your course together as well as make the course findable in larger contexts. For example, if you are teaching class ABCD123, you might want to create a category called ABC123 and add every course page to that category. You can do this by adding the following code to your pages: <nowiki>[[Category:ABCD123]]</nowiki>. <br />
<br />
You can also add your course to broader categories. For example, if course ABCD123 were an economics class, adding the main page to the [[:category:economics|economics category]] will help create a broader picture of all physics topics at UBC as well as make your course easier to find.<br />
<br />
If you categorize the top level page of your course with it's four letter subject code, it will be automatically added to the [[Course#Course_Space_Contents|course space index]]. For example, the category <nowiki>[[Category:MATH]]</nowiki> has been added to the top level page for the [[Course:MATH110| Math 110]] course.<br />
<br />
See [[Help: Categories]] for more information.<br />
<br />
==Using Dynamic Page Lists (DPL)==<br />
In its most basic form, the [[Help:Dynamic Page Lists|Dynamic Page Lists]] (DPL) function displays a list of pages in one or more categories or subpages. This could be useful to organizing course content if you want to display all the pages or subpages that relate to your course. <br />
<br />
===Listing subpages===<br />
Copy the following code and put it in the body of a page (such as your main course page) to list all the subpages of that specific subpage (please note that if the page on which the below code has been placed has no subpages, an error will be generated). See [[Help:Dynamic Page Lists]] for more information.<br />
<pre><br />
<dpl><br />
titlematch={{PAGENAME}}/%<br />
namespace={{NAMESPACE}}<br />
shownamespace=false<br />
</dpl><br />
</pre><br />
<br />
===Listing categories===<br />
Copy the following code and put it in the body to list all the categories.<br />
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<dpl><br />
category= categoryname<br />
</dpl><br />
</pre><br />
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Categoryname is a placeholder for whatever category you wish to list.<br />
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See [[Help:Dynamic Page Lists]] for more information.<br />
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== Copyrighted Material ==<br />
Only upload materials that you own the copyright to or have permission to share. However, if you wish to link to copyrighted material that is available through the UBC [[Library]], you may use the [[Template:UBC eLink |eLink Template]] or the [[Template:Permalink|Permalink Template]] to create hyperlinked icons to the material. Please visit [[Help:Linking to UBC Library Material]] for more information.<br />
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*Visit http://copyright.ubc.ca for more information about copyright policies.<br />
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== Additional Resources ==<br />
*[http://www.smartteaching.org/blog/2008/08/50-ways-to-use-wikis-for-a-more-collaborative-and-interactive-classroom/ 50 Ways to Use Wikis for a More Collaborative and Interactive Classroom]<br />
*[http://ascilite.org.au/conferences/perth04/procs/augar.html Teaching and learning online with wikis]<br />
*[http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.113.7307&rep=rep1&type=pdf Wikis and Wikipedia as a Teaching Tool]<br />
*[http://www2.uwstout.edu/content/profdev/rubrics/wikirubric.html Ruberic for Wiki Work] <br />
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<div>__NOEDITSECTION__{{Help Nav}}The UBC Wiki is an excellent tool for managing, creating, and sharing course content. You can use it for a wide range of activities: from creating a central repository of course info to hosting online student discussions. The possibilities are endless and how you use the Wiki is really up to you.<br />
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==Organizing your Course Content== <br />
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One of the most important steps when using the UBC Wiki is organizing your content within the Wiki. There are three basic levels of organization that all course pages should meet:<br />
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====First, Put Your Course Pages into the Course Space====<br />
Make sure your course work is in proper space. The UBC Wiki is organized into different [[help:namespaces|spaces]]; course work fits best into the [[Course]] space. <br />
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Putting course pages into the [[Course]] space keeps the UBC Wiki organized and structured. For example, if you create a page entitled "Student Assignments" and it is in the main space on the wiki (such as at wiki.ubc.ca/student_assignments), users of the wiki will think that it is a general knowledge article on the topic of student assignments at UBC and not something that relates specifically to your course. <br />
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'''''Please note''''': if you create course pages that are not located in the Course space, we may move your pages into the Course space for you.<br />
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====Second, Use Your Course Number====<br />
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Another good practice when creating course pages is to organize the pages by the course number. For example, if you create a page entitled "Course:Student Assignments", it is not clear to which course the student assignment page belongs. Instead Course:ABCD123/Student Assignments shows that the student assignment page belongs to course ABCD123. <br />
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====Finally, Use Subpages to Keep Course Pages Together====<br />
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We suggest that every course have a main page and that this main page be the course number. The main page for the example course ABCD123 would be Course:ABCD123. Additional content can then be added as [[help:subpages|subpages]]. To create a subpage for a course page, put a forward slash '/' after the course name and type in the name for that subpage. For example, a subpage for the course ABCD123, would follow this pattern: Course:ABD123/subpage. Subpages automatically create links to their parent pages.<br />
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==Examples of Course Organization==<br />
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Here are some ideas on how you could setup your course:<br />
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{| class="wikitable" <br />
!width="60%"|Course Name (URL)<br />
!width="40%"|Description<br />
|-<br />
|<nowiki>wiki.ubc.ca/Course:ABCD123/ </nowiki><br />
|Your course homepage, please keep it up to date with the contact info, registration information and other important information.<br />
|-<br />
|wiki.ubc.ca/Course:ABCD123/2015WT1/ <br />
|The course homepage for 2015, Winter Term 1. If you plan to keep and differentiate information for the course over different terms it might make sense to have separate subpages for different terms. <br />
|-<br />
|wiki.ubc.ca/Course:ABCD123/2015WT1/Course_Notes <br />
|Your course notes could go here; please use subpages to separate different content <br />
|-<br />
|wiki.ubc.ca/Course:ABCD123/2015WT1/Course_Notes/Unit1 <br />
|Typical lecture notes<br />
|-<br />
|wiki.ubc.ca/Course:ABCD123/2015WT1/Student_Activities<br />
|section of your course where students contribute, write assignments, etc...<br />
|-<br />
|wiki.ubc.ca/Course:ABCD123/2015WT1/Student_Activities/Assignment_1/John_Doe <br />
| John Doe's first Assignment<br />
|-<br />
|wiki.ubc.ca/Course:ABCD123/2015WT1/Student_Activities/Assignment_1/Jane_Smith<br />
| Jane Smith's first Assignment<br />
|}<br />
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Please visit [[Course:ABCD123]] to see how the above organizational examples work.<br />
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{{Create_Course_Page_Box}}<br />
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==Using Categories==<br />
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[[Help:Categories|Categories]] can help you keep all pages related to your course together as well as make the course findable in larger contexts. For example, if you are teaching class ABCD123, you might want to create a category called ABC123 and add every course page to that category. You can do this by adding the following code to your pages: <nowiki>[[Category:ABCD123]]</nowiki>. <br />
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You can also add your course to broader categories. For example, if course ABCD123 were an economics class, adding the main page to the [[:category:economics|economics category]] will help create a broader picture of all physics topics at UBC as well as make your course easier to find.<br />
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If you categorize the top level page of your course with it's four letter subject code, it will be automatically added to the [[Course#Course_Space_Contents|course space index]]. For example, the category <nowiki>[[Category:MATH]]</nowiki> has been added to the top level page for the [[Course:MATH110| Math 110]] course.<br />
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See [[Help: Categories]] for more information.<br />
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==Using Dynamic Page Lists (DPL)==<br />
In its most basic form, the [[Help:Dynamic Page Lists|Dynamic Page Lists]] (DPL) function displays a list of pages in one or more categories or subpages. This could be useful to organizing course content if you want to display all the pages or subpages that relate to your course. <br />
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===Listing subpages===<br />
Copy the following code and put it in the body of a page (such as your main course page) to list all the subpages of that specific subpage (please note that if the page on which the below code has been placed has no subpages, an error will be generated). See [[Help:Dynamic Page Lists]] for more information.<br />
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<dpl><br />
titlematch={{PAGENAME}}/%<br />
namespace={{NAMESPACE}}<br />
shownamespace=false<br />
</dpl><br />
</pre><br />
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===Listing categories===<br />
Copy the following code and put it in the body to list all the categories.<br />
<pre><br />
<dpl><br />
category= categoryname<br />
</dpl><br />
</pre><br />
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Categoryname is a placeholder for whatever category you wish to list.<br />
<br />
See [[Help:Dynamic Page Lists]] for more information.<br />
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== Copyrighted Material ==<br />
Only upload materials that you own the copyright to or have permission to share. However, if you wish to link to copyrighted material that is available through the UBC [[Library]], you may use the [[Template:UBC eLink |eLink Template]] or the [[Template:Permalink|Permalink Template]] to create hyperlinked icons to the material. Please visit [[Help:Linking to UBC Library Material]] for more information.<br />
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*Visit http://copyright.ubc.ca for more information about copyright policies.<br />
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== Additional Resources ==<br />
*[http://www.smartteaching.org/blog/2008/08/50-ways-to-use-wikis-for-a-more-collaborative-and-interactive-classroom/ 50 Ways to Use Wikis for a More Collaborative and Interactive Classroom]<br />
*[http://ascilite.org.au/conferences/perth04/procs/augar.html Teaching and learning online with wikis]<br />
*[http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.113.7307&rep=rep1&type=pdf Wikis and Wikipedia as a Teaching Tool]<br />
*[http://www2.uwstout.edu/content/profdev/rubrics/wikirubric.html Ruberic for Wiki Work] <br />
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First draft of this page derived from: http://wiki.ubc.ca/Help:Using_the_UBC_Wiki_for_Course_Work<br />
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<div>__NOEDITSECTION__{{Help Nav}}On the Kumu Wiki, you can categorize pages and files by appending one or more '''Category''' {{#ifeq:Category|{{ns:category}}||'''({{ns:category}})'''}} tags to the content text. Adding these tags creates links at the bottom of the page that take you to the list of all pages in that category, which makes it easy to browse related articles.<br />
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===Using Categories===<br />
A page in any namespace can be put in a category by adding a category tag to the page (by convention, at the end of the page), e.g.:<br />
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[[Category:Category name]]<br />
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Categories are useful for keeping track of your pages in collections. For example, to add an article called "Albert Einstein" to the category "People", you would edit the Albert Einstein article and add "[[Category:People]]" (no quotes) into its page source somewhere.<br />
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This will cause the article to be automatically listed on the associated category page, and it will also create a link in the article to the category page.<br />
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First draft of this page derived from: http://wiki.ubc.ca/UBC_Wiki:FAQs<br />
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<div>__NOEDITSECTION__{{Help Nav}}On the Kumu Wiki, you can categorize pages and files by appending one or more '''Category''' {{#ifeq:Category|{{ns:category}}||'''({{ns:category}})'''}} tags to the content text. Adding these tags creates links at the bottom of the page that take you to the list of all pages in that category, which makes it easy to browse related articles.<br />
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===Using Categories===<br />
A page in any namespace can be put in a category by adding a category tag to the page (by convention, at the end of the page), e.g.:<br />
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[[Category:Category name]]<br />
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Categories are useful for keeping track of your pages in collections. For example, to add an article called "Albert Einstein" to the category "People", you would edit the Albert Einstein article and add "[[Category:People]]" (no quotes) into its page source somewhere.<br />
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This will cause the article to be automatically listed on the associated category page, and it will also create a link in the article to the category page.<br />
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First draft of this page derived from: http://wiki.ubc.ca/UBC_Wiki:FAQs<br />
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[[Category: Help]]</div>Tagarwalhttps://kumu.tru.ca/index.php?title=Help:Categories&diff=8154Help:Categories2015-03-12T19:06:10Z<p>Tagarwal: </p>
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<div>__NOEDITSECTION__{{Help Nav}}On the Kumu Wiki, you can categorize pages and files by appending one or more '''Category''' {{#ifeq:Category|{{ns:category}}||'''({{ns:category}})'''}} tags to the content text. Adding these tags creates links at the bottom of the page that take you to the list of all pages in that category, which makes it easy to browse related articles.<br />
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===Using Categories===<br />
A page in any namespace can be put in a category by adding a category tag to the page (by convention, at the end of the page), e.g.:<br />
<br><br />
[[Category:Category name]]<br />
<br><br />
Categories are useful for keeping track of your pages in collections. For example, to add an article called "Albert Einstein" to the category "People", you would edit the Albert Einstein article and add "[[Category:People]]" (no quotes) into its page source somewhere.<br />
<br><br />
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This will cause the article to be automatically listed on the associated category page, and it will also create a link in the article to the category page.<br />
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First draft of this page derived from: http://wiki.ubc.ca/UBC_Wiki:FAQs</div>Tagarwalhttps://kumu.tru.ca/index.php?title=Help:Categories&diff=8153Help:Categories2015-03-12T19:05:34Z<p>Tagarwal: </p>
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<div>__NOEDITSECTION__{{Help Nav}}On the Kumu Wiki, you can categorize pages and files by appending one or more '''Category''' {{#ifeq:Category|{{ns:category}}||'''({{ns:category}})'''}} tags to the content text. Adding these tags creates links at the bottom of the page that take you to the list of all pages in that category, which makes it easy to browse related articles.<br />
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==Using Categories==<br />
A page in any namespace can be put in a category by adding a category tag to the page (by convention, at the end of the page), e.g.:<br />
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[[Category:Category name]]<br />
Categories are useful for keeping track of your pages in collections. For example, to add an article called "Albert Einstein" to the category "People", you would edit the Albert Einstein article and add "[[Category:People]]" (no quotes) into its page source somewhere.<br />
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This will cause the article to be automatically listed on the associated category page, and it will also create a link in the article to the category page.<br />
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First draft of this page derived from: http://wiki.ubc.ca/UBC_Wiki:FAQs</div>Tagarwalhttps://kumu.tru.ca/index.php?title=TRU_Wiki:FAQs&diff=8152TRU Wiki:FAQs2015-03-12T18:58:14Z<p>Tagarwal: </p>
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==[[File:squarefaq.png|50px]] Getting started==<br />
===Where do I start?===<br />
This [[Kumu_Wiki:About|about Kumu page]] would be a pretty good place to get you started. Also, check out the [[Help:contents | help section]] for a listing of all the articles on how to edit, create, and organize information on Kumu.<br />
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*''See Also:'' [[Help:Contents]]<br />
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===How do I edit a page?===<br />
To edit a page, simply click the '''edit''' tab at the top of the page. A form will appear, containing the existing markup. When you have finished making modifications, click the '''Save''' button to commit your changes.<br />
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*''See also:'' [[Help:Editing]]<br />
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===How do I create a new page?===<br />
There are several ways to [[Help:Create_New_Page|create]] a new page, such as:<br />
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*Read through and follow the [[Help:Create_a_New_Page|create new page help page]]<br />
*[[Help:Searching|Search]] for the specific title of the page you want to create. If the page doesn't already exist, click on the link that says "Create this page". <br />
*Create a [[Help:Links|link]] to the page on another page, then click on the red link which appears<br />
*Browse to the intended location of the page, e.g. to create an article with the title "newpage", browse to the URL <tt><nowiki>http://kumu.tru.ca/newpage</nowiki></tt> and then click on the '''create''' tab.<br />
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*''See also:'' [[Help:Create New Page]] <br />
===How do I make a page private?===<br />
You don't. The Kumu Wiki is an open, community wide platform. Anybody with a TRU account can edit it and anybody with an Internet connection can read it. If you have information that is confidential or private in nature, do not add it to the Kumu Wiki. <br />
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===How do I make a word bold or put a title in?===<br />
The [[help:Formatting | formatting]] page lists the different ways to format text on the Kumu Wiki.<br />
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===How do I undo an edit I made?===<br />
All pages have a "page history," which consists of a record of the date and time of every edit, the username of the user who wrote it, and the summary of the changes. To access a page's history, clicking the "history" link in the View box (on the right). On the page that you would like to see the previous versions, click the "History" tab at the top of a page and you will see a list of all previous edits. You can then compare versions (click "Compare selected versions"), see previous versions (click "last" next to the version you would like to see), or reload a previous version (click "undo").<br />
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===How do I add a picture to a page?===<br />
Before you embed or link to [[Help:Adding Media|media content]] on a Kumu wiki page, it must first be uploaded to the wiki. To do this, go to the [[Special:Upload|upload file]] page. Once the file is uploaded the code displaying an image is:<br />
<nowiki>[[</nowiki>File:''file name.extension''<nowiki>]]</nowiki><br />
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*''See also:'' [[Help:Adding Media]]<br />
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''[[#top|back to top]]''<br />
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==[[File:squarefaq.png|50px]] Organizing==<br />
===I'm not sure what part of the wiki my page belongs in? How do I decide if where to put it?===<br />
Unlike other wikis, Kumu uses collections of pages (called [[Help:Namespaces|Namespaces]]) to help keep the wiki organized. This [[Help:Namespaces#Examples_of_What_Type_of_Content_Goes_Where|chart]] provides a good starting place for understanding what type of pages goes where. For example, course pages probably go into the [[course]] namespace and meeting notes might work best in the [[Notepad]].<br />
*''See also:'' [[Help:Namespaces]]<br />
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===How do I add my page to the Course space?===<br />
To add a new page to the [[course|Course space]] (or to the [[documentation|Documentation space]]), prefix the page name you want to create with the space name and a colon (either "Course:" or "Documentation:"). For example, the page name <tt>ABCD123</tt> would be added after the space name "Course:" to make <tt>Course:ABCD123</tt>. You can create the new page by searching for this full title or browsing to the extended url, for example: <tt>kumu.tru.ca/course:ABCD123</tt>. To add an already existing page to the course space, use the [http://index.php?title=Help:Moving_a_page&action move function] and rename the page with the "Course:" prefix. For example, a page named <tt>ABCD123</tt> would be renamed <tt>Course:ABCD123</tt>.<br />
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*''See also:'' [[Help:Namespaces]], [[Main_Page|Getting Started]]<br />
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===How do I add my page to an existing category? How do I create a new category?===<br />
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To add a page or uploaded file to a [[Help:Categories|category]], simply edit the page and add the following text (where ''NAME'' is the name of the category you want to add it to).<br />
<nowiki>[[</nowiki>{{ns:category}}:''NAME'']]<br />
If the category doesn't already exist, it's created automatically.<br />
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*''See also:'' [[Help:Categories]]<br />
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===I'd like to change the title of my page. How do I rename it?===<br />
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Renaming pages is done by [[Help:Moving a page|moving the page]] using the "move tab" at the top of the edit screen. Clicking on the move tab will give you the option to move the current page to a new page with a new title. A [[Help:Redirects|redirect]] from the old title will automatically be created. <br />
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*''See also:'' [[Help:Moving a page]]<br />
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===My page was moved or renamed. What gives?===<br />
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As the Kumu Wiki grows, keeping it organized is important. Good organization helps ensure information on the wiki is easy to find and accessible and that the Kumu Wiki as a the whole is useful. As part of this mandate we will be moving and renaming pages to make sure that are in the right spaces and places on the wiki. <br />
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*''See also:'' [[Help:Moving a page]]<br />
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==[[File:squarefaq.png|50px]] Page Management==<br />
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===How do I restrict my course pages to students enrolled in the class?===<br />
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The Kumu Wiki is an open platform that runs on an installation of the MediaWiki software platform. It is not possible on this platform to restrict individual pages to a predefined course list. If you are looking for a tool that gives you the ability to restrict course pages to enrolled students, there are a number of other platforms that might work well. You can also create private class blogs or groups at http://inside.tru.ca/blogroll/<br />
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===How do I sign my messages on discussion or talk pages?===<br />
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The discussion pages automatically add your signature to a comment or reply. However, you can also manually add your signature by putting four tilde marks after your message: <nowiki>~~~~</nowiki>. When the wiki software sees the marks, it automatically inserts your username and a time and date stamp. <br />
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===If a page on my watchlist is moved or renamed, will it still be on my watchlist?===<br />
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Yes, it will be. When a page is [[Help:Moving a page|renamed or moved]], it does not cause a disruption for people watching that page. So for example, if a person puts the page '''Notepad:Example Wiki''' on their watchlist and that page gets renamed to '''Course:Wiki Training''', their watchlist will automatically be updated to include the new name.<br />
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*''See also:'' [[Help:Watchlists]]<br />
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==[[File:squarefaq.png|50px]] Advanced Editing==<br />
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===How do I add a table of contents to my page===<br />
Table of Contents are automatically created when you have more than three headers/sections on your page. Information on how to create headers can be found on [[Help:Formatting#Headers_.26_Lines|the Help:Formatting page]]. If you have three or less sections on your wiki page, you can force the software to generate a table of contents by typing <nowiki>__FORCETOC__</nowiki> onto your wiki page (that's two underscores, FORCETOC in all caps, and then two more underscores). <br />
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===How do I insert a linked footnote or citation into my text?===<br />
Footnotes are automatically organized and linked using the <nowiki><ref>, </ref>, and <references/></nowiki> tags. Please see [[Help:Footnotes and References]] for information on how to use these tags.<br />
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===How do I add a video to my page; can I upload it?===<br />
Videos cannot be directly uploaded to the wiki; instead, the best way to add a video to your wiki page is to upload it to a video hosting service like YouTube, Kaltura, or Vimeo and then embed that video onto your webpage. See [[Help:Adding Media/Video]] for information on how to embed videos.<br />
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===I'd like to copy and paste text from my website. Is there a way to do this without having to reformat all the content?===<br />
The easiest way to do this is to convert the HTML code of the webpage to the proper Wiki Syntax using an online converter. See [[Help:Converting HTML to Wiki Syntax]] for a list of recommended converters. Please be mindful of copyright.<br />
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===I'd like to copy and paste text from a Word document into the Kumu Wiki. Is there a way to do this without having to reformat all the text?===<br />
[http://www.openoffice.org Open Office] allows you to save your files directly in the MediaWiki format, while it can be a bit more complicated in MS Word. See [[Help:Converting Word Documents into Wiki Syntax]] for more information on both options. <br />
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===How do I create a direct link to a pdf so that when someone clicks on the link, it automatically opens the pdf?===<br />
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To create a link so that it goes directly to the file rather than embedding the file, use the word "media" (rather than file). For example:<br />
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*[[Media:About_Stacks.pdf]] will launch the file.<br />
*[[:File:About_Stacks.pdf]] links to the file page.<br />
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===How do I add a Google Map to my page?===<br />
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Google maps are added using the <nowiki><googlemap> and </googlemap> tags</nowiki>. You must also know the latitude and longitude for the center point of your map. The page at [[Help:Adding Media/Google Maps]] provides in-depth information for how to properly format the code for a google map. <br />
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===How do I delete a page?===<br />
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By default, MediaWiki (the software that the Kumu Wiki runs on) does not allow individual users to delete pages. This is partially based on the theory that pages on the wiki are not "owned" by any one person but rather belong to the community. Users can request or nominate pages for deletion by typing <nowiki>{{delete}}</nowiki> at the top of their page.<br />
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*''See also:'' [[Help:Deleting a page]]<br />
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===How do I make external links open in a new window?===<br />
Unfortunately, MediaWiki (the software on which the wiki runs) does not have a way in which [[Help:Formatting|wiki markup code]] can be used to open individual links in new windows (in the way that HTML-based web pages can use the target="_blank" code). Generally speaking, this setting is probably due to the reasoning that opening links in new windows does not necessarily meet web accessibility guidelines or current usability practices. For more information, this [http://www.webcredible.co.uk/user-friendly-resources/web-usability/new-browser-windows.shtml write up] explores the usability issues with opening links in new windows and the [http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG-TECHS/G200.html W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)] technique page talks briefly about the accessibility issues.<br />
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===How do I embed my twitter stream into my wiki page===<br />
[[Help:Widgets/Twitter|Twitter]] and other social media apps can be embedded in the Kumu Wiki through the use of [[Help:Widgets|widgets]]. Please see the [[Help:Widgets]] page for more information.<br />
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[[Help:Contents|Kumu Help]]<br />
[[Category: Help]]<br />
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First draft of this page derived from: http://wiki.ubc.ca/UBC_Wiki:FAQs</div>Tagarwalhttps://kumu.tru.ca/index.php?title=Help:User_page&diff=8151Help:User page2015-03-12T18:37:41Z<p>Tagarwal: </p>
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<div>__NOEDITSECTION__{{Help Nav}}A '''{{lcfirst:{{ns:2}}}} page''' is a page about a Kumu wiki user; someone who registered on the wiki, and is (most probably) a contributor.<br />
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If you have registered, you can create your own user page. Your user page is linked in the top right. More importantly, others will see links to your user page from various places which assist wiki collaboration. This includes the “{{int:Recentchanges}}” and “{{lcfirst:{{int:history}}}}” displays (See [[Help:Tracking changes]]). You can also link to your user page within text of a wiki page, which is mainly useful on [[Help:Talk pages|talk pages]] when you sign your name.<br />
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== What to put on your user page ==<br />
User pages are just as flexible as any other wiki page, and it's a page all about you, so generally people will leave you to freely write your user page in whatever format you like. It's a feature to help other people know who you are, and to bring the online community closer together. Think of it as a “profile” page. You might like to mention where you are from and what your job is. You can also state what your main areas of interest are in relation to the topic of the wiki, and describe contributions you have made or areas where you are interested in contributing.<br />
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===How do I make a page private?===<br />
You don't. Wiki is an open, community wide platform. Anybody with a Kumu account can edit it and anybody with an Internet connection can read it. If you have information that is confidential or private in nature, do not add it to the Wiki. As an alternative, TRU Blogs supports granular levels of privacy.<br />
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===How do I make a word bold or put a title in?===<br />
The formatting page lists the different ways to format text on the Kumu Wiki.<br />
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===How do I undo an edit I made?===<br />
All pages have a "page history," which consists of a record of the date and time of every edit, the username of the user who wrote it, and the summary of the changes. To access a page's history, clicking the "history" link in the View box (on the right). On the page that you would like to see the previous versions, click the "History" tab at the top of a page and you will see a list of all previous edits. You can then compare versions (click "Compare selected versions"), see previous versions (click "last" next to the version you would like to see), or reload a previous version (click "undo").<br />
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==User subpages==<br />
You can add subpages to your user page using the following syntax:<br />
<pre>User:YourUsername/SubpageName</pre><br />
Your user pages are your own space. You can add any type of content as a subpage and it's a great space on the wiki for adding pages about your personal research, projects, presentations, etc. <br />
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== Other people's user pages ==<br />
As mentioned above, you will see links to other people's user pages, in various places throughout the wiki.<br />
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=== User Contributions ===<br />
When viewing another person's user page, an additional link “{{lcfirst:{{int:contributions}}}}" appears in the “{{lcfirst:{{int:toolbox}}}}” of the [[Help:Navigation#Sidebar|sidebar]]. This takes you to a list of all of this user's wiki edits. Use this to get an idea of how prolific a contributor somebody is, or to track down edits made by a user who is causing trouble/making bad wiki edits.<br />
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=== Editing someone else's page ===<br />
It's generally considered bad etiquette to rewrite or reword another person's user page. Editing is not disallowed, but you should avoid adding information (or especially opinions) which might be misinterpreted as coming from that user, in situations where this could potentially cause upset. Some types of edit are widely acceptable, and unlikely to cause upset:<br />
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* Fixing internal links, when a page has been [[Help:Moving a page|moved]] or [[Help:Deleting a page|deleted]]<br />
* Fixing broken external links<br />
* Categorizing or fixing categories of user pages.<br />
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=== User talk pages ===<br />
Every user page has an associated talk page; a "{{lcfirst:{{ns:3}}}} page". This is a special kind of talk page, for leaving messages directed at a particular user. See [[Help:Talk pages#User talk pages]].<br />
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=== Link to a user page ===<br />
To create a link to the user page of the user that clicks that link, use [[Special:MyPage]].<br />
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First draft of this page derived from: http://wiki.ubc.ca/UBC_Wiki:FAQs</div>Tagarwalhttps://kumu.tru.ca/index.php?title=Help:Embedding_Social_Media&diff=8150Help:Embedding Social Media2015-03-12T18:33:00Z<p>Tagarwal: </p>
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<div>Social Media or third party applications can be embedded in the Kumu Wiki through the use of widgets [[https://kumu.tru.ca/Help:Widgets|widgets]] <br><br />
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Widgets allow users to embed content from other web services to their wiki pages. If you develop a widget or have an idea for a widget, please let us know about it at blamb@tru.ca<br />
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[[Category:Help]]</div>Tagarwalhttps://kumu.tru.ca/index.php?title=Help:Embedding_Social_Media&diff=8149Help:Embedding Social Media2015-03-12T18:30:21Z<p>Tagarwal: </p>
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<div>Social Media or third party applications can be embedded in the Kumu Wiki through the use of widgets [[https://kumu.tru.ca/Help:Widgets|widgets]] <br><br />
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Widgets allow users to embed content from other web services to their wiki pages. If you develop a widget or have an idea for a widget, please let us know about it at blamb@tru.ca</div>Tagarwalhttps://kumu.tru.ca/index.php?title=Help:Embedding_Social_Media&diff=8148Help:Embedding Social Media2015-03-12T18:29:58Z<p>Tagarwal: </p>
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<div>Social Media or third party applications can be embedded in the Kumu Wiki through the use of widgets [[https://kumu.tru.ca/Help:Widgets]] <br><br />
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Widgets allow users to embed content from other web services to their wiki pages. If you develop a widget or have an idea for a widget, please let us know about it at blamb@tru.ca</div>Tagarwalhttps://kumu.tru.ca/index.php?title=Help:Embedding_Social_Media&diff=8147Help:Embedding Social Media2015-03-12T18:29:02Z<p>Tagarwal: Created page with "Social Media or third party applications can be embedded in the UBC Wiki through the use of widgets https://kumu.tru.ca/Help:Widgets Widgets allow users to embed content f..."</p>
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<div>Social Media or third party applications can be embedded in the UBC Wiki through the use of widgets [[https://kumu.tru.ca/Help:Widgets]]<br />
Widgets allow users to embed content from other web services to their wiki pages. If you develop a widget or have an idea for a widget, please let us know about it at blamb@tru.ca</div>Tagarwalhttps://kumu.tru.ca/index.php?title=Help:Adding_Media&diff=8146Help:Adding Media2015-03-11T17:50:45Z<p>Tagarwal: /* Image Options */</p>
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<div>Before you embed a picture on a Kumu page, it must first be uploaded [//kumu.tru.ca/Special:UploadWizard|uploaded to the wiki]. To do this, go to the [[Special:Upload|Upload File]] page which should also be on the left navigation bar under toolbox. <br />
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==Adding a Picture to a Kumu Wiki Page==<br />
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===External image syntax===<br />
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{{Help:Adding_Media/Images_and_Pictures/External_Image_Syntax}}<br />
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===Internal image syntax===<br />
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{{Help:Adding_Media/Images_and_Pictures/Internal_Image_Syntax}}<br />
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==Additional Image Display Options==<br />
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===Resizing option===<br />
Change the size of the image using the following parameters:<br />
* ''{width}'''''px''' — Resizes the image to fit within the given maximum width in pixels, without restricting its height;<br />
* '''x'''''{height}'''''px''' — Resizes the image to fit within the given maximum height in pixels, without restricting its width;<br />
* ''{width}'''''x'''''{height}'''''px''' — Resizes the image to fit within the given width and height in pixels;<br />
* '''upright''' — Resizes an image to fit within reasonnable dimensions, according to user preferences (suitable for images whose height is larger than width).<br />
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:: ''Note'' that the image will always retain its aspect ratio, and can only be reduced in size if it's not in a scalable media type such as SVG (bitmap images cannot be scaled up). The default maximum size depends on the ''format'' and the internal image dimensions (according to its media type).<br />
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Examples:<br />
{| class="wikitable" width="100%"<br />
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! Width Option !! Code to Use !! Example Image<br />
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| Image 50 pixels wide || <nowiki>[[File:ExampleImage.jpg|50px|This is the caption]]</nowiki><br />
|| [[File:ExampleImage.jpg|50px|This is the caption]]<br />
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| Image 100 pixels wide || <nowiki>[[File:ExampleImage.jpg|100px|This is the caption]]</nowiki> || [[File:ExampleImage.jpg|100px|This is the caption]]<br />
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| Image 200 pixels tall || <nowiki>[[File:ExampleImage.jpg|x200px|This is the caption]]</nowiki>|| [[File:ExampleImage.jpg|x200px|This is the caption]]<br />
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===Horizontal alignment option===<br />
one of '''left''', '''right''', '''center''', '''none'''; This controls the horizontal alignment (and inline/block or floating styles) of the image within a text (no default value).<br />
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Examples:<br />
{| class="wikitable" width="100%"<br />
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! Format Option !! Code to Use !! Example Image<br />
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| Left Aligned Image (sized to be 50 pixels wide) || <nowiki>[[File:ExampleImage.jpg|50px|left|This is the caption]]</nowiki><br />
|| [[File:ExampleImage.jpg|50px|left|This is the caption]]<br />
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| Right Alight Image (sized to be 50 pixels) || <nowiki>[[File:ExampleImage.jpg|50px|right|This is the caption]]</nowiki> || [[File:ExampleImage.jpg|50px|right|This is the caption]]<br />
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===Vertical alignment option=== <br />
one of '''baseline''', '''sub''', '''super''', '''top''', '''text-top''', '''middle''', '''bottom''', '''text-bottom'''; ThisControls the vertical alignment of a non-floatting inline image with the text before or after the image, and in the same block (the default vertical alignment is '''middle''').<br />
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Examples:<br />
{| class="wikitable" width="100%"<br />
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! Format Option !! Code to Use !! Example Image<br />
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| Top Aligned Image (sized to be 100 pixels wide) || <nowiki>[[File:ExampleImage.jpg|100px|top|This is the caption]]</nowiki><br />
|| Here is some text[[File:ExampleImage.jpg|100px|top|This is the caption]]Here is some text<br />
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| Bottom Alight Image (sized to be 100 pixels) || <nowiki>[[File:ExampleImage.jpg|100px|bottom|This is the caption]]</nowiki> || Here is some text [[File:ExampleImage.jpg|100px|bottom|This is the caption]] Here is some text<br />
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===Link option=== <br />
* '''link='''''{target}'' — Allows to change the target (to an arbitrary page title, or URL) of the generated link, activable on the rendered image surface;<br />
* '''link=''' (with an empty value) — Displays an image without any activable link; e.g. <code><nowiki>[[</nowiki>File:ExampleImage.jpg|20px|link=]]</code> renders as [[File:ExampleImage.jpg|20px|link=]].<br />
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:: Note that the '''link''' option cannot be used in conjunction with '''thumb''' or '''thumbnail''', as '''thumb''' is always meant to link to the larger version of the image. In addition, '''link''' cannot be used with '''frame'''.<br />
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===Other specific options:===<br />
*'''alt='''''{alternative text}'' — Defines the alternative text (maps to the HTML attribute <code>alt="..."</code> of the generated <code>&lt;image /&gt;</code> element) of an image that will be rendered if either the referenced image cannot be downloaded and embedded, or if the support media must use the alternative description text (e.g. when using a Braille reader or with accessibility options set by the user in its browser).<br />
*'''page='''''{number}'' — Renders the specified page number (currently only applicable when showing a .djvu or .pdf file).<br />
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The options can be given in any order. If the given ''options'' conflict each other, the latter is applied, except for the ''format'' options, where the options take the priority in the order of: '''frame'''; '''thumb''' (or '''thumbnail'''); '''frameless''' and/or '''border'''.<br />
