Documentation:Learning Environment/Moodle Exploration

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

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

Moodle Development Install: 2.8.2

Potential Moodle Plugins

Plugin Name	Purpose/Utility	Comment
Adobe Connect	Provides an activity level integration between Moodle and Adobe Connect Pro	Not a product that is used.
Attendance Plugin	Part of Set called Attendance	Not a typical functional issue, will not be loaded at moment.
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
BigBlueButton Plugin	Web conferencing connection	Installed
Certificate	This module allows for the dynamic generation of certificates based on predefined conditions set by the teacher.	Currently not available for 2.8
Email-based Self-registration	Provides email-based self-registration with admin confirmation instead of user confirmation.	Currently not available for 2.8
Face-to-face Plugin	To help manage sessions where registration is required/Event Management	Not typical course scenario, will not be loaded at moment.
Mobile Identity Verification Plugin	Custom plugin by Lambda solutions	Not available on Moodle site
Moodle Welcome Plugin	Sends a welcome message to new users, sends a notification to a moderator of the new user creation	Future interest???
My Grades Report Plugin	A Moodle Report that shows all user grades in all courses	Currently not available for 2.8, future interest
Progress Bar Plugin	A time management tool for you and your students	Installed
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
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.
Vericite Plugin	Plagarism detector, requires subscription	Future desire???
Webinar Plugin	For use with Adobe Connect only	Currently not of interest, will not be loaded.
Checklist Set (Block/Module)	creates interactive checklist	Installed
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
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
RecordingsBN	Access and manage your BigBlueButton recordings	Request for Installation
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
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	-	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	Flexpage	Provides complete control over how content is presented.	Not yet supported for 2.8
Collapsible regions	Request for Installation	-

Themes

Name	Status
Aardvark	Installed
Bootstrap 3	Installed
Bootstrap Base	Installed
Clean	Installed
Elegance	Installed
Essential	Installed
More	Installed

Moodle Settings

[[

LTI's

Name	Status
Example	Example
Example	Example
Example	Example
Example	Example
Example	Example
Example	Example

Technical Questions

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.

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.

Links

• http://opensource.com/education/12/1/designing-aesthetically-pleasing-moodle-courses
• http://iy103-w14.hibbittsdesign.com/course/view.php?id=2