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Top 5 Free Moodle Themes for Moodle 4.1 version

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Jaswinder Singh
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Top 5 Free Moodle Themes for Moodle 4.1 version
Top 5 Free Moodle Themes for Moodle 4.1 version

Moodle, the renowned open-source learning management system (LMS), provides educators and institutions with a powerful platform for delivering online courses. One of the many advantages of Moodle is its flexibility and customizability.

Customizing the appearance of your Moodle site with an appealing theme can greatly enhance the learning experience for both educators and students. In this blog post, we’ll explore the top five free Moodle themes compatible with the Moodle 4.1 version, ensuring an engaging and visually appealing experience for both educators and learners.

Top 5 Free Moodle themes for Moodle 4.1

If you are using Moodle 4.1, there are a number of great free themes that you can choose from. Here are five of the best:

  1. Moove – Moove is a visually stunning and modern theme designed for Moodle 4.1. With its elegant and user-friendly interface, Moove provides a delightful learning experience for both educators and learners. The theme offers a range of customizable settings, allowing you to personalize the color scheme, fonts, and layout to match your brand or institution. Moove also includes innovative features like a user tours tool, which assists new users in navigating the Moodle platform effectively.
  2. Adaptable – As the name suggests, Adaptable is a highly flexible and adaptable Moodle theme that can be customized to suit your needs. With its intuitive interface and powerful admin options, Adaptable provides extensive control over the look and feel of your Moodle site. This theme offers multiple customizable layouts, a variety of font options, and customizable blocks, allowing you to create a unique and engaging learning environment. Adaptable also provides built-in accessibility features, ensuring an inclusive learning experience for all users.
  3. Degrade – The “Degrade” theme for Moodle is a modern and elegant option that brings a new perspective to the interface of your virtual learning environment. With a minimalist design and soft colors, this theme is ideal for educational institutions that seek a more current and user-friendly aesthetic.
  4. Academi – Academi is a modern and responsive theme that is perfect for educational institutions. It has a clean and professional design, and it is easy to use. Academi also comes with a number of customization options, so you can tailor it to the needs of your site.
  5. Snap – Snap is a responsive theme that is designed to be used on mobile devices. It has a clean and simple design, and it is easy to use. Snap also comes with a number of customization options, so you can tailor it to the needs of your site.

Which Moodle theme you are using on your Moodle site? Please let us know in the comments section.

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Open Edtech officially becomes an incorporated Association

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Jaswinder Singh
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Open Edtech officially becomes an incorporated Association

Open Edtech – the new initiative by Dr. Martin Dougiamas – Founder of Moodle LMS, has officially become an incorporated association. In a recent news announcement, the Open Edtech team posted about the incorporation of Association Internationale Sans But Lucratif (AISBL), based in Belgium.

With the new status the Open Edtech initiative will be going through administrative tasks ahead before launching the next phase of a more structured, stable, and robust Open EdTech Association.

The Open Edtech initiative is launched in 2019 by the founding members – Moodle LMS & BigBlueButton. The purpose of the Open Edtech initiative is to support open Edtech movement globally through:

  • Research
  • Standards
  • Funding
  • Advocacy

The initiative was launched with a mission statement:

We believe that a comprehensive infrastructure of Open Educational Technology is the only way to enable every single person on Earth to have real access to the best quality educational experiences available.

For more details about the new Open Edtech initiative – check out the official website here.

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Immersive Game-Based Learning Platform SoLeLands Raises Funds ahead of Soft Launch

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Jaswinder Singh
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Immersive Game-Based Learning Platform SoLeLands Raises Funds ahead of Soft Launch
Immersive Game-Based Learning Platform SoLeLands Raises Funds ahead of Soft Launch

SoLeLands, an immersive game-based learning platform to support kids’ self-discovery, has announced that it has raised an undisclosed amount in a funding round led by East Ventures, with the participation of SMDV. The Singapore-based startup will utilize the fresh funds for product development and capacity building and prepare for the game’s soft launch in the fourth quarter of 2023.

Founded in 2022 by Jonathan Prathama and Adhi Paisoseputra, SoLeLands serves as the solution to ensure the right exposure and simulation to groom digital-native children. The platform focuses on two main objectives: discover kids’ passions and prepare kids for future challenges. To achieve those objectives, the edu games apply the game-first approach in supporting all parents and educators in preparing their children’s required skills and values. The company provides an enjoyable and meaningful learning experience that surpasses alternative ways children learn and spend their time.