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If a parameter does not match any of the other possibilities, it is assumed to be the caption text. Caption text shows below the image in '''thumb''' and '''frame''' formats, or as mouseover text in '''border''', '''frameless''' formats or when the format is omitted. Caption text displayed in the '''thumb''' and '''frame''' formats may contain wiki links and other formatting. In the other options, wiki-formatting will not work though transclusion will.<br />
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If no caption text is supplied, a caption is automatically created showing the file name. To completely remove the caption, set it to <code><nowiki><span title=""></span></nowiki></code>. For example, <code><nowiki>[[File:ExampleImage.jpg|20px|<span title=""></span>]]</nowiki></code> renders as [[File:ExampleImage.jpg|20px|<span title=""></span>]]<br />
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*The MediaWiki [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Images help page on images] is a good resource for learning how to format images.<br />
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==Embedding an Image Hosted on Another Website==<br />
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If an image is hosted on another website, it can also be displayed on the Kumu Wiki:<br />
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{|class="wikitable" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3"<br />
! Formatting !! Example of Wiki Code to Use !! Display<br />
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| Just add the image URL to the wiki page || <nowiki>http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3220/2882594321_bdaf3dcb3b.jpg<br />
</nowiki> || For example, http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3220/2882594321_bdaf3dcb3b.jpg.<br />
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| To provide attribution for a photo (for instance if it is a [http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/ Creative Commons Licensed work on Flickr]), upload the photo and put it in a frame with attribution || <nowiki>[[Image:Pinnochio in Urbino.jpg|center|frame|Uploaded to Flickr by [http://www.flickr.com/photos/38795936@N00/2882594321/sizes/m/ Sparklefish]]]<br />
</nowiki> || [[Image:Pinnochio in Urbino.jpg|center|frame|Uploaded to Flickr by [http://www.flickr.com/photos/38795936@N00/2882594321/sizes/m/ Sparklefish]]]<br />
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==Direct Text Link to a Uploaded File==<br />
Instead of displaying a file on a wiki page, it's also possible to create a text link directly to the file itself. There are two options when linking to an uploaded file.<br />
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{|class="wikitable" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="3" width="100%"<br />
! Formatting !! Wiki Code !! Display<br />
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| Direct Link to Uploaded File || <nowiki>[[Media:file-name.ext]]. For example, [[Media:Filelink-button.png]].</nowiki> || For example, [[Media:Filelink-button.png]].<br />
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| Link to the Wiki's Uploaded File || <nowiki>[[:File:Filelink-button.png]].</nowiki> || [[:File:Filelink-button.png]].<br />
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==See Also==<br />
*The MediaWiki [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Images help page on images] is a good resource for learning how to format images.<br />
*[[Help:Adding_Media/Video|Adding Video]]<br />
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[[Category:Help]]</div>Tagarwalhttps://kumu.tru.ca/index.php?title=Help:Categories&diff=8145Help:Categories2015-03-11T17:23:41Z<p>Tagarwal: </p>
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<div>__NOEDITSECTION__{{Help Nav}}On the Kumu Wiki, you can categorize pages and files by appending one or more '''Category''' {{#ifeq:Category|{{ns:category}}||'''({{ns:category}})'''}} tags to the content text. Adding these tags creates links at the bottom of the page that take you to the list of all pages in that category, which makes it easy to browse related articles.<br />
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===Where do I start?===<br />
This [[Help:Tutorial|guide]] would be a pretty good place to get you started. Also, check out the [[Help:contents | help section]] for a listing of all the articles on how to edit, create, and organize information on the UBC Wiki.<br />
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*''See Also:'' [[Help:Contents]]<br />
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===How do I edit a page?===<br />
To edit a page, simply click the '''edit''' tab at the top of the page. A form will appear, containing the existing markup. When you have finished making modifications, click the '''Save''' button to commit your changes.<br />
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*''See also:'' [[Help:Editing]]<br />
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===How do I create a new page?===<br />
There are several ways to create a new page, such as:<br />
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*Use one of the forms on [[Help:Create New Page]]<br />
*[[Help:Searching|Search]] for the specific title of the page you want to create. If the page doesn't already exist, click on the link that says "Create this page". <br />
*Create a [[Help:Links|link]] to the page on another page, then click on the red link which appears<br />
*Browse to the intended location of the page, e.g. to create an article with the title "newpage", browse to the URL <tt><nowiki>http://kumu.tru.ca/newpage</nowiki></tt> and then click on the '''create''' tab.<br />
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*''See also:'' [[Help:Create New Page]]<br />
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===How do I make a page private?===<br />
You don't. The Kumu Wiki is an open, community wide platform. Anybody with a Kumu account can edit it and anybody with an Internet connection can read it. If you have information that is confidential or private in nature, do not add it to Kumu.<br />
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===How do I make a word bold or put a title in?===<br />
The [[help:Formatting | formatting]] page lists the different ways to format text on the Kumu Wiki.<br />
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===How do I undo an edit I made?===<br />
All pages have a "page history," which consists of a record of the date and time of every edit, the username of the user who wrote it, and the summary of the changes. To access a page's history, clicking the "history" link in the View box (on the right). On the page that you would like to see the previous versions, click the "History" tab at the top of a page and you will see a list of all previous edits. You can then compare versions (click "Compare selected versions"), see previous versions (click "last" next to the version you would like to see), or reload a previous version (click "undo").<br />
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===How do I add a picture to a page?===<br />
Before you embed or link to [[Help:Adding Media|media content]] on a Kumu Wiki page, it must first be uploaded to the wiki. To do this, go to the [[Special:Upload|upload file]] page. Once the file is uploaded the code displaying an image is:<br />
<nowiki>[[</nowiki>File:''file name.extension''<nowiki>]]</nowiki><br />
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*''See also:'' [[Help:Adding Media]]<br />
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==[[File:squarefaq.png|50px]] Organizing==<br />
===I'm not sure what part of the wiki my page belong in? How do I decide if where to put it?===<br />
Unlike other wikis, the Kumu Wiki uses collections of pages (called [[Help:Namespaces|Namespaces]]) to help keep the wiki organized. This [[Help:Namespaces#Examples_of_What_Type_of_Content_Goes_Where|chart]] provides a good starting place for understanding what type of pages goes where. For example, course pages probably go into the [[course]] namespace and meeting notes might work best in the [[sandbox]].<br />
*''See also:'' [[Help:Namespaces]]<br />
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===How do I add my page to the Course space?===<br />
To add a new page to the [[course|Course space]] (or to the [[documentation|Documentation space]]), prefix the page name you want to create with the space name and a colon (either "Course:" or "Documentation:"). For example, the page name <tt>ABCD123</tt> would be added after the space name "Course:" to make <tt>Course:ABCD123</tt>. You can create the new page by searching for this full title or browsing to the extended url, for example: <tt>kumu.tru.ca/course:ABCD123</tt>. To add an already existing page to the course space, use the [[Help:Moving_a_page|move function]] and rename the page with the "Course:" prefix. For example, a page named <tt>ABCD123</tt> would be renamed <tt>Course:ABCD123</tt>.<br />
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*''See also:'' [[Help:Namespaces]], [[Help:Moving a page]], [[Help:Starting a new page]]<br />
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===How do I add my page to an existing category? How do I create a new category?===<br />
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To add a page or uploaded file to a [[Help:Categories|category]], simply edit the page and add the following text (where ''NAME'' is the name of the category you want to add it to).<br />
<nowiki>[[</nowiki>{{ns:category}}:''NAME'']]<br />
If the category doesn't already exist, it's created automatically.<br />
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*''See also:'' [[Help:Categories]]<br />
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===I'd like to change the title of my page. How do I rename it?===<br />
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Renaming pages is done by [[Help:Moving a page|moving the page]] using the "move tab" at the top of the edit screen. Clicking on the move tab will give you the option to move the current page to a new page with a new title. A [[Help:Redirects|redirect]] from the old title will automatically be created. <br />
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*''See also:'' [[Help:Moving a page]]<br />
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==[[File:squarefaq.png|50px]] Page Management==<br />
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===How do I restrict my course pages to students enrolled in the class?===<br />
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The Kumu Wiki is an open platform that runs on an installation of the MediaWiki software platform. It is not possible on this platform to restrict individual pages to a predefined course list. If you are looking for a tool that gives you the ability to restrict course pages to enrolled students, there are a number of other platforms that might work as well.<br />
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===How do I sign my messages on discussion or talk pages?===<br />
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The discussion pages automatically add your signature to a comment or reply. However, you can also manually add your signature by putting four tilde marks after your message: <nowiki>~~~~</nowiki>. When the wiki software sees the marks, it automatically inserts your username and a time and date stamp. For example: [[User:WikiAdministrator|WikiAdministrator]] 20:11, 13 July 2010 (UTC) <br />
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*''See also:'' [[Help:Talk pages]]<br />
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===If a page on my watchlist is moved or renamed, will it still be on my watchlist?===<br />
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Yes, it will be. When a page is [[Help:Moving a page|renamed or moved]], it does not cause a disruption for people watching that page. So for example, if a person puts the page '''Sandbox:Example Wiki''' on their watchlist and that page gets renamed to '''Course:Wiki Training''', their watchlist will automatically be updated to include the new name.<br />
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*''See also:'' [[Help:Watchlists]]<br />
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===How do I add a table of contents to my page===<br />
Table of Contents are automatically created when you have more than three headers/sections on your page. Information on how to create headers can be found on [[Help:Formatting#Headers_.26_Lines|the Help:Formatting page]]. If you have three or less sections on your wiki page, you can force the software to generate a table of contents by typing <nowiki>__FORCETOC__</nowiki> onto your wiki page (that's two underscores, FORCETOC in all caps, and then two more underscores). <br />
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===How do I insert a linked footnote or citation into my text?===<br />
Footnotes are automatically organized and linked using the <nowiki><ref>, </ref>, and <references/></nowiki> tags. Please see [[Help:Footnotes and References]] for information on how to use these tags.<br />
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===How do I add a video to my page; can I upload it?===<br />
Videos cannot be directly uploaded to the wiki; instead, the best way to add a video to your wiki page is to upload it to a video hosting service like YouTube, Kaltura, or Vimeo and then embed that video onto your webpage. See [[Help:Adding Media/Video]] for information on how to embed videos.<br />
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===I'd like to copy and paste text from my website. Is there a way to do this without having to reformat all the content?===<br />
The easiest way to do this is to convert the HTML code of the webpage to the proper Wiki Syntax using an online converter. See [[Help:Converting HTML to Wiki Syntax]] for a list of recommended converters. Please be mindful of copyright.<br />
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===I'd like to copy and paste text from a Word document into the Wiki. Is there a way to do this without having to reformat all the text?===<br />
[http://www.openoffice.org Open Office] allows you to save your files directly in the MediaWiki format, while it can be a bit more complicated in MS Word. See [[Help:Converting Word Documents into Wiki Syntax]] for more information on both options. <br />
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===How do I create a direct link to a pdf so that when someone clicks on the link, it automatically opens the pdf?===<br />
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To create a link so that it goes directly to the file rather than embedding the file, use the word "media" (rather than file). For example:<br />
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*[[Media:About_Stacks.pdf]] will launch the file.<br />
*[[:File:About_Stacks.pdf]] links to the file page.<br />
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===Is there was a way to add a collapsible section to a wiki page?===<br />
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Some instructors post exercises to the Kumu Wiki and find it beneficial to have the solution hidden at first so students can attempt to solve the problem on their own. The best way to create a collapsible section is to make a [[Help:Collapsible Tables|Collapsible table]]. To make a table collapsible, simply add the collapsible class to the table itself. The page at [[Help:Collapsible Tables]] gives more information about how to add the class as well as other collapsible parameters you can add to the tables.<br />
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===How do I add a Google Map to my page?===<br />
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Google maps are added using the <nowiki><googlemap> and </googlemap> tags</nowiki>. You must also know the latitude and longitude for the center point of your map. The page at [[Help:Adding Media/Google Maps]] provides in-depth information for how to properly format the code for a google map. <br />
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===How do I delete a page?===<br />
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By default, MediaWiki (the software that the UBC Wiki runs on) does not allow individual users to delete pages. This is partially based on the theory that pages on the wiki are not "owned" by any one person but rather belong to the community. Users can request or nominate pages for deletion by typing <nowiki>{{delete}}</nowiki> at the top of their page.<br />
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*''See also:'' [[Help:Deleting a page]]<br />
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===How do I make external links open in a new window?===<br />
Unfortunately, MediaWiki (the software on which the wiki runs) does not have a way in which [[Help:Formatting|wiki markup code]] can be used to open individual links in new windows (in the way that HTML-based web pages can use the target="_blank" code). Generally speaking, this setting is probably due to the reasoning that opening links in new windows does not necessarily meet web accessibility guidelines or current usability practices. For more information, this [http://www.webcredible.co.uk/user-friendly-resources/web-usability/new-browser-windows.shtml write up] explores the usability issues with opening links in new windows and the [http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG-TECHS/G200.html W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)] technique page talks briefly about the accessibility issues.<br />
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===How do I embed my twitter stream into my wiki page===<br />
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First draft of this page derived from: http://wiki.ubc.ca/UBC_Wiki:FAQs</div>Tagarwalhttps://kumu.tru.ca/index.php?title=Documentation:Learning_Environment/Moodle_Exploration&diff=8117Documentation:Learning Environment/Moodle Exploration2015-03-10T17:54:14Z<p>Tagarwal: /* Potential Moodle Plugins */</p>
<hr />
<div>__TOC__<br />
This page documents the exploration of the capabilities of Moodle to enhance the student learning experience. <br />
<br />
A small closed development environment has been created to try out various tools and themes that might enhance the student experience.<br />
<br />
'''Moodle Development Install: 2.8.2'''<br />
<br />
<br />
==Potential Moodle Plugins==<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
|-<br />
! Plugin Name !! Purpose/Utility !! Comment<br />
|-<br />
| Adobe Connect || Provides an activity level integration between Moodle and Adobe Connect Pro || Not a product that is used.<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffcccc;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Attendance Plugin || Part of Set called Attendance || Not a typical functional issue, will not be loaded at moment.<br />
|-<br />
| Banner/Luminis Mesage Broker || Process courses, users, and enrollments out of SunGard HE/Ellucian Banner. Includes support for realtime notifications from Luminis Message Broker. || Potentially relevant to IT<br />
|-style="background-color:#b3ffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_bigbluebuttonbn BigBlueButton Plugin] || Web conferencing connection || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffc285;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Certificate || This module allows for the dynamic generation of certificates based on predefined conditions set by the teacher. || Currently not available for 2.8<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffc285;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Email-based Self-registration || Provides email-based self-registration with admin confirmation instead of user confirmation. || Currently not available for 2.8<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffcccc;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Face-to-face Plugin || To help manage sessions where registration is required/Event Management || Not typical course scenario, will not be loaded at moment.<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffc285;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Mobile Identity Verification Plugin || Custom plugin by Lambda solutions || Not available on Moodle site<br />
|-<br />
| Moodle Welcome Plugin || Sends a welcome message to new users, sends a notification to a moderator of the new user creation || Future interest???<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffc285;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| My Grades Report Plugin|| A Moodle Report that shows all user grades in all courses || Currently not available for 2.8, future interest<br />
|-style="background-color:#b3ffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Progress Bar Plugin || A time management tool for you and your students || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffcccc;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| SAML Authentication Plugin || SAML Authentication plugin based on the simplesamlphp software. (Also install the SAML Enrolment plugin if you want auto-enrol based on SAML) || More an IT focused plugin, will not currently install<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffcccc;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Subcourse Plugin || The module provides very simple yet useful functionality. When added into a course, it behaves as a graded activity. The grade for each student is took from a final grade in another course. This allows course designers to organize the learning content into separate units. || Future use?? will not load.<br />
|-<br />
| Vericite Plugin || Plagarism detector, requires subscription || Future desire???<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffcccc;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Webinar Plugin || For use with Adobe Connect only || Currently not of interest, will not be loaded.<br />
|-style="background-color:#b3ffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_checklist Checklist Set (Block/Module)] || creates interactive checklist || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#b3ffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_bcu_course_checks Course Checks Block] || This block carries out a number of automated checks on a course, to encourage a minimum standard of course quality, avoid common mistakes and highlight possible areas for improvement. The block also allows for a course to be cleared of empty sections. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#b3ffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://docs.moodle.org/28/en/Collapsed_Topics_course_format Collapsed Topics] || An interchangeable topic or week based format that solves the issue of the 'Scroll of Death' when a course has many topics. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#b3ffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_recordingsbn RecordingsBN] || Access and manage your BigBlueButton recordings || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#b3ffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_journal Journal] || This module allows a teacher to ask students to reflect on a particular topic. The students can edit and refine their answer over time. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#b3ffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_coursefeedback CourseFeedback] || This Block intends to give the system administrators a tool for forced evaluation of a course (or other facts). System administrators can define a set of textual questions, which can be rated from students. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#b3ffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_grade_me Grade Me] || Shows a teacher all of the assignments and manual quiz questions (essays and file responses) that have been submitted, but not graded. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffc285;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Flexpage Flexpage] || Provides complete control over how content is presented. || Not yet supported for 2.8<br />
|-style="background-color:#b3ffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/filter_collapsible Collapsible regions] || Easy way to create collapsible regions within descriptions and text for Moodle. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-<br />
| [http://blogs.technet.com/b/educloud/archive/2013/04/12/a-quick-and-easy-way-to-link-moodle-to-sharepoint-with-collabco-myday.aspx MyDay] || The MyDay Moodle app links an existing Moodle installation to SharePoint. Once the app is installed it guides an administrator through the process of setting up their Moodle installation to talk to the app. All the administrator needs to do it fill out a couple of fields then copy some files into Moodle that the app generates || '''Under Investigation'''<br />
|-<br />
| [http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39932&navItemId=4c58c131-1e7a-44ec-f15b-77098df8bdc7 Moodle and Microsoft] || This page provides guidance on how to use Moodle, an open source course management system for educators, with Office 365’s popular productivity tools and services. || '''Under Investigation'''<br />
|-<br />
| [https://docs.moodle.org/28/en/OneDrive_repository OneDrive] || The Microsoft OneDrive repository (''formerly known as Skydrive'') allows you to access your documents from Microsoft OneDrive within Moodle. || '''Under Investigation'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/report_customsql Ad-hoc database queries] || This report plugin allows Administrators to set up arbitrary database queries to act as ad-hoc reports. Reports can be of two types, either run on demand, or scheduled to run automatically. Other users with the right capability can go in and see a list of queries that they have access to. Results can be viewed on-screen or downloaded as CSV. || '''Requested for install''' <br />
|-style="background-color:#ffffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_gismo GISMO] || GISMO, a graphical interactive student monitoring and tracking system that extracts tracking data from an online course maintained with Moodle, and generates graphical representations that can be explored by course instructors.|| '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/report_overviewstats Overview statistics] || Produces various site and course report charts. The code has been designed in a way that makes adding more reports easy. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_timestat Timestat] || Timestat block measures users real activity time. Time is increased only when Moodle tab is active in browser. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_enrolmenttimer Enrolment Timer] || Block to show the user their remaining time enrolled in a course with live countdown and lots of settings to customise the display of this timer. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/browse.php?list=set&id=58 Experience Points (XP)] || The Experience Point (XP) set contains gamification-style plugins working with experience points given to the students. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_stampcoll Stamp Collection] || The Stamp collection module allows a teacher to give "stamps" (i.e. picture with a comment) to students so they collect these stamps. The activity can be used in many ways, such as motivative bonus marks, absence marks, certification records etc. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/assignsubmission_mahara Mahara Assignment Submission Plugin] || Allows grading of Mahara portfolio pages & collections in Moodle. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/assignfeedback_mahara Mahara Assignment Feedback Plugin] || An optional (but recommended!) addition to the Mahara Assignment Submission plugin. This plugin allows Moodle to automatically unlock submitted Mahara portfolio pages & collections after grading. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|}<br />
<br />
Other Tools:<br />
Intelliboard.net analytical tool : Commercial Analytics - http://www.intelliboard.net/ [http://www.intelliboard.net/pricing Cost]<br />
Ephorus Plagiarism : Plagiarism tools<br />
<br />
==Wishlist of Features==<br />
Relative date setup - activities based on enrollment date<br />
Request in to Moodle.org see: https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-48185 <br />
<br />
==Themes==<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
|-<br />
! Name !! Status<br />
|-<br />
| Aardvark || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Bootstrap 3 || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Bootstrap Base || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Clean || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Elegance ||Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Essential || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| More || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/theme_evolved evolve-D] || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/theme_shoehorn Shoehorn] || Installed<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Moodle Settings==<br />
<br />
==LTI's==<br />
<br />
A potentially useful listing of LTI's: http://developers.imsglobal.org/catalog.html<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Name !! Status<br />
|-<br />
| WordPress || [http://edutechwiki.unige.ch/en/Moodle#Wordpress_integration Described here]|| Stalled due to coding issues because of version updates, will be monitored.<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Technical Questions/Issues==<br />
<br />
* 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. <br />
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.<br />
<br />
* 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.<br />
May be caused by theme not yet being fully 2.8 compliant<br />
<br />
* 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. <br />
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.<br />
<br />
* When trying the bring Big Blue Box into my course, I get a 505 Server Error.<br />
Result of not being an externally connected server. Will not be able to test until on server that has external security settings<br />
<br />
==Links==<br />
* http://opensource.com/education/12/1/designing-aesthetically-pleasing-moodle-courses<br />
* http://iy103-w14.hibbittsdesign.com/course/view.php?id=2<br />
* Discussions on Moodle file structure: <br />
** http://mattcornock.co.uk/moodle/moodle-2-file-repository-course-files<br />
** http://www.somerandomthoughts.com/blog/2010/06/15/ftp-files-into-moodle-2-0-with-the-repository-api/<br />
** https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=168868#p741355<br />
** https://docs.moodle.org/28/en/File_system_repository</div>Tagarwalhttps://kumu.tru.ca/index.php?title=Documentation:Learning_Environment/Moodle_Exploration&diff=8116Documentation:Learning Environment/Moodle Exploration2015-03-10T17:53:04Z<p>Tagarwal: /* Potential Moodle Plugins */</p>
<hr />
<div>__TOC__<br />
This page documents the exploration of the capabilities of Moodle to enhance the student learning experience. <br />
<br />
A small closed development environment has been created to try out various tools and themes that might enhance the student experience.<br />
<br />
'''Moodle Development Install: 2.8.2'''<br />
<br />
<br />
==Potential Moodle Plugins==<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
|-<br />
! Plugin Name !! Purpose/Utility !! Comment<br />
|-<br />
| Adobe Connect || Provides an activity level integration between Moodle and Adobe Connect Pro || Not a product that is used.<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffcccc;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Attendance Plugin || Part of Set called Attendance || Not a typical functional issue, will not be loaded at moment.<br />
|-<br />
| Banner/Luminis Mesage Broker || Process courses, users, and enrollments out of SunGard HE/Ellucian Banner. Includes support for realtime notifications from Luminis Message Broker. || Potentially relevant to IT<br />
|-style="background-color:#b3ffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_bigbluebuttonbn BigBlueButton Plugin] || Web conferencing connection || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffc285;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Certificate || This module allows for the dynamic generation of certificates based on predefined conditions set by the teacher. || Currently not available for 2.8<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffc285;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Email-based Self-registration || Provides email-based self-registration with admin confirmation instead of user confirmation. || Currently not available for 2.8<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffcccc;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Face-to-face Plugin || To help manage sessions where registration is required/Event Management || Not typical course scenario, will not be loaded at moment.<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffc285;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Mobile Identity Verification Plugin || Custom plugin by Lambda solutions || Not available on Moodle site<br />
|-<br />
| Moodle Welcome Plugin || Sends a welcome message to new users, sends a notification to a moderator of the new user creation || Future interest???<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffc285;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| My Grades Report Plugin|| A Moodle Report that shows all user grades in all courses || Currently not available for 2.8, future interest<br />
|-style="background-color:#b3ffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Progress Bar Plugin || A time management tool for you and your students || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffcccc;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| SAML Authentication Plugin || SAML Authentication plugin based on the simplesamlphp software. (Also install the SAML Enrolment plugin if you want auto-enrol based on SAML) || More an IT focused plugin, will not currently install<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffcccc;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Subcourse Plugin || The module provides very simple yet useful functionality. When added into a course, it behaves as a graded activity. The grade for each student is took from a final grade in another course. This allows course designers to organize the learning content into separate units. || Future use?? will not load.<br />
|-<br />
| Vericite Plugin || Plagarism detector, requires subscription || Future desire???<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffcccc;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Webinar Plugin || For use with Adobe Connect only || Currently not of interest, will not be loaded.<br />
|-style="background-color:#b3ffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_checklist Checklist Set (Block/Module)] || creates interactive checklist || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#b3ffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_bcu_course_checks Course Checks Block] || This block carries out a number of automated checks on a course, to encourage a minimum standard of course quality, avoid common mistakes and highlight possible areas for improvement. The block also allows for a course to be cleared of empty sections. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#b3ffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://docs.moodle.org/28/en/Collapsed_Topics_course_format Collapsed Topics] || An interchangeable topic or week based format that solves the issue of the 'Scroll of Death' when a course has many topics. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#b3ffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_recordingsbn RecordingsBN] || Access and manage your BigBlueButton recordings || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#b3ffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_journal Journal] || This module allows a teacher to ask students to reflect on a particular topic. The students can edit and refine their answer over time. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#b3ffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_coursefeedback CourseFeedback] || This Block intends to give the system administrators a tool for forced evaluation of a course (or other facts). System administrators can define a set of textual questions, which can be rated from students. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#b3ffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_grade_me Grade Me] || Shows a teacher all of the assignments and manual quiz questions (essays and file responses) that have been submitted, but not graded. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff5c33;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Flexpage Flexpage] || Provides complete control over how content is presented. || Not yet supported for 2.8<br />
|-style="background-color:#b3ffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/filter_collapsible Collapsible regions] || Easy way to create collapsible regions within descriptions and text for Moodle. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-<br />
| [http://blogs.technet.com/b/educloud/archive/2013/04/12/a-quick-and-easy-way-to-link-moodle-to-sharepoint-with-collabco-myday.aspx MyDay] || The MyDay Moodle app links an existing Moodle installation to SharePoint. Once the app is installed it guides an administrator through the process of setting up their Moodle installation to talk to the app. All the administrator needs to do it fill out a couple of fields then copy some files into Moodle that the app generates || '''Under Investigation'''<br />
|-<br />
| [http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39932&navItemId=4c58c131-1e7a-44ec-f15b-77098df8bdc7 Moodle and Microsoft] || This page provides guidance on how to use Moodle, an open source course management system for educators, with Office 365’s popular productivity tools and services. || '''Under Investigation'''<br />
|-<br />
| [https://docs.moodle.org/28/en/OneDrive_repository OneDrive] || The Microsoft OneDrive repository (''formerly known as Skydrive'') allows you to access your documents from Microsoft OneDrive within Moodle. || '''Under Investigation'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/report_customsql Ad-hoc database queries] || This report plugin allows Administrators to set up arbitrary database queries to act as ad-hoc reports. Reports can be of two types, either run on demand, or scheduled to run automatically. Other users with the right capability can go in and see a list of queries that they have access to. Results can be viewed on-screen or downloaded as CSV. || '''Requested for install''' <br />
|-style="background-color:#ffffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_gismo GISMO] || GISMO, a graphical interactive student monitoring and tracking system that extracts tracking data from an online course maintained with Moodle, and generates graphical representations that can be explored by course instructors.|| '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/report_overviewstats Overview statistics] || Produces various site and course report charts. The code has been designed in a way that makes adding more reports easy. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_timestat Timestat] || Timestat block measures users real activity time. Time is increased only when Moodle tab is active in browser. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_enrolmenttimer Enrolment Timer] || Block to show the user their remaining time enrolled in a course with live countdown and lots of settings to customise the display of this timer. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/browse.php?list=set&id=58 Experience Points (XP)] || The Experience Point (XP) set contains gamification-style plugins working with experience points given to the students. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_stampcoll Stamp Collection] || The Stamp collection module allows a teacher to give "stamps" (i.e. picture with a comment) to students so they collect these stamps. The activity can be used in many ways, such as motivative bonus marks, absence marks, certification records etc. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/assignsubmission_mahara Mahara Assignment Submission Plugin] || Allows grading of Mahara portfolio pages & collections in Moodle. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/assignfeedback_mahara Mahara Assignment Feedback Plugin] || An optional (but recommended!) addition to the Mahara Assignment Submission plugin. This plugin allows Moodle to automatically unlock submitted Mahara portfolio pages & collections after grading. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|}<br />
<br />
Other Tools:<br />
Intelliboard.net analytical tool : Commercial Analytics - http://www.intelliboard.net/ [http://www.intelliboard.net/pricing Cost]<br />
Ephorus Plagiarism : Plagiarism tools<br />
<br />
==Wishlist of Features==<br />
Relative date setup - activities based on enrollment date<br />
Request in to Moodle.org see: https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-48185 <br />
<br />
==Themes==<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
|-<br />
! Name !! Status<br />
|-<br />
| Aardvark || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Bootstrap 3 || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Bootstrap Base || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Clean || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Elegance ||Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Essential || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| More || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/theme_evolved evolve-D] || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/theme_shoehorn Shoehorn] || Installed<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Moodle Settings==<br />
<br />
==LTI's==<br />
<br />
A potentially useful listing of LTI's: http://developers.imsglobal.org/catalog.html<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Name !! Status<br />
|-<br />
| WordPress || [http://edutechwiki.unige.ch/en/Moodle#Wordpress_integration Described here]|| Stalled due to coding issues because of version updates, will be monitored.<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Technical Questions/Issues==<br />
<br />
* 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. <br />
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.<br />
<br />
* 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.<br />
May be caused by theme not yet being fully 2.8 compliant<br />
<br />
* 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. <br />
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.<br />
<br />
* When trying the bring Big Blue Box into my course, I get a 505 Server Error.<br />
Result of not being an externally connected server. Will not be able to test until on server that has external security settings<br />
<br />
==Links==<br />
* http://opensource.com/education/12/1/designing-aesthetically-pleasing-moodle-courses<br />
* http://iy103-w14.hibbittsdesign.com/course/view.php?id=2<br />
* Discussions on Moodle file structure: <br />
** http://mattcornock.co.uk/moodle/moodle-2-file-repository-course-files<br />
** http://www.somerandomthoughts.com/blog/2010/06/15/ftp-files-into-moodle-2-0-with-the-repository-api/<br />
** https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=168868#p741355<br />
** https://docs.moodle.org/28/en/File_system_repository</div>Tagarwalhttps://kumu.tru.ca/index.php?title=Documentation:Learning_Environment/Moodle_Exploration&diff=8115Documentation:Learning Environment/Moodle Exploration2015-03-10T17:51:26Z<p>Tagarwal: /* Potential Moodle Plugins */</p>
<hr />
<div>__TOC__<br />
This page documents the exploration of the capabilities of Moodle to enhance the student learning experience. <br />
<br />
A small closed development environment has been created to try out various tools and themes that might enhance the student experience.<br />
<br />
'''Moodle Development Install: 2.8.2'''<br />
<br />
<br />
==Potential Moodle Plugins==<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
|-<br />
! Plugin Name !! Purpose/Utility !! Comment<br />
|-<br />
| Adobe Connect || Provides an activity level integration between Moodle and Adobe Connect Pro || Not a product that is used.<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffcccc;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Attendance Plugin || Part of Set called Attendance || Not a typical functional issue, will not be loaded at moment.<br />
|-<br />
| Banner/Luminis Mesage Broker || Process courses, users, and enrollments out of SunGard HE/Ellucian Banner. Includes support for realtime notifications from Luminis Message Broker. || Potentially relevant to IT<br />
|-style="background-color:#b3ffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_bigbluebuttonbn BigBlueButton Plugin] || Web conferencing connection || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffc285;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Certificate || This module allows for the dynamic generation of certificates based on predefined conditions set by the teacher. || Currently not available for 2.8<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffc285;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Email-based Self-registration || Provides email-based self-registration with admin confirmation instead of user confirmation. || Currently not available for 2.8<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff4d4d;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Face-to-face Plugin || To help manage sessions where registration is required/Event Management || Not typical course scenario, will not be loaded at moment.<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffc285;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Mobile Identity Verification Plugin || Custom plugin by Lambda solutions || Not available on Moodle site<br />
|-<br />
| Moodle Welcome Plugin || Sends a welcome message to new users, sends a notification to a moderator of the new user creation || Future interest???<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffc285;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| My Grades Report Plugin|| A Moodle Report that shows all user grades in all courses || Currently not available for 2.8, future interest<br />
