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Moodle Quiz will get major feature boost soon – Check it out!

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Jaswinder Singh
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Moodle Quiz will get major feature boost soon - Check it out!
Moodle Quiz will get major feature boost soon - Check it out!

Moodle LMS has got one of the best quiz engine for online learning. The Moodle Quiz allows you to choose from a plethora of question types with other customization options. In the past few Moodle versions, the Moodle HQ team has improvised the question bank to allow you to manage your question better than ever.

In another major boost to the Moodle quiz it will soon receive get a major feature which has been requested by many teachers around the world. Tim Hunt – Moodle Quiz maintainer has taken us through the new feature which he is working on.

According to a forum post on Moodle community, Tim posted that the quizzes will get the ability to computer multiple total scores. This can be useful for exams consisting of several sections.

According to the initial proposal, the new feature will have:

  • Sending additional grades to the course gradebook.
  • Conditional feedback based on section grades, like the ‘Overall feedback’ based on the total attempt score.
  • Quiz statistics

However, it will need the teacher to setup the multiple grade setup while creating the quiz. The discussion on the new feature implementation and suggestions is currently ongoing in Moodle community here.

If you are interested in getting a section based grades from quiz, you can get your feedback shared with Moodle community in the forum discussion.

What are the other new features which you are looking to get in Moodle LMS? Please share with us in the comments section below.

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Thiqa Tutoring Raises $300k Investment for Growth & Expansion

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Jaswinder Singh
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Thiqa Tutoring, an educational technology platform that offers tutoring services across the UAE, recently announced that it has raised a $300,000 investment from Hope Ventures, the investment arm of Bahrain’s Hope Fund, alongside private sector investors Mashael Fairooz, founder of JEO Capital, and angel investor Dr Lamya Mahmood, CEO of Dr Lamya Group, during the seventh episode of the entrepreneurship-themed reality television show and the region’s first private-public investment.

Thiqa Tutoring (TT), founded in 2022 by Hamdan Karmustaji and Omar Bakri, is the United Arab Emirates’ first tutoring provider trusted by customers for educational and teaching services. The platform connects students and tutors and manages and encourages the entire learning process, with a full dedication to providing learners with a unique learning experience that meets their needs. It focuses on high-quality supervision, comprehensive management, and personalized student consultations. The startup has a significant presence in four major cities: Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah, and Al Ain.

Commented on the fundraising, Co-founder & CTO of Thiqa Tutoring, Hamdan Karmustaji, said:

Our journey with Thiqa Tutoring started modestly with a small team and significant challenges. Today, just three months after filming the episode, Beban (doors) opened to us with the trust of 3 investors. The excitement propelled us to where we are now, with our team exceeding 100 employees. We remember our past with love and pride; the journey has been and continues to be challenging, and we are grateful for every moment of despair and every challenge we have overcome. We are proud of our positive impact on our students and teachers. We are full of Thiqa (confidence) in continuing our role in redefining private tutoring through quality and innovation.

The company ensures that every student and tutor has a smooth experience from beginning to end. The dedicated collaborators oversee the entire tutoring procedure. Handle everything from selecting the best educators through rigorous recruitment and training to ensuring seamless transmission and timely payments. Its team of skilled educational consultants offers specific help to both students and tutors, setting a new industry standard. Thiqa Tutoring is changing more than how people find tutors; it is also transforming the tutoring experience.

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Moodle LMS – Survey and Chat Tools to be deprecated soon

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Jaswinder Singh
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Moodle LMS - Survey and Chat Tools to be deprecated soon
Moodle LMS - Survey and Chat Tools to be deprecated soon

Moodle LMS has been powering more than 400 million users around the world since last 20 years. It includes many fascinating online teaching tools which can be used to make online learning courses better. However there are few tools which were created during the early days of Moodle and they have lost their relevance in modern learning environments.

Moodle contains many activities or resources types which are the heart of the Moodle LMS. There are Quiz, Assignment, Lesson, Workshop, Interactive Content (h5p) etc. As part of ongoing maintenance, the Moodle HQ has assessed the trends in usage for different tools.

According to the assessment, the Survey tool which has been a part of Moodle core since its inception, has been infrequently used over the last three years. Similarly, the Chat tool – which has been part of Moodle for more than a decade, has seen a gradual decline in usage as the educators move to more sophisticated chat tools.

Based on the above data, the Moodle HQ team has decided to start deprecating the Survey & Chat tools from Moodle LMS in future versions. Both the tools will be removed from Moodle core and moved to the Plugins directory.

The schedule for deprecating both the tools is as follows:

  • Moodle 4.4 – Survey and Chat tools will be disabled for all new installs by default.

  • Moodle 4.5 – No further changes

  • Moodle 4.6 – Survey and Chat tool will be removed from core and migrated to the plugins database.

What are your thoughts about deprecating the Survey & Chat activity in Moodle LMS? Are you using these tools extensively? Please share your thoughts in the comments section below.