Speaking about the capital raised, Co-founder & CEO of SoLeLands, Jonathan Prathama, said:

We believe that the funding and support will enable us to provide the best platform to empower parents and educators to nurture children’s self-discovery and learn the required life skills and competencies. We are confident in seizing the potential ahead and contributing to society’s overall growth.

SoLeLands emphasizes the importance of children’s development across various areas like life skills, virtues, intelligence, and competencies. As much information might be new for the children, the firm presents learning content in easily digestible formats to ensure better understanding and easier absorption.

In addition, SoLeLands also offers a talent manager tool for parent-child collaboration, providing their parent’s visibility regarding the kids’ passion and talent. Thus, these insights will empower parents to guide their children’s development while still prioritizing children’s independence and safety, building their love for learning and equipping them with lifelong curiosity. It understands the importance of fostering the connection between games and real life to allow the application of knowledge.

Jordy Tenka, Investment Professional of East Ventures, added:

We believe that SoLeLands’ innovative approach and offering is the right and unprecedented solution because they don’t just focus on life skills and competence, but also on the long-term goal of building a love of learning. SoLeLands is here to empower Indonesia’s education world and ultimately contribute to a better learning process for the younger generation and society.

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Moodle Users – How to add all Moodle Calendar events to your Google Calendar automatically

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Jaswinder Singh
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Moodle Users - How to add all Moodle Calendar events to your Google Calendar automatically
Moodle Users - How to add all Moodle Calendar events to your Google Calendar automatically

Moodle is a free and open-source learning management system (LMS) that is used by millions of students and teachers around the world. It is a powerful tool that can be used to create and deliver online courses, manage student progress, and facilitate communication between learners and instructors. With so many deadlines across various platforms, you want them to appear in your calendar so that you can stay updated. In this post we will see how you can add the Moodle calendar events in your Google Calendar automatically.

The Moodle Calendar offers you an easy way to add events for your classroom. You can also display the events like any upcoming assignment or quiz submissions or events specific to site, course, group, user and category.

If you want all your events from Moodle Calendar to appear within your Google Calendar you can easily add them so that you will get a single calendar for all events. To add your Moodle calendar in your Google calendar, please follow the steps:

  • Go to your Moodle calendar and click on the “Export calendar” button.
  • Select the events and time frames you wish to export. Here you can choose All events if you want everything from Moodle Calendar to appear in Google Calendar.
  • Click on the “Get URL address” button. Copy the URL address that is generated.
  • Go to Google Calendar and click on the “+” button next to “Other calendars”.
  • Select “From URL”.
  • Paste the URL address that you copied from Moodle.
  • Click on the “Add calendar” button.

This will add a dynamic calendar synchronization from Moodle calendar to your google calendar. This version of the Google calendar will update whenever changes are made in the source Moodle calendar (including new, changed or deleted events).

Once you have added your Moodle calendar events to Google Calendar, you will be able to see them in your Google Calendar app and on the web. You can also set reminders for these events and sync them with your other devices.

Please let us know in the comments section below if this information is helpful for you.

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Moodle launches new Product Advisory Group (PAG) to help guide and develop the roadmap

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Jaswinder Singh
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Moodle launches new Product Advisory Group (PAG) to help guide and develop the roadmap
Moodle launches new Product Advisory Group (PAG) to help guide and develop the roadmap

Moodle HQ team has taken the new initiative and launched the new Product Advisory Group (PAG) for Moodle LMS – Community.  In a recent announcement on Moodle community forums, the Moodle HQ team announced the creation of new Product Advisory Group for Moodle LMS. This new group will join the existing PAG groups, the Moodle Workplace PAG (for Moodle Premium Certified Partners) and the Moodle LMS – Partners PAG (for all Moodle Certified Partners).

In the announcement, Brett Dalton – announced the creation of new PAG for Moodle LMS. According to the announcement, the new PAG will be open to all interested parties, and will be focused on several key activities:

  • Providing a forward view of the existing Moodle LMS Roadmap.
  • Facilitating the ideation of new initiatives and functionality with direct input from the community to influence the roadmap moving forward.
  • Gathering early feedback from the community on the design of features under development.

The news comes like a surprise as few years back the Moodle Users Association was initiated with similar objective. Now, in a separate announcement on MUA, Mike Churchward – posted about the change in how the MUA will work in future.

Moodle User’s Association (MUA) will change considerably

Moodle User’s Association will undergo major overhaul to get involved in Product Advisory Group (PAG). All the MUA members will get involved in the Product Advisory Group where they can participate in and influence Moodle’s future. This will make MUA focusing on its ideas rather than its financial contributions.