|-style="background-color:#b3ffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Progress Bar Plugin || A time management tool for you and your students || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff4d4d;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| SAML Authentication Plugin || SAML Authentication plugin based on the simplesamlphp software. (Also install the SAML Enrolment plugin if you want auto-enrol based on SAML) || More an IT focused plugin, will not currently install<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff4d4d;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Subcourse Plugin || The module provides very simple yet useful functionality. When added into a course, it behaves as a graded activity. The grade for each student is took from a final grade in another course. This allows course designers to organize the learning content into separate units. || Future use?? will not load.<br />
|-<br />
| Vericite Plugin || Plagarism detector, requires subscription || Future desire???<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffcccc;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Webinar Plugin || For use with Adobe Connect only || Currently not of interest, will not be loaded.<br />
|-style="background-color:#b3ffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_checklist Checklist Set (Block/Module)] || creates interactive checklist || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#b3ffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_bcu_course_checks Course Checks Block] || This block carries out a number of automated checks on a course, to encourage a minimum standard of course quality, avoid common mistakes and highlight possible areas for improvement. The block also allows for a course to be cleared of empty sections. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#b3ffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://docs.moodle.org/28/en/Collapsed_Topics_course_format Collapsed Topics] || An interchangeable topic or week based format that solves the issue of the 'Scroll of Death' when a course has many topics. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#b3ffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_recordingsbn RecordingsBN] || Access and manage your BigBlueButton recordings || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#b3ffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_journal Journal] || This module allows a teacher to ask students to reflect on a particular topic. The students can edit and refine their answer over time. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#b3ffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_coursefeedback CourseFeedback] || This Block intends to give the system administrators a tool for forced evaluation of a course (or other facts). System administrators can define a set of textual questions, which can be rated from students. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#b3ffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_grade_me Grade Me] || Shows a teacher all of the assignments and manual quiz questions (essays and file responses) that have been submitted, but not graded. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff5c33;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Flexpage Flexpage] || Provides complete control over how content is presented. || Not yet supported for 2.8<br />
|-style="background-color:#b3ffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/filter_collapsible Collapsible regions] || Easy way to create collapsible regions within descriptions and text for Moodle. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-<br />
| [http://blogs.technet.com/b/educloud/archive/2013/04/12/a-quick-and-easy-way-to-link-moodle-to-sharepoint-with-collabco-myday.aspx MyDay] || The MyDay Moodle app links an existing Moodle installation to SharePoint. Once the app is installed it guides an administrator through the process of setting up their Moodle installation to talk to the app. All the administrator needs to do it fill out a couple of fields then copy some files into Moodle that the app generates || '''Under Investigation'''<br />
|-<br />
| [http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39932&navItemId=4c58c131-1e7a-44ec-f15b-77098df8bdc7 Moodle and Microsoft] || This page provides guidance on how to use Moodle, an open source course management system for educators, with Office 365’s popular productivity tools and services. || '''Under Investigation'''<br />
|-<br />
| [https://docs.moodle.org/28/en/OneDrive_repository OneDrive] || The Microsoft OneDrive repository (''formerly known as Skydrive'') allows you to access your documents from Microsoft OneDrive within Moodle. || '''Under Investigation'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/report_customsql Ad-hoc database queries] || This report plugin allows Administrators to set up arbitrary database queries to act as ad-hoc reports. Reports can be of two types, either run on demand, or scheduled to run automatically. Other users with the right capability can go in and see a list of queries that they have access to. Results can be viewed on-screen or downloaded as CSV. || '''Requested for install''' <br />
|-style="background-color:#ffffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_gismo GISMO] || GISMO, a graphical interactive student monitoring and tracking system that extracts tracking data from an online course maintained with Moodle, and generates graphical representations that can be explored by course instructors.|| '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/report_overviewstats Overview statistics] || Produces various site and course report charts. The code has been designed in a way that makes adding more reports easy. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_timestat Timestat] || Timestat block measures users real activity time. Time is increased only when Moodle tab is active in browser. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_enrolmenttimer Enrolment Timer] || Block to show the user their remaining time enrolled in a course with live countdown and lots of settings to customise the display of this timer. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/browse.php?list=set&id=58 Experience Points (XP)] || The Experience Point (XP) set contains gamification-style plugins working with experience points given to the students. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_stampcoll Stamp Collection] || The Stamp collection module allows a teacher to give "stamps" (i.e. picture with a comment) to students so they collect these stamps. The activity can be used in many ways, such as motivative bonus marks, absence marks, certification records etc. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/assignsubmission_mahara Mahara Assignment Submission Plugin] || Allows grading of Mahara portfolio pages & collections in Moodle. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/assignfeedback_mahara Mahara Assignment Feedback Plugin] || An optional (but recommended!) addition to the Mahara Assignment Submission plugin. This plugin allows Moodle to automatically unlock submitted Mahara portfolio pages & collections after grading. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|}<br />
<br />
Other Tools:<br />
Intelliboard.net analytical tool : Commercial Analytics - http://www.intelliboard.net/ [http://www.intelliboard.net/pricing Cost]<br />
Ephorus Plagiarism : Plagiarism tools<br />
<br />
==Wishlist of Features==<br />
Relative date setup - activities based on enrollment date<br />
Request in to Moodle.org see: https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-48185 <br />
<br />
==Themes==<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
|-<br />
! Name !! Status<br />
|-<br />
| Aardvark || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Bootstrap 3 || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Bootstrap Base || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Clean || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Elegance ||Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Essential || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| More || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/theme_evolved evolve-D] || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/theme_shoehorn Shoehorn] || Installed<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Moodle Settings==<br />
<br />
==LTI's==<br />
<br />
A potentially useful listing of LTI's: http://developers.imsglobal.org/catalog.html<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Name !! Status<br />
|-<br />
| WordPress || [http://edutechwiki.unige.ch/en/Moodle#Wordpress_integration Described here]|| Stalled due to coding issues because of version updates, will be monitored.<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Technical Questions/Issues==<br />
<br />
* 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. <br />
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.<br />
<br />
* 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.<br />
May be caused by theme not yet being fully 2.8 compliant<br />
<br />
* 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. <br />
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.<br />
<br />
* When trying the bring Big Blue Box into my course, I get a 505 Server Error.<br />
Result of not being an externally connected server. Will not be able to test until on server that has external security settings<br />
<br />
==Links==<br />
* http://opensource.com/education/12/1/designing-aesthetically-pleasing-moodle-courses<br />
* http://iy103-w14.hibbittsdesign.com/course/view.php?id=2<br />
* Discussions on Moodle file structure: <br />
** http://mattcornock.co.uk/moodle/moodle-2-file-repository-course-files<br />
** http://www.somerandomthoughts.com/blog/2010/06/15/ftp-files-into-moodle-2-0-with-the-repository-api/<br />
** https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=168868#p741355<br />
** https://docs.moodle.org/28/en/File_system_repository</div>Tagarwalhttps://kumu.tru.ca/index.php?title=Documentation:Learning_Environment/Moodle_Exploration&diff=8114Documentation:Learning Environment/Moodle Exploration2015-03-10T17:49:49Z<p>Tagarwal: /* Potential Moodle Plugins */</p>
<hr />
<div>__TOC__<br />
This page documents the exploration of the capabilities of Moodle to enhance the student learning experience. <br />
<br />
A small closed development environment has been created to try out various tools and themes that might enhance the student experience.<br />
<br />
'''Moodle Development Install: 2.8.2'''<br />
<br />
<br />
==Potential Moodle Plugins==<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
|-<br />
! Plugin Name !! Purpose/Utility !! Comment<br />
|-<br />
| Adobe Connect || Provides an activity level integration between Moodle and Adobe Connect Pro || Not a product that is used.<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffcccc;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Attendance Plugin || Part of Set called Attendance || Not a typical functional issue, will not be loaded at moment.<br />
|-<br />
| Banner/Luminis Mesage Broker || Process courses, users, and enrollments out of SunGard HE/Ellucian Banner. Includes support for realtime notifications from Luminis Message Broker. || Potentially relevant to IT<br />
|-style="background-color:#b3ffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_bigbluebuttonbn BigBlueButton Plugin] || Web conferencing connection || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffc285;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Certificate || This module allows for the dynamic generation of certificates based on predefined conditions set by the teacher. || Currently not available for 2.8<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffc285;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Email-based Self-registration || Provides email-based self-registration with admin confirmation instead of user confirmation. || Currently not available for 2.8<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff4d4d;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Face-to-face Plugin || To help manage sessions where registration is required/Event Management || Not typical course scenario, will not be loaded at moment.<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffc285;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Mobile Identity Verification Plugin || Custom plugin by Lambda solutions || Not available on Moodle site<br />
|-<br />
| Moodle Welcome Plugin || Sends a welcome message to new users, sends a notification to a moderator of the new user creation || Future interest???<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffc285;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| My Grades Report Plugin|| A Moodle Report that shows all user grades in all courses || Currently not available for 2.8, future interest<br />
|-style="background-color:#b3ffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Progress Bar Plugin || A time management tool for you and your students || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff4d4d;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| SAML Authentication Plugin || SAML Authentication plugin based on the simplesamlphp software. (Also install the SAML Enrolment plugin if you want auto-enrol based on SAML) || More an IT focused plugin, will not currently install<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff4d4d;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Subcourse Plugin || The module provides very simple yet useful functionality. When added into a course, it behaves as a graded activity. The grade for each student is took from a final grade in another course. This allows course designers to organize the learning content into separate units. || Future use?? will not load.<br />
|-<br />
| Vericite Plugin || Plagarism detector, requires subscription || Future desire???<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffc285;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Webinar Plugin || For use with Adobe Connect only || Currently not of interest, will not be loaded.<br />
|-style="background-color:#b3ffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_checklist Checklist Set (Block/Module)] || creates interactive checklist || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#b3ffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_bcu_course_checks Course Checks Block] || This block carries out a number of automated checks on a course, to encourage a minimum standard of course quality, avoid common mistakes and highlight possible areas for improvement. The block also allows for a course to be cleared of empty sections. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#b3ffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://docs.moodle.org/28/en/Collapsed_Topics_course_format Collapsed Topics] || An interchangeable topic or week based format that solves the issue of the 'Scroll of Death' when a course has many topics. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#b3ffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_recordingsbn RecordingsBN] || Access and manage your BigBlueButton recordings || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#b3ffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_journal Journal] || This module allows a teacher to ask students to reflect on a particular topic. The students can edit and refine their answer over time. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#b3ffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_coursefeedback CourseFeedback] || This Block intends to give the system administrators a tool for forced evaluation of a course (or other facts). System administrators can define a set of textual questions, which can be rated from students. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#b3ffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_grade_me Grade Me] || Shows a teacher all of the assignments and manual quiz questions (essays and file responses) that have been submitted, but not graded. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff5c33;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Flexpage Flexpage] || Provides complete control over how content is presented. || Not yet supported for 2.8<br />
|-style="background-color:#b3ffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/filter_collapsible Collapsible regions] || Easy way to create collapsible regions within descriptions and text for Moodle. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-<br />
| [http://blogs.technet.com/b/educloud/archive/2013/04/12/a-quick-and-easy-way-to-link-moodle-to-sharepoint-with-collabco-myday.aspx MyDay] || The MyDay Moodle app links an existing Moodle installation to SharePoint. Once the app is installed it guides an administrator through the process of setting up their Moodle installation to talk to the app. All the administrator needs to do it fill out a couple of fields then copy some files into Moodle that the app generates || '''Under Investigation'''<br />
|-<br />
| [http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39932&navItemId=4c58c131-1e7a-44ec-f15b-77098df8bdc7 Moodle and Microsoft] || This page provides guidance on how to use Moodle, an open source course management system for educators, with Office 365’s popular productivity tools and services. || '''Under Investigation'''<br />
|-<br />
| [https://docs.moodle.org/28/en/OneDrive_repository OneDrive] || The Microsoft OneDrive repository (''formerly known as Skydrive'') allows you to access your documents from Microsoft OneDrive within Moodle. || '''Under Investigation'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/report_customsql Ad-hoc database queries] || This report plugin allows Administrators to set up arbitrary database queries to act as ad-hoc reports. Reports can be of two types, either run on demand, or scheduled to run automatically. Other users with the right capability can go in and see a list of queries that they have access to. Results can be viewed on-screen or downloaded as CSV. || '''Requested for install''' <br />
|-style="background-color:#ffffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_gismo GISMO] || GISMO, a graphical interactive student monitoring and tracking system that extracts tracking data from an online course maintained with Moodle, and generates graphical representations that can be explored by course instructors.|| '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/report_overviewstats Overview statistics] || Produces various site and course report charts. The code has been designed in a way that makes adding more reports easy. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_timestat Timestat] || Timestat block measures users real activity time. Time is increased only when Moodle tab is active in browser. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_enrolmenttimer Enrolment Timer] || Block to show the user their remaining time enrolled in a course with live countdown and lots of settings to customise the display of this timer. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/browse.php?list=set&id=58 Experience Points (XP)] || The Experience Point (XP) set contains gamification-style plugins working with experience points given to the students. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_stampcoll Stamp Collection] || The Stamp collection module allows a teacher to give "stamps" (i.e. picture with a comment) to students so they collect these stamps. The activity can be used in many ways, such as motivative bonus marks, absence marks, certification records etc. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/assignsubmission_mahara Mahara Assignment Submission Plugin] || Allows grading of Mahara portfolio pages & collections in Moodle. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/assignfeedback_mahara Mahara Assignment Feedback Plugin] || An optional (but recommended!) addition to the Mahara Assignment Submission plugin. This plugin allows Moodle to automatically unlock submitted Mahara portfolio pages & collections after grading. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|}<br />
<br />
Other Tools:<br />
Intelliboard.net analytical tool : Commercial Analytics - http://www.intelliboard.net/ [http://www.intelliboard.net/pricing Cost]<br />
Ephorus Plagiarism : Plagiarism tools<br />
<br />
==Wishlist of Features==<br />
Relative date setup - activities based on enrollment date<br />
Request in to Moodle.org see: https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-48185 <br />
<br />
==Themes==<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
|-<br />
! Name !! Status<br />
|-<br />
| Aardvark || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Bootstrap 3 || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Bootstrap Base || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Clean || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Elegance ||Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Essential || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| More || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/theme_evolved evolve-D] || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/theme_shoehorn Shoehorn] || Installed<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Moodle Settings==<br />
<br />
==LTI's==<br />
<br />
A potentially useful listing of LTI's: http://developers.imsglobal.org/catalog.html<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Name !! Status<br />
|-<br />
| WordPress || [http://edutechwiki.unige.ch/en/Moodle#Wordpress_integration Described here]|| Stalled due to coding issues because of version updates, will be monitored.<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Technical Questions/Issues==<br />
<br />
* 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. <br />
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.<br />
<br />
* 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.<br />
May be caused by theme not yet being fully 2.8 compliant<br />
<br />
* 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. <br />
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.<br />
<br />
* When trying the bring Big Blue Box into my course, I get a 505 Server Error.<br />
Result of not being an externally connected server. Will not be able to test until on server that has external security settings<br />
<br />
==Links==<br />
* http://opensource.com/education/12/1/designing-aesthetically-pleasing-moodle-courses<br />
* http://iy103-w14.hibbittsdesign.com/course/view.php?id=2<br />
* Discussions on Moodle file structure: <br />
** http://mattcornock.co.uk/moodle/moodle-2-file-repository-course-files<br />
** http://www.somerandomthoughts.com/blog/2010/06/15/ftp-files-into-moodle-2-0-with-the-repository-api/<br />
** https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=168868#p741355<br />
** https://docs.moodle.org/28/en/File_system_repository</div>Tagarwalhttps://kumu.tru.ca/index.php?title=Documentation:Learning_Environment/Moodle_Exploration&diff=8113Documentation:Learning Environment/Moodle Exploration2015-03-10T17:43:50Z<p>Tagarwal: /* Potential Moodle Plugins */</p>
<hr />
<div>__TOC__<br />
This page documents the exploration of the capabilities of Moodle to enhance the student learning experience. <br />
<br />
A small closed development environment has been created to try out various tools and themes that might enhance the student experience.<br />
<br />
'''Moodle Development Install: 2.8.2'''<br />
<br />
<br />
==Potential Moodle Plugins==<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
|-<br />
! Plugin Name !! Purpose/Utility !! Comment<br />
|-<br />
| Adobe Connect || Provides an activity level integration between Moodle and Adobe Connect Pro || Not a product that is used.<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffcccc;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Attendance Plugin || Part of Set called Attendance || Not a typical functional issue, will not be loaded at moment.<br />
|-<br />
| Banner/Luminis Mesage Broker || Process courses, users, and enrollments out of SunGard HE/Ellucian Banner. Includes support for realtime notifications from Luminis Message Broker. || Potentially relevant to IT<br />
|-style="background-color:#b3ffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_bigbluebuttonbn BigBlueButton Plugin] || Web conferencing connection || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff5c33;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Certificate || This module allows for the dynamic generation of certificates based on predefined conditions set by the teacher. || Currently not available for 2.8<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff6600;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Email-based Self-registration || Provides email-based self-registration with admin confirmation instead of user confirmation. || Currently not available for 2.8<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff4d4d;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Face-to-face Plugin || To help manage sessions where registration is required/Event Management || Not typical course scenario, will not be loaded at moment.<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff6600;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Mobile Identity Verification Plugin || Custom plugin by Lambda solutions || Not available on Moodle site<br />
|-<br />
| Moodle Welcome Plugin || Sends a welcome message to new users, sends a notification to a moderator of the new user creation || Future interest???<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff6600;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| My Grades Report Plugin|| A Moodle Report that shows all user grades in all courses || Currently not available for 2.8, future interest<br />
|-style="background-color:#b3ffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Progress Bar Plugin || A time management tool for you and your students || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff4d4d;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| SAML Authentication Plugin || SAML Authentication plugin based on the simplesamlphp software. (Also install the SAML Enrolment plugin if you want auto-enrol based on SAML) || More an IT focused plugin, will not currently install<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff4d4d;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Subcourse Plugin || The module provides very simple yet useful functionality. When added into a course, it behaves as a graded activity. The grade for each student is took from a final grade in another course. This allows course designers to organize the learning content into separate units. || Future use?? will not load.<br />
|-<br />
| Vericite Plugin || Plagarism detector, requires subscription || Future desire???<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffc285;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Webinar Plugin || For use with Adobe Connect only || Currently not of interest, will not be loaded.<br />
|-style="background-color:#b3ffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_checklist Checklist Set (Block/Module)] || creates interactive checklist || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#b3ffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_bcu_course_checks Course Checks Block] || This block carries out a number of automated checks on a course, to encourage a minimum standard of course quality, avoid common mistakes and highlight possible areas for improvement. The block also allows for a course to be cleared of empty sections. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#b3ffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://docs.moodle.org/28/en/Collapsed_Topics_course_format Collapsed Topics] || An interchangeable topic or week based format that solves the issue of the 'Scroll of Death' when a course has many topics. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#b3ffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_recordingsbn RecordingsBN] || Access and manage your BigBlueButton recordings || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#b3ffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_journal Journal] || This module allows a teacher to ask students to reflect on a particular topic. The students can edit and refine their answer over time. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#b3ffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_coursefeedback CourseFeedback] || This Block intends to give the system administrators a tool for forced evaluation of a course (or other facts). System administrators can define a set of textual questions, which can be rated from students. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#b3ffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_grade_me Grade Me] || Shows a teacher all of the assignments and manual quiz questions (essays and file responses) that have been submitted, but not graded. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff5c33;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Flexpage Flexpage] || Provides complete control over how content is presented. || Not yet supported for 2.8<br />
|-style="background-color:#b3ffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/filter_collapsible Collapsible regions] || Easy way to create collapsible regions within descriptions and text for Moodle. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-<br />
| [http://blogs.technet.com/b/educloud/archive/2013/04/12/a-quick-and-easy-way-to-link-moodle-to-sharepoint-with-collabco-myday.aspx MyDay] || The MyDay Moodle app links an existing Moodle installation to SharePoint. Once the app is installed it guides an administrator through the process of setting up their Moodle installation to talk to the app. All the administrator needs to do it fill out a couple of fields then copy some files into Moodle that the app generates || '''Under Investigation'''<br />
|-<br />
| [http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39932&navItemId=4c58c131-1e7a-44ec-f15b-77098df8bdc7 Moodle and Microsoft] || This page provides guidance on how to use Moodle, an open source course management system for educators, with Office 365’s popular productivity tools and services. || '''Under Investigation'''<br />
|-<br />
| [https://docs.moodle.org/28/en/OneDrive_repository OneDrive] || The Microsoft OneDrive repository (''formerly known as Skydrive'') allows you to access your documents from Microsoft OneDrive within Moodle. || '''Under Investigation'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/report_customsql Ad-hoc database queries] || This report plugin allows Administrators to set up arbitrary database queries to act as ad-hoc reports. Reports can be of two types, either run on demand, or scheduled to run automatically. Other users with the right capability can go in and see a list of queries that they have access to. Results can be viewed on-screen or downloaded as CSV. || '''Requested for install''' <br />
|-style="background-color:#ffffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_gismo GISMO] || GISMO, a graphical interactive student monitoring and tracking system that extracts tracking data from an online course maintained with Moodle, and generates graphical representations that can be explored by course instructors.|| '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/report_overviewstats Overview statistics] || Produces various site and course report charts. The code has been designed in a way that makes adding more reports easy. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_timestat Timestat] || Timestat block measures users real activity time. Time is increased only when Moodle tab is active in browser. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_enrolmenttimer Enrolment Timer] || Block to show the user their remaining time enrolled in a course with live countdown and lots of settings to customise the display of this timer. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/browse.php?list=set&id=58 Experience Points (XP)] || The Experience Point (XP) set contains gamification-style plugins working with experience points given to the students. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_stampcoll Stamp Collection] || The Stamp collection module allows a teacher to give "stamps" (i.e. picture with a comment) to students so they collect these stamps. The activity can be used in many ways, such as motivative bonus marks, absence marks, certification records etc. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/assignsubmission_mahara Mahara Assignment Submission Plugin] || Allows grading of Mahara portfolio pages & collections in Moodle. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/assignfeedback_mahara Mahara Assignment Feedback Plugin] || An optional (but recommended!) addition to the Mahara Assignment Submission plugin. This plugin allows Moodle to automatically unlock submitted Mahara portfolio pages & collections after grading. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|}<br />
<br />
Other Tools:<br />
Intelliboard.net analytical tool : Commercial Analytics - http://www.intelliboard.net/ [http://www.intelliboard.net/pricing Cost]<br />
Ephorus Plagiarism : Plagiarism tools<br />
<br />
==Wishlist of Features==<br />
Relative date setup - activities based on enrollment date<br />
Request in to Moodle.org see: https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-48185 <br />
<br />
==Themes==<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
|-<br />
! Name !! Status<br />
|-<br />
| Aardvark || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Bootstrap 3 || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Bootstrap Base || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Clean || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Elegance ||Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Essential || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| More || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/theme_evolved evolve-D] || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/theme_shoehorn Shoehorn] || Installed<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Moodle Settings==<br />
<br />
==LTI's==<br />
<br />
A potentially useful listing of LTI's: http://developers.imsglobal.org/catalog.html<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Name !! Status<br />
|-<br />
| WordPress || [http://edutechwiki.unige.ch/en/Moodle#Wordpress_integration Described here]|| Stalled due to coding issues because of version updates, will be monitored.<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Technical Questions/Issues==<br />
<br />
* 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. <br />
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.<br />
<br />
* 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.<br />
May be caused by theme not yet being fully 2.8 compliant<br />
<br />
* 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. <br />
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.<br />
<br />
* When trying the bring Big Blue Box into my course, I get a 505 Server Error.<br />
Result of not being an externally connected server. Will not be able to test until on server that has external security settings<br />
<br />
==Links==<br />
* http://opensource.com/education/12/1/designing-aesthetically-pleasing-moodle-courses<br />
* http://iy103-w14.hibbittsdesign.com/course/view.php?id=2<br />
* Discussions on Moodle file structure: <br />
** http://mattcornock.co.uk/moodle/moodle-2-file-repository-course-files<br />
** http://www.somerandomthoughts.com/blog/2010/06/15/ftp-files-into-moodle-2-0-with-the-repository-api/<br />
** https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=168868#p741355<br />
** https://docs.moodle.org/28/en/File_system_repository</div>Tagarwalhttps://kumu.tru.ca/index.php?title=Documentation:Learning_Environment/Moodle_Exploration&diff=8112Documentation:Learning Environment/Moodle Exploration2015-03-10T17:38:44Z<p>Tagarwal: /* Potential Moodle Plugins */</p>
<hr />
<div>__TOC__<br />
This page documents the exploration of the capabilities of Moodle to enhance the student learning experience. <br />
<br />
A small closed development environment has been created to try out various tools and themes that might enhance the student experience.<br />
<br />
'''Moodle Development Install: 2.8.2'''<br />
<br />
<br />
==Potential Moodle Plugins==<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
|-<br />
! Plugin Name !! Purpose/Utility !! Comment<br />
|-<br />
| Adobe Connect || Provides an activity level integration between Moodle and Adobe Connect Pro || Not a product that is used.<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffcccc;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Attendance Plugin || Part of Set called Attendance || Not a typical functional issue, will not be loaded at moment.<br />
|-<br />
| Banner/Luminis Mesage Broker || Process courses, users, and enrollments out of SunGard HE/Ellucian Banner. Includes support for realtime notifications from Luminis Message Broker. || Potentially relevant to IT<br />
|-style="background-color:#b3ffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_bigbluebuttonbn BigBlueButton Plugin] || Web conferencing connection || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff5c33;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Certificate || This module allows for the dynamic generation of certificates based on predefined conditions set by the teacher. || Currently not available for 2.8<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff6600;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Email-based Self-registration || Provides email-based self-registration with admin confirmation instead of user confirmation. || Currently not available for 2.8<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff4d4d;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Face-to-face Plugin || To help manage sessions where registration is required/Event Management || Not typical course scenario, will not be loaded at moment.<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff6600;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Mobile Identity Verification Plugin || Custom plugin by Lambda solutions || Not available on Moodle site<br />
|-<br />
| Moodle Welcome Plugin || Sends a welcome message to new users, sends a notification to a moderator of the new user creation || Future interest???<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff6600;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| My Grades Report Plugin|| A Moodle Report that shows all user grades in all courses || Currently not available for 2.8, future interest<br />
|-style="background-color:#b3ffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Progress Bar Plugin || A time management tool for you and your students || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff4d4d;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| SAML Authentication Plugin || SAML Authentication plugin based on the simplesamlphp software. (Also install the SAML Enrolment plugin if you want auto-enrol based on SAML) || More an IT focused plugin, will not currently install<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff4d4d;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Subcourse Plugin || The module provides very simple yet useful functionality. When added into a course, it behaves as a graded activity. The grade for each student is took from a final grade in another course. This allows course designers to organize the learning content into separate units. || Future use?? will not load.<br />
|-<br />
| Vericite Plugin || Plagarism detector, requires subscription || Future desire???<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff4d4d;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Webinar Plugin || For use with Adobe Connect only || Currently not of interest, will not be loaded.<br />
|-style="background-color:#b3ffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_checklist Checklist Set (Block/Module)] || creates interactive checklist || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#b3ffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_bcu_course_checks Course Checks Block] || This block carries out a number of automated checks on a course, to encourage a minimum standard of course quality, avoid common mistakes and highlight possible areas for improvement. The block also allows for a course to be cleared of empty sections. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#b3ffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://docs.moodle.org/28/en/Collapsed_Topics_course_format Collapsed Topics] || An interchangeable topic or week based format that solves the issue of the 'Scroll of Death' when a course has many topics. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#b3ffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_recordingsbn RecordingsBN] || Access and manage your BigBlueButton recordings || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#b3ffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_journal Journal] || This module allows a teacher to ask students to reflect on a particular topic. The students can edit and refine their answer over time. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#b3ffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_coursefeedback CourseFeedback] || This Block intends to give the system administrators a tool for forced evaluation of a course (or other facts). System administrators can define a set of textual questions, which can be rated from students. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#b3ffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_grade_me Grade Me] || Shows a teacher all of the assignments and manual quiz questions (essays and file responses) that have been submitted, but not graded. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff5c33;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Flexpage Flexpage] || Provides complete control over how content is presented. || Not yet supported for 2.8<br />
|-style="background-color:#b3ffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/filter_collapsible Collapsible regions] || Easy way to create collapsible regions within descriptions and text for Moodle. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-<br />
| [http://blogs.technet.com/b/educloud/archive/2013/04/12/a-quick-and-easy-way-to-link-moodle-to-sharepoint-with-collabco-myday.aspx MyDay] || The MyDay Moodle app links an existing Moodle installation to SharePoint. Once the app is installed it guides an administrator through the process of setting up their Moodle installation to talk to the app. All the administrator needs to do it fill out a couple of fields then copy some files into Moodle that the app generates || '''Under Investigation'''<br />
|-<br />
| [http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39932&navItemId=4c58c131-1e7a-44ec-f15b-77098df8bdc7 Moodle and Microsoft] || This page provides guidance on how to use Moodle, an open source course management system for educators, with Office 365’s popular productivity tools and services. || '''Under Investigation'''<br />
|-<br />
| [https://docs.moodle.org/28/en/OneDrive_repository OneDrive] || The Microsoft OneDrive repository (''formerly known as Skydrive'') allows you to access your documents from Microsoft OneDrive within Moodle. || '''Under Investigation'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/report_customsql Ad-hoc database queries] || This report plugin allows Administrators to set up arbitrary database queries to act as ad-hoc reports. Reports can be of two types, either run on demand, or scheduled to run automatically. Other users with the right capability can go in and see a list of queries that they have access to. Results can be viewed on-screen or downloaded as CSV. || '''Requested for install''' <br />
|-style="background-color:#ffffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_gismo GISMO] || GISMO, a graphical interactive student monitoring and tracking system that extracts tracking data from an online course maintained with Moodle, and generates graphical representations that can be explored by course instructors.|| '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/report_overviewstats Overview statistics] || Produces various site and course report charts. The code has been designed in a way that makes adding more reports easy. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_timestat Timestat] || Timestat block measures users real activity time. Time is increased only when Moodle tab is active in browser. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_enrolmenttimer Enrolment Timer] || Block to show the user their remaining time enrolled in a course with live countdown and lots of settings to customise the display of this timer. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/browse.php?list=set&id=58 Experience Points (XP)] || The Experience Point (XP) set contains gamification-style plugins working with experience points given to the students. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_stampcoll Stamp Collection] || The Stamp collection module allows a teacher to give "stamps" (i.e. picture with a comment) to students so they collect these stamps. The activity can be used in many ways, such as motivative bonus marks, absence marks, certification records etc. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/assignsubmission_mahara Mahara Assignment Submission Plugin] || Allows grading of Mahara portfolio pages & collections in Moodle. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/assignfeedback_mahara Mahara Assignment Feedback Plugin] || An optional (but recommended!) addition to the Mahara Assignment Submission plugin. This plugin allows Moodle to automatically unlock submitted Mahara portfolio pages & collections after grading. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|}<br />
<br />
Other Tools:<br />
Intelliboard.net analytical tool : Commercial Analytics - http://www.intelliboard.net/ [http://www.intelliboard.net/pricing Cost]<br />
Ephorus Plagiarism : Plagiarism tools<br />
<br />
==Wishlist of Features==<br />
Relative date setup - activities based on enrollment date<br />
Request in to Moodle.org see: https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-48185 <br />
<br />
==Themes==<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
|-<br />
! Name !! Status<br />
|-<br />
| Aardvark || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Bootstrap 3 || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Bootstrap Base || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Clean || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Elegance ||Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Essential || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| More || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/theme_evolved evolve-D] || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/theme_shoehorn Shoehorn] || Installed<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Moodle Settings==<br />
<br />
==LTI's==<br />
<br />
A potentially useful listing of LTI's: http://developers.imsglobal.org/catalog.html<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Name !! Status<br />
|-<br />
