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Moodle Teachers – Use the Course Templates plugin to easily duplicate courses

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Jaswinder Singh
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Moodle Teachers - Use the Course Templates plugin to easily duplicate courses
Moodle Teachers - Use the Course Templates plugin to easily duplicate courses

Moodle LMS offers you the easiest way to customize the learning experience by using the Moodle plugins. There are more than 2,100 official Moodle plugins released till date. You can use any one of them to easily enhance the learning experience of your online learning portal. In this post, we will see about the Course Templates Moodle plugin.

The Course Templates Moodle plugin allows you to easily create courses based on course templates. You can create your own course templates which can be used while creating new courses. You can also use this plugin while duplicating the courses.

The Course Templates plugin can be downloaded from this link. It is compatible with all major Moodle versions, so you can be assured of its compatibility with future versions also.

Once installed, you can start using this plugin without any major hassles. You need to create a category named as “Course templates” and then add your template courses in that category. You can then use these courses to create new courses faster.

The plugin offers a nice and easy way to create multiple courses which are having same types of activities & resources in a much faster way. You can keep the category as hidden so that to avoid it from the frontend.

What are the other useful ways which you are using to make the life of teachers easy on your Moodle site. Please let u s know in the comments section below.

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Vietnam-Based EQuest Raises $120M From KKR’s Global Impact Fund

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Jaswinder Singh
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Vietnam-Based EQuest Raises $120M From KKR’s Global Impact Fund
Vietnam-Based EQuest Raises $120M From KKR’s Global Impact Fund

EQuest Education Group, a Vietnam-based educational technology company, has recently announced that it has raised $120 million through debt from creditors and equity from its existing investor KKR’s Global Impact Fund. With the fresh capital, the company plans to strengthen its offline K-12 education and college and university systems, mainly targeting Vietnamese students who want to complete a US undergraduate program at more affordable prices.

The platform’s K-12 members include prestigious inter-school systems such as Alpha School (Hanoi), Hanoi Primary School for Educational Technology, Happy School (Vung Tau), Newton Grammar School system (Hanoi and Vinh Phuc), Hanoi Star Education system, St. Nicholas (Da Nang), Canadian-Vietnam Kindergarten(CVK), Albert Einstein School (AES), Bilingual Canadian International School (BCIS) and CIS in Ho Chi Minh City

Founded in 2013, EQuest is one of Vietnam’s largest private educational institutions, with more than 362,000 students in an ecosystem from K-12 to colleges and universities across the country. The startup aims to strengthen Vietnamese students’ competitiveness level and invest in human capital development.

Commenting on the fundraising, Senior Vice President of EQuest, David Armstrong, said:

This significant investment reinforces our commitment to provide a world-class education at an affordable cost. Now, more Vietnamese families and students can experience a proper US university education here in Vietnam.

EQuest also announced the appointment of Đàm Bích Thuỷ, Founding President of Fulbright University Vietnam, as an independent board member, effective May 15, 2023. According to the company, it has further solidified its strong financial position and unwavering dedication to providing high-quality education at affordable cost in Vietnam.

Đàm Bích Thuỷ commented:

I am honoured to be part of this pioneering organization and contribute to its mission of delivering high-quality education in Vietnam. I look forward to collaborating with The Board and leveraging my experience to drive positive change in education.

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Moodle Admins – Check out the new Free Moodle theme – Stream

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Jaswinder Singh
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Moodle Admins - Check out the new Free Moodle theme - Stream
Moodle Admins - Check out the new Free Moodle theme - Stream

Moodle LMS is one of the most popular and widely used open source Learning Management System (LMS) in the world. The rich collection of Free Moodle Plugins makes it a feature rich LMS to cater to all learning requirements.  In this post, we will see about a new Free Moodle theme – Stream and how you can use it.

The Stream Moodle theme is based on the core Boost theme. It is developed by Moodle Community member – Hugo Ribeiro and is available for Moodle 4.0 & above versions. You can get it from the Moodle plugins repository here.

The Stream Moodle theme is designed from the experience of other Free Moodle themes like Moove, Adaptable, Boost Union, Almondb. Stream is based on Boost but includes many rich features such as:

  • Homepage Main Slider (up to 5 slides)
  • Social media support (Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, Instagram, Linkedin, Pinterest)
  • Full Width or narrow (like Boost)
  • Ability to add a block after secondary navigation on the course and home page (check my course presentation block)
  • Course header image from the course setting (defaults to theme image)
  • Course completion in the course header
  • Quick admin menu
  • Capability to change theme settings – not only admin
  • Frontpage widgets (categories with images, promobox, featured courses, …)
  • Activities navigation
  • Hidden course warning
  • New Login Layout page
  • Activities’ icons colors and outline
  • Big personalized Footer

The Stream Moodle theme is currently under a Release Candidate stage so please test it out on a development website before switching it to the production site.

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On-Demand Phone Interview Platform Qualifi Raises $4.5M in Oversubscribed Round

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Jaswinder Singh
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On-Demand Phone Interview Platform Qualifi Raises $4.5M in Oversubscribed Round
On-Demand Phone Interview Platform Qualifi Raises $4.5M in Oversubscribed Round

Qualifi, the enterprise solution for high-volume hiring, recently announced that it has raised in an oversubscribed round led by m]x[v Capital and Rally Ventures, with participation from Armory Square Ventures, Sixty8 Capital, Elevate Ventures, Techstars Fund, Converge Venture Partners, Debut Capital, and other angel investors.

The company intends to use the funds to expand operations and to further develop the platform. It wants to build a high-volume hiring proposition by making new industry partnerships to address the pain points experienced by recruiters.