According to the announcement on MUA:

Inclusion of MUA members into the new PAG will begin immediately, allowing our members to participate in and influence Moodle’s future. Going forward, the MUA will continue to accept single year memberships until the new funding platform is in place. This is scheduled to be ready by January 2024. When this platform is in place, new memberships and renewals will no longer be accepted. The existing memberships will continue to use their fees to fund the remaining year of MUA projects, ending in January 2025. At the same time, the new funding platform will also fund the defined roadmap.

What are your views about this new initiative by Moodle HQ team to launch a new Product Advisory Group for Moodle LMS. Share your views with us in the comments section below.

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HRTech Firm Propel Raises $2.74M to Expand Its Community Platform

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Jaswinder Singh
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HRTech Firm Propel Raises $2.74M to Expand Its Community Platform
HRTech Firm Propel Raises $2.74M to Expand Its Community Platform

Propel, a Berlin-based HRTech startup with offices in Lisbon and Lagos that developed a managed services platform for communities and talent, has recently announced that it has raised $2.74 million (€2.5 million) in a seed funding round led by Amsterdam-based No Such Ventures, with participation from APX (Axel Springer & Porsche), Golden Egg Check, and Future of Learning Fund.

The startup works with over 100+ tech communities in 15 countries, serving roughly 400,000 members. Its highlights include SheCodeAfrica, one of Africa’s largest female-focused communities; Ingressive for Good, an open community that trains thousands of people in tech annually; Niyo Network, a UK-based organization that runs Web2 and Web3 bootcamps for underrepresented women; and others like Datafest, People In Product, Friends of Figma, and various Google Developer Groups. Communities in Propel’s ecosystem vary widely by size, location, gender distribution, tech stack, etc.

Co-founded by Sunkanmi Ola, Seun Owolabi, and Abel Agoi in 2020, Propel offers solutions that tech talent communities (developer groups, talent incubators, training institutions, etc.) can utilize to address last-mile issues, such as linking their members to employment opportunities, financial services (loans, asset financing), and other perks and rewards. The company provides this ‘value stack’ as a single platform that communities can use to serve their members better.

Sharing about the platform, Co-founder & CEO of Propel, Sunkanmi Ola, said:

Communities are the building blocks of any ecosystem, and tech communities, especially across high-growth markets like Africa and within underrepresented groups, have emerged in their thousands to cover the massive gaps in education, capacity building, and inclusion. They discover, up-skill, and mentor talent, organize hackathons, events, and peer-to-peer learning opportunities, and respond to global trends quicker than traditional institutions.

Propel connects to the diverse talent pools within tech communities, stretching across numerous skill sets, from software development to design, data science to no-code, and other digital transformation talents, in return for providing last-mile infrastructure. This pipeline is made available to multinational corporations under the “Community as a Service” paradigm.

Adding about the firm, Co-founder & Head of Strategy Seun Owolabi said:

At Propel, we’re championing more responsible and regenerative ways of hiring/building talent pipelines. Rather than deploying opportunistic practices like headhunting or poaching, we participate deeply in ecosystems, using proprietary technology to find the best talent within communities. And when we place people in jobs, our revenue is shared with the community they belong to, which is reinvested into programs and initiatives needed to get more people into tech. In summary, Propel is where ambitious companies come to find the talent that is just right for their needs and crowd-solve tech challenges while doing good at the same time.

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Track student progress in all courses by using the Module Completion Tracker

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Jaswinder Singh
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Track student progress in all courses by using the Module Completion Tracker
Track student progress in all courses by using the Module Completion Tracker

Moodle, the popular open-source learning management system (LMS), is widely used by educational institutions and organizations to deliver online courses and facilitate e-learning. One of the key features of Moodle is its extensibility through plugins, which provide additional functionalities to enhance the learning experience.

Tracking learners progress is one of the prime objectives in Online learning mechanism because as a teacher you want to see how your students are progressing. In Moodle there are various inbuilt ways to track students progress like Activity Completion, Course completion etc. In this post we will discuss about the Module Completion tracker plugin.

The Module Completion tracker plugin for Moodle allows you to monitor complete progress of your students in one single place. The plugin is designed to track the progression of students in all of your courses for a given period. The plugin is particularly useful for teachers and other educators who need to keep track of student progress and identify areas where students may be struggling.

With the Module Completion Tracker plugin you can setup the customized report with different filters. You might want to follow specific students or a whole cohort or even track progression for a specific course. Overall you can use different set of filters to extract the student progress in different courses.

You can download the latest version of this plugin from the official plugins repository here. Please let us know your views about this plugin in the comments section below.