| WordPress || [http://edutechwiki.unige.ch/en/Moodle#Wordpress_integration Described here]|| Stalled due to coding issues because of version updates, will be monitored.<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Technical Questions/Issues==<br />
<br />
* 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. <br />
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.<br />
<br />
* 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.<br />
May be caused by theme not yet being fully 2.8 compliant<br />
<br />
* 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. <br />
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.<br />
<br />
* When trying the bring Big Blue Box into my course, I get a 505 Server Error.<br />
Result of not being an externally connected server. Will not be able to test until on server that has external security settings<br />
<br />
==Links==<br />
* http://opensource.com/education/12/1/designing-aesthetically-pleasing-moodle-courses<br />
* http://iy103-w14.hibbittsdesign.com/course/view.php?id=2<br />
* Discussions on Moodle file structure: <br />
** http://mattcornock.co.uk/moodle/moodle-2-file-repository-course-files<br />
** http://www.somerandomthoughts.com/blog/2010/06/15/ftp-files-into-moodle-2-0-with-the-repository-api/<br />
** https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=168868#p741355<br />
** https://docs.moodle.org/28/en/File_system_repository</div>Tagarwalhttps://kumu.tru.ca/index.php?title=Documentation:Learning_Environment/Moodle_Exploration&diff=8111Documentation:Learning Environment/Moodle Exploration2015-03-10T17:37:30Z<p>Tagarwal: /* Potential Moodle Plugins */</p>
<hr />
<div>__TOC__<br />
This page documents the exploration of the capabilities of Moodle to enhance the student learning experience. <br />
<br />
A small closed development environment has been created to try out various tools and themes that might enhance the student experience.<br />
<br />
'''Moodle Development Install: 2.8.2'''<br />
<br />
<br />
==Potential Moodle Plugins==<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
|-<br />
! Plugin Name !! Purpose/Utility !! Comment<br />
|-<br />
| Adobe Connect || Provides an activity level integration between Moodle and Adobe Connect Pro || Not a product that is used.<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffcccc;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Attendance Plugin || Part of Set called Attendance || Not a typical functional issue, will not be loaded at moment.<br />
|-<br />
| Banner/Luminis Mesage Broker || Process courses, users, and enrollments out of SunGard HE/Ellucian Banner. Includes support for realtime notifications from Luminis Message Broker. || Potentially relevant to IT<br />
|-style="background-color:#b3ffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_bigbluebuttonbn BigBlueButton Plugin] || Web conferencing connection || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff5c33;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Certificate || This module allows for the dynamic generation of certificates based on predefined conditions set by the teacher. || Currently not available for 2.8<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff6600;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Email-based Self-registration || Provides email-based self-registration with admin confirmation instead of user confirmation. || Currently not available for 2.8<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff4d4d;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Face-to-face Plugin || To help manage sessions where registration is required/Event Management || Not typical course scenario, will not be loaded at moment.<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff6600;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Mobile Identity Verification Plugin || Custom plugin by Lambda solutions || Not available on Moodle site<br />
|-<br />
| Moodle Welcome Plugin || Sends a welcome message to new users, sends a notification to a moderator of the new user creation || Future interest???<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff6600;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| My Grades Report Plugin|| A Moodle Report that shows all user grades in all courses || Currently not available for 2.8, future interest<br />
|-style="background-color:#b3ffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Progress Bar Plugin || A time management tool for you and your students || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff4d4d;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| SAML Authentication Plugin || SAML Authentication plugin based on the simplesamlphp software. (Also install the SAML Enrolment plugin if you want auto-enrol based on SAML) || More an IT focused plugin, will not currently install<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff4d4d;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Subcourse Plugin || The module provides very simple yet useful functionality. When added into a course, it behaves as a graded activity. The grade for each student is took from a final grade in another course. This allows course designers to organize the learning content into separate units. || Future use?? will not load.<br />
|-<br />
| Vericite Plugin || Plagarism detector, requires subscription || Future desire???<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff4d4d;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Webinar Plugin || For use with Adobe Connect only || Currently not of interest, will not be loaded.<br />
|-style="background-color:#b3ffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_checklist Checklist Set (Block/Module)] || creates interactive checklist || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#b3ffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_bcu_course_checks Course Checks Block] || This block carries out a number of automated checks on a course, to encourage a minimum standard of course quality, avoid common mistakes and highlight possible areas for improvement. The block also allows for a course to be cleared of empty sections. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#b3ffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://docs.moodle.org/28/en/Collapsed_Topics_course_format Collapsed Topics] || An interchangeable topic or week based format that solves the issue of the 'Scroll of Death' when a course has many topics. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#b3ffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_recordingsbn RecordingsBN] || Access and manage your BigBlueButton recordings || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#b3ffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_journal Journal] || This module allows a teacher to ask students to reflect on a particular topic. The students can edit and refine their answer over time. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#b3ffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_coursefeedback CourseFeedback] || This Block intends to give the system administrators a tool for forced evaluation of a course (or other facts). System administrators can define a set of textual questions, which can be rated from students. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#b3ffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_grade_me Grade Me] || Shows a teacher all of the assignments and manual quiz questions (essays and file responses) that have been submitted, but not graded. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff5c33;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Flexpage Flexpage] || Provides complete control over how content is presented. || Not yet supported for 2.8<br />
|-style="background-color:#b3ffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/filter_collapsible Collapsible regions] || Easy way to create collapsible regions within descriptions and text for Moodle. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-<br />
| [http://blogs.technet.com/b/educloud/archive/2013/04/12/a-quick-and-easy-way-to-link-moodle-to-sharepoint-with-collabco-myday.aspx MyDay] || The MyDay Moodle app links an existing Moodle installation to SharePoint. Once the app is installed it guides an administrator through the process of setting up their Moodle installation to talk to the app. All the administrator needs to do it fill out a couple of fields then copy some files into Moodle that the app generates || '''Under Investigation'''<br />
|-<br />
| [http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39932&navItemId=4c58c131-1e7a-44ec-f15b-77098df8bdc7 Moodle and Microsoft] || This page provides guidance on how to use Moodle, an open source course management system for educators, with Office 365’s popular productivity tools and services. || '''Under Investigation'''<br />
|-<br />
| [https://docs.moodle.org/28/en/OneDrive_repository OneDrive] || The Microsoft OneDrive repository (''formerly known as Skydrive'') allows you to access your documents from Microsoft OneDrive within Moodle. || '''Under Investigation'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/report_customsql Ad-hoc database queries] || This report plugin allows Administrators to set up arbitrary database queries to act as ad-hoc reports. Reports can be of two types, either run on demand, or scheduled to run automatically. Other users with the right capability can go in and see a list of queries that they have access to. Results can be viewed on-screen or downloaded as CSV. || '''Requested for install''' <br />
|-style="background-color:#ffff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_gismo GISMO] || GISMO, a graphical interactive student monitoring and tracking system that extracts tracking data from an online course maintained with Moodle, and generates graphical representations that can be explored by course instructors.|| '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/report_overviewstats Overview statistics] || Produces various site and course report charts. The code has been designed in a way that makes adding more reports easy. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_timestat Timestat] || Timestat block measures users real activity time. Time is increased only when Moodle tab is active in browser. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_enrolmenttimer Enrolment Timer] || Block to show the user their remaining time enrolled in a course with live countdown and lots of settings to customise the display of this timer. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/browse.php?list=set&id=58 Experience Points (XP)] || The Experience Point (XP) set contains gamification-style plugins working with experience points given to the students. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_stampcoll Stamp Collection] || The Stamp collection module allows a teacher to give "stamps" (i.e. picture with a comment) to students so they collect these stamps. The activity can be used in many ways, such as motivative bonus marks, absence marks, certification records etc. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/assignsubmission_mahara Mahara Assignment Submission Plugin] || Allows grading of Mahara portfolio pages & collections in Moodle. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffff85;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/assignfeedback_mahara Mahara Assignment Feedback Plugin] || An optional (but recommended!) addition to the Mahara Assignment Submission plugin. This plugin allows Moodle to automatically unlock submitted Mahara portfolio pages & collections after grading. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|}<br />
<br />
Other Tools:<br />
Intelliboard.net analytical tool : Commercial Analytics - http://www.intelliboard.net/ [http://www.intelliboard.net/pricing Cost]<br />
Ephorus Plagiarism : Plagiarism tools<br />
<br />
==Wishlist of Features==<br />
Relative date setup - activities based on enrollment date<br />
Request in to Moodle.org see: https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-48185 <br />
<br />
==Themes==<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
|-<br />
! Name !! Status<br />
|-<br />
| Aardvark || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Bootstrap 3 || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Bootstrap Base || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Clean || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Elegance ||Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Essential || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| More || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/theme_evolved evolve-D] || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/theme_shoehorn Shoehorn] || Installed<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Moodle Settings==<br />
<br />
==LTI's==<br />
<br />
A potentially useful listing of LTI's: http://developers.imsglobal.org/catalog.html<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Name !! Status<br />
|-<br />
| WordPress || [http://edutechwiki.unige.ch/en/Moodle#Wordpress_integration Described here]|| Stalled due to coding issues because of version updates, will be monitored.<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Technical Questions/Issues==<br />
<br />
* 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. <br />
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.<br />
<br />
* 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.<br />
May be caused by theme not yet being fully 2.8 compliant<br />
<br />
* 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. <br />
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.<br />
<br />
* When trying the bring Big Blue Box into my course, I get a 505 Server Error.<br />
Result of not being an externally connected server. Will not be able to test until on server that has external security settings<br />
<br />
==Links==<br />
* http://opensource.com/education/12/1/designing-aesthetically-pleasing-moodle-courses<br />
* http://iy103-w14.hibbittsdesign.com/course/view.php?id=2<br />
* Discussions on Moodle file structure: <br />
** http://mattcornock.co.uk/moodle/moodle-2-file-repository-course-files<br />
** http://www.somerandomthoughts.com/blog/2010/06/15/ftp-files-into-moodle-2-0-with-the-repository-api/<br />
** https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=168868#p741355<br />
** https://docs.moodle.org/28/en/File_system_repository</div>Tagarwalhttps://kumu.tru.ca/index.php?title=Documentation:Learning_Environment/Moodle_Exploration&diff=8110Documentation:Learning Environment/Moodle Exploration2015-03-10T17:36:32Z<p>Tagarwal: /* Potential Moodle Plugins */</p>
<hr />
<div>__TOC__<br />
This page documents the exploration of the capabilities of Moodle to enhance the student learning experience. <br />
<br />
A small closed development environment has been created to try out various tools and themes that might enhance the student experience.<br />
<br />
'''Moodle Development Install: 2.8.2'''<br />
<br />
<br />
==Potential Moodle Plugins==<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
|-<br />
! Plugin Name !! Purpose/Utility !! Comment<br />
|-<br />
| Adobe Connect || Provides an activity level integration between Moodle and Adobe Connect Pro || Not a product that is used.<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffcccc;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Attendance Plugin || Part of Set called Attendance || Not a typical functional issue, will not be loaded at moment.<br />
|-<br />
| Banner/Luminis Mesage Broker || Process courses, users, and enrollments out of SunGard HE/Ellucian Banner. Includes support for realtime notifications from Luminis Message Broker. || Potentially relevant to IT<br />
|-style="background-color:#b3ffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_bigbluebuttonbn BigBlueButton Plugin] || Web conferencing connection || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff5c33;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Certificate || This module allows for the dynamic generation of certificates based on predefined conditions set by the teacher. || Currently not available for 2.8<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff6600;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Email-based Self-registration || Provides email-based self-registration with admin confirmation instead of user confirmation. || Currently not available for 2.8<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff4d4d;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Face-to-face Plugin || To help manage sessions where registration is required/Event Management || Not typical course scenario, will not be loaded at moment.<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff6600;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Mobile Identity Verification Plugin || Custom plugin by Lambda solutions || Not available on Moodle site<br />
|-<br />
| Moodle Welcome Plugin || Sends a welcome message to new users, sends a notification to a moderator of the new user creation || Future interest???<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff6600;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| My Grades Report Plugin|| A Moodle Report that shows all user grades in all courses || Currently not available for 2.8, future interest<br />
|-style="background-color:#b3ffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Progress Bar Plugin || A time management tool for you and your students || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff4d4d;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| SAML Authentication Plugin || SAML Authentication plugin based on the simplesamlphp software. (Also install the SAML Enrolment plugin if you want auto-enrol based on SAML) || More an IT focused plugin, will not currently install<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff4d4d;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Subcourse Plugin || The module provides very simple yet useful functionality. When added into a course, it behaves as a graded activity. The grade for each student is took from a final grade in another course. This allows course designers to organize the learning content into separate units. || Future use?? will not load.<br />
|-<br />
| Vericite Plugin || Plagarism detector, requires subscription || Future desire???<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff4d4d;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Webinar Plugin || For use with Adobe Connect only || Currently not of interest, will not be loaded.<br />
|-style="background-color:#b3ffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_checklist Checklist Set (Block/Module)] || creates interactive checklist || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#b3ffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_bcu_course_checks Course Checks Block] || This block carries out a number of automated checks on a course, to encourage a minimum standard of course quality, avoid common mistakes and highlight possible areas for improvement. The block also allows for a course to be cleared of empty sections. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#b3ffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://docs.moodle.org/28/en/Collapsed_Topics_course_format Collapsed Topics] || An interchangeable topic or week based format that solves the issue of the 'Scroll of Death' when a course has many topics. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#b3ffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_recordingsbn RecordingsBN] || Access and manage your BigBlueButton recordings || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#b3ffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_journal Journal] || This module allows a teacher to ask students to reflect on a particular topic. The students can edit and refine their answer over time. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#b3ffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_coursefeedback CourseFeedback] || This Block intends to give the system administrators a tool for forced evaluation of a course (or other facts). System administrators can define a set of textual questions, which can be rated from students. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#b3ffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_grade_me Grade Me] || Shows a teacher all of the assignments and manual quiz questions (essays and file responses) that have been submitted, but not graded. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff5c33;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Flexpage Flexpage] || Provides complete control over how content is presented. || Not yet supported for 2.8<br />
|-style="background-color:#b3ffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/filter_collapsible Collapsible regions] || Easy way to create collapsible regions within descriptions and text for Moodle. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-<br />
| [http://blogs.technet.com/b/educloud/archive/2013/04/12/a-quick-and-easy-way-to-link-moodle-to-sharepoint-with-collabco-myday.aspx MyDay] || The MyDay Moodle app links an existing Moodle installation to SharePoint. Once the app is installed it guides an administrator through the process of setting up their Moodle installation to talk to the app. All the administrator needs to do it fill out a couple of fields then copy some files into Moodle that the app generates || '''Under Investigation'''<br />
|-<br />
| [http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39932&navItemId=4c58c131-1e7a-44ec-f15b-77098df8bdc7 Moodle and Microsoft] || This page provides guidance on how to use Moodle, an open source course management system for educators, with Office 365’s popular productivity tools and services. || '''Under Investigation'''<br />
|-<br />
| [https://docs.moodle.org/28/en/OneDrive_repository OneDrive] || The Microsoft OneDrive repository (''formerly known as Skydrive'') allows you to access your documents from Microsoft OneDrive within Moodle. || '''Under Investigation'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/report_customsql Ad-hoc database queries] || This report plugin allows Administrators to set up arbitrary database queries to act as ad-hoc reports. Reports can be of two types, either run on demand, or scheduled to run automatically. Other users with the right capability can go in and see a list of queries that they have access to. Results can be viewed on-screen or downloaded as CSV. || '''Requested for install''' <br />
|-style="background-color:#ffff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_gismo GISMO] || GISMO, a graphical interactive student monitoring and tracking system that extracts tracking data from an online course maintained with Moodle, and generates graphical representations that can be explored by course instructors.|| '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/report_overviewstats Overview statistics] || Produces various site and course report charts. The code has been designed in a way that makes adding more reports easy. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_timestat Timestat] || Timestat block measures users real activity time. Time is increased only when Moodle tab is active in browser. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_enrolmenttimer Enrolment Timer] || Block to show the user their remaining time enrolled in a course with live countdown and lots of settings to customise the display of this timer. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/browse.php?list=set&id=58 Experience Points (XP)] || The Experience Point (XP) set contains gamification-style plugins working with experience points given to the students. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_stampcoll Stamp Collection] || The Stamp collection module allows a teacher to give "stamps" (i.e. picture with a comment) to students so they collect these stamps. The activity can be used in many ways, such as motivative bonus marks, absence marks, certification records etc. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/assignsubmission_mahara Mahara Assignment Submission Plugin] || Allows grading of Mahara portfolio pages & collections in Moodle. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffff85;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/assignfeedback_mahara Mahara Assignment Feedback Plugin] || An optional (but recommended!) addition to the Mahara Assignment Submission plugin. This plugin allows Moodle to automatically unlock submitted Mahara portfolio pages & collections after grading. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|}<br />
<br />
Other Tools:<br />
Intelliboard.net analytical tool : Commercial Analytics - http://www.intelliboard.net/ [http://www.intelliboard.net/pricing Cost]<br />
Ephorus Plagiarism : Plagiarism tools<br />
<br />
==Wishlist of Features==<br />
Relative date setup - activities based on enrollment date<br />
Request in to Moodle.org see: https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-48185 <br />
<br />
==Themes==<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
|-<br />
! Name !! Status<br />
|-<br />
| Aardvark || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Bootstrap 3 || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Bootstrap Base || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Clean || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Elegance ||Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Essential || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| More || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/theme_evolved evolve-D] || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/theme_shoehorn Shoehorn] || Installed<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Moodle Settings==<br />
<br />
==LTI's==<br />
<br />
A potentially useful listing of LTI's: http://developers.imsglobal.org/catalog.html<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Name !! Status<br />
|-<br />
| WordPress || [http://edutechwiki.unige.ch/en/Moodle#Wordpress_integration Described here]|| Stalled due to coding issues because of version updates, will be monitored.<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Technical Questions/Issues==<br />
<br />
* 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. <br />
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.<br />
<br />
* 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.<br />
May be caused by theme not yet being fully 2.8 compliant<br />
<br />
* 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. <br />
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.<br />
<br />
* When trying the bring Big Blue Box into my course, I get a 505 Server Error.<br />
Result of not being an externally connected server. Will not be able to test until on server that has external security settings<br />
<br />
==Links==<br />
* http://opensource.com/education/12/1/designing-aesthetically-pleasing-moodle-courses<br />
* http://iy103-w14.hibbittsdesign.com/course/view.php?id=2<br />
* Discussions on Moodle file structure: <br />
** http://mattcornock.co.uk/moodle/moodle-2-file-repository-course-files<br />
** http://www.somerandomthoughts.com/blog/2010/06/15/ftp-files-into-moodle-2-0-with-the-repository-api/<br />
** https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=168868#p741355<br />
** https://docs.moodle.org/28/en/File_system_repository</div>Tagarwalhttps://kumu.tru.ca/index.php?title=Documentation:Learning_Environment/Moodle_Exploration&diff=8109Documentation:Learning Environment/Moodle Exploration2015-03-10T17:35:38Z<p>Tagarwal: /* Potential Moodle Plugins */</p>
<hr />
<div>__TOC__<br />
This page documents the exploration of the capabilities of Moodle to enhance the student learning experience. <br />
<br />
A small closed development environment has been created to try out various tools and themes that might enhance the student experience.<br />
<br />
'''Moodle Development Install: 2.8.2'''<br />
<br />
<br />
==Potential Moodle Plugins==<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
|-<br />
! Plugin Name !! Purpose/Utility !! Comment<br />
|-<br />
| Adobe Connect || Provides an activity level integration between Moodle and Adobe Connect Pro || Not a product that is used.<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffcccc;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Attendance Plugin || Part of Set called Attendance || Not a typical functional issue, will not be loaded at moment.<br />
|-<br />
| Banner/Luminis Mesage Broker || Process courses, users, and enrollments out of SunGard HE/Ellucian Banner. Includes support for realtime notifications from Luminis Message Broker. || Potentially relevant to IT<br />
|-style="background-color:#b3ffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_bigbluebuttonbn BigBlueButton Plugin] || Web conferencing connection || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff5c33;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Certificate || This module allows for the dynamic generation of certificates based on predefined conditions set by the teacher. || Currently not available for 2.8<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff6600;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Email-based Self-registration || Provides email-based self-registration with admin confirmation instead of user confirmation. || Currently not available for 2.8<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff4d4d;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Face-to-face Plugin || To help manage sessions where registration is required/Event Management || Not typical course scenario, will not be loaded at moment.<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff6600;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Mobile Identity Verification Plugin || Custom plugin by Lambda solutions || Not available on Moodle site<br />
|-<br />
| Moodle Welcome Plugin || Sends a welcome message to new users, sends a notification to a moderator of the new user creation || Future interest???<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff6600;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| My Grades Report Plugin|| A Moodle Report that shows all user grades in all courses || Currently not available for 2.8, future interest<br />
|-style="background-color:#b3ffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Progress Bar Plugin || A time management tool for you and your students || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff4d4d;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| SAML Authentication Plugin || SAML Authentication plugin based on the simplesamlphp software. (Also install the SAML Enrolment plugin if you want auto-enrol based on SAML) || More an IT focused plugin, will not currently install<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff4d4d;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Subcourse Plugin || The module provides very simple yet useful functionality. When added into a course, it behaves as a graded activity. The grade for each student is took from a final grade in another course. This allows course designers to organize the learning content into separate units. || Future use?? will not load.<br />
|-<br />
| Vericite Plugin || Plagarism detector, requires subscription || Future desire???<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff4d4d;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Webinar Plugin || For use with Adobe Connect only || Currently not of interest, will not be loaded.<br />
|-style="background-color:#b3ffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_checklist Checklist Set (Block/Module)] || creates interactive checklist || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#b3ffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_bcu_course_checks Course Checks Block] || This block carries out a number of automated checks on a course, to encourage a minimum standard of course quality, avoid common mistakes and highlight possible areas for improvement. The block also allows for a course to be cleared of empty sections. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#b3ffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://docs.moodle.org/28/en/Collapsed_Topics_course_format Collapsed Topics] || An interchangeable topic or week based format that solves the issue of the 'Scroll of Death' when a course has many topics. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#b3ffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_recordingsbn RecordingsBN] || Access and manage your BigBlueButton recordings || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#b3ffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_journal Journal] || This module allows a teacher to ask students to reflect on a particular topic. The students can edit and refine their answer over time. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#b3ffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_coursefeedback CourseFeedback] || This Block intends to give the system administrators a tool for forced evaluation of a course (or other facts). System administrators can define a set of textual questions, which can be rated from students. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#b3ffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_grade_me Grade Me] || Shows a teacher all of the assignments and manual quiz questions (essays and file responses) that have been submitted, but not graded. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff5c33;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Flexpage Flexpage] || Provides complete control over how content is presented. || Not yet supported for 2.8<br />
|-style="background-color:#b3ffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/filter_collapsible Collapsible regions] || Easy way to create collapsible regions within descriptions and text for Moodle. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-<br />
| [http://blogs.technet.com/b/educloud/archive/2013/04/12/a-quick-and-easy-way-to-link-moodle-to-sharepoint-with-collabco-myday.aspx MyDay] || The MyDay Moodle app links an existing Moodle installation to SharePoint. Once the app is installed it guides an administrator through the process of setting up their Moodle installation to talk to the app. All the administrator needs to do it fill out a couple of fields then copy some files into Moodle that the app generates || '''Under Investigation'''<br />
|-<br />
| [http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39932&navItemId=4c58c131-1e7a-44ec-f15b-77098df8bdc7 Moodle and Microsoft] || This page provides guidance on how to use Moodle, an open source course management system for educators, with Office 365’s popular productivity tools and services. || '''Under Investigation'''<br />
|-<br />
| [https://docs.moodle.org/28/en/OneDrive_repository OneDrive] || The Microsoft OneDrive repository (''formerly known as Skydrive'') allows you to access your documents from Microsoft OneDrive within Moodle. || '''Under Investigation'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/report_customsql Ad-hoc database queries] || This report plugin allows Administrators to set up arbitrary database queries to act as ad-hoc reports. Reports can be of two types, either run on demand, or scheduled to run automatically. Other users with the right capability can go in and see a list of queries that they have access to. Results can be viewed on-screen or downloaded as CSV. || '''Requested for install''' <br />
|-style="background-color:#ffff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_gismo GISMO] || GISMO, a graphical interactive student monitoring and tracking system that extracts tracking data from an online course maintained with Moodle, and generates graphical representations that can be explored by course instructors.|| '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/report_overviewstats Overview statistics] || Produces various site and course report charts. The code has been designed in a way that makes adding more reports easy. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_timestat Timestat] || Timestat block measures users real activity time. Time is increased only when Moodle tab is active in browser. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_enrolmenttimer Enrolment Timer] || Block to show the user their remaining time enrolled in a course with live countdown and lots of settings to customise the display of this timer. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/browse.php?list=set&id=58 Experience Points (XP)] || The Experience Point (XP) set contains gamification-style plugins working with experience points given to the students. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_stampcoll Stamp Collection] || The Stamp collection module allows a teacher to give "stamps" (i.e. picture with a comment) to students so they collect these stamps. The activity can be used in many ways, such as motivative bonus marks, absence marks, certification records etc. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/assignsubmission_mahara Mahara Assignment Submission Plugin] || Allows grading of Mahara portfolio pages & collections in Moodle. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/assignfeedback_mahara Mahara Assignment Feedback Plugin] || An optional (but recommended!) addition to the Mahara Assignment Submission plugin. This plugin allows Moodle to automatically unlock submitted Mahara portfolio pages & collections after grading. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|}<br />
<br />
Other Tools:<br />
Intelliboard.net analytical tool : Commercial Analytics - http://www.intelliboard.net/ [http://www.intelliboard.net/pricing Cost]<br />
Ephorus Plagiarism : Plagiarism tools<br />
<br />
==Wishlist of Features==<br />
Relative date setup - activities based on enrollment date<br />
Request in to Moodle.org see: https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-48185 <br />
<br />
==Themes==<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
|-<br />
! Name !! Status<br />
|-<br />
| Aardvark || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Bootstrap 3 || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Bootstrap Base || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Clean || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Elegance ||Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Essential || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| More || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/theme_evolved evolve-D] || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/theme_shoehorn Shoehorn] || Installed<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Moodle Settings==<br />
<br />
==LTI's==<br />
<br />
A potentially useful listing of LTI's: http://developers.imsglobal.org/catalog.html<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Name !! Status<br />
|-<br />
| WordPress || [http://edutechwiki.unige.ch/en/Moodle#Wordpress_integration Described here]|| Stalled due to coding issues because of version updates, will be monitored.<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Technical Questions/Issues==<br />
<br />
* 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. <br />
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.<br />
<br />
* 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.<br />
May be caused by theme not yet being fully 2.8 compliant<br />
<br />
* 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. <br />
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.<br />
<br />
* When trying the bring Big Blue Box into my course, I get a 505 Server Error.<br />
Result of not being an externally connected server. Will not be able to test until on server that has external security settings<br />
<br />
==Links==<br />
* http://opensource.com/education/12/1/designing-aesthetically-pleasing-moodle-courses<br />
* http://iy103-w14.hibbittsdesign.com/course/view.php?id=2<br />
* Discussions on Moodle file structure: <br />
** http://mattcornock.co.uk/moodle/moodle-2-file-repository-course-files<br />
** http://www.somerandomthoughts.com/blog/2010/06/15/ftp-files-into-moodle-2-0-with-the-repository-api/<br />
** https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=168868#p741355<br />
** https://docs.moodle.org/28/en/File_system_repository</div>Tagarwalhttps://kumu.tru.ca/index.php?title=Documentation:Learning_Environment/Moodle_Exploration&diff=8108Documentation:Learning Environment/Moodle Exploration2015-03-10T17:33:50Z<p>Tagarwal: /* Potential Moodle Plugins */</p>
<hr />
<div>__TOC__<br />
This page documents the exploration of the capabilities of Moodle to enhance the student learning experience. <br />
<br />
A small closed development environment has been created to try out various tools and themes that might enhance the student experience.<br />
<br />
'''Moodle Development Install: 2.8.2'''<br />
<br />
<br />
==Potential Moodle Plugins==<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
|-<br />
! Plugin Name !! Purpose/Utility !! Comment<br />
|-<br />
| Adobe Connect || Provides an activity level integration between Moodle and Adobe Connect Pro || Not a product that is used.<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffcccc;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Attendance Plugin || Part of Set called Attendance || Not a typical functional issue, will not be loaded at moment.<br />
|-<br />
| Banner/Luminis Mesage Broker || Process courses, users, and enrollments out of SunGard HE/Ellucian Banner. Includes support for realtime notifications from Luminis Message Broker. || Potentially relevant to IT<br />
|-style="background-color:#b3ffb2;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_bigbluebuttonbn BigBlueButton Plugin] || Web conferencing connection || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff5c33;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Certificate || This module allows for the dynamic generation of certificates based on predefined conditions set by the teacher. || Currently not available for 2.8<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff6600;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Email-based Self-registration || Provides email-based self-registration with admin confirmation instead of user confirmation. || Currently not available for 2.8<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff4d4d;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Face-to-face Plugin || To help manage sessions where registration is required/Event Management || Not typical course scenario, will not be loaded at moment.<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff6600;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Mobile Identity Verification Plugin || Custom plugin by Lambda solutions || Not available on Moodle site<br />
|-<br />
| Moodle Welcome Plugin || Sends a welcome message to new users, sends a notification to a moderator of the new user creation || Future interest???<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff6600;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| My Grades Report Plugin|| A Moodle Report that shows all user grades in all courses || Currently not available for 2.8, future interest<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Progress Bar Plugin || A time management tool for you and your students || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff4d4d;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| SAML Authentication Plugin || SAML Authentication plugin based on the simplesamlphp software. (Also install the SAML Enrolment plugin if you want auto-enrol based on SAML) || More an IT focused plugin, will not currently install<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff4d4d;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Subcourse Plugin || The module provides very simple yet useful functionality. When added into a course, it behaves as a graded activity. The grade for each student is took from a final grade in another course. This allows course designers to organize the learning content into separate units. || Future use?? will not load.<br />
|-<br />
| Vericite Plugin || Plagarism detector, requires subscription || Future desire???<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff4d4d;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Webinar Plugin || For use with Adobe Connect only || Currently not of interest, will not be loaded.<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_checklist Checklist Set (Block/Module)] || creates interactive checklist || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_bcu_course_checks Course Checks Block] || This block carries out a number of automated checks on a course, to encourage a minimum standard of course quality, avoid common mistakes and highlight possible areas for improvement. The block also allows for a course to be cleared of empty sections. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://docs.moodle.org/28/en/Collapsed_Topics_course_format Collapsed Topics] || An interchangeable topic or week based format that solves the issue of the 'Scroll of Death' when a course has many topics. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_recordingsbn RecordingsBN] || Access and manage your BigBlueButton recordings || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_journal Journal] || This module allows a teacher to ask students to reflect on a particular topic. The students can edit and refine their answer over time. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_coursefeedback CourseFeedback] || This Block intends to give the system administrators a tool for forced evaluation of a course (or other facts). System administrators can define a set of textual questions, which can be rated from students. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_grade_me Grade Me] || Shows a teacher all of the assignments and manual quiz questions (essays and file responses) that have been submitted, but not graded. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff6600;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Flexpage Flexpage] || Provides complete control over how content is presented. || Not yet supported for 2.8<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/filter_collapsible Collapsible regions] || Easy way to create collapsible regions within descriptions and text for Moodle. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-<br />
| [http://blogs.technet.com/b/educloud/archive/2013/04/12/a-quick-and-easy-way-to-link-moodle-to-sharepoint-with-collabco-myday.aspx MyDay] || The MyDay Moodle app links an existing Moodle installation to SharePoint. Once the app is installed it guides an administrator through the process of setting up their Moodle installation to talk to the app. All the administrator needs to do it fill out a couple of fields then copy some files into Moodle that the app generates || '''Under Investigation'''<br />
|-<br />
