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Motherwell College Migrate to Moodle January 2012 – Motherwell College, based in Lanarkshire Scotland, is a further and higher education College with more than 500 staff supporting some 20,000 students. In late 2010 as part of the e-learning strategic review, the College evaluated the impact of e-learning across the curriculum.  As part of that reviewRead more

I am a massive fan of Moodle Quiz. It really is one of the most powerful and comprehensive pedagogical tools in Moodle. From its multiple question types (http://docs.moodle.org/20/en/Question_types) to its many configuration and grading options, its various methods of giving students targeted feedback and its comprehensive reporting, it leaves most other quiz engines in theRead more

First of all – Federated Moodle Management – what does that even mean? This is where an entity (regional organisations or perhaps umbrella groups) require the ability to self provision multiple Moodle instances for each of their member organisations, while at the same time retaining the services of a professional external provider to manage andRead more

Last week I spent Monday and Tuesday at the Stellar Meeting of Young Minds in Leuven, Belgium. The point of this meeting was to get twelve leading young thinkers in Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) together to consider the future of TEL and what should be funded through future European Commission research funding calls. I wasRead more

I have been invited to the Meeting of Young Minds in Belgium at the end of the month. The idea behind this meeting is stated on the invitation as follows: The idea of this meeting is to gather 12 young minds (below 35) to discuss the future of TEL research during two days (Nov. 28-29)Read more

Over the past year we have been working on a really interesting research project called Percolate – http://www.percolate.ie. Percolate is a collaboration between various multinational companies in Ireland with an interest in education (Cisco, Intel), indigenous Irish e-learning companies and academic partners – namely Trinity College Dublin (TCD), University College Dublin (UCD), Telecommunications Software andRead more

The assumption people have when they read Moodle 2 conditional activities is that it can work on a course level, that they can define a course which must be completed before a student can enter another course – but this is a feature that is not available (until now).

A lot of people find the calendar tool in Moodle very useful. It is a really simple way for learners, teachers and site administrators to schedule learning and training events. More details on the Moodle calendar and its uses can be found on the Moodle docs page – http://docs.moodle.org/20/en/Calendar Okay so Moodle calendar is greatRead more

A+, Satisfactory, 58%, Partial understanding, Needs more work, below average – yes there are many ways for us teachers to express how well we think a student has done in an assessment activity. This is very important as sometimes we want to give a very precise grade and other times we just want the studentRead more

Ok so I think you know now that at Enovation we love Moodle, so today I thought I would tell you about another cool product that we customise and support for our clients, Drupal. Drupal is a very cool open source Content Management System (CMS). The best way of introducing Drupal is look at theRead more