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South Korea-Based Edtech company FreeWheelin Raises $5.4M in Series B Round

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Jaswinder Singh
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South Korea-Based Edtech company FreeWheelin Raises $5.4M in Series B Round
South Korea-Based Edtech company FreeWheelin Raises $5.4M in Series B Round

FreeWheelin, a South Korean educational technology company, has secured KRW 7 billion (approximately $5.4 million) in its Series B round led by Smilegate Investment. The funding round also saw participation from Altos Ventures. This comes just two years after the firm gained Series A funding from Altos Venture and DSC Investment, demonstrating continued investor interest in its mission to improve access to education.

FreeWheelin’s product, Math Flat, is a unique technology-integrated teaching solution adopted by approximately 300 secondary schools and 5,700 math cram schools. The platform provides services, including generating homework books, combining services with textbooks, managing mistakes made by students and analyzing their performance data to help educators to prepare for the course more effectively. The company has curated a database of approximately 700,000 math resources in partnership with textbook publishers that teachers can use without copyright concerns.

According to the CEO of FreeWheelin, Ki-Sung Kwon, Math Flat aims to “provide individualized education in the classroom to the satisfaction of both students and teachers.” With this new fundraising, the startup plans to expand its capabilities and refine its product offering in line with the increasing prevalence of tablets in education.

The firm has been recognized as a 2022 Baby Unicorn and a 2023 ICT Global Future Unicorn, highlighting its potential in the EdTech sector. Math Flat service is a comprehensive solution for educators. It supports custom problems tailored to each student’s academic level and provides resources for managing multiple students.

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MoodleMoot Global 2023 – Conference program available now

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Jaswinder Singh
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MoodleMoot Global 2023 - Conference program available now
MoodleMoot Global 2023 - Conference program available now

MoodleMoot Global 2023 – the biggest Moodle conference in the world will be held from September 19-21 in Barcelona. Like the previous years, MoodleMoot Global 2023 will see the Moodle users joining from across the world. The edtech conference will be a perfect opportunity for all Moodle users to network, connect, learn and share with each other.

The theme for this year’s edtech conference is ‘Lifelong Learning’ with a motive to come together and learn from each other, share findings, brainstorm solutions to problems and explore best practices.

The MoodleMoot Global 2023 conference schedule is released now. The conference will start with a Pre-Conference on Monday September 18. For the next three days, the conference will be packed with a lot of exciting sessions/workshops/keynote presentations from the Moodle experts. You can check out the MoodleMoot Global 2023 conference schedule here.

This year’s program will combine:

  • Keynote presentations covering the different conference streams.
  • Community sessions featuring presentations from the Moodle community.
  • Moodle Partners and sponsors.
  • Workshops and hands-on sessions.
  • Social and networking events.

You can also avail the Early Bird discounted registration pricing until July 15 and afterwards the standard pricing will be applicable. This will be the fourth MoodleMoot Global and this year the conference will be organized in face to face sessions.

For more details, please refer to the MoodleMoot Global 2023 website here.

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Moodle Teachers – Use Multilanguage Content plugin to create your language courses easily

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Jaswinder Singh
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Moodle Teachers - Use Multilanguage Content plugin to create your language courses easily
Moodle Teachers - Use Multilanguage Content plugin to create your language courses easily

Moodle LMS is one of the most popular open source learning management system in the world. It is used by more than 365 million users around the world across 240+ countries. Moodle LMS allows you to create a customized learning platform for your requirements. In this post we will see how you can create multilanguage content in your Moodle LMS easily.

Moodle LMS always support creating content in different languages. The LMS itself is available in more than 50+ languages. You can use it to create your course content in different languages for your learners. The Multi-Language Content plugin allows you to create content in different languages easily.

In Core Moodle, you can also create the content in different languages but you need to learn a bit. To use this feature first create your content in multiple languages (in the same resource). Then enclose each language block (aka multilang block) in the following tags:

      <span lang="XX" class="multilang">your_content_here</span>
      <span lang="YY" class="multilang">your_content_in_other_language_here</span>

But with this plugin, you will get a tool in the editor toolbar which can be used to add the content. The plugin is available from the Moodle Plugins repository here. It is compatible with TinyMCE6 editor which is the default editor in Moodle 4.1 onwards.

After the installation there is a new Button (with a globe icon) and a menu entry in the Format section where you can select a language. Clicking on a language entry adds a language opening and closing tag to your text at the current cursor position. If there is a selection then the language tags are places around the selection. In case you use the highlighting option and see the yellow language tags, you may click one of these tags then select a new language from the menu and that will change the language of the existing tag.

What are the other ways to create course content in different languages in Moodle? Please share with us in the comments section below.

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