| [http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39932&navItemId=4c58c131-1e7a-44ec-f15b-77098df8bdc7 Moodle and Microsoft] || This page provides guidance on how to use Moodle, an open source course management system for educators, with Office 365’s popular productivity tools and services. || '''Under Investigation'''<br />
|-<br />
| [https://docs.moodle.org/28/en/OneDrive_repository OneDrive] || The Microsoft OneDrive repository (''formerly known as Skydrive'') allows you to access your documents from Microsoft OneDrive within Moodle. || '''Under Investigation'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/report_customsql Ad-hoc database queries] || This report plugin allows Administrators to set up arbitrary database queries to act as ad-hoc reports. Reports can be of two types, either run on demand, or scheduled to run automatically. Other users with the right capability can go in and see a list of queries that they have access to. Results can be viewed on-screen or downloaded as CSV. || '''Requested for install''' <br />
|-style="background-color:#ffff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_gismo GISMO] || GISMO, a graphical interactive student monitoring and tracking system that extracts tracking data from an online course maintained with Moodle, and generates graphical representations that can be explored by course instructors.|| '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/report_overviewstats Overview statistics] || Produces various site and course report charts. The code has been designed in a way that makes adding more reports easy. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_timestat Timestat] || Timestat block measures users real activity time. Time is increased only when Moodle tab is active in browser. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_enrolmenttimer Enrolment Timer] || Block to show the user their remaining time enrolled in a course with live countdown and lots of settings to customise the display of this timer. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/browse.php?list=set&id=58 Experience Points (XP)] || The Experience Point (XP) set contains gamification-style plugins working with experience points given to the students. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_stampcoll Stamp Collection] || The Stamp collection module allows a teacher to give "stamps" (i.e. picture with a comment) to students so they collect these stamps. The activity can be used in many ways, such as motivative bonus marks, absence marks, certification records etc. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/assignsubmission_mahara Mahara Assignment Submission Plugin] || Allows grading of Mahara portfolio pages & collections in Moodle. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/assignfeedback_mahara Mahara Assignment Feedback Plugin] || An optional (but recommended!) addition to the Mahara Assignment Submission plugin. This plugin allows Moodle to automatically unlock submitted Mahara portfolio pages & collections after grading. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|}<br />
<br />
Other Tools:<br />
Intelliboard.net analytical tool : Commercial Analytics - http://www.intelliboard.net/ [http://www.intelliboard.net/pricing Cost]<br />
Ephorus Plagiarism : Plagiarism tools<br />
<br />
==Wishlist of Features==<br />
Relative date setup - activities based on enrollment date<br />
Request in to Moodle.org see: https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-48185 <br />
<br />
==Themes==<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
|-<br />
! Name !! Status<br />
|-<br />
| Aardvark || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Bootstrap 3 || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Bootstrap Base || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Clean || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Elegance ||Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Essential || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| More || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/theme_evolved evolve-D] || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/theme_shoehorn Shoehorn] || Installed<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Moodle Settings==<br />
<br />
==LTI's==<br />
<br />
A potentially useful listing of LTI's: http://developers.imsglobal.org/catalog.html<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Name !! Status<br />
|-<br />
| WordPress || [http://edutechwiki.unige.ch/en/Moodle#Wordpress_integration Described here]|| Stalled due to coding issues because of version updates, will be monitored.<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Technical Questions/Issues==<br />
<br />
* 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. <br />
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.<br />
<br />
* 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.<br />
May be caused by theme not yet being fully 2.8 compliant<br />
<br />
* 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. <br />
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.<br />
<br />
* When trying the bring Big Blue Box into my course, I get a 505 Server Error.<br />
Result of not being an externally connected server. Will not be able to test until on server that has external security settings<br />
<br />
==Links==<br />
* http://opensource.com/education/12/1/designing-aesthetically-pleasing-moodle-courses<br />
* http://iy103-w14.hibbittsdesign.com/course/view.php?id=2<br />
* Discussions on Moodle file structure: <br />
** http://mattcornock.co.uk/moodle/moodle-2-file-repository-course-files<br />
** http://www.somerandomthoughts.com/blog/2010/06/15/ftp-files-into-moodle-2-0-with-the-repository-api/<br />
** https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=168868#p741355<br />
** https://docs.moodle.org/28/en/File_system_repository</div>Tagarwalhttps://kumu.tru.ca/index.php?title=Documentation:Learning_Environment/Moodle_Exploration&diff=8107Documentation:Learning Environment/Moodle Exploration2015-03-10T17:32:26Z<p>Tagarwal: /* Potential Moodle Plugins */</p>
<hr />
<div>__TOC__<br />
This page documents the exploration of the capabilities of Moodle to enhance the student learning experience. <br />
<br />
A small closed development environment has been created to try out various tools and themes that might enhance the student experience.<br />
<br />
'''Moodle Development Install: 2.8.2'''<br />
<br />
<br />
==Potential Moodle Plugins==<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
|-<br />
! Plugin Name !! Purpose/Utility !! Comment<br />
|-<br />
| Adobe Connect || Provides an activity level integration between Moodle and Adobe Connect Pro || Not a product that is used.<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffcccc;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Attendance Plugin || Part of Set called Attendance || Not a typical functional issue, will not be loaded at moment.<br />
|-<br />
| Banner/Luminis Mesage Broker || Process courses, users, and enrollments out of SunGard HE/Ellucian Banner. Includes support for realtime notifications from Luminis Message Broker. || Potentially relevant to IT<br />
|-style="background-color:#99ff99;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_bigbluebuttonbn BigBlueButton Plugin] || Web conferencing connection || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff5c33;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Certificate || This module allows for the dynamic generation of certificates based on predefined conditions set by the teacher. || Currently not available for 2.8<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff6600;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Email-based Self-registration || Provides email-based self-registration with admin confirmation instead of user confirmation. || Currently not available for 2.8<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff4d4d;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Face-to-face Plugin || To help manage sessions where registration is required/Event Management || Not typical course scenario, will not be loaded at moment.<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff6600;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Mobile Identity Verification Plugin || Custom plugin by Lambda solutions || Not available on Moodle site<br />
|-<br />
| Moodle Welcome Plugin || Sends a welcome message to new users, sends a notification to a moderator of the new user creation || Future interest???<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff6600;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| My Grades Report Plugin|| A Moodle Report that shows all user grades in all courses || Currently not available for 2.8, future interest<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Progress Bar Plugin || A time management tool for you and your students || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff4d4d;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| SAML Authentication Plugin || SAML Authentication plugin based on the simplesamlphp software. (Also install the SAML Enrolment plugin if you want auto-enrol based on SAML) || More an IT focused plugin, will not currently install<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff4d4d;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Subcourse Plugin || The module provides very simple yet useful functionality. When added into a course, it behaves as a graded activity. The grade for each student is took from a final grade in another course. This allows course designers to organize the learning content into separate units. || Future use?? will not load.<br />
|-<br />
| Vericite Plugin || Plagarism detector, requires subscription || Future desire???<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff4d4d;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Webinar Plugin || For use with Adobe Connect only || Currently not of interest, will not be loaded.<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_checklist Checklist Set (Block/Module)] || creates interactive checklist || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_bcu_course_checks Course Checks Block] || This block carries out a number of automated checks on a course, to encourage a minimum standard of course quality, avoid common mistakes and highlight possible areas for improvement. The block also allows for a course to be cleared of empty sections. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://docs.moodle.org/28/en/Collapsed_Topics_course_format Collapsed Topics] || An interchangeable topic or week based format that solves the issue of the 'Scroll of Death' when a course has many topics. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_recordingsbn RecordingsBN] || Access and manage your BigBlueButton recordings || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_journal Journal] || This module allows a teacher to ask students to reflect on a particular topic. The students can edit and refine their answer over time. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_coursefeedback CourseFeedback] || This Block intends to give the system administrators a tool for forced evaluation of a course (or other facts). System administrators can define a set of textual questions, which can be rated from students. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_grade_me Grade Me] || Shows a teacher all of the assignments and manual quiz questions (essays and file responses) that have been submitted, but not graded. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff6600;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Flexpage Flexpage] || Provides complete control over how content is presented. || Not yet supported for 2.8<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/filter_collapsible Collapsible regions] || Easy way to create collapsible regions within descriptions and text for Moodle. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-<br />
| [http://blogs.technet.com/b/educloud/archive/2013/04/12/a-quick-and-easy-way-to-link-moodle-to-sharepoint-with-collabco-myday.aspx MyDay] || The MyDay Moodle app links an existing Moodle installation to SharePoint. Once the app is installed it guides an administrator through the process of setting up their Moodle installation to talk to the app. All the administrator needs to do it fill out a couple of fields then copy some files into Moodle that the app generates || '''Under Investigation'''<br />
|-<br />
| [http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39932&navItemId=4c58c131-1e7a-44ec-f15b-77098df8bdc7 Moodle and Microsoft] || This page provides guidance on how to use Moodle, an open source course management system for educators, with Office 365’s popular productivity tools and services. || '''Under Investigation'''<br />
|-<br />
| [https://docs.moodle.org/28/en/OneDrive_repository OneDrive] || The Microsoft OneDrive repository (''formerly known as Skydrive'') allows you to access your documents from Microsoft OneDrive within Moodle. || '''Under Investigation'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/report_customsql Ad-hoc database queries] || This report plugin allows Administrators to set up arbitrary database queries to act as ad-hoc reports. Reports can be of two types, either run on demand, or scheduled to run automatically. Other users with the right capability can go in and see a list of queries that they have access to. Results can be viewed on-screen or downloaded as CSV. || '''Requested for install''' <br />
|-style="background-color:#ffff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_gismo GISMO] || GISMO, a graphical interactive student monitoring and tracking system that extracts tracking data from an online course maintained with Moodle, and generates graphical representations that can be explored by course instructors.|| '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/report_overviewstats Overview statistics] || Produces various site and course report charts. The code has been designed in a way that makes adding more reports easy. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_timestat Timestat] || Timestat block measures users real activity time. Time is increased only when Moodle tab is active in browser. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_enrolmenttimer Enrolment Timer] || Block to show the user their remaining time enrolled in a course with live countdown and lots of settings to customise the display of this timer. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/browse.php?list=set&id=58 Experience Points (XP)] || The Experience Point (XP) set contains gamification-style plugins working with experience points given to the students. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_stampcoll Stamp Collection] || The Stamp collection module allows a teacher to give "stamps" (i.e. picture with a comment) to students so they collect these stamps. The activity can be used in many ways, such as motivative bonus marks, absence marks, certification records etc. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/assignsubmission_mahara Mahara Assignment Submission Plugin] || Allows grading of Mahara portfolio pages & collections in Moodle. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/assignfeedback_mahara Mahara Assignment Feedback Plugin] || An optional (but recommended!) addition to the Mahara Assignment Submission plugin. This plugin allows Moodle to automatically unlock submitted Mahara portfolio pages & collections after grading. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|}<br />
<br />
Other Tools:<br />
Intelliboard.net analytical tool : Commercial Analytics - http://www.intelliboard.net/ [http://www.intelliboard.net/pricing Cost]<br />
Ephorus Plagiarism : Plagiarism tools<br />
<br />
==Wishlist of Features==<br />
Relative date setup - activities based on enrollment date<br />
Request in to Moodle.org see: https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-48185 <br />
<br />
==Themes==<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
|-<br />
! Name !! Status<br />
|-<br />
| Aardvark || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Bootstrap 3 || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Bootstrap Base || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Clean || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Elegance ||Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Essential || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| More || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/theme_evolved evolve-D] || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/theme_shoehorn Shoehorn] || Installed<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Moodle Settings==<br />
<br />
==LTI's==<br />
<br />
A potentially useful listing of LTI's: http://developers.imsglobal.org/catalog.html<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Name !! Status<br />
|-<br />
| WordPress || [http://edutechwiki.unige.ch/en/Moodle#Wordpress_integration Described here]|| Stalled due to coding issues because of version updates, will be monitored.<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Technical Questions/Issues==<br />
<br />
* 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. <br />
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.<br />
<br />
* 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.<br />
May be caused by theme not yet being fully 2.8 compliant<br />
<br />
* 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. <br />
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.<br />
<br />
* When trying the bring Big Blue Box into my course, I get a 505 Server Error.<br />
Result of not being an externally connected server. Will not be able to test until on server that has external security settings<br />
<br />
==Links==<br />
* http://opensource.com/education/12/1/designing-aesthetically-pleasing-moodle-courses<br />
* http://iy103-w14.hibbittsdesign.com/course/view.php?id=2<br />
* Discussions on Moodle file structure: <br />
** http://mattcornock.co.uk/moodle/moodle-2-file-repository-course-files<br />
** http://www.somerandomthoughts.com/blog/2010/06/15/ftp-files-into-moodle-2-0-with-the-repository-api/<br />
** https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=168868#p741355<br />
** https://docs.moodle.org/28/en/File_system_repository</div>Tagarwalhttps://kumu.tru.ca/index.php?title=Documentation:Learning_Environment/Moodle_Exploration&diff=8106Documentation:Learning Environment/Moodle Exploration2015-03-10T17:30:45Z<p>Tagarwal: /* Potential Moodle Plugins */</p>
<hr />
<div>__TOC__<br />
This page documents the exploration of the capabilities of Moodle to enhance the student learning experience. <br />
<br />
A small closed development environment has been created to try out various tools and themes that might enhance the student experience.<br />
<br />
'''Moodle Development Install: 2.8.2'''<br />
<br />
<br />
==Potential Moodle Plugins==<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
|-<br />
! Plugin Name !! Purpose/Utility !! Comment<br />
|-<br />
| Adobe Connect || Provides an activity level integration between Moodle and Adobe Connect Pro || Not a product that is used.<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffcccc;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Attendance Plugin || Part of Set called Attendance || Not a typical functional issue, will not be loaded at moment.<br />
|-<br />
| Banner/Luminis Mesage Broker || Process courses, users, and enrollments out of SunGard HE/Ellucian Banner. Includes support for realtime notifications from Luminis Message Broker. || Potentially relevant to IT<br />
|-style="background-color:#b8ff70;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_bigbluebuttonbn BigBlueButton Plugin] || Web conferencing connection || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff5c33;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Certificate || This module allows for the dynamic generation of certificates based on predefined conditions set by the teacher. || Currently not available for 2.8<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff6600;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Email-based Self-registration || Provides email-based self-registration with admin confirmation instead of user confirmation. || Currently not available for 2.8<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff4d4d;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Face-to-face Plugin || To help manage sessions where registration is required/Event Management || Not typical course scenario, will not be loaded at moment.<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff6600;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Mobile Identity Verification Plugin || Custom plugin by Lambda solutions || Not available on Moodle site<br />
|-<br />
| Moodle Welcome Plugin || Sends a welcome message to new users, sends a notification to a moderator of the new user creation || Future interest???<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff6600;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| My Grades Report Plugin|| A Moodle Report that shows all user grades in all courses || Currently not available for 2.8, future interest<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Progress Bar Plugin || A time management tool for you and your students || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff4d4d;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| SAML Authentication Plugin || SAML Authentication plugin based on the simplesamlphp software. (Also install the SAML Enrolment plugin if you want auto-enrol based on SAML) || More an IT focused plugin, will not currently install<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff4d4d;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Subcourse Plugin || The module provides very simple yet useful functionality. When added into a course, it behaves as a graded activity. The grade for each student is took from a final grade in another course. This allows course designers to organize the learning content into separate units. || Future use?? will not load.<br />
|-<br />
| Vericite Plugin || Plagarism detector, requires subscription || Future desire???<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff4d4d;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Webinar Plugin || For use with Adobe Connect only || Currently not of interest, will not be loaded.<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_checklist Checklist Set (Block/Module)] || creates interactive checklist || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_bcu_course_checks Course Checks Block] || This block carries out a number of automated checks on a course, to encourage a minimum standard of course quality, avoid common mistakes and highlight possible areas for improvement. The block also allows for a course to be cleared of empty sections. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://docs.moodle.org/28/en/Collapsed_Topics_course_format Collapsed Topics] || An interchangeable topic or week based format that solves the issue of the 'Scroll of Death' when a course has many topics. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_recordingsbn RecordingsBN] || Access and manage your BigBlueButton recordings || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_journal Journal] || This module allows a teacher to ask students to reflect on a particular topic. The students can edit and refine their answer over time. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_coursefeedback CourseFeedback] || This Block intends to give the system administrators a tool for forced evaluation of a course (or other facts). System administrators can define a set of textual questions, which can be rated from students. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_grade_me Grade Me] || Shows a teacher all of the assignments and manual quiz questions (essays and file responses) that have been submitted, but not graded. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff6600;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Flexpage Flexpage] || Provides complete control over how content is presented. || Not yet supported for 2.8<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/filter_collapsible Collapsible regions] || Easy way to create collapsible regions within descriptions and text for Moodle. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-<br />
| [http://blogs.technet.com/b/educloud/archive/2013/04/12/a-quick-and-easy-way-to-link-moodle-to-sharepoint-with-collabco-myday.aspx MyDay] || The MyDay Moodle app links an existing Moodle installation to SharePoint. Once the app is installed it guides an administrator through the process of setting up their Moodle installation to talk to the app. All the administrator needs to do it fill out a couple of fields then copy some files into Moodle that the app generates || '''Under Investigation'''<br />
|-<br />
| [http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39932&navItemId=4c58c131-1e7a-44ec-f15b-77098df8bdc7 Moodle and Microsoft] || This page provides guidance on how to use Moodle, an open source course management system for educators, with Office 365’s popular productivity tools and services. || '''Under Investigation'''<br />
|-<br />
| [https://docs.moodle.org/28/en/OneDrive_repository OneDrive] || The Microsoft OneDrive repository (''formerly known as Skydrive'') allows you to access your documents from Microsoft OneDrive within Moodle. || '''Under Investigation'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/report_customsql Ad-hoc database queries] || This report plugin allows Administrators to set up arbitrary database queries to act as ad-hoc reports. Reports can be of two types, either run on demand, or scheduled to run automatically. Other users with the right capability can go in and see a list of queries that they have access to. Results can be viewed on-screen or downloaded as CSV. || '''Requested for install''' <br />
|-style="background-color:#ffff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_gismo GISMO] || GISMO, a graphical interactive student monitoring and tracking system that extracts tracking data from an online course maintained with Moodle, and generates graphical representations that can be explored by course instructors.|| '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/report_overviewstats Overview statistics] || Produces various site and course report charts. The code has been designed in a way that makes adding more reports easy. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_timestat Timestat] || Timestat block measures users real activity time. Time is increased only when Moodle tab is active in browser. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_enrolmenttimer Enrolment Timer] || Block to show the user their remaining time enrolled in a course with live countdown and lots of settings to customise the display of this timer. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/browse.php?list=set&id=58 Experience Points (XP)] || The Experience Point (XP) set contains gamification-style plugins working with experience points given to the students. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_stampcoll Stamp Collection] || The Stamp collection module allows a teacher to give "stamps" (i.e. picture with a comment) to students so they collect these stamps. The activity can be used in many ways, such as motivative bonus marks, absence marks, certification records etc. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/assignsubmission_mahara Mahara Assignment Submission Plugin] || Allows grading of Mahara portfolio pages & collections in Moodle. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/assignfeedback_mahara Mahara Assignment Feedback Plugin] || An optional (but recommended!) addition to the Mahara Assignment Submission plugin. This plugin allows Moodle to automatically unlock submitted Mahara portfolio pages & collections after grading. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|}<br />
<br />
Other Tools:<br />
Intelliboard.net analytical tool : Commercial Analytics - http://www.intelliboard.net/ [http://www.intelliboard.net/pricing Cost]<br />
Ephorus Plagiarism : Plagiarism tools<br />
<br />
==Wishlist of Features==<br />
Relative date setup - activities based on enrollment date<br />
Request in to Moodle.org see: https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-48185 <br />
<br />
==Themes==<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
|-<br />
! Name !! Status<br />
|-<br />
| Aardvark || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Bootstrap 3 || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Bootstrap Base || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Clean || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Elegance ||Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Essential || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| More || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/theme_evolved evolve-D] || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/theme_shoehorn Shoehorn] || Installed<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Moodle Settings==<br />
<br />
==LTI's==<br />
<br />
A potentially useful listing of LTI's: http://developers.imsglobal.org/catalog.html<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Name !! Status<br />
|-<br />
| WordPress || [http://edutechwiki.unige.ch/en/Moodle#Wordpress_integration Described here]|| Stalled due to coding issues because of version updates, will be monitored.<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Technical Questions/Issues==<br />
<br />
* 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. <br />
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.<br />
<br />
* 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.<br />
May be caused by theme not yet being fully 2.8 compliant<br />
<br />
* 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. <br />
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.<br />
<br />
* When trying the bring Big Blue Box into my course, I get a 505 Server Error.<br />
Result of not being an externally connected server. Will not be able to test until on server that has external security settings<br />
<br />
==Links==<br />
* http://opensource.com/education/12/1/designing-aesthetically-pleasing-moodle-courses<br />
* http://iy103-w14.hibbittsdesign.com/course/view.php?id=2<br />
* Discussions on Moodle file structure: <br />
** http://mattcornock.co.uk/moodle/moodle-2-file-repository-course-files<br />
** http://www.somerandomthoughts.com/blog/2010/06/15/ftp-files-into-moodle-2-0-with-the-repository-api/<br />
** https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=168868#p741355<br />
** https://docs.moodle.org/28/en/File_system_repository</div>Tagarwalhttps://kumu.tru.ca/index.php?title=Documentation:Learning_Environment/Moodle_Exploration&diff=8105Documentation:Learning Environment/Moodle Exploration2015-03-10T17:27:22Z<p>Tagarwal: /* Potential Moodle Plugins */</p>
<hr />
<div>__TOC__<br />
This page documents the exploration of the capabilities of Moodle to enhance the student learning experience. <br />
<br />
A small closed development environment has been created to try out various tools and themes that might enhance the student experience.<br />
<br />
'''Moodle Development Install: 2.8.2'''<br />
<br />
<br />
==Potential Moodle Plugins==<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
|-<br />
! Plugin Name !! Purpose/Utility !! Comment<br />
|-<br />
| Adobe Connect || Provides an activity level integration between Moodle and Adobe Connect Pro || Not a product that is used.<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff6666;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Attendance Plugin || Part of Set called Attendance || Not a typical functional issue, will not be loaded at moment.<br />
|-<br />
| Banner/Luminis Mesage Broker || Process courses, users, and enrollments out of SunGard HE/Ellucian Banner. Includes support for realtime notifications from Luminis Message Broker. || Potentially relevant to IT<br />
|-style="background-color:#b8ff70;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_bigbluebuttonbn BigBlueButton Plugin] || Web conferencing connection || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff8566;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Certificate || This module allows for the dynamic generation of certificates based on predefined conditions set by the teacher. || Currently not available for 2.8<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff6600;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Email-based Self-registration || Provides email-based self-registration with admin confirmation instead of user confirmation. || Currently not available for 2.8<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff4d4d;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Face-to-face Plugin || To help manage sessions where registration is required/Event Management || Not typical course scenario, will not be loaded at moment.<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff6600;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Mobile Identity Verification Plugin || Custom plugin by Lambda solutions || Not available on Moodle site<br />
|-<br />
| Moodle Welcome Plugin || Sends a welcome message to new users, sends a notification to a moderator of the new user creation || Future interest???<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff6600;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| My Grades Report Plugin|| A Moodle Report that shows all user grades in all courses || Currently not available for 2.8, future interest<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Progress Bar Plugin || A time management tool for you and your students || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff4d4d;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| SAML Authentication Plugin || SAML Authentication plugin based on the simplesamlphp software. (Also install the SAML Enrolment plugin if you want auto-enrol based on SAML) || More an IT focused plugin, will not currently install<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff4d4d;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Subcourse Plugin || The module provides very simple yet useful functionality. When added into a course, it behaves as a graded activity. The grade for each student is took from a final grade in another course. This allows course designers to organize the learning content into separate units. || Future use?? will not load.<br />
|-<br />
| Vericite Plugin || Plagarism detector, requires subscription || Future desire???<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff4d4d;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Webinar Plugin || For use with Adobe Connect only || Currently not of interest, will not be loaded.<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_checklist Checklist Set (Block/Module)] || creates interactive checklist || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_bcu_course_checks Course Checks Block] || This block carries out a number of automated checks on a course, to encourage a minimum standard of course quality, avoid common mistakes and highlight possible areas for improvement. The block also allows for a course to be cleared of empty sections. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://docs.moodle.org/28/en/Collapsed_Topics_course_format Collapsed Topics] || An interchangeable topic or week based format that solves the issue of the 'Scroll of Death' when a course has many topics. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_recordingsbn RecordingsBN] || Access and manage your BigBlueButton recordings || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_journal Journal] || This module allows a teacher to ask students to reflect on a particular topic. The students can edit and refine their answer over time. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_coursefeedback CourseFeedback] || This Block intends to give the system administrators a tool for forced evaluation of a course (or other facts). System administrators can define a set of textual questions, which can be rated from students. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_grade_me Grade Me] || Shows a teacher all of the assignments and manual quiz questions (essays and file responses) that have been submitted, but not graded. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff6600;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Flexpage Flexpage] || Provides complete control over how content is presented. || Not yet supported for 2.8<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/filter_collapsible Collapsible regions] || Easy way to create collapsible regions within descriptions and text for Moodle. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-<br />
| [http://blogs.technet.com/b/educloud/archive/2013/04/12/a-quick-and-easy-way-to-link-moodle-to-sharepoint-with-collabco-myday.aspx MyDay] || The MyDay Moodle app links an existing Moodle installation to SharePoint. Once the app is installed it guides an administrator through the process of setting up their Moodle installation to talk to the app. All the administrator needs to do it fill out a couple of fields then copy some files into Moodle that the app generates || '''Under Investigation'''<br />
|-<br />
| [http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39932&navItemId=4c58c131-1e7a-44ec-f15b-77098df8bdc7 Moodle and Microsoft] || This page provides guidance on how to use Moodle, an open source course management system for educators, with Office 365’s popular productivity tools and services. || '''Under Investigation'''<br />
|-<br />
| [https://docs.moodle.org/28/en/OneDrive_repository OneDrive] || The Microsoft OneDrive repository (''formerly known as Skydrive'') allows you to access your documents from Microsoft OneDrive within Moodle. || '''Under Investigation'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/report_customsql Ad-hoc database queries] || This report plugin allows Administrators to set up arbitrary database queries to act as ad-hoc reports. Reports can be of two types, either run on demand, or scheduled to run automatically. Other users with the right capability can go in and see a list of queries that they have access to. Results can be viewed on-screen or downloaded as CSV. || '''Requested for install''' <br />
|-style="background-color:#ffff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_gismo GISMO] || GISMO, a graphical interactive student monitoring and tracking system that extracts tracking data from an online course maintained with Moodle, and generates graphical representations that can be explored by course instructors.|| '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/report_overviewstats Overview statistics] || Produces various site and course report charts. The code has been designed in a way that makes adding more reports easy. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_timestat Timestat] || Timestat block measures users real activity time. Time is increased only when Moodle tab is active in browser. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_enrolmenttimer Enrolment Timer] || Block to show the user their remaining time enrolled in a course with live countdown and lots of settings to customise the display of this timer. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/browse.php?list=set&id=58 Experience Points (XP)] || The Experience Point (XP) set contains gamification-style plugins working with experience points given to the students. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_stampcoll Stamp Collection] || The Stamp collection module allows a teacher to give "stamps" (i.e. picture with a comment) to students so they collect these stamps. The activity can be used in many ways, such as motivative bonus marks, absence marks, certification records etc. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/assignsubmission_mahara Mahara Assignment Submission Plugin] || Allows grading of Mahara portfolio pages & collections in Moodle. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/assignfeedback_mahara Mahara Assignment Feedback Plugin] || An optional (but recommended!) addition to the Mahara Assignment Submission plugin. This plugin allows Moodle to automatically unlock submitted Mahara portfolio pages & collections after grading. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|}<br />
<br />
Other Tools:<br />
Intelliboard.net analytical tool : Commercial Analytics - http://www.intelliboard.net/ [http://www.intelliboard.net/pricing Cost]<br />
Ephorus Plagiarism : Plagiarism tools<br />
<br />
==Wishlist of Features==<br />
Relative date setup - activities based on enrollment date<br />
Request in to Moodle.org see: https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-48185 <br />
<br />
==Themes==<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
|-<br />
! Name !! Status<br />
|-<br />
| Aardvark || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Bootstrap 3 || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Bootstrap Base || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Clean || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Elegance ||Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Essential || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| More || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/theme_evolved evolve-D] || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/theme_shoehorn Shoehorn] || Installed<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Moodle Settings==<br />
<br />
==LTI's==<br />
<br />
A potentially useful listing of LTI's: http://developers.imsglobal.org/catalog.html<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Name !! Status<br />
|-<br />
| WordPress || [http://edutechwiki.unige.ch/en/Moodle#Wordpress_integration Described here]|| Stalled due to coding issues because of version updates, will be monitored.<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Technical Questions/Issues==<br />
<br />
* 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. <br />
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.<br />
<br />
* 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.<br />
May be caused by theme not yet being fully 2.8 compliant<br />
<br />
* 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. <br />
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.<br />
<br />
* When trying the bring Big Blue Box into my course, I get a 505 Server Error.<br />
Result of not being an externally connected server. Will not be able to test until on server that has external security settings<br />
<br />
==Links==<br />
* http://opensource.com/education/12/1/designing-aesthetically-pleasing-moodle-courses<br />
* http://iy103-w14.hibbittsdesign.com/course/view.php?id=2<br />
* Discussions on Moodle file structure: <br />
** http://mattcornock.co.uk/moodle/moodle-2-file-repository-course-files<br />
** http://www.somerandomthoughts.com/blog/2010/06/15/ftp-files-into-moodle-2-0-with-the-repository-api/<br />
** https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=168868#p741355<br />
** https://docs.moodle.org/28/en/File_system_repository</div>Tagarwalhttps://kumu.tru.ca/index.php?title=Documentation:Learning_Environment/Moodle_Exploration&diff=8104Documentation:Learning Environment/Moodle Exploration2015-03-10T17:03:22Z<p>Tagarwal: /* Potential Moodle Plugins */</p>
<hr />
<div>__TOC__<br />
This page documents the exploration of the capabilities of Moodle to enhance the student learning experience. <br />
<br />
A small closed development environment has been created to try out various tools and themes that might enhance the student experience.<br />
<br />
'''Moodle Development Install: 2.8.2'''<br />
<br />
<br />
==Potential Moodle Plugins==<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
|-<br />
! Plugin Name !! Purpose/Utility !! Comment<br />
|-<br />
| Adobe Connect || Provides an activity level integration between Moodle and Adobe Connect Pro || Not a product that is used.<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff4d4d;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Attendance Plugin || Part of Set called Attendance || Not a typical functional issue, will not be loaded at moment.<br />
|-<br />
| Banner/Luminis Mesage Broker || Process courses, users, and enrollments out of SunGard HE/Ellucian Banner. Includes support for realtime notifications from Luminis Message Broker. || Potentially relevant to IT<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_bigbluebuttonbn BigBlueButton Plugin] || Web conferencing connection || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff6600;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Certificate || This module allows for the dynamic generation of certificates based on predefined conditions set by the teacher. || Currently not available for 2.8<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff6600;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Email-based Self-registration || Provides email-based self-registration with admin confirmation instead of user confirmation. || Currently not available for 2.8<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff4d4d;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Face-to-face Plugin || To help manage sessions where registration is required/Event Management || Not typical course scenario, will not be loaded at moment.<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff6600;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Mobile Identity Verification Plugin || Custom plugin by Lambda solutions || Not available on Moodle site<br />
|-<br />
| Moodle Welcome Plugin || Sends a welcome message to new users, sends a notification to a moderator of the new user creation || Future interest???<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff6600;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| My Grades Report Plugin|| A Moodle Report that shows all user grades in all courses || Currently not available for 2.8, future interest<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Progress Bar Plugin || A time management tool for you and your students || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff4d4d;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| SAML Authentication Plugin || SAML Authentication plugin based on the simplesamlphp software. (Also install the SAML Enrolment plugin if you want auto-enrol based on SAML) || More an IT focused plugin, will not currently install<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff4d4d;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Subcourse Plugin || The module provides very simple yet useful functionality. When added into a course, it behaves as a graded activity. The grade for each student is took from a final grade in another course. This allows course designers to organize the learning content into separate units. || Future use?? will not load.<br />
|-<br />
