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Archive for February, 2011
Blackboard 9.1
By Admin on Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011 | No Comments
If you are using an old release of Blackboard, you might want to see what the 9.1 screens look like (first 1/3 of the video below). This video is actually specific to “College of DuPage”; don’t you wish your support staff was this creative Amoxil ?
Read More...Embedding YouTube to Moodle
By Admin on Friday, February 18th, 2011 | No Comments
How to get the “embed” code from YouTube, and place the video in your Moodle lesson:
Read More...Creating a Quiz in Moodle in Four Easy Steps
By Admin on Thursday, February 17th, 2011 | No Comments
(mm:ss) refers to the time markers in the video below: 1. Question Bank (0:00 – 3:55) 2. Add Quiz Activity (3:55-6:15) 3. Add Questions to Quiz (6:15-6:56) 4. Preview the Quiz (6:56-8:07)
Read More...New Mexico and the LMS system “Blackboard”
By Admin on Wednesday, February 16th, 2011 | No Comments
According to “IDEAL-NM”, New Mexico is the first state in the nation to create a statewide eLearning system that from its inception encompasses all aspects of learning from traditional public and higher education environments to teacher professional development, continuing education and workforce education. IDEAL-NM is a joint program of the New Mexico Public Education and […]
Read More...Use the Aiken Quiz Format to Save Time on Moodle Quizes
By Admin on Tuesday, February 15th, 2011 | No Comments
The Aiken format allows you to key in the questions/answers in a simple text editor (such as Notepad, or your favorite substitute editor), then import them into Moodle. Amoxil This can save you lot’s of slow web-clicks! 1) Build Aiken file in Notepad (0:00-2:35) 2) Import Aiken file (2:42-end) [Questions/Import] a) Upload this file (3:10) […]
Read More...Video: What is Moodle?
By Admin on Tuesday, February 15th, 2011 | No Comments
What is Moodle – a nice presentation in under three minutes! Amoxil
Read More...My Favorite New Features in Joomla 1.6
By Admin on Tuesday, February 15th, 2011 | No Comments
Here’s what excites me about Joomla 1.6: 1) Nested categories and bye-bye to sections – When I first learned Joomla, I remember having trouble remembering the hierarchy if sections were made up of categories, or categories were made up of sections. Now we just have categories, which can be nested to multiple depths (like a […]
Read More...What is an LMS? What is a CMS? How are they different?
By Admin on Sunday, February 6th, 2011 | No Comments
An LMS is a “Learning Management System”, typically designed for schools/classrooms to provide content, assignments, quizes, projects, and discussion forums (and sometimes even social networking) to the students. An LMS is basically a CMS dedicated to one purpose, i.e. education/learning. A CMS is more generic, allowing to create pages, blogs, news, links, and sometimes include […]
Read More...Hebrew College Switches from Blackboard to Schoology
By Admin on Sunday, February 6th, 2011 | No Comments
I’m currently working on my MAJS from Hebrew College in Boston, through a distance learning program. I have to attend two classes in Boston at some point (typically a one week summer session), but everything else is done “online”. The school formerly used “Blackboard“, which is one of the larger learning management systems (LMS) in […]
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