Documentation:Learning Environment/Moodle Exploration
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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
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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.