| Vericite Plugin || Plagarism detector, requires subscription || Future desire???<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff4d4d;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Webinar Plugin || For use with Adobe Connect only || Currently not of interest, will not be loaded.<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_checklist Checklist Set (Block/Module)] || creates interactive checklist || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_bcu_course_checks Course Checks Block] || This block carries out a number of automated checks on a course, to encourage a minimum standard of course quality, avoid common mistakes and highlight possible areas for improvement. The block also allows for a course to be cleared of empty sections. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://docs.moodle.org/28/en/Collapsed_Topics_course_format Collapsed Topics] || An interchangeable topic or week based format that solves the issue of the 'Scroll of Death' when a course has many topics. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_recordingsbn RecordingsBN] || Access and manage your BigBlueButton recordings || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_journal Journal] || This module allows a teacher to ask students to reflect on a particular topic. The students can edit and refine their answer over time. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_coursefeedback CourseFeedback] || This Block intends to give the system administrators a tool for forced evaluation of a course (or other facts). System administrators can define a set of textual questions, which can be rated from students. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_grade_me Grade Me] || Shows a teacher all of the assignments and manual quiz questions (essays and file responses) that have been submitted, but not graded. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff6600;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Flexpage Flexpage] || Provides complete control over how content is presented. || Not yet supported for 2.8<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/filter_collapsible Collapsible regions] || Easy way to create collapsible regions within descriptions and text for Moodle. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-<br />
| [http://blogs.technet.com/b/educloud/archive/2013/04/12/a-quick-and-easy-way-to-link-moodle-to-sharepoint-with-collabco-myday.aspx MyDay] || The MyDay Moodle app links an existing Moodle installation to SharePoint. Once the app is installed it guides an administrator through the process of setting up their Moodle installation to talk to the app. All the administrator needs to do it fill out a couple of fields then copy some files into Moodle that the app generates || '''Under Investigation'''<br />
|-<br />
| [http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39932&navItemId=4c58c131-1e7a-44ec-f15b-77098df8bdc7 Moodle and Microsoft] || This page provides guidance on how to use Moodle, an open source course management system for educators, with Office 365’s popular productivity tools and services. || '''Under Investigation'''<br />
|-<br />
| [https://docs.moodle.org/28/en/OneDrive_repository OneDrive] || The Microsoft OneDrive repository (''formerly known as Skydrive'') allows you to access your documents from Microsoft OneDrive within Moodle. || '''Under Investigation'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/report_customsql Ad-hoc database queries] || This report plugin allows Administrators to set up arbitrary database queries to act as ad-hoc reports. Reports can be of two types, either run on demand, or scheduled to run automatically. Other users with the right capability can go in and see a list of queries that they have access to. Results can be viewed on-screen or downloaded as CSV. || '''Requested for install''' <br />
|-style="background-color:#ffff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_gismo GISMO] || GISMO, a graphical interactive student monitoring and tracking system that extracts tracking data from an online course maintained with Moodle, and generates graphical representations that can be explored by course instructors.|| '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/report_overviewstats Overview statistics] || Produces various site and course report charts. The code has been designed in a way that makes adding more reports easy. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_timestat Timestat] || Timestat block measures users real activity time. Time is increased only when Moodle tab is active in browser. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_enrolmenttimer Enrolment Timer] || Block to show the user their remaining time enrolled in a course with live countdown and lots of settings to customise the display of this timer. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/browse.php?list=set&id=58 Experience Points (XP)] || The Experience Point (XP) set contains gamification-style plugins working with experience points given to the students. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_stampcoll Stamp Collection] || The Stamp collection module allows a teacher to give "stamps" (i.e. picture with a comment) to students so they collect these stamps. The activity can be used in many ways, such as motivative bonus marks, absence marks, certification records etc. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/assignsubmission_mahara Mahara Assignment Submission Plugin] || Allows grading of Mahara portfolio pages & collections in Moodle. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/assignfeedback_mahara Mahara Assignment Feedback Plugin] || An optional (but recommended!) addition to the Mahara Assignment Submission plugin. This plugin allows Moodle to automatically unlock submitted Mahara portfolio pages & collections after grading. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|}<br />
<br />
Other Tools:<br />
Intelliboard.net analytical tool : Commercial Analytics - http://www.intelliboard.net/ [http://www.intelliboard.net/pricing Cost]<br />
Ephorus Plagiarism : Plagiarism tools<br />
<br />
==Wishlist of Features==<br />
Relative date setup - activities based on enrollment date<br />
Request in to Moodle.org see: https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-48185 <br />
<br />
==Themes==<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
|-<br />
! Name !! Status<br />
|-<br />
| Aardvark || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Bootstrap 3 || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Bootstrap Base || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Clean || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Elegance ||Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Essential || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| More || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/theme_evolved evolve-D] || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/theme_shoehorn Shoehorn] || Installed<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Moodle Settings==<br />
<br />
==LTI's==<br />
<br />
A potentially useful listing of LTI's: http://developers.imsglobal.org/catalog.html<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Name !! Status<br />
|-<br />
| WordPress || [http://edutechwiki.unige.ch/en/Moodle#Wordpress_integration Described here]|| Stalled due to coding issues because of version updates, will be monitored.<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Technical Questions/Issues==<br />
<br />
* 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. <br />
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.<br />
<br />
* 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.<br />
May be caused by theme not yet being fully 2.8 compliant<br />
<br />
* 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. <br />
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.<br />
<br />
* When trying the bring Big Blue Box into my course, I get a 505 Server Error.<br />
Result of not being an externally connected server. Will not be able to test until on server that has external security settings<br />
<br />
==Links==<br />
* http://opensource.com/education/12/1/designing-aesthetically-pleasing-moodle-courses<br />
* http://iy103-w14.hibbittsdesign.com/course/view.php?id=2<br />
* Discussions on Moodle file structure: <br />
** http://mattcornock.co.uk/moodle/moodle-2-file-repository-course-files<br />
** http://www.somerandomthoughts.com/blog/2010/06/15/ftp-files-into-moodle-2-0-with-the-repository-api/<br />
** https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=168868#p741355<br />
** https://docs.moodle.org/28/en/File_system_repository</div>Tagarwalhttps://kumu.tru.ca/index.php?title=Documentation:Learning_Environment/Moodle_Exploration&diff=8103Documentation:Learning Environment/Moodle Exploration2015-03-10T17:02:17Z<p>Tagarwal: /* Potential Moodle Plugins */</p>
<hr />
<div>__TOC__<br />
This page documents the exploration of the capabilities of Moodle to enhance the student learning experience. <br />
<br />
A small closed development environment has been created to try out various tools and themes that might enhance the student experience.<br />
<br />
'''Moodle Development Install: 2.8.2'''<br />
<br />
<br />
==Potential Moodle Plugins==<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
|-<br />
! Plugin Name !! Purpose/Utility !! Comment<br />
|-<br />
| Adobe Connect || Provides an activity level integration between Moodle and Adobe Connect Pro || Not a product that is used.<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff4d4d;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Attendance Plugin || Part of Set called Attendance || Not a typical functional issue, will not be loaded at moment.<br />
|-<br />
| Banner/Luminis Mesage Broker || Process courses, users, and enrollments out of SunGard HE/Ellucian Banner. Includes support for realtime notifications from Luminis Message Broker. || Potentially relevant to IT<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_bigbluebuttonbn BigBlueButton Plugin] || Web conferencing connection || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff6600;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Certificate || This module allows for the dynamic generation of certificates based on predefined conditions set by the teacher. || Currently not available for 2.8<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff6600;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Email-based Self-registration || Provides email-based self-registration with admin confirmation instead of user confirmation. || Currently not available for 2.8<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff4d4d;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Face-to-face Plugin || To help manage sessions where registration is required/Event Management || Not typical course scenario, will not be loaded at moment.<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff6600;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Mobile Identity Verification Plugin || Custom plugin by Lambda solutions || Not available on Moodle site<br />
|-<br />
| Moodle Welcome Plugin || Sends a welcome message to new users, sends a notification to a moderator of the new user creation || Future interest???<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff6600;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| My Grades Report Plugin|| A Moodle Report that shows all user grades in all courses || Currently not available for 2.8, future interest<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Progress Bar Plugin || A time management tool for you and your students || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff4d4d;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| SAML Authentication Plugin || SAML Authentication plugin based on the simplesamlphp software. (Also install the SAML Enrolment plugin if you want auto-enrol based on SAML) || More an IT focused plugin, will not currently install<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff4d4d;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Subcourse Plugin || The module provides very simple yet useful functionality. When added into a course, it behaves as a graded activity. The grade for each student is took from a final grade in another course. This allows course designers to organize the learning content into separate units. || Future use?? will not load.<br />
|-<br />
| Vericite Plugin || Plagarism detector, requires subscription || Future desire???<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff4d4d;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Webinar Plugin || For use with Adobe Connect only || Currently not of interest, will not be loaded.<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_checklist Checklist Set (Block/Module)] || creates interactive checklist || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_bcu_course_checks Course Checks Block] || This block carries out a number of automated checks on a course, to encourage a minimum standard of course quality, avoid common mistakes and highlight possible areas for improvement. The block also allows for a course to be cleared of empty sections. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://docs.moodle.org/28/en/Collapsed_Topics_course_format Collapsed Topics] || An interchangeable topic or week based format that solves the issue of the 'Scroll of Death' when a course has many topics. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_recordingsbn RecordingsBN] || Access and manage your BigBlueButton recordings || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_journal Journal] || This module allows a teacher to ask students to reflect on a particular topic. The students can edit and refine their answer over time. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_coursefeedback CourseFeedback] || This Block intends to give the system administrators a tool for forced evaluation of a course (or other facts). System administrators can define a set of textual questions, which can be rated from students. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_grade_me Grade Me] || Shows a teacher all of the assignments and manual quiz questions (essays and file responses) that have been submitted, but not graded. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff6600;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Flexpage Flexpage] || Provides complete control over how content is presented. || Not yet supported for 2.8<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/filter_collapsible Collapsible regions] || Easy way to create collapsible regions within descriptions and text for Moodle. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-<br />
| [http://blogs.technet.com/b/educloud/archive/2013/04/12/a-quick-and-easy-way-to-link-moodle-to-sharepoint-with-collabco-myday.aspx MyDay] || The MyDay Moodle app links an existing Moodle installation to SharePoint. Once the app is installed it guides an administrator through the process of setting up their Moodle installation to talk to the app. All the administrator needs to do it fill out a couple of fields then copy some files into Moodle that the app generates || '''Under Investigation'''<br />
|-<br />
| [http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39932&navItemId=4c58c131-1e7a-44ec-f15b-77098df8bdc7 Moodle and Microsoft] || This page provides guidance on how to use Moodle, an open source course management system for educators, with Office 365’s popular productivity tools and services. || '''Under Investigation'''<br />
|-<br />
| [https://docs.moodle.org/28/en/OneDrive_repository OneDrive] || The Microsoft OneDrive repository (''formerly known as Skydrive'') allows you to access your documents from Microsoft OneDrive within Moodle. || '''Under Investigation'''<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/report_customsql Ad-hoc database queries] || This report plugin allows Administrators to set up arbitrary database queries to act as ad-hoc reports. Reports can be of two types, either run on demand, or scheduled to run automatically. Other users with the right capability can go in and see a list of queries that they have access to. Results can be viewed on-screen or downloaded as CSV. || '''Requested for install''' <br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_gismo GISMO] || GISMO, a graphical interactive student monitoring and tracking system that extracts tracking data from an online course maintained with Moodle, and generates graphical representations that can be explored by course instructors.|| '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/report_overviewstats Overview statistics] || Produces various site and course report charts. The code has been designed in a way that makes adding more reports easy. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_timestat Timestat] || Timestat block measures users real activity time. Time is increased only when Moodle tab is active in browser. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|- <br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_enrolmenttimer Enrolment Timer] || Block to show the user their remaining time enrolled in a course with live countdown and lots of settings to customise the display of this timer. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/browse.php?list=set&id=58 Experience Points (XP)] || The Experience Point (XP) set contains gamification-style plugins working with experience points given to the students. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_stampcoll Stamp Collection] || The Stamp collection module allows a teacher to give "stamps" (i.e. picture with a comment) to students so they collect these stamps. The activity can be used in many ways, such as motivative bonus marks, absence marks, certification records etc. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/assignsubmission_mahara Mahara Assignment Submission Plugin] || Allows grading of Mahara portfolio pages & collections in Moodle. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ffff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/assignfeedback_mahara Mahara Assignment Feedback Plugin] || An optional (but recommended!) addition to the Mahara Assignment Submission plugin. This plugin allows Moodle to automatically unlock submitted Mahara portfolio pages & collections after grading. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|}<br />
<br />
Other Tools:<br />
Intelliboard.net analytical tool : Commercial Analytics - http://www.intelliboard.net/ [http://www.intelliboard.net/pricing Cost]<br />
Ephorus Plagiarism : Plagiarism tools<br />
<br />
==Wishlist of Features==<br />
Relative date setup - activities based on enrollment date<br />
Request in to Moodle.org see: https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-48185 <br />
<br />
==Themes==<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
|-<br />
! Name !! Status<br />
|-<br />
| Aardvark || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Bootstrap 3 || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Bootstrap Base || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Clean || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Elegance ||Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Essential || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| More || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/theme_evolved evolve-D] || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/theme_shoehorn Shoehorn] || Installed<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Moodle Settings==<br />
<br />
==LTI's==<br />
<br />
A potentially useful listing of LTI's: http://developers.imsglobal.org/catalog.html<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Name !! Status<br />
|-<br />
| WordPress || [http://edutechwiki.unige.ch/en/Moodle#Wordpress_integration Described here]|| Stalled due to coding issues because of version updates, will be monitored.<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Technical Questions/Issues==<br />
<br />
* 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. <br />
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.<br />
<br />
* 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.<br />
May be caused by theme not yet being fully 2.8 compliant<br />
<br />
* 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. <br />
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.<br />
<br />
* When trying the bring Big Blue Box into my course, I get a 505 Server Error.<br />
Result of not being an externally connected server. Will not be able to test until on server that has external security settings<br />
<br />
==Links==<br />
* http://opensource.com/education/12/1/designing-aesthetically-pleasing-moodle-courses<br />
* http://iy103-w14.hibbittsdesign.com/course/view.php?id=2<br />
* Discussions on Moodle file structure: <br />
** http://mattcornock.co.uk/moodle/moodle-2-file-repository-course-files<br />
** http://www.somerandomthoughts.com/blog/2010/06/15/ftp-files-into-moodle-2-0-with-the-repository-api/<br />
** https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=168868#p741355<br />
** https://docs.moodle.org/28/en/File_system_repository</div>Tagarwalhttps://kumu.tru.ca/index.php?title=Documentation:Learning_Environment/Moodle_Exploration&diff=8102Documentation:Learning Environment/Moodle Exploration2015-03-10T17:01:01Z<p>Tagarwal: /* Potential Moodle Plugins */</p>
<hr />
<div>__TOC__<br />
This page documents the exploration of the capabilities of Moodle to enhance the student learning experience. <br />
<br />
A small closed development environment has been created to try out various tools and themes that might enhance the student experience.<br />
<br />
'''Moodle Development Install: 2.8.2'''<br />
<br />
<br />
==Potential Moodle Plugins==<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
|-<br />
! Plugin Name !! Purpose/Utility !! Comment<br />
|-<br />
| Adobe Connect || Provides an activity level integration between Moodle and Adobe Connect Pro || Not a product that is used.<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff4d4d;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Attendance Plugin || Part of Set called Attendance || Not a typical functional issue, will not be loaded at moment.<br />
|-<br />
| Banner/Luminis Mesage Broker || Process courses, users, and enrollments out of SunGard HE/Ellucian Banner. Includes support for realtime notifications from Luminis Message Broker. || Potentially relevant to IT<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_bigbluebuttonbn BigBlueButton Plugin] || Web conferencing connection || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff6600;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Certificate || This module allows for the dynamic generation of certificates based on predefined conditions set by the teacher. || Currently not available for 2.8<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff6600;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Email-based Self-registration || Provides email-based self-registration with admin confirmation instead of user confirmation. || Currently not available for 2.8<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff4d4d;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Face-to-face Plugin || To help manage sessions where registration is required/Event Management || Not typical course scenario, will not be loaded at moment.<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff6600;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Mobile Identity Verification Plugin || Custom plugin by Lambda solutions || Not available on Moodle site<br />
|-<br />
| Moodle Welcome Plugin || Sends a welcome message to new users, sends a notification to a moderator of the new user creation || Future interest???<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff6600;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| My Grades Report Plugin|| A Moodle Report that shows all user grades in all courses || Currently not available for 2.8, future interest<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Progress Bar Plugin || A time management tool for you and your students || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff4d4d;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| SAML Authentication Plugin || SAML Authentication plugin based on the simplesamlphp software. (Also install the SAML Enrolment plugin if you want auto-enrol based on SAML) || More an IT focused plugin, will not currently install<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff4d4d;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Subcourse Plugin || The module provides very simple yet useful functionality. When added into a course, it behaves as a graded activity. The grade for each student is took from a final grade in another course. This allows course designers to organize the learning content into separate units. || Future use?? will not load.<br />
|-<br />
| Vericite Plugin || Plagarism detector, requires subscription || Future desire???<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff4d4d;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Webinar Plugin || For use with Adobe Connect only || Currently not of interest, will not be loaded.<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_checklist Checklist Set (Block/Module)] || creates interactive checklist || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_bcu_course_checks Course Checks Block] || This block carries out a number of automated checks on a course, to encourage a minimum standard of course quality, avoid common mistakes and highlight possible areas for improvement. The block also allows for a course to be cleared of empty sections. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://docs.moodle.org/28/en/Collapsed_Topics_course_format Collapsed Topics] || An interchangeable topic or week based format that solves the issue of the 'Scroll of Death' when a course has many topics. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_recordingsbn RecordingsBN] || Access and manage your BigBlueButton recordings || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_journal Journal] || This module allows a teacher to ask students to reflect on a particular topic. The students can edit and refine their answer over time. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_coursefeedback CourseFeedback] || This Block intends to give the system administrators a tool for forced evaluation of a course (or other facts). System administrators can define a set of textual questions, which can be rated from students. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_grade_me Grade Me] || Shows a teacher all of the assignments and manual quiz questions (essays and file responses) that have been submitted, but not graded. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff6600;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Flexpage Flexpage] || Provides complete control over how content is presented. || Not yet supported for 2.8<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/filter_collapsible Collapsible regions] || Easy way to create collapsible regions within descriptions and text for Moodle. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-<br />
| [http://blogs.technet.com/b/educloud/archive/2013/04/12/a-quick-and-easy-way-to-link-moodle-to-sharepoint-with-collabco-myday.aspx MyDay] || The MyDay Moodle app links an existing Moodle installation to SharePoint. Once the app is installed it guides an administrator through the process of setting up their Moodle installation to talk to the app. All the administrator needs to do it fill out a couple of fields then copy some files into Moodle that the app generates || '''Under Investigation'''<br />
|-<br />
| [http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39932&navItemId=4c58c131-1e7a-44ec-f15b-77098df8bdc7 Moodle and Microsoft] || This page provides guidance on how to use Moodle, an open source course management system for educators, with Office 365’s popular productivity tools and services. || '''Under Investigation'''<br />
|-<br />
| [https://docs.moodle.org/28/en/OneDrive_repository OneDrive] || The Microsoft OneDrive repository (''formerly known as Skydrive'') allows you to access your documents from Microsoft OneDrive within Moodle. || '''Under Investigation'''<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/report_customsql Ad-hoc database queries] || This report plugin allows Administrators to set up arbitrary database queries to act as ad-hoc reports. Reports can be of two types, either run on demand, or scheduled to run automatically. Other users with the right capability can go in and see a list of queries that they have access to. Results can be viewed on-screen or downloaded as CSV. || '''Requested for install''' <br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_gismo GISMO] || GISMO, a graphical interactive student monitoring and tracking system that extracts tracking data from an online course maintained with Moodle, and generates graphical representations that can be explored by course instructors.|| '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/report_overviewstats Overview statistics] || Produces various site and course report charts. The code has been designed in a way that makes adding more reports easy. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_timestat Timestat] || Timestat block measures users real activity time. Time is increased only when Moodle tab is active in browser. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|- <br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_enrolmenttimer Enrolment Timer] || Block to show the user their remaining time enrolled in a course with live countdown and lots of settings to customise the display of this timer. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/browse.php?list=set&id=58 Experience Points (XP)] || The Experience Point (XP) set contains gamification-style plugins working with experience points given to the students. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_stampcoll Stamp Collection] || The Stamp collection module allows a teacher to give "stamps" (i.e. picture with a comment) to students so they collect these stamps. The activity can be used in many ways, such as motivative bonus marks, absence marks, certification records etc. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/assignsubmission_mahara Mahara Assignment Submission Plugin] || Allows grading of Mahara portfolio pages & collections in Moodle. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/assignfeedback_mahara Mahara Assignment Feedback Plugin] || An optional (but recommended!) addition to the Mahara Assignment Submission plugin. This plugin allows Moodle to automatically unlock submitted Mahara portfolio pages & collections after grading. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|}<br />
<br />
Other Tools:<br />
Intelliboard.net analytical tool : Commercial Analytics - http://www.intelliboard.net/ [http://www.intelliboard.net/pricing Cost]<br />
Ephorus Plagiarism : Plagiarism tools<br />
<br />
==Wishlist of Features==<br />
Relative date setup - activities based on enrollment date<br />
Request in to Moodle.org see: https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-48185 <br />
<br />
==Themes==<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
|-<br />
! Name !! Status<br />
|-<br />
| Aardvark || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Bootstrap 3 || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Bootstrap Base || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Clean || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Elegance ||Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Essential || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| More || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/theme_evolved evolve-D] || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/theme_shoehorn Shoehorn] || Installed<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Moodle Settings==<br />
<br />
==LTI's==<br />
<br />
A potentially useful listing of LTI's: http://developers.imsglobal.org/catalog.html<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Name !! Status<br />
|-<br />
| WordPress || [http://edutechwiki.unige.ch/en/Moodle#Wordpress_integration Described here]|| Stalled due to coding issues because of version updates, will be monitored.<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Technical Questions/Issues==<br />
<br />
* 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. <br />
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.<br />
<br />
* 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.<br />
May be caused by theme not yet being fully 2.8 compliant<br />
<br />
* 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. <br />
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.<br />
<br />
* When trying the bring Big Blue Box into my course, I get a 505 Server Error.<br />
Result of not being an externally connected server. Will not be able to test until on server that has external security settings<br />
<br />
==Links==<br />
* http://opensource.com/education/12/1/designing-aesthetically-pleasing-moodle-courses<br />
* http://iy103-w14.hibbittsdesign.com/course/view.php?id=2<br />
* Discussions on Moodle file structure: <br />
** http://mattcornock.co.uk/moodle/moodle-2-file-repository-course-files<br />
** http://www.somerandomthoughts.com/blog/2010/06/15/ftp-files-into-moodle-2-0-with-the-repository-api/<br />
** https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=168868#p741355<br />
** https://docs.moodle.org/28/en/File_system_repository</div>Tagarwalhttps://kumu.tru.ca/index.php?title=Documentation:Learning_Environment/Moodle_Exploration&diff=8101Documentation:Learning Environment/Moodle Exploration2015-03-10T16:59:34Z<p>Tagarwal: /* Potential Moodle Plugins */</p>
<hr />
<div>__TOC__<br />
This page documents the exploration of the capabilities of Moodle to enhance the student learning experience. <br />
<br />
A small closed development environment has been created to try out various tools and themes that might enhance the student experience.<br />
<br />
'''Moodle Development Install: 2.8.2'''<br />
<br />
<br />
==Potential Moodle Plugins==<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
|-<br />
! Plugin Name !! Purpose/Utility !! Comment<br />
|-<br />
| Adobe Connect || Provides an activity level integration between Moodle and Adobe Connect Pro || Not a product that is used.<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff4d4d;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Attendance Plugin || Part of Set called Attendance || Not a typical functional issue, will not be loaded at moment.<br />
|-<br />
| Banner/Luminis Mesage Broker || Process courses, users, and enrollments out of SunGard HE/Ellucian Banner. Includes support for realtime notifications from Luminis Message Broker. || Potentially relevant to IT<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_bigbluebuttonbn BigBlueButton Plugin] || Web conferencing connection || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff6600;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Certificate || This module allows for the dynamic generation of certificates based on predefined conditions set by the teacher. || Currently not available for 2.8<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff6600;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Email-based Self-registration || Provides email-based self-registration with admin confirmation instead of user confirmation. || Currently not available for 2.8<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff4d4d;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Face-to-face Plugin || To help manage sessions where registration is required/Event Management || Not typical course scenario, will not be loaded at moment.<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff6600;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Mobile Identity Verification Plugin || Custom plugin by Lambda solutions || Not available on Moodle site<br />
|-<br />
| Moodle Welcome Plugin || Sends a welcome message to new users, sends a notification to a moderator of the new user creation || Future interest???<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff6600;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| My Grades Report Plugin|| A Moodle Report that shows all user grades in all courses || Currently not available for 2.8, future interest<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Progress Bar Plugin || A time management tool for you and your students || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff4d4d;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| SAML Authentication Plugin || SAML Authentication plugin based on the simplesamlphp software. (Also install the SAML Enrolment plugin if you want auto-enrol based on SAML) || More an IT focused plugin, will not currently install<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff4d4d;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Subcourse Plugin || The module provides very simple yet useful functionality. When added into a course, it behaves as a graded activity. The grade for each student is took from a final grade in another course. This allows course designers to organize the learning content into separate units. || Future use?? will not load.<br />
|-<br />
| Vericite Plugin || Plagarism detector, requires subscription || Future desire???<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff4d4d;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Webinar Plugin || For use with Adobe Connect only || Currently not of interest, will not be loaded.<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_checklist Checklist Set (Block/Module)] || creates interactive checklist || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_bcu_course_checks Course Checks Block] || This block carries out a number of automated checks on a course, to encourage a minimum standard of course quality, avoid common mistakes and highlight possible areas for improvement. The block also allows for a course to be cleared of empty sections. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://docs.moodle.org/28/en/Collapsed_Topics_course_format Collapsed Topics] || An interchangeable topic or week based format that solves the issue of the 'Scroll of Death' when a course has many topics. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_recordingsbn RecordingsBN] || Access and manage your BigBlueButton recordings || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_journal Journal] || This module allows a teacher to ask students to reflect on a particular topic. The students can edit and refine their answer over time. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_coursefeedback CourseFeedback] || This Block intends to give the system administrators a tool for forced evaluation of a course (or other facts). System administrators can define a set of textual questions, which can be rated from students. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_grade_me Grade Me] || Shows a teacher all of the assignments and manual quiz questions (essays and file responses) that have been submitted, but not graded. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-<br />
| [https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Flexpage Flexpage] || Provides complete control over how content is presented. || Not yet supported for 2.8<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/filter_collapsible Collapsible regions] || Easy way to create collapsible regions within descriptions and text for Moodle. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-<br />
| [http://blogs.technet.com/b/educloud/archive/2013/04/12/a-quick-and-easy-way-to-link-moodle-to-sharepoint-with-collabco-myday.aspx MyDay] || The MyDay Moodle app links an existing Moodle installation to SharePoint. Once the app is installed it guides an administrator through the process of setting up their Moodle installation to talk to the app. All the administrator needs to do it fill out a couple of fields then copy some files into Moodle that the app generates || '''Under Investigation'''<br />
|-<br />
| [http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39932&navItemId=4c58c131-1e7a-44ec-f15b-77098df8bdc7 Moodle and Microsoft] || This page provides guidance on how to use Moodle, an open source course management system for educators, with Office 365’s popular productivity tools and services. || '''Under Investigation'''<br />
|-<br />
| [https://docs.moodle.org/28/en/OneDrive_repository OneDrive] || The Microsoft OneDrive repository (''formerly known as Skydrive'') allows you to access your documents from Microsoft OneDrive within Moodle. || '''Under Investigation'''<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/report_customsql Ad-hoc database queries] || This report plugin allows Administrators to set up arbitrary database queries to act as ad-hoc reports. Reports can be of two types, either run on demand, or scheduled to run automatically. Other users with the right capability can go in and see a list of queries that they have access to. Results can be viewed on-screen or downloaded as CSV. || '''Requested for install''' <br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_gismo GISMO] || GISMO, a graphical interactive student monitoring and tracking system that extracts tracking data from an online course maintained with Moodle, and generates graphical representations that can be explored by course instructors.|| '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/report_overviewstats Overview statistics] || Produces various site and course report charts. The code has been designed in a way that makes adding more reports easy. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_timestat Timestat] || Timestat block measures users real activity time. Time is increased only when Moodle tab is active in browser. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|- <br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_enrolmenttimer Enrolment Timer] || Block to show the user their remaining time enrolled in a course with live countdown and lots of settings to customise the display of this timer. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/browse.php?list=set&id=58 Experience Points (XP)] || The Experience Point (XP) set contains gamification-style plugins working with experience points given to the students. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_stampcoll Stamp Collection] || The Stamp collection module allows a teacher to give "stamps" (i.e. picture with a comment) to students so they collect these stamps. The activity can be used in many ways, such as motivative bonus marks, absence marks, certification records etc. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/assignsubmission_mahara Mahara Assignment Submission Plugin] || Allows grading of Mahara portfolio pages & collections in Moodle. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/assignfeedback_mahara Mahara Assignment Feedback Plugin] || An optional (but recommended!) addition to the Mahara Assignment Submission plugin. This plugin allows Moodle to automatically unlock submitted Mahara portfolio pages & collections after grading. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|}<br />
<br />
Other Tools:<br />
Intelliboard.net analytical tool : Commercial Analytics - http://www.intelliboard.net/ [http://www.intelliboard.net/pricing Cost]<br />
Ephorus Plagiarism : Plagiarism tools<br />
<br />
==Wishlist of Features==<br />
Relative date setup - activities based on enrollment date<br />
Request in to Moodle.org see: https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-48185 <br />
<br />
==Themes==<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
|-<br />
! Name !! Status<br />
|-<br />
| Aardvark || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Bootstrap 3 || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Bootstrap Base || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Clean || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Elegance ||Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Essential || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| More || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/theme_evolved evolve-D] || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/theme_shoehorn Shoehorn] || Installed<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Moodle Settings==<br />
<br />
==LTI's==<br />
<br />
A potentially useful listing of LTI's: http://developers.imsglobal.org/catalog.html<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Name !! Status<br />
|-<br />
| WordPress || [http://edutechwiki.unige.ch/en/Moodle#Wordpress_integration Described here]|| Stalled due to coding issues because of version updates, will be monitored.<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Technical Questions/Issues==<br />
<br />
* 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. <br />
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.<br />
<br />
* 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.<br />
May be caused by theme not yet being fully 2.8 compliant<br />
<br />
* 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. <br />
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.<br />
<br />
* When trying the bring Big Blue Box into my course, I get a 505 Server Error.<br />
Result of not being an externally connected server. Will not be able to test until on server that has external security settings<br />
<br />
==Links==<br />
* http://opensource.com/education/12/1/designing-aesthetically-pleasing-moodle-courses<br />
* http://iy103-w14.hibbittsdesign.com/course/view.php?id=2<br />
* Discussions on Moodle file structure: <br />
** http://mattcornock.co.uk/moodle/moodle-2-file-repository-course-files<br />
** http://www.somerandomthoughts.com/blog/2010/06/15/ftp-files-into-moodle-2-0-with-the-repository-api/<br />
** https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=168868#p741355<br />
** https://docs.moodle.org/28/en/File_system_repository</div>Tagarwalhttps://kumu.tru.ca/index.php?title=Documentation:Learning_Environment/Moodle_Exploration&diff=8100Documentation:Learning Environment/Moodle Exploration2015-03-10T16:58:09Z<p>Tagarwal: /* Potential Moodle Plugins */</p>
<hr />
<div>__TOC__<br />
This page documents the exploration of the capabilities of Moodle to enhance the student learning experience. <br />
<br />
A small closed development environment has been created to try out various tools and themes that might enhance the student experience.<br />
<br />
'''Moodle Development Install: 2.8.2'''<br />
<br />
<br />
==Potential Moodle Plugins==<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
|-<br />
! Plugin Name !! Purpose/Utility !! Comment<br />
|-<br />