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UK-Based MeVitae Raises $1.8M to Reshape the Hiring Process

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Jaswinder Singh
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MeVitae, a UK-based Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) firm, has raised a $1.8 million (€1.7 million) seed round led by Apex Black. The new investment is a step towards the company’s aim of reshaping hiring processes through innovative AI-powered HR technology. It also intends to speed up product development and broaden MeVitae’s reach, notably in the United States, where a significant portion of its client base resides.

Founded by Oxford University alumni Neuroscientist Riham Satti and Computer Scientist Vivek Doraiswamy, MeVitae specializes in offering a comprehensive DEI ecosystem of HR tools. These tools, developed from AI ethics and neuroscience perspectives, are designed to detect and mitigate biases to enhance brighter, faster, and fairer hiring decisions. Its solutions directly address this imperative. Its solutions specifically meet this imperative. The tools identify imbalances in application success rates and offer solutions from a wide range of techniques to address them.

Speaking about the company, Co-founder & CEO of MeVitae, Riham Satti said:

Growing up, I never considered that my gender or skin colour might impede opportunities. It was during my university years that this harsh reality became evident. Delving into human decision-making, the rigid nature of biases was starkly apparent. With our backgrounds in AI ethics and neuroscience, Vivek and I realized the need to address these biases head-on.

With a diverse clientele spanning finance, government, and technology sectors, including HS2, TfL and The Good Food Institute, the startup’s pioneering solutions have demonstrated tangible results, with clients reporting a substantial 30% increase in gender and ethnic diversity within their organizations. These accomplishments serve as a powerful testament to the effectiveness of MeVitae’s innovative approach in driving impactful and positive change.

Rani Saad, Founding Partner of Apex Black, stated:

MeVitae is making the workplace fairer and more equitable, and we are proud to back them in their mission. A rapidly growing number of global public and private organizations are trusting MeVitae in their drives towards diversity, equity and inclusion. This is validation of the profound innovation and domain expertise embedded in MeVitae’s solutions, and testimony to the team’s unwavering passion.

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Moodle Teachers – Enroll users automatically in your Moodle courses

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Jaswinder Singh
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Moodle Teachers - Enroll users automatically in your Moodle courses
Moodle Teachers - Enroll users automatically in your Moodle courses

Moodle LMS is world’s most popular open source learning management system in the world. With its plethora of plugins, Moodle offers educators the flexibility to customize their virtual classrooms to suit their specific needs. Among these plugins, Autoenrol plugin stands out as a powerful tool for automating the enrollment process, making course administration smoother and more convenient.

The Autoenrol Moodle plugin simplify the time consuming task of enrolling users in Moodle courses. Many Moodle Users often look to provide open Moodle courses for all users in their Moodle LMS. These courses may include self-help courses like how to navigate, or open for feedback.

The Autoenrol Moodle plugin allows you to automatically enroll users onto a course, either as they log in to your Moodle site or as they access a course. The plugin also includes advanced filtering mechanism to support automatically grouping and filtering users based upon their profile fields.

You can download the AutoEnrol plugin from the official plugins repository here.Once installed and activated by the Moodle Admin, you can add the AutoEnrol enrollment method to your courses. You need to go to the course where you want to add the Auto Enrol plugin as an enrolment method. Navigate to Course Participants > Enrollment Methods and Add Auto Enrol at the bottom of the page.

What are the other Moodle plugins which you like as Moodle Administrator? Do share with us in the comments section below.

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Moodle Admins – Create Digital Workflows for Data Management using Datalynx plugin

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Jaswinder Singh
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Moodle Admins - Create Digital Workflows for Data Management using Datalynx plugin
Moodle Admins - Create Digital Workflows for Data Management using Datalynx plugin

Moodle LMS is the most popular open source Learning Management System with more than 400 million users around the world. Moodle Plugins provide an easier way to extend the Moodle LMS functionality to meet learning requirements. In this post we will see the Datalynx plugin which is a powerful data management tool.

The Datalynx Moodle plugin allows you to create digital workflows for data management. By using this Datalynx plugin you can easily create Application workflow, Conference registration process etc.

The Datalynx is a professional tool which has got enormous potential as it can be used to create forms and collecting user data. It is an enhancement of Dataform plugin which was pretty popular Moodle plugin.

You can different types of fields to the form and then configure which fields will be visible to which users. You can download the Datalynx plugin from the official plugins repository here. Here are some features of the Dataform plugin:

  • More then 20 different data types for structured data (from text to date to team members)
  • Create views visible to certain roles
  • Filter data with powerful filtering and search methods including a custom filter and an advanced filter
  • Create renderers in order to display your data the way you want it
  • Define notifications to be sent to certain roles triggered by events like “comment added”
  • Export your data to CSV, PDF
  • Import data via CSV
  • Create templates
  • Create views for administration, export, overview, etc..
  • Create field behaviours like required fields
  • Create renderers for fields

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Dublin-Based IreeMay Raises $1.93M Funding Round to Expand Its Operations

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Jaswinder Singh
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IreeMay, an educational technology startup with headquarters in Dublin, recently announced a $1.93 million (€1.8 million) funding round to facilitate the launch of its AI-powered programme in secondary schools across Ireland and the United Kingdom. According to the company, the funding will come in two instalments: €800,000 this year, followed by €1 million in 2025. This will be used to develop the IreeMay platform, hire employees, and make their appearance in Ireland, with plans to expand into Europe, North America, and Oceania.

