Archive for the ‘LearningManagement’ Category


Offsite Video – Upgrading Moodle (Using CPanel)

I found this great video that shows you how to update Moodle (a learning management system or LMS). This video shows some tricks I have never seen before, the author uses CPanel to do everything. Amoxil This could perhaps be a lot faster than doing an FTP of hundreds of small files (in other words, […]

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Blackboard on Common Mobile Phone

Android: IPhone: Blackberry:

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Blackboard 9.1

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 ?

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Embedding YouTube to Moodle

How to get the “embed” code from YouTube, and place the video in your Moodle lesson:

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Creating a Quiz in Moodle in Four Easy Steps

(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)

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New Mexico and the LMS system “Blackboard”

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 […]

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Use the Aiken Quiz Format to Save Time on Moodle Quizes

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) […]

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Video: What is Moodle?

What is Moodle – a nice presentation in under three minutes! Amoxil

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What is an LMS? What is a CMS? How are they different?

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 […]

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Rubrics in Moodle

What are Rubrics?  According to Wikipedia: A rubric is a scoring tool for subjective assessments. It is a set of criteria and standards linked to learning objectives that is used to assess a student’s performance on papers, projects, essays, and other assignments. Rubrics allow for standardised evaluation according to specified criteria, making grading simpler and […]

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