| Adobe Connect || Provides an activity level integration between Moodle and Adobe Connect Pro || Not a product that is used.<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff4d4d;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Attendance Plugin || Part of Set called Attendance || Not a typical functional issue, will not be loaded at moment.<br />
|-<br />
| Banner/Luminis Mesage Broker || Process courses, users, and enrollments out of SunGard HE/Ellucian Banner. Includes support for realtime notifications from Luminis Message Broker. || Potentially relevant to IT<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_bigbluebuttonbn BigBlueButton Plugin] || Web conferencing connection || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff6600;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Certificate || This module allows for the dynamic generation of certificates based on predefined conditions set by the teacher. || Currently not available for 2.8<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff6600;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Email-based Self-registration || Provides email-based self-registration with admin confirmation instead of user confirmation. || Currently not available for 2.8<br />
|-<br />
| Face-to-face Plugin || To help manage sessions where registration is required/Event Management || Not typical course scenario, will not be loaded at moment.<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff6600;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Mobile Identity Verification Plugin || Custom plugin by Lambda solutions || Not available on Moodle site<br />
|-<br />
| Moodle Welcome Plugin || Sends a welcome message to new users, sends a notification to a moderator of the new user creation || Future interest???<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff6600;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| My Grades Report Plugin|| A Moodle Report that shows all user grades in all courses || Currently not available for 2.8, future interest<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Progress Bar Plugin || A time management tool for you and your students || '''Installed'''<br />
|-<br />
| SAML Authentication Plugin || SAML Authentication plugin based on the simplesamlphp software. (Also install the SAML Enrolment plugin if you want auto-enrol based on SAML) || More an IT focused plugin, will not currently install<br />
|-<br />
| Subcourse Plugin || The module provides very simple yet useful functionality. When added into a course, it behaves as a graded activity. The grade for each student is took from a final grade in another course. This allows course designers to organize the learning content into separate units. || Future use?? will not load.<br />
|-<br />
| Vericite Plugin || Plagarism detector, requires subscription || Future desire???<br />
|-<br />
| Webinar Plugin || For use with Adobe Connect only || Currently not of interest, will not be loaded.<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_checklist Checklist Set (Block/Module)] || creates interactive checklist || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_bcu_course_checks Course Checks Block] || This block carries out a number of automated checks on a course, to encourage a minimum standard of course quality, avoid common mistakes and highlight possible areas for improvement. The block also allows for a course to be cleared of empty sections. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://docs.moodle.org/28/en/Collapsed_Topics_course_format Collapsed Topics] || An interchangeable topic or week based format that solves the issue of the 'Scroll of Death' when a course has many topics. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_recordingsbn RecordingsBN] || Access and manage your BigBlueButton recordings || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_journal Journal] || This module allows a teacher to ask students to reflect on a particular topic. The students can edit and refine their answer over time. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_coursefeedback CourseFeedback] || This Block intends to give the system administrators a tool for forced evaluation of a course (or other facts). System administrators can define a set of textual questions, which can be rated from students. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_grade_me Grade Me] || Shows a teacher all of the assignments and manual quiz questions (essays and file responses) that have been submitted, but not graded. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-<br />
| [https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Flexpage Flexpage] || Provides complete control over how content is presented. || Not yet supported for 2.8<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/filter_collapsible Collapsible regions] || Easy way to create collapsible regions within descriptions and text for Moodle. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-<br />
| [http://blogs.technet.com/b/educloud/archive/2013/04/12/a-quick-and-easy-way-to-link-moodle-to-sharepoint-with-collabco-myday.aspx MyDay] || The MyDay Moodle app links an existing Moodle installation to SharePoint. Once the app is installed it guides an administrator through the process of setting up their Moodle installation to talk to the app. All the administrator needs to do it fill out a couple of fields then copy some files into Moodle that the app generates || '''Under Investigation'''<br />
|-<br />
| [http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39932&navItemId=4c58c131-1e7a-44ec-f15b-77098df8bdc7 Moodle and Microsoft] || This page provides guidance on how to use Moodle, an open source course management system for educators, with Office 365’s popular productivity tools and services. || '''Under Investigation'''<br />
|-<br />
| [https://docs.moodle.org/28/en/OneDrive_repository OneDrive] || The Microsoft OneDrive repository (''formerly known as Skydrive'') allows you to access your documents from Microsoft OneDrive within Moodle. || '''Under Investigation'''<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/report_customsql Ad-hoc database queries] || This report plugin allows Administrators to set up arbitrary database queries to act as ad-hoc reports. Reports can be of two types, either run on demand, or scheduled to run automatically. Other users with the right capability can go in and see a list of queries that they have access to. Results can be viewed on-screen or downloaded as CSV. || '''Requested for install''' <br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_gismo GISMO] || GISMO, a graphical interactive student monitoring and tracking system that extracts tracking data from an online course maintained with Moodle, and generates graphical representations that can be explored by course instructors.|| '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/report_overviewstats Overview statistics] || Produces various site and course report charts. The code has been designed in a way that makes adding more reports easy. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_timestat Timestat] || Timestat block measures users real activity time. Time is increased only when Moodle tab is active in browser. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|- <br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_enrolmenttimer Enrolment Timer] || Block to show the user their remaining time enrolled in a course with live countdown and lots of settings to customise the display of this timer. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/browse.php?list=set&id=58 Experience Points (XP)] || The Experience Point (XP) set contains gamification-style plugins working with experience points given to the students. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_stampcoll Stamp Collection] || The Stamp collection module allows a teacher to give "stamps" (i.e. picture with a comment) to students so they collect these stamps. The activity can be used in many ways, such as motivative bonus marks, absence marks, certification records etc. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/assignsubmission_mahara Mahara Assignment Submission Plugin] || Allows grading of Mahara portfolio pages & collections in Moodle. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/assignfeedback_mahara Mahara Assignment Feedback Plugin] || An optional (but recommended!) addition to the Mahara Assignment Submission plugin. This plugin allows Moodle to automatically unlock submitted Mahara portfolio pages & collections after grading. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|}<br />
<br />
Other Tools:<br />
Intelliboard.net analytical tool : Commercial Analytics - http://www.intelliboard.net/ [http://www.intelliboard.net/pricing Cost]<br />
Ephorus Plagiarism : Plagiarism tools<br />
<br />
==Wishlist of Features==<br />
Relative date setup - activities based on enrollment date<br />
Request in to Moodle.org see: https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-48185 <br />
<br />
==Themes==<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
|-<br />
! Name !! Status<br />
|-<br />
| Aardvark || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Bootstrap 3 || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Bootstrap Base || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Clean || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Elegance ||Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Essential || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| More || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/theme_evolved evolve-D] || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/theme_shoehorn Shoehorn] || Installed<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Moodle Settings==<br />
<br />
==LTI's==<br />
<br />
A potentially useful listing of LTI's: http://developers.imsglobal.org/catalog.html<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Name !! Status<br />
|-<br />
| WordPress || [http://edutechwiki.unige.ch/en/Moodle#Wordpress_integration Described here]|| Stalled due to coding issues because of version updates, will be monitored.<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Technical Questions/Issues==<br />
<br />
* 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. <br />
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.<br />
<br />
* 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.<br />
May be caused by theme not yet being fully 2.8 compliant<br />
<br />
* 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. <br />
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.<br />
<br />
* When trying the bring Big Blue Box into my course, I get a 505 Server Error.<br />
Result of not being an externally connected server. Will not be able to test until on server that has external security settings<br />
<br />
==Links==<br />
* http://opensource.com/education/12/1/designing-aesthetically-pleasing-moodle-courses<br />
* http://iy103-w14.hibbittsdesign.com/course/view.php?id=2<br />
* Discussions on Moodle file structure: <br />
** http://mattcornock.co.uk/moodle/moodle-2-file-repository-course-files<br />
** http://www.somerandomthoughts.com/blog/2010/06/15/ftp-files-into-moodle-2-0-with-the-repository-api/<br />
** https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=168868#p741355<br />
** https://docs.moodle.org/28/en/File_system_repository</div>Tagarwalhttps://kumu.tru.ca/index.php?title=Documentation:Learning_Environment/Moodle_Exploration&diff=8099Documentation:Learning Environment/Moodle Exploration2015-03-10T16:56:21Z<p>Tagarwal: /* Potential Moodle Plugins */</p>
<hr />
<div>__TOC__<br />
This page documents the exploration of the capabilities of Moodle to enhance the student learning experience. <br />
<br />
A small closed development environment has been created to try out various tools and themes that might enhance the student experience.<br />
<br />
'''Moodle Development Install: 2.8.2'''<br />
<br />
<br />
==Potential Moodle Plugins==<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
|-<br />
! Plugin Name !! Purpose/Utility !! Comment<br />
|-<br />
| Adobe Connect || Provides an activity level integration between Moodle and Adobe Connect Pro || Not a product that is used.<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff3333;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Attendance Plugin || Part of Set called Attendance || Not a typical functional issue, will not be loaded at moment.<br />
|-<br />
| Banner/Luminis Mesage Broker || Process courses, users, and enrollments out of SunGard HE/Ellucian Banner. Includes support for realtime notifications from Luminis Message Broker. || Potentially relevant to IT<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_bigbluebuttonbn BigBlueButton Plugin] || Web conferencing connection || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff6600;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Certificate || This module allows for the dynamic generation of certificates based on predefined conditions set by the teacher. || Currently not available for 2.8<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff6600;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Email-based Self-registration || Provides email-based self-registration with admin confirmation instead of user confirmation. || Currently not available for 2.8<br />
|-<br />
| Face-to-face Plugin || To help manage sessions where registration is required/Event Management || Not typical course scenario, will not be loaded at moment.<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff6600;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Mobile Identity Verification Plugin || Custom plugin by Lambda solutions || Not available on Moodle site<br />
|-<br />
| Moodle Welcome Plugin || Sends a welcome message to new users, sends a notification to a moderator of the new user creation || Future interest???<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff6600;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| My Grades Report Plugin|| A Moodle Report that shows all user grades in all courses || Currently not available for 2.8, future interest<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Progress Bar Plugin || A time management tool for you and your students || '''Installed'''<br />
|-<br />
| SAML Authentication Plugin || SAML Authentication plugin based on the simplesamlphp software. (Also install the SAML Enrolment plugin if you want auto-enrol based on SAML) || More an IT focused plugin, will not currently install<br />
|-<br />
| Subcourse Plugin || The module provides very simple yet useful functionality. When added into a course, it behaves as a graded activity. The grade for each student is took from a final grade in another course. This allows course designers to organize the learning content into separate units. || Future use?? will not load.<br />
|-<br />
| Vericite Plugin || Plagarism detector, requires subscription || Future desire???<br />
|-<br />
| Webinar Plugin || For use with Adobe Connect only || Currently not of interest, will not be loaded.<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_checklist Checklist Set (Block/Module)] || creates interactive checklist || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_bcu_course_checks Course Checks Block] || This block carries out a number of automated checks on a course, to encourage a minimum standard of course quality, avoid common mistakes and highlight possible areas for improvement. The block also allows for a course to be cleared of empty sections. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://docs.moodle.org/28/en/Collapsed_Topics_course_format Collapsed Topics] || An interchangeable topic or week based format that solves the issue of the 'Scroll of Death' when a course has many topics. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_recordingsbn RecordingsBN] || Access and manage your BigBlueButton recordings || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_journal Journal] || This module allows a teacher to ask students to reflect on a particular topic. The students can edit and refine their answer over time. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_coursefeedback CourseFeedback] || This Block intends to give the system administrators a tool for forced evaluation of a course (or other facts). System administrators can define a set of textual questions, which can be rated from students. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_grade_me Grade Me] || Shows a teacher all of the assignments and manual quiz questions (essays and file responses) that have been submitted, but not graded. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-<br />
| [https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Flexpage Flexpage] || Provides complete control over how content is presented. || Not yet supported for 2.8<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/filter_collapsible Collapsible regions] || Easy way to create collapsible regions within descriptions and text for Moodle. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-<br />
| [http://blogs.technet.com/b/educloud/archive/2013/04/12/a-quick-and-easy-way-to-link-moodle-to-sharepoint-with-collabco-myday.aspx MyDay] || The MyDay Moodle app links an existing Moodle installation to SharePoint. Once the app is installed it guides an administrator through the process of setting up their Moodle installation to talk to the app. All the administrator needs to do it fill out a couple of fields then copy some files into Moodle that the app generates || '''Under Investigation'''<br />
|-<br />
| [http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39932&navItemId=4c58c131-1e7a-44ec-f15b-77098df8bdc7 Moodle and Microsoft] || This page provides guidance on how to use Moodle, an open source course management system for educators, with Office 365’s popular productivity tools and services. || '''Under Investigation'''<br />
|-<br />
| [https://docs.moodle.org/28/en/OneDrive_repository OneDrive] || The Microsoft OneDrive repository (''formerly known as Skydrive'') allows you to access your documents from Microsoft OneDrive within Moodle. || '''Under Investigation'''<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/report_customsql Ad-hoc database queries] || This report plugin allows Administrators to set up arbitrary database queries to act as ad-hoc reports. Reports can be of two types, either run on demand, or scheduled to run automatically. Other users with the right capability can go in and see a list of queries that they have access to. Results can be viewed on-screen or downloaded as CSV. || '''Requested for install''' <br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_gismo GISMO] || GISMO, a graphical interactive student monitoring and tracking system that extracts tracking data from an online course maintained with Moodle, and generates graphical representations that can be explored by course instructors.|| '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/report_overviewstats Overview statistics] || Produces various site and course report charts. The code has been designed in a way that makes adding more reports easy. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_timestat Timestat] || Timestat block measures users real activity time. Time is increased only when Moodle tab is active in browser. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|- <br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_enrolmenttimer Enrolment Timer] || Block to show the user their remaining time enrolled in a course with live countdown and lots of settings to customise the display of this timer. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/browse.php?list=set&id=58 Experience Points (XP)] || The Experience Point (XP) set contains gamification-style plugins working with experience points given to the students. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_stampcoll Stamp Collection] || The Stamp collection module allows a teacher to give "stamps" (i.e. picture with a comment) to students so they collect these stamps. The activity can be used in many ways, such as motivative bonus marks, absence marks, certification records etc. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/assignsubmission_mahara Mahara Assignment Submission Plugin] || Allows grading of Mahara portfolio pages & collections in Moodle. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/assignfeedback_mahara Mahara Assignment Feedback Plugin] || An optional (but recommended!) addition to the Mahara Assignment Submission plugin. This plugin allows Moodle to automatically unlock submitted Mahara portfolio pages & collections after grading. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|}<br />
<br />
Other Tools:<br />
Intelliboard.net analytical tool : Commercial Analytics - http://www.intelliboard.net/ [http://www.intelliboard.net/pricing Cost]<br />
Ephorus Plagiarism : Plagiarism tools<br />
<br />
==Wishlist of Features==<br />
Relative date setup - activities based on enrollment date<br />
Request in to Moodle.org see: https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-48185 <br />
<br />
==Themes==<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
|-<br />
! Name !! Status<br />
|-<br />
| Aardvark || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Bootstrap 3 || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Bootstrap Base || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Clean || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Elegance ||Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Essential || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| More || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/theme_evolved evolve-D] || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/theme_shoehorn Shoehorn] || Installed<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Moodle Settings==<br />
<br />
==LTI's==<br />
<br />
A potentially useful listing of LTI's: http://developers.imsglobal.org/catalog.html<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Name !! Status<br />
|-<br />
| WordPress || [http://edutechwiki.unige.ch/en/Moodle#Wordpress_integration Described here]|| Stalled due to coding issues because of version updates, will be monitored.<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Technical Questions/Issues==<br />
<br />
* 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. <br />
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.<br />
<br />
* 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.<br />
May be caused by theme not yet being fully 2.8 compliant<br />
<br />
* 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. <br />
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.<br />
<br />
* When trying the bring Big Blue Box into my course, I get a 505 Server Error.<br />
Result of not being an externally connected server. Will not be able to test until on server that has external security settings<br />
<br />
==Links==<br />
* http://opensource.com/education/12/1/designing-aesthetically-pleasing-moodle-courses<br />
* http://iy103-w14.hibbittsdesign.com/course/view.php?id=2<br />
* Discussions on Moodle file structure: <br />
** http://mattcornock.co.uk/moodle/moodle-2-file-repository-course-files<br />
** http://www.somerandomthoughts.com/blog/2010/06/15/ftp-files-into-moodle-2-0-with-the-repository-api/<br />
** https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=168868#p741355<br />
** https://docs.moodle.org/28/en/File_system_repository</div>Tagarwalhttps://kumu.tru.ca/index.php?title=Documentation:Learning_Environment/Moodle_Exploration&diff=8098Documentation:Learning Environment/Moodle Exploration2015-03-10T16:54:57Z<p>Tagarwal: /* Potential Moodle Plugins */</p>
<hr />
<div>__TOC__<br />
This page documents the exploration of the capabilities of Moodle to enhance the student learning experience. <br />
<br />
A small closed development environment has been created to try out various tools and themes that might enhance the student experience.<br />
<br />
'''Moodle Development Install: 2.8.2'''<br />
<br />
<br />
==Potential Moodle Plugins==<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
|-<br />
! Plugin Name !! Purpose/Utility !! Comment<br />
|-<br />
| Adobe Connect || Provides an activity level integration between Moodle and Adobe Connect Pro || Not a product that is used.<br />
|-<br />
| Attendance Plugin || Part of Set called Attendance || Not a typical functional issue, will not be loaded at moment.<br />
|-<br />
| Banner/Luminis Mesage Broker || Process courses, users, and enrollments out of SunGard HE/Ellucian Banner. Includes support for realtime notifications from Luminis Message Broker. || Potentially relevant to IT<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_bigbluebuttonbn BigBlueButton Plugin] || Web conferencing connection || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff6600;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Certificate || This module allows for the dynamic generation of certificates based on predefined conditions set by the teacher. || Currently not available for 2.8<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff6600;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Email-based Self-registration || Provides email-based self-registration with admin confirmation instead of user confirmation. || Currently not available for 2.8<br />
|-<br />
| Face-to-face Plugin || To help manage sessions where registration is required/Event Management || Not typical course scenario, will not be loaded at moment.<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff6600;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Mobile Identity Verification Plugin || Custom plugin by Lambda solutions || Not available on Moodle site<br />
|-<br />
| Moodle Welcome Plugin || Sends a welcome message to new users, sends a notification to a moderator of the new user creation || Future interest???<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff6600;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| My Grades Report Plugin|| A Moodle Report that shows all user grades in all courses || Currently not available for 2.8, future interest<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Progress Bar Plugin || A time management tool for you and your students || '''Installed'''<br />
|-<br />
| SAML Authentication Plugin || SAML Authentication plugin based on the simplesamlphp software. (Also install the SAML Enrolment plugin if you want auto-enrol based on SAML) || More an IT focused plugin, will not currently install<br />
|-<br />
| Subcourse Plugin || The module provides very simple yet useful functionality. When added into a course, it behaves as a graded activity. The grade for each student is took from a final grade in another course. This allows course designers to organize the learning content into separate units. || Future use?? will not load.<br />
|-<br />
| Vericite Plugin || Plagarism detector, requires subscription || Future desire???<br />
|-<br />
| Webinar Plugin || For use with Adobe Connect only || Currently not of interest, will not be loaded.<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_checklist Checklist Set (Block/Module)] || creates interactive checklist || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_bcu_course_checks Course Checks Block] || This block carries out a number of automated checks on a course, to encourage a minimum standard of course quality, avoid common mistakes and highlight possible areas for improvement. The block also allows for a course to be cleared of empty sections. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://docs.moodle.org/28/en/Collapsed_Topics_course_format Collapsed Topics] || An interchangeable topic or week based format that solves the issue of the 'Scroll of Death' when a course has many topics. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_recordingsbn RecordingsBN] || Access and manage your BigBlueButton recordings || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_journal Journal] || This module allows a teacher to ask students to reflect on a particular topic. The students can edit and refine their answer over time. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_coursefeedback CourseFeedback] || This Block intends to give the system administrators a tool for forced evaluation of a course (or other facts). System administrators can define a set of textual questions, which can be rated from students. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_grade_me Grade Me] || Shows a teacher all of the assignments and manual quiz questions (essays and file responses) that have been submitted, but not graded. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-<br />
| [https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Flexpage Flexpage] || Provides complete control over how content is presented. || Not yet supported for 2.8<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/filter_collapsible Collapsible regions] || Easy way to create collapsible regions within descriptions and text for Moodle. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-<br />
| [http://blogs.technet.com/b/educloud/archive/2013/04/12/a-quick-and-easy-way-to-link-moodle-to-sharepoint-with-collabco-myday.aspx MyDay] || The MyDay Moodle app links an existing Moodle installation to SharePoint. Once the app is installed it guides an administrator through the process of setting up their Moodle installation to talk to the app. All the administrator needs to do it fill out a couple of fields then copy some files into Moodle that the app generates || '''Under Investigation'''<br />
|-<br />
| [http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39932&navItemId=4c58c131-1e7a-44ec-f15b-77098df8bdc7 Moodle and Microsoft] || This page provides guidance on how to use Moodle, an open source course management system for educators, with Office 365’s popular productivity tools and services. || '''Under Investigation'''<br />
|-<br />
| [https://docs.moodle.org/28/en/OneDrive_repository OneDrive] || The Microsoft OneDrive repository (''formerly known as Skydrive'') allows you to access your documents from Microsoft OneDrive within Moodle. || '''Under Investigation'''<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/report_customsql Ad-hoc database queries] || This report plugin allows Administrators to set up arbitrary database queries to act as ad-hoc reports. Reports can be of two types, either run on demand, or scheduled to run automatically. Other users with the right capability can go in and see a list of queries that they have access to. Results can be viewed on-screen or downloaded as CSV. || '''Requested for install''' <br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_gismo GISMO] || GISMO, a graphical interactive student monitoring and tracking system that extracts tracking data from an online course maintained with Moodle, and generates graphical representations that can be explored by course instructors.|| '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/report_overviewstats Overview statistics] || Produces various site and course report charts. The code has been designed in a way that makes adding more reports easy. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_timestat Timestat] || Timestat block measures users real activity time. Time is increased only when Moodle tab is active in browser. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|- <br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_enrolmenttimer Enrolment Timer] || Block to show the user their remaining time enrolled in a course with live countdown and lots of settings to customise the display of this timer. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/browse.php?list=set&id=58 Experience Points (XP)] || The Experience Point (XP) set contains gamification-style plugins working with experience points given to the students. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_stampcoll Stamp Collection] || The Stamp collection module allows a teacher to give "stamps" (i.e. picture with a comment) to students so they collect these stamps. The activity can be used in many ways, such as motivative bonus marks, absence marks, certification records etc. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/assignsubmission_mahara Mahara Assignment Submission Plugin] || Allows grading of Mahara portfolio pages & collections in Moodle. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/assignfeedback_mahara Mahara Assignment Feedback Plugin] || An optional (but recommended!) addition to the Mahara Assignment Submission plugin. This plugin allows Moodle to automatically unlock submitted Mahara portfolio pages & collections after grading. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|}<br />
<br />
Other Tools:<br />
Intelliboard.net analytical tool : Commercial Analytics - http://www.intelliboard.net/ [http://www.intelliboard.net/pricing Cost]<br />
Ephorus Plagiarism : Plagiarism tools<br />
<br />
==Wishlist of Features==<br />
Relative date setup - activities based on enrollment date<br />
Request in to Moodle.org see: https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-48185 <br />
<br />
==Themes==<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
|-<br />
! Name !! Status<br />
|-<br />
| Aardvark || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Bootstrap 3 || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Bootstrap Base || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Clean || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Elegance ||Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Essential || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| More || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/theme_evolved evolve-D] || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/theme_shoehorn Shoehorn] || Installed<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Moodle Settings==<br />
<br />
==LTI's==<br />
<br />
A potentially useful listing of LTI's: http://developers.imsglobal.org/catalog.html<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Name !! Status<br />
|-<br />
| WordPress || [http://edutechwiki.unige.ch/en/Moodle#Wordpress_integration Described here]|| Stalled due to coding issues because of version updates, will be monitored.<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Technical Questions/Issues==<br />
<br />
* 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. <br />
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.<br />
<br />
* 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.<br />
May be caused by theme not yet being fully 2.8 compliant<br />
<br />
* 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. <br />
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.<br />
<br />
* When trying the bring Big Blue Box into my course, I get a 505 Server Error.<br />
Result of not being an externally connected server. Will not be able to test until on server that has external security settings<br />
<br />
==Links==<br />
* http://opensource.com/education/12/1/designing-aesthetically-pleasing-moodle-courses<br />
* http://iy103-w14.hibbittsdesign.com/course/view.php?id=2<br />
* Discussions on Moodle file structure: <br />
** http://mattcornock.co.uk/moodle/moodle-2-file-repository-course-files<br />
** http://www.somerandomthoughts.com/blog/2010/06/15/ftp-files-into-moodle-2-0-with-the-repository-api/<br />
** https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=168868#p741355<br />
** https://docs.moodle.org/28/en/File_system_repository</div>Tagarwalhttps://kumu.tru.ca/index.php?title=Documentation:Learning_Environment/Moodle_Exploration&diff=8097Documentation:Learning Environment/Moodle Exploration2015-03-10T16:54:19Z<p>Tagarwal: /* Potential Moodle Plugins */</p>
<hr />
<div>__TOC__<br />
This page documents the exploration of the capabilities of Moodle to enhance the student learning experience. <br />
<br />
A small closed development environment has been created to try out various tools and themes that might enhance the student experience.<br />
<br />
'''Moodle Development Install: 2.8.2'''<br />
<br />
<br />
==Potential Moodle Plugins==<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
|-<br />
! Plugin Name !! Purpose/Utility !! Comment<br />
|-<br />
| Adobe Connect || Provides an activity level integration between Moodle and Adobe Connect Pro || Not a product that is used.<br />
|-<br />
| Attendance Plugin || Part of Set called Attendance || Not a typical functional issue, will not be loaded at moment.<br />
|-<br />
| Banner/Luminis Mesage Broker || Process courses, users, and enrollments out of SunGard HE/Ellucian Banner. Includes support for realtime notifications from Luminis Message Broker. || Potentially relevant to IT<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_bigbluebuttonbn BigBlueButton Plugin] || Web conferencing connection || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff6600;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Certificate || This module allows for the dynamic generation of certificates based on predefined conditions set by the teacher. || Currently not available for 2.8<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff6600;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Email-based Self-registration || Provides email-based self-registration with admin confirmation instead of user confirmation. || Currently not available for 2.8<br />
|-<br />
| Face-to-face Plugin || To help manage sessions where registration is required/Event Management || Not typical course scenario, will not be loaded at moment.<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff6600;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Mobile Identity Verification Plugin || Custom plugin by Lambda solutions || Not available on Moodle site<br />
|-<br />
| Moodle Welcome Plugin || Sends a welcome message to new users, sends a notification to a moderator of the new user creation || Future interest???<br />
|-<br />
| My Grades Report Plugin|| A Moodle Report that shows all user grades in all courses || Currently not available for 2.8, future interest<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Progress Bar Plugin || A time management tool for you and your students || '''Installed'''<br />
|-<br />
| SAML Authentication Plugin || SAML Authentication plugin based on the simplesamlphp software. (Also install the SAML Enrolment plugin if you want auto-enrol based on SAML) || More an IT focused plugin, will not currently install<br />
|-<br />
| Subcourse Plugin || The module provides very simple yet useful functionality. When added into a course, it behaves as a graded activity. The grade for each student is took from a final grade in another course. This allows course designers to organize the learning content into separate units. || Future use?? will not load.<br />
|-<br />
| Vericite Plugin || Plagarism detector, requires subscription || Future desire???<br />
|-<br />
| Webinar Plugin || For use with Adobe Connect only || Currently not of interest, will not be loaded.<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_checklist Checklist Set (Block/Module)] || creates interactive checklist || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_bcu_course_checks Course Checks Block] || This block carries out a number of automated checks on a course, to encourage a minimum standard of course quality, avoid common mistakes and highlight possible areas for improvement. The block also allows for a course to be cleared of empty sections. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://docs.moodle.org/28/en/Collapsed_Topics_course_format Collapsed Topics] || An interchangeable topic or week based format that solves the issue of the 'Scroll of Death' when a course has many topics. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_recordingsbn RecordingsBN] || Access and manage your BigBlueButton recordings || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_journal Journal] || This module allows a teacher to ask students to reflect on a particular topic. The students can edit and refine their answer over time. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_coursefeedback CourseFeedback] || This Block intends to give the system administrators a tool for forced evaluation of a course (or other facts). System administrators can define a set of textual questions, which can be rated from students. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_grade_me Grade Me] || Shows a teacher all of the assignments and manual quiz questions (essays and file responses) that have been submitted, but not graded. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-<br />
| [https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Flexpage Flexpage] || Provides complete control over how content is presented. || Not yet supported for 2.8<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/filter_collapsible Collapsible regions] || Easy way to create collapsible regions within descriptions and text for Moodle. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-<br />
| [http://blogs.technet.com/b/educloud/archive/2013/04/12/a-quick-and-easy-way-to-link-moodle-to-sharepoint-with-collabco-myday.aspx MyDay] || The MyDay Moodle app links an existing Moodle installation to SharePoint. Once the app is installed it guides an administrator through the process of setting up their Moodle installation to talk to the app. All the administrator needs to do it fill out a couple of fields then copy some files into Moodle that the app generates || '''Under Investigation'''<br />
|-<br />
| [http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39932&navItemId=4c58c131-1e7a-44ec-f15b-77098df8bdc7 Moodle and Microsoft] || This page provides guidance on how to use Moodle, an open source course management system for educators, with Office 365’s popular productivity tools and services. || '''Under Investigation'''<br />
|-<br />
| [https://docs.moodle.org/28/en/OneDrive_repository OneDrive] || The Microsoft OneDrive repository (''formerly known as Skydrive'') allows you to access your documents from Microsoft OneDrive within Moodle. || '''Under Investigation'''<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/report_customsql Ad-hoc database queries] || This report plugin allows Administrators to set up arbitrary database queries to act as ad-hoc reports. Reports can be of two types, either run on demand, or scheduled to run automatically. Other users with the right capability can go in and see a list of queries that they have access to. Results can be viewed on-screen or downloaded as CSV. || '''Requested for install''' <br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_gismo GISMO] || GISMO, a graphical interactive student monitoring and tracking system that extracts tracking data from an online course maintained with Moodle, and generates graphical representations that can be explored by course instructors.|| '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/report_overviewstats Overview statistics] || Produces various site and course report charts. The code has been designed in a way that makes adding more reports easy. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_timestat Timestat] || Timestat block measures users real activity time. Time is increased only when Moodle tab is active in browser. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|- <br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_enrolmenttimer Enrolment Timer] || Block to show the user their remaining time enrolled in a course with live countdown and lots of settings to customise the display of this timer. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/browse.php?list=set&id=58 Experience Points (XP)] || The Experience Point (XP) set contains gamification-style plugins working with experience points given to the students. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_stampcoll Stamp Collection] || The Stamp collection module allows a teacher to give "stamps" (i.e. picture with a comment) to students so they collect these stamps. The activity can be used in many ways, such as motivative bonus marks, absence marks, certification records etc. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/assignsubmission_mahara Mahara Assignment Submission Plugin] || Allows grading of Mahara portfolio pages & collections in Moodle. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/assignfeedback_mahara Mahara Assignment Feedback Plugin] || An optional (but recommended!) addition to the Mahara Assignment Submission plugin. This plugin allows Moodle to automatically unlock submitted Mahara portfolio pages & collections after grading. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|}<br />
<br />
Other Tools:<br />
Intelliboard.net analytical tool : Commercial Analytics - http://www.intelliboard.net/ [http://www.intelliboard.net/pricing Cost]<br />
Ephorus Plagiarism : Plagiarism tools<br />
<br />
==Wishlist of Features==<br />
Relative date setup - activities based on enrollment date<br />
Request in to Moodle.org see: https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-48185 <br />
<br />
==Themes==<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
|-<br />
! Name !! Status<br />
|-<br />
| Aardvark || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Bootstrap 3 || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Bootstrap Base || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Clean || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Elegance ||Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Essential || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| More || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/theme_evolved evolve-D] || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/theme_shoehorn Shoehorn] || Installed<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Moodle Settings==<br />
<br />
==LTI's==<br />
<br />
A potentially useful listing of LTI's: http://developers.imsglobal.org/catalog.html<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Name !! Status<br />
|-<br />
| WordPress || [http://edutechwiki.unige.ch/en/Moodle#Wordpress_integration Described here]|| Stalled due to coding issues because of version updates, will be monitored.<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Technical Questions/Issues==<br />
<br />
* 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. <br />
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.<br />
<br />
* 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.<br />
May be caused by theme not yet being fully 2.8 compliant<br />
<br />
* 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. <br />
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.<br />
<br />
* When trying the bring Big Blue Box into my course, I get a 505 Server Error.<br />
Result of not being an externally connected server. Will not be able to test until on server that has external security settings<br />
<br />
==Links==<br />
* http://opensource.com/education/12/1/designing-aesthetically-pleasing-moodle-courses<br />
* http://iy103-w14.hibbittsdesign.com/course/view.php?id=2<br />
* Discussions on Moodle file structure: <br />