Co-founded by Arthur Godsil and Patrick Myers, IreeMay strives to positively impact the lives of secondary school students by empowering them and their guidance counsellors with a comprehensive programme. Its programme is designed to assist students in identifying their unique strengths, interests, and passions and equips them with the necessary tools to align these with a fulfilling life journey. The company aims to build a cutting-edge and comprehensive EdTech platform encompassing a vast ecosystem and fostering a thriving community.

Speaking about the platform, Co-founder & CEO of IreeMay, Arthur Godsil, said:

 

We are excited on multiple fronts. Beyond the incredible business opportunity to launch and build a successful company in Ireland, we are impassioned about fundamentally changing the lives of our children, their families, our communities and guidance counsellors. Rarely does an opportunity come to make a lasting impact on society.

IreeMay is developing a programme for secondary school pupils using advanced psychometrics, AI, and machine learning to “uncover what they want to do” and plan an “aligned life journey”. Its visual-based assessment and community for fourth- to sixth-year students promises to assist them in identifying their abilities, interests, and personal objectives. It is envisaged that the AI-powered assessment will be university-accredited.

IreeMay claims to have already worked with over 20 schools and received positive feedback from principals and guidance counsellors. Adding about the company, Co-founder & COO of IreeMay, Patrick Myers, said:

Our mission is to help each child determine life paths that combine their strengths, interests and personal goals. We are building an ecosystem for the child’s entire support system to understand and discuss what’s available and best for them. There is a need in the market for our product, and we are very excited about the prospects for our communities.

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Moodle Admins – Have you heard about MOOSH – Command Line Tool for Administrators

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Jaswinder Singh
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Moodle Administrators - Have you heard about MOOSH? Command Line Tool for Administrators
Moodle Administrators - Have you heard about MOOSH? Command Line Tool for Administrators

In the world of e-learning platforms, Moodle LMS stands out as a versatile and robust open source Learning Management system for educators. Its flexibility and customization options make it a preferred choice for institutions worldwide. One of the key features that add to its flexibility is the availability of plugins, which extend its functionality in various ways.

The Moodle Administrators who are managing Moodle at the server level are aware about the powerful command line operations which can perform tedious tasks easily. The MOOSH Moodle plugin stands for Moodle Shell which is a command line tool to manage Moodle through command line.

The MOOSH Moodle utility is inspired from DRUSH – which is the Drupal Shell –  a similar tool for Drupal CMS. MOOSH is essentially a utility which offers you to perform many Moodle admin tasks through command line.

It provides a range of commands that allow users to perform various administrative tasks, such as managing users, courses, enrolments, permissions, and more, directly from the command line. Developed using PHP and following the object-oriented programming paradigm, MOOSH simplifies and streamlines common Moodle administration tasks, saving time and effort for administrators.

You can download the MOOSH plugin from the official plugins repository here. What are the other useful Moodle plugins you are using? Please let us know in the comments section below.

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Moodle Administrators – New Moodle Minor Versions Released

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Jaswinder Singh
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Moodle Administrators - New Moodle Minor Versions Released
Moodle Administrators - New Moodle Minor Versions Released

Moodle is world’s most popular open source learning management system with more than 400 million users around the world. The regular updates, addition of new features and a vast collection of free plugins contribute to its popularity.

Recently, the Moodle HQ team has released New Minor versions for all supported branches. All new Moodle releases are maintenance released only including security & general fixes without addition of any new features.

The new minor versions released by Moodle HQ team are:

If you are running any Moodle version lower than the ones mentioned above, you are advised to upgrade your Moodle site to the supported versions as soon as possible.

If you need any help to plan your Moodle upgrade, please feel free to contact us through the comments section below.

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Moodle Teachers – How to notify students to return back to Moodle course to complete

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Jaswinder Singh
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Moodle Teachers - How to notify students to return back to Moodle course to complete
Moodle Teachers - How to notify students to return back to Moodle course to complete

Moodle LMS is used by more than 400 million users around the world which makes it one of the most popular open source LMS. However, in the modern elearning world the biggest problems teachers face is the poor rate of course completion. Most of the students enroll in online courses but they never return back to them to complete. But there are ways through which you can increase the student engagement in Moodle courses.

The Reengagement Moodle plugin allows you to notify the students to return back to your Moodle course to complete the course activities. It can be used to send email notifications to the students if they are not able to complete an activity in a specified time.

The Reengagement plugin also allows you to released time delayed content. For example, let’s say that you want the students to get access to a follow up quiz when they failed the first quiz after a delay of 7 days. You can use the Reengagement activity to introduce a delay of 7 days between the first quiz attempt and second quiz attempt.

You can also suppress the notification in case the student has already completed the required activity. There are other options to include other users such as teachers or even external email address which can receive the notifications.

Overall the Reengagement Moodle plugin is one of the best ways to increase the student engagement in your Moodle course. You can download the plugin from Official Moodle plugins repository here.

What are the Moodle plugins you are using on your Moodle site? Please share with us in the comments section below.

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