** http://mattcornock.co.uk/moodle/moodle-2-file-repository-course-files<br />
** http://www.somerandomthoughts.com/blog/2010/06/15/ftp-files-into-moodle-2-0-with-the-repository-api/<br />
** https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=168868#p741355<br />
** https://docs.moodle.org/28/en/File_system_repository</div>Tagarwalhttps://kumu.tru.ca/index.php?title=Documentation:Learning_Environment/Moodle_Exploration&diff=8096Documentation:Learning Environment/Moodle Exploration2015-03-10T16:52:30Z<p>Tagarwal: /* Potential Moodle Plugins */</p>
<hr />
<div>__TOC__<br />
This page documents the exploration of the capabilities of Moodle to enhance the student learning experience. <br />
<br />
A small closed development environment has been created to try out various tools and themes that might enhance the student experience.<br />
<br />
'''Moodle Development Install: 2.8.2'''<br />
<br />
<br />
==Potential Moodle Plugins==<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
|-<br />
! Plugin Name !! Purpose/Utility !! Comment<br />
|-<br />
| Adobe Connect || Provides an activity level integration between Moodle and Adobe Connect Pro || Not a product that is used.<br />
|-<br />
| Attendance Plugin || Part of Set called Attendance || Not a typical functional issue, will not be loaded at moment.<br />
|-<br />
| Banner/Luminis Mesage Broker || Process courses, users, and enrollments out of SunGard HE/Ellucian Banner. Includes support for realtime notifications from Luminis Message Broker. || Potentially relevant to IT<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_bigbluebuttonbn BigBlueButton Plugin] || Web conferencing connection || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff6600;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Certificate || This module allows for the dynamic generation of certificates based on predefined conditions set by the teacher. || Currently not available for 2.8<br />
|-style="background-color:#ff6600;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Email-based Self-registration || Provides email-based self-registration with admin confirmation instead of user confirmation. || Currently not available for 2.8<br />
|-<br />
| Face-to-face Plugin || To help manage sessions where registration is required/Event Management || Not typical course scenario, will not be loaded at moment.<br />
|-<br />
| Mobile Identity Verification Plugin || Custom plugin by Lambda solutions || Not available on Moodle site<br />
|-<br />
| Moodle Welcome Plugin || Sends a welcome message to new users, sends a notification to a moderator of the new user creation || Future interest???<br />
|-<br />
| My Grades Report Plugin|| A Moodle Report that shows all user grades in all courses || Currently not available for 2.8, future interest<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Progress Bar Plugin || A time management tool for you and your students || '''Installed'''<br />
|-<br />
| SAML Authentication Plugin || SAML Authentication plugin based on the simplesamlphp software. (Also install the SAML Enrolment plugin if you want auto-enrol based on SAML) || More an IT focused plugin, will not currently install<br />
|-<br />
| Subcourse Plugin || The module provides very simple yet useful functionality. When added into a course, it behaves as a graded activity. The grade for each student is took from a final grade in another course. This allows course designers to organize the learning content into separate units. || Future use?? will not load.<br />
|-<br />
| Vericite Plugin || Plagarism detector, requires subscription || Future desire???<br />
|-<br />
| Webinar Plugin || For use with Adobe Connect only || Currently not of interest, will not be loaded.<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_checklist Checklist Set (Block/Module)] || creates interactive checklist || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_bcu_course_checks Course Checks Block] || This block carries out a number of automated checks on a course, to encourage a minimum standard of course quality, avoid common mistakes and highlight possible areas for improvement. The block also allows for a course to be cleared of empty sections. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://docs.moodle.org/28/en/Collapsed_Topics_course_format Collapsed Topics] || An interchangeable topic or week based format that solves the issue of the 'Scroll of Death' when a course has many topics. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_recordingsbn RecordingsBN] || Access and manage your BigBlueButton recordings || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_journal Journal] || This module allows a teacher to ask students to reflect on a particular topic. The students can edit and refine their answer over time. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_coursefeedback CourseFeedback] || This Block intends to give the system administrators a tool for forced evaluation of a course (or other facts). System administrators can define a set of textual questions, which can be rated from students. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_grade_me Grade Me] || Shows a teacher all of the assignments and manual quiz questions (essays and file responses) that have been submitted, but not graded. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-<br />
| [https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Flexpage Flexpage] || Provides complete control over how content is presented. || Not yet supported for 2.8<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/filter_collapsible Collapsible regions] || Easy way to create collapsible regions within descriptions and text for Moodle. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-<br />
| [http://blogs.technet.com/b/educloud/archive/2013/04/12/a-quick-and-easy-way-to-link-moodle-to-sharepoint-with-collabco-myday.aspx MyDay] || The MyDay Moodle app links an existing Moodle installation to SharePoint. Once the app is installed it guides an administrator through the process of setting up their Moodle installation to talk to the app. All the administrator needs to do it fill out a couple of fields then copy some files into Moodle that the app generates || '''Under Investigation'''<br />
|-<br />
| [http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39932&navItemId=4c58c131-1e7a-44ec-f15b-77098df8bdc7 Moodle and Microsoft] || This page provides guidance on how to use Moodle, an open source course management system for educators, with Office 365’s popular productivity tools and services. || '''Under Investigation'''<br />
|-<br />
| [https://docs.moodle.org/28/en/OneDrive_repository OneDrive] || The Microsoft OneDrive repository (''formerly known as Skydrive'') allows you to access your documents from Microsoft OneDrive within Moodle. || '''Under Investigation'''<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/report_customsql Ad-hoc database queries] || This report plugin allows Administrators to set up arbitrary database queries to act as ad-hoc reports. Reports can be of two types, either run on demand, or scheduled to run automatically. Other users with the right capability can go in and see a list of queries that they have access to. Results can be viewed on-screen or downloaded as CSV. || '''Requested for install''' <br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_gismo GISMO] || GISMO, a graphical interactive student monitoring and tracking system that extracts tracking data from an online course maintained with Moodle, and generates graphical representations that can be explored by course instructors.|| '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/report_overviewstats Overview statistics] || Produces various site and course report charts. The code has been designed in a way that makes adding more reports easy. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_timestat Timestat] || Timestat block measures users real activity time. Time is increased only when Moodle tab is active in browser. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|- <br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_enrolmenttimer Enrolment Timer] || Block to show the user their remaining time enrolled in a course with live countdown and lots of settings to customise the display of this timer. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/browse.php?list=set&id=58 Experience Points (XP)] || The Experience Point (XP) set contains gamification-style plugins working with experience points given to the students. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_stampcoll Stamp Collection] || The Stamp collection module allows a teacher to give "stamps" (i.e. picture with a comment) to students so they collect these stamps. The activity can be used in many ways, such as motivative bonus marks, absence marks, certification records etc. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/assignsubmission_mahara Mahara Assignment Submission Plugin] || Allows grading of Mahara portfolio pages & collections in Moodle. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/assignfeedback_mahara Mahara Assignment Feedback Plugin] || An optional (but recommended!) addition to the Mahara Assignment Submission plugin. This plugin allows Moodle to automatically unlock submitted Mahara portfolio pages & collections after grading. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|}<br />
<br />
Other Tools:<br />
Intelliboard.net analytical tool : Commercial Analytics - http://www.intelliboard.net/ [http://www.intelliboard.net/pricing Cost]<br />
Ephorus Plagiarism : Plagiarism tools<br />
<br />
==Wishlist of Features==<br />
Relative date setup - activities based on enrollment date<br />
Request in to Moodle.org see: https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-48185 <br />
<br />
==Themes==<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
|-<br />
! Name !! Status<br />
|-<br />
| Aardvark || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Bootstrap 3 || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Bootstrap Base || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Clean || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Elegance ||Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Essential || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| More || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/theme_evolved evolve-D] || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/theme_shoehorn Shoehorn] || Installed<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Moodle Settings==<br />
<br />
==LTI's==<br />
<br />
A potentially useful listing of LTI's: http://developers.imsglobal.org/catalog.html<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Name !! Status<br />
|-<br />
| WordPress || [http://edutechwiki.unige.ch/en/Moodle#Wordpress_integration Described here]|| Stalled due to coding issues because of version updates, will be monitored.<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Technical Questions/Issues==<br />
<br />
* 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. <br />
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.<br />
<br />
* 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.<br />
May be caused by theme not yet being fully 2.8 compliant<br />
<br />
* 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. <br />
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.<br />
<br />
* When trying the bring Big Blue Box into my course, I get a 505 Server Error.<br />
Result of not being an externally connected server. Will not be able to test until on server that has external security settings<br />
<br />
==Links==<br />
* http://opensource.com/education/12/1/designing-aesthetically-pleasing-moodle-courses<br />
* http://iy103-w14.hibbittsdesign.com/course/view.php?id=2<br />
* Discussions on Moodle file structure: <br />
** http://mattcornock.co.uk/moodle/moodle-2-file-repository-course-files<br />
** http://www.somerandomthoughts.com/blog/2010/06/15/ftp-files-into-moodle-2-0-with-the-repository-api/<br />
** https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=168868#p741355<br />
** https://docs.moodle.org/28/en/File_system_repository</div>Tagarwalhttps://kumu.tru.ca/index.php?title=Documentation:Learning_Environment/Moodle_Exploration&diff=8095Documentation:Learning Environment/Moodle Exploration2015-03-10T16:44:13Z<p>Tagarwal: /* Potential Moodle Plugins */</p>
<hr />
<div>__TOC__<br />
This page documents the exploration of the capabilities of Moodle to enhance the student learning experience. <br />
<br />
A small closed development environment has been created to try out various tools and themes that might enhance the student experience.<br />
<br />
'''Moodle Development Install: 2.8.2'''<br />
<br />
<br />
==Potential Moodle Plugins==<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
|-<br />
! Plugin Name !! Purpose/Utility !! Comment<br />
|-<br />
| Adobe Connect || Provides an activity level integration between Moodle and Adobe Connect Pro || Not a product that is used.<br />
|-<br />
| Attendance Plugin || Part of Set called Attendance || Not a typical functional issue, will not be loaded at moment.<br />
|-<br />
| Banner/Luminis Mesage Broker || Process courses, users, and enrollments out of SunGard HE/Ellucian Banner. Includes support for realtime notifications from Luminis Message Broker. || Potentially relevant to IT<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_bigbluebuttonbn BigBlueButton Plugin] || Web conferencing connection || '''Installed'''<br />
|-<br />
| Certificate || This module allows for the dynamic generation of certificates based on predefined conditions set by the teacher. || Currently not available for 2.8<br />
|-<br />
| Email-based Self-registration || Provides email-based self-registration with admin confirmation instead of user confirmation. || Currently not available for 2.8<br />
|-<br />
| Face-to-face Plugin || To help manage sessions where registration is required/Event Management || Not typical course scenario, will not be loaded at moment.<br />
|-<br />
| Mobile Identity Verification Plugin || Custom plugin by Lambda solutions || Not available on Moodle site<br />
|-<br />
| Moodle Welcome Plugin || Sends a welcome message to new users, sends a notification to a moderator of the new user creation || Future interest???<br />
|-<br />
| My Grades Report Plugin|| A Moodle Report that shows all user grades in all courses || Currently not available for 2.8, future interest<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Progress Bar Plugin || A time management tool for you and your students || '''Installed'''<br />
|-<br />
| SAML Authentication Plugin || SAML Authentication plugin based on the simplesamlphp software. (Also install the SAML Enrolment plugin if you want auto-enrol based on SAML) || More an IT focused plugin, will not currently install<br />
|-<br />
| Subcourse Plugin || The module provides very simple yet useful functionality. When added into a course, it behaves as a graded activity. The grade for each student is took from a final grade in another course. This allows course designers to organize the learning content into separate units. || Future use?? will not load.<br />
|-<br />
| Vericite Plugin || Plagarism detector, requires subscription || Future desire???<br />
|-<br />
| Webinar Plugin || For use with Adobe Connect only || Currently not of interest, will not be loaded.<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_checklist Checklist Set (Block/Module)] || creates interactive checklist || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_bcu_course_checks Course Checks Block] || This block carries out a number of automated checks on a course, to encourage a minimum standard of course quality, avoid common mistakes and highlight possible areas for improvement. The block also allows for a course to be cleared of empty sections. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://docs.moodle.org/28/en/Collapsed_Topics_course_format Collapsed Topics] || An interchangeable topic or week based format that solves the issue of the 'Scroll of Death' when a course has many topics. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_recordingsbn RecordingsBN] || Access and manage your BigBlueButton recordings || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_journal Journal] || This module allows a teacher to ask students to reflect on a particular topic. The students can edit and refine their answer over time. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_coursefeedback CourseFeedback] || This Block intends to give the system administrators a tool for forced evaluation of a course (or other facts). System administrators can define a set of textual questions, which can be rated from students. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_grade_me Grade Me] || Shows a teacher all of the assignments and manual quiz questions (essays and file responses) that have been submitted, but not graded. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-<br />
| [https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Flexpage Flexpage] || Provides complete control over how content is presented. || Not yet supported for 2.8<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/filter_collapsible Collapsible regions] || Easy way to create collapsible regions within descriptions and text for Moodle. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-<br />
| [http://blogs.technet.com/b/educloud/archive/2013/04/12/a-quick-and-easy-way-to-link-moodle-to-sharepoint-with-collabco-myday.aspx MyDay] || The MyDay Moodle app links an existing Moodle installation to SharePoint. Once the app is installed it guides an administrator through the process of setting up their Moodle installation to talk to the app. All the administrator needs to do it fill out a couple of fields then copy some files into Moodle that the app generates || '''Under Investigation'''<br />
|-<br />
| [http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39932&navItemId=4c58c131-1e7a-44ec-f15b-77098df8bdc7 Moodle and Microsoft] || This page provides guidance on how to use Moodle, an open source course management system for educators, with Office 365’s popular productivity tools and services. || '''Under Investigation'''<br />
|-<br />
| [https://docs.moodle.org/28/en/OneDrive_repository OneDrive] || The Microsoft OneDrive repository (''formerly known as Skydrive'') allows you to access your documents from Microsoft OneDrive within Moodle. || '''Under Investigation'''<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/report_customsql Ad-hoc database queries] || This report plugin allows Administrators to set up arbitrary database queries to act as ad-hoc reports. Reports can be of two types, either run on demand, or scheduled to run automatically. Other users with the right capability can go in and see a list of queries that they have access to. Results can be viewed on-screen or downloaded as CSV. || '''Requested for install''' <br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_gismo GISMO] || GISMO, a graphical interactive student monitoring and tracking system that extracts tracking data from an online course maintained with Moodle, and generates graphical representations that can be explored by course instructors.|| '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/report_overviewstats Overview statistics] || Produces various site and course report charts. The code has been designed in a way that makes adding more reports easy. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_timestat Timestat] || Timestat block measures users real activity time. Time is increased only when Moodle tab is active in browser. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|- <br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_enrolmenttimer Enrolment Timer] || Block to show the user their remaining time enrolled in a course with live countdown and lots of settings to customise the display of this timer. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/browse.php?list=set&id=58 Experience Points (XP)] || The Experience Point (XP) set contains gamification-style plugins working with experience points given to the students. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_stampcoll Stamp Collection] || The Stamp collection module allows a teacher to give "stamps" (i.e. picture with a comment) to students so they collect these stamps. The activity can be used in many ways, such as motivative bonus marks, absence marks, certification records etc. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/assignsubmission_mahara Mahara Assignment Submission Plugin] || Allows grading of Mahara portfolio pages & collections in Moodle. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/assignfeedback_mahara Mahara Assignment Feedback Plugin] || An optional (but recommended!) addition to the Mahara Assignment Submission plugin. This plugin allows Moodle to automatically unlock submitted Mahara portfolio pages & collections after grading. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|}<br />
<br />
Other Tools:<br />
Intelliboard.net analytical tool : Commercial Analytics - http://www.intelliboard.net/ [http://www.intelliboard.net/pricing Cost]<br />
Ephorus Plagiarism : Plagiarism tools<br />
<br />
==Wishlist of Features==<br />
Relative date setup - activities based on enrollment date<br />
Request in to Moodle.org see: https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-48185 <br />
<br />
==Themes==<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
|-<br />
! Name !! Status<br />
|-<br />
| Aardvark || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Bootstrap 3 || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Bootstrap Base || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Clean || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Elegance ||Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Essential || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| More || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/theme_evolved evolve-D] || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/theme_shoehorn Shoehorn] || Installed<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Moodle Settings==<br />
<br />
==LTI's==<br />
<br />
A potentially useful listing of LTI's: http://developers.imsglobal.org/catalog.html<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Name !! Status<br />
|-<br />
| WordPress || [http://edutechwiki.unige.ch/en/Moodle#Wordpress_integration Described here]|| Stalled due to coding issues because of version updates, will be monitored.<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Technical Questions/Issues==<br />
<br />
* 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. <br />
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.<br />
<br />
* 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.<br />
May be caused by theme not yet being fully 2.8 compliant<br />
<br />
* 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. <br />
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.<br />
<br />
* When trying the bring Big Blue Box into my course, I get a 505 Server Error.<br />
Result of not being an externally connected server. Will not be able to test until on server that has external security settings<br />
<br />
==Links==<br />
* http://opensource.com/education/12/1/designing-aesthetically-pleasing-moodle-courses<br />
* http://iy103-w14.hibbittsdesign.com/course/view.php?id=2<br />
* Discussions on Moodle file structure: <br />
** http://mattcornock.co.uk/moodle/moodle-2-file-repository-course-files<br />
** http://www.somerandomthoughts.com/blog/2010/06/15/ftp-files-into-moodle-2-0-with-the-repository-api/<br />
** https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=168868#p741355<br />
** https://docs.moodle.org/28/en/File_system_repository</div>Tagarwalhttps://kumu.tru.ca/index.php?title=Documentation:Learning_Environment/Moodle_Exploration&diff=8094Documentation:Learning Environment/Moodle Exploration2015-03-10T16:42:59Z<p>Tagarwal: /* Potential Moodle Plugins */</p>
<hr />
<div>__TOC__<br />
This page documents the exploration of the capabilities of Moodle to enhance the student learning experience. <br />
<br />
A small closed development environment has been created to try out various tools and themes that might enhance the student experience.<br />
<br />
'''Moodle Development Install: 2.8.2'''<br />
<br />
<br />
==Potential Moodle Plugins==<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
|-<br />
! Plugin Name !! Purpose/Utility !! Comment<br />
|-<br />
| Adobe Connect || Provides an activity level integration between Moodle and Adobe Connect Pro || Not a product that is used.<br />
|-<br />
| Attendance Plugin || Part of Set called Attendance || Not a typical functional issue, will not be loaded at moment.<br />
|-<br />
| Banner/Luminis Mesage Broker || Process courses, users, and enrollments out of SunGard HE/Ellucian Banner. Includes support for realtime notifications from Luminis Message Broker. || Potentially relevant to IT<br />
|-style="background-color:#66ff66;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_bigbluebuttonbn BigBlueButton Plugin] || Web conferencing connection || '''Installed'''<br />
|-<br />
| Certificate || This module allows for the dynamic generation of certificates based on predefined conditions set by the teacher. || Currently not available for 2.8<br />
|-<br />
| Email-based Self-registration || Provides email-based self-registration with admin confirmation instead of user confirmation. || Currently not available for 2.8<br />
|-<br />
| Face-to-face Plugin || To help manage sessions where registration is required/Event Management || Not typical course scenario, will not be loaded at moment.<br />
|-<br />
| Mobile Identity Verification Plugin || Custom plugin by Lambda solutions || Not available on Moodle site<br />
|-<br />
| Moodle Welcome Plugin || Sends a welcome message to new users, sends a notification to a moderator of the new user creation || Future interest???<br />
|-<br />
| My Grades Report Plugin|| A Moodle Report that shows all user grades in all courses || Currently not available for 2.8, future interest<br />
|-<br />
| Progress Bar Plugin || A time management tool for you and your students || '''Installed'''<br />
|-<br />
| SAML Authentication Plugin || SAML Authentication plugin based on the simplesamlphp software. (Also install the SAML Enrolment plugin if you want auto-enrol based on SAML) || More an IT focused plugin, will not currently install<br />
|-<br />
| Subcourse Plugin || The module provides very simple yet useful functionality. When added into a course, it behaves as a graded activity. The grade for each student is took from a final grade in another course. This allows course designers to organize the learning content into separate units. || Future use?? will not load.<br />
|-<br />
| Vericite Plugin || Plagarism detector, requires subscription || Future desire???<br />
|-<br />
| Webinar Plugin || For use with Adobe Connect only || Currently not of interest, will not be loaded.<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_checklist Checklist Set (Block/Module)] || creates interactive checklist || '''Installed'''<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_bcu_course_checks Course Checks Block] || This block carries out a number of automated checks on a course, to encourage a minimum standard of course quality, avoid common mistakes and highlight possible areas for improvement. The block also allows for a course to be cleared of empty sections. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-<br />
| [https://docs.moodle.org/28/en/Collapsed_Topics_course_format Collapsed Topics] || An interchangeable topic or week based format that solves the issue of the 'Scroll of Death' when a course has many topics. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_recordingsbn RecordingsBN] || Access and manage your BigBlueButton recordings || '''Installed'''<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_journal Journal] || This module allows a teacher to ask students to reflect on a particular topic. The students can edit and refine their answer over time. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_coursefeedback CourseFeedback] || This Block intends to give the system administrators a tool for forced evaluation of a course (or other facts). System administrators can define a set of textual questions, which can be rated from students. || '''Installed'''<br />
|- <br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_grade_me Grade Me] || Shows a teacher all of the assignments and manual quiz questions (essays and file responses) that have been submitted, but not graded. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-<br />
| [https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Flexpage Flexpage] || Provides complete control over how content is presented. || Not yet supported for 2.8<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/filter_collapsible Collapsible regions] || Easy way to create collapsible regions within descriptions and text for Moodle. || '''Installed'''<br />
|-<br />
| [http://blogs.technet.com/b/educloud/archive/2013/04/12/a-quick-and-easy-way-to-link-moodle-to-sharepoint-with-collabco-myday.aspx MyDay] || The MyDay Moodle app links an existing Moodle installation to SharePoint. Once the app is installed it guides an administrator through the process of setting up their Moodle installation to talk to the app. All the administrator needs to do it fill out a couple of fields then copy some files into Moodle that the app generates || '''Under Investigation'''<br />
|-<br />
| [http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39932&navItemId=4c58c131-1e7a-44ec-f15b-77098df8bdc7 Moodle and Microsoft] || This page provides guidance on how to use Moodle, an open source course management system for educators, with Office 365’s popular productivity tools and services. || '''Under Investigation'''<br />
|-<br />
| [https://docs.moodle.org/28/en/OneDrive_repository OneDrive] || The Microsoft OneDrive repository (''formerly known as Skydrive'') allows you to access your documents from Microsoft OneDrive within Moodle. || '''Under Investigation'''<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/report_customsql Ad-hoc database queries] || This report plugin allows Administrators to set up arbitrary database queries to act as ad-hoc reports. Reports can be of two types, either run on demand, or scheduled to run automatically. Other users with the right capability can go in and see a list of queries that they have access to. Results can be viewed on-screen or downloaded as CSV. || '''Requested for install''' <br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_gismo GISMO] || GISMO, a graphical interactive student monitoring and tracking system that extracts tracking data from an online course maintained with Moodle, and generates graphical representations that can be explored by course instructors.|| '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/report_overviewstats Overview statistics] || Produces various site and course report charts. The code has been designed in a way that makes adding more reports easy. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_timestat Timestat] || Timestat block measures users real activity time. Time is increased only when Moodle tab is active in browser. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|- <br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_enrolmenttimer Enrolment Timer] || Block to show the user their remaining time enrolled in a course with live countdown and lots of settings to customise the display of this timer. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/browse.php?list=set&id=58 Experience Points (XP)] || The Experience Point (XP) set contains gamification-style plugins working with experience points given to the students. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_stampcoll Stamp Collection] || The Stamp collection module allows a teacher to give "stamps" (i.e. picture with a comment) to students so they collect these stamps. The activity can be used in many ways, such as motivative bonus marks, absence marks, certification records etc. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/assignsubmission_mahara Mahara Assignment Submission Plugin] || Allows grading of Mahara portfolio pages & collections in Moodle. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/assignfeedback_mahara Mahara Assignment Feedback Plugin] || An optional (but recommended!) addition to the Mahara Assignment Submission plugin. This plugin allows Moodle to automatically unlock submitted Mahara portfolio pages & collections after grading. || '''Requested for install'''<br />
|}<br />
<br />
Other Tools:<br />
Intelliboard.net analytical tool : Commercial Analytics - http://www.intelliboard.net/ [http://www.intelliboard.net/pricing Cost]<br />
Ephorus Plagiarism : Plagiarism tools<br />
<br />
==Wishlist of Features==<br />
Relative date setup - activities based on enrollment date<br />
Request in to Moodle.org see: https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-48185 <br />
<br />
==Themes==<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
|-<br />
! Name !! Status<br />
|-<br />
| Aardvark || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Bootstrap 3 || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Bootstrap Base || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Clean || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Elegance ||Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Essential || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| More || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/theme_evolved evolve-D] || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/theme_shoehorn Shoehorn] || Installed<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Moodle Settings==<br />
<br />
==LTI's==<br />
<br />
A potentially useful listing of LTI's: http://developers.imsglobal.org/catalog.html<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Name !! Status<br />
|-<br />
| WordPress || [http://edutechwiki.unige.ch/en/Moodle#Wordpress_integration Described here]|| Stalled due to coding issues because of version updates, will be monitored.<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Technical Questions/Issues==<br />
<br />
* 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. <br />
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.<br />
<br />
* 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.<br />
May be caused by theme not yet being fully 2.8 compliant<br />
<br />
* 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. <br />
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.<br />
<br />
* When trying the bring Big Blue Box into my course, I get a 505 Server Error.<br />
Result of not being an externally connected server. Will not be able to test until on server that has external security settings<br />
<br />
==Links==<br />
* http://opensource.com/education/12/1/designing-aesthetically-pleasing-moodle-courses<br />
* http://iy103-w14.hibbittsdesign.com/course/view.php?id=2<br />
* Discussions on Moodle file structure: <br />
** http://mattcornock.co.uk/moodle/moodle-2-file-repository-course-files<br />
** http://www.somerandomthoughts.com/blog/2010/06/15/ftp-files-into-moodle-2-0-with-the-repository-api/<br />
** https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=168868#p741355<br />
** https://docs.moodle.org/28/en/File_system_repository</div>Tagarwalhttps://kumu.tru.ca/index.php?title=Help:Editing&diff=8091Help:Editing2015-03-09T22:12:21Z<p>Tagarwal: </p>
<hr />
<div>__NOEDITSECTION__{{Help Nav}}<br />
==Basic Editing==<br />
<br />
It's very easy to edit the contents of the Kumu Wiki. It only takes a few clicks.<br />
<br />
# Click the “'''{{int:edit}}'''” [[Help:Navigation#Page Tabs|page tab]] at the top of the page.<br />
# Make changes to the text.<br />
# Click the “'''{{int:savearticle}}'''” button.<br />
<br />
Simple as that! Please note that you might have to sign in before you can edit the TRU Kumu Wiki. (See main page for details on getting started)<br />
<br />
== Editing rules, editing conventions, and formatting ==<br />
The number one rule of wiki editing, is to ''be bold''. Dive in and make changes. Other people can correct mistakes later, so have confidence, and give it a try! There can be all kinds of editing conventions, rules, and philosophy governing the editing of wiki pages, but the "be bold" rule overrides these!<br />
<br />
In general try to write clearly and concisely and make sure you are always aiming to do something which improves the wiki contents. An edit might be to contribute whole paragraphs or pages full of information, or it could be as simple as fixing a typo or spelling mistake.<br />
<br />
When you need to use some type of [[Help:formatting|formatting]], such as new headings or bold text, you do this using wiki syntax. See [[Help:Formatting]] for some of the common types of formatting used.<br />
<br />
== Edit Summary ==<br />
Before you save a change, you can enter a short note in the '''{{int:summary}}''' box describing your changes. Don't worry too much about this, or spend too much time thinking about it, but try to give a little description of what you just changed e.g. "''fixed typo''" or "''added more information about sunflowers''".<br />
<br />
The summary gets stored alongside your edit, and allows people to [[Help:Tracking changes|track changes]] in the wiki more effectively.<br />
<br />
== Preview ==<br />
It's a good idea to use the “'''{{int:showpreview}}'''” button to see what your change will look like, before you save it. This is also related to [[Help:Tracking changes|tracking changes]] because every time you save, this is displayed to others as a separate change. This isn't something to worry about too much, but it's good to get into the habit of eliminating mistakes in your own work, by using a preview before saving, rather than saving several minor corrections afterwards.<br />
<br />
==Show changes==<br />
Another option is the “'''{{int:showdiff}}'''” button which allows you to see the differences between the current version and your edited version.<br />
<br />
== Other types of editing ==<br />
With wiki edits you can start a new page, move (or rename) a page, or even delete a page:<br />
* [[Help:Create New Page]]<br />
* [[Help:Moving a page]]<br />
<br />
Remember you should always aim to improve the overall contents of the wiki with your edits.<br />
<br />
== Discussion ==<br />
Every article has its own “talk page” where you can ask questions, make suggestions, or discuss corrections. See [[Help:Talk pages]] <br />
<br />
== Basic text formatting ==<br />
<br />
*See the [[Help:formatting | formatting article]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
First draft of this page derived from: http://wiki.ubc.ca/UBC_Wiki:FAQs</div>Tagarwalhttps://kumu.tru.ca/index.php?title=Test_page_teshu2&diff=8073Test page teshu22015-03-09T18:10:22Z<p>Tagarwal: </p>
<hr />
<div>__TOC__<br />
<br />
<p style="background-color: lightgrey;<br />
width: 500px;<br />
padding: 25px;<br />
border: 25px;<br />
margin: 25px;"><br />
This page documents the exploration of the capabilities of Moodle to enhance the student learning experience. <br />
<br />
A small closed development environment has been created to try out various tools and themes that might enhance the student experience.<br />
<br />
'''Moodle Development Install: 2.8.2'''<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
=={{Lozenge|style=background:green|text=Potential Moodle Plugins}}==<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
|-<br />
! Plugin Name !! Purpose/Utility !! Comment<br />
|-<br />
| Adobe Connect || Provides an activity level integration between Moodle and Adobe Connect Pro || Not a product that is used.<br />
|-<br />
| Attendance Plugin || Part of Set called Attendance || Not a typical functional issue, will not be loaded at moment.<br />
|-<br />
| Banner/Luminis Mesage Broker || Process courses, users, and enrollments out of SunGard HE/Ellucian Banner. Includes support for realtime notifications from Luminis Message Broker. || Potentially relevant to IT<br />
|-style="color:green; background-color:#ffffcc;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_bigbluebuttonbn BigBlueButton Plugin] || Web conferencing connection || <font color="red"> '''Installed''' </font><br />
|-<br />
| Certificate || This module allows for the dynamic generation of certificates based on predefined conditions set by the teacher. || Currently not available for 2.8<br />
|-<br />
| Email-based Self-registration || Provides email-based self-registration with admin confirmation instead of user confirmation. || Currently not available for 2.8<br />
|-<br />
| Face-to-face Plugin || To help manage sessions where registration is required/Event Management || Not typical course scenario, will not be loaded at moment.<br />
|-<br />
| Mobile Identity Verification Plugin || Custom plugin by Lambda solutions || Not available on Moodle site<br />
|-<br />
| Moodle Welcome Plugin || Sends a welcome message to new users, sends a notification to a moderator of the new user creation || Future interest???<br />
|-<br />
| My Grades Report Plugin|| A Moodle Report that shows all user grades in all courses || Currently not available for 2.8, future interest<br />
|--style="color:green; background-color:#ffffcc;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| Progress Bar Plugin || A time management tool for you and your students || <font color="red"> '''Installed''' </font><br />
|-<br />
| SAML Authentication Plugin || SAML Authentication plugin based on the simplesamlphp software. (Also install the SAML Enrolment plugin if you want auto-enrol based on SAML) || More an IT focused plugin, will not currently install<br />
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| Subcourse Plugin || The module provides very simple yet useful functionality. When added into a course, it behaves as a graded activity. The grade for each student is took from a final grade in another course. This allows course designers to organize the learning content into separate units. || Future use?? will not load.<br />
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| Vericite Plugin || Plagarism detector, requires subscription || Future desire???<br />
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| Webinar Plugin || For use with Adobe Connect only || Currently not of interest, will not be loaded.<br />
|--style="color:green; background-color:#ffffcc;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_checklist Checklist Set (Block/Module)] || creates interactive checklist ||<font color="red">'''Installed''' </font><br />
|-style="color:green; background-color:#ffffcc;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_bcu_course_checks Course Checks Block] || This block carries out a number of automated checks on a course, to encourage a minimum standard of course quality, avoid common mistakes and highlight possible areas for improvement. The block also allows for a course to be cleared of empty sections. ||<font color="red"> '''Installed''' </font><br />
|-style="color:green; background-color:#ffffcc;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://docs.moodle.org/28/en/Collapsed_Topics_course_format Collapsed Topics] || An interchangeable topic or week based format that solves the issue of the 'Scroll of Death' when a course has many topics. || <font color="red">'''Installed''' </font><br />
|-style="color:#3333cc; background-color:#ff9999;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_recordingsbn RecordingsBN] || Access and manage your BigBlueButton recordings || '''Request for Installation'''<br />
|-style="color:#3333cc; background-color:#ff9999;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_journal Journal] || This module allows a teacher to ask students to reflect on a particular topic. The students can edit and refine their answer over time. || ''Request for Installation'''<br />
|-style="color:#3333cc; background-color:#ff9999;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_coursefeedback CourseFeedback] || This Block intends to give the system administrators a tool for forced evaluation of a course (or other facts). System administrators can define a set of textual questions, which can be rated from students. || '''Request for Installation'''<br />
|-style="color:#3333cc; background-color:#ff9999;" cellpadding="10"<br />
| [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_grade_me Grade Me] || Shows a teacher all of the assignments and manual quiz questions (essays and file responses) that have been submitted, but not graded. || '''Request for Installation'''<br />
|-<br />
| [https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Flexpage Flexpage] || Provides complete control over how content is presented. || Not yet supported for 2.8<br />
|}<br />
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{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
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! Name !! Status<br />
|-<br />
| Aardvark || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Bootstrap 3 || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Bootstrap Base || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Clean || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Elegance ||Installed<br />
|-<br />
| Essential || Installed<br />
|-<br />
| More || Installed<br />
|}<br />
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==Moodle Settings==<br />
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=={{Lozenge|style=background:green|text=LTI's}}==<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
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! Name !! Status<br />
|-<br />
| WordPress || [http://edutechwiki.unige.ch/en/Moodle#Wordpress_integration Described here]<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example<br />
|}<br />
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=={{Lozenge|style=background:green|text=Technical Questions}}==<br />
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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. <br />
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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.<br />
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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. <br />
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When trying the bring Big Blue Box into my course, I get a 505 Server Error.<br />
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=={{Lozenge|style=background:green|text=Links}}==<br />
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<p style="background-color: lightgrey;width: 500px;padding: 25px;border: 25px;margin: 25px;"><br />
http://opensource.com/education/12/1/designing-aesthetically-pleasing-moodle-courses <br><br />
http://iy103-w14.hibbittsdesign.com/course/view.php?id=2<br />
</p></div>Tagarwal