Founded in 2019 by Darrian Mikell, Devyn Mikell, DeSean Prentice, and Keenan Jaenicke, Qualifi is a platform that sends, shares, and tracks audio-based, on-demand asynchronous phone interviews for recruiters. This speeds up the hiring process, mitigates bias, and maintains a human touch while allowing recruiters to interview hundreds of candidates in minutes.

Using Qualifi, recruiters go from struggling to fill roles to becoming talent magnets and making offers to hire the best candidates before their competition. Speaking about the fundraising, Co-founder & CEO of Qualifi, Darrian Mikell, said:

We are thrilled to welcome such a diverse group of strategic investors who closely align with our next growth stage. This round of funding allows us to develop our technology further to alleviate the pain points of hiring on recruiting teams globally. We are focused on taking burdens from talent leaders so they can take care of their people, a mission that this investor group fully supports. We are excited to share a new stage of growth for Qualifi.

As a part of the transaction, Neenah Jain, Partner and Chief Financial Officer from Armory Square Ventures, will join the Qualifi board, bringing over two decades of experience in finance, analysis, and accounting. Jeff Hick, General Partner of Rally Ventures, commented:

We are immensely impressed by Qualifi’s frictionless solution that empowers recruiters to find the best candidates faster-using automation and asynchronous phone interviews. Equally important, Qualifi provides equitable access and a memorable candidate experience for job seekers. We are proud to be part of this journey and the contribution this business is making to Talent Acquisition.

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Student Recruitment Platform Springpod Raises €3.4M From Edge

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Jaswinder Singh
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Student Recruitment Platform Springpod Raises €3.4M From Edge
Student Recruitment Platform Springpod Raises €3.4M From Edge

Springpod, a UK-based online student recruitment platform that connects young people with employers & education providers, has raised £3 million (approximately €3.4M) in a financing round led by Edge, a venture capital firm focused on investing in creative teams and emerging technologies.

Launched in 2018 by Sam Hyams and Oliver Fisher, Springpod is a specialist careers platform enabling young people to know the world of work and university to make informed decisions about their future through virtual work experience programs, virtual events and digital student engagement solutions. The company aims to enable young people to experience a university course or career before applying.

Commenting on the fundraising, Founder & CEO of Springpod, Sam Hyams, said:

We are delighted to partner with Edge and are excited to draw upon their extensive creative economy expertise. We pride ourselves on creating Netflix-quality content for young people to experience careers and courses with leading employers and universities.

Hyams further added:

Edge’s focus on driving social mobility for young people and backing innovative, creative startups aligns perfectly with Springpod. We are excited to scale our impact together from the 400,000 young people we have supported to date to millions.

Investment Manager of Edge, Hannah Williamson, commented:

Edge is thrilled to partner with Springpod to power its next growth phase. We are excited about supporting the team to achieve its mission, enabling young people to experience a university course or career before they apply. Due to a lack of advice, young people often choose the wrong career or course. This has major implications for their future and high costs for universities & employers when students drop out. Springpod has partnered with universities and employers to create experiential learning programmes, empowering students by providing equal access to opportunity.

The startup claims to have supported over 400,000 students, facilitating access to virtual tasters of university courses and online work experience. Springpod works with clients, including one-third of UK universities and employers, Airbus, Siemens, Vodafone, Fujitsu, the NHS, and many more.

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What is TeachAI? A new resource for Artificial Intelligence (AI) in teaching

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Jaswinder Singh
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What is TeachAI? A new resource for Artificial Intelligence (AI) in teaching
What is TeachAI? A new resource for Artificial Intelligence (AI) in teaching

TeachAI is a new resource for educators and edtech leaders launched by Code.org, ETS, ISTE, Khan Academy, and World Economic Forum. The website TeachAI.org will serve as a new resource portal offering policy and pedagogical recommendations for Artificial Intelligence in teaching.

TeachAI aims to integrate AI education into primary and secondary curricula worldwide through new reports, policy recommendations, and public engagement opportunities.

The new portal will provide a global framework for computer education that includes AI and provide public engagement opportunities around AI for educators. TeachAI is launched as a response to explosion of interest in AI tools in education powered by ChatGPT and other AI tools.

Joseph South, Chief Learning Officer at ISTE, says his organization and others involved in TeachAI have been pushing for more AI resources for educators since long before ChatGPT was released. They’ve also wanted a space for various stakeholders to come together and discuss this exciting but also challenging modern technology.

“This is not a group of organizations that are coming together saying, ‘We have all the AI answers. Sit down and listen to us,’” South says. “This is a group of organizations saying, ‘We’ve been in this space for a long time. We’ve been thoughtful about issues, and we want to engage a larger conversation.’”

What TeachAI will offer for educators?

TeachAI will focus its initial efforts on three areas:

1. Policy and pedagogical recommendations for teaching with AI

Teach.AI will provide guidance and best practices around teaching with AI, safely and ethically, South says. “We’ll also write some vision around assessment, which I know is on everyone’s mind.” Another part of this process will be to bring all the resources already available from various Teach.AI stakeholders together in one place. “For example, ISTE already has five project guides that are open source and any teacher can use to bring AI into their classroom right now,” South says.

2. Develop a global framework for computer science, including AI

“The K-12 CS framework is going to be updated as part of this work,” South says. It will be expanded to include AI and will include recommendations for a global audience. This new framework will be designed to help guide standards, curriculum, professional learning, assessments, and policy.

3. Public engagement opportunities for educators and administrators 

TeachAI will be a place to have a conversation around AI in education overall and will host webinars, blog posts, emails, and social media to collect input and share best practices. “It’s just making sure that communication is open,” South says. “A lot of people went out of the gate thinking, ‘Oh, we’re going to deal with this by banning ChatGPT,’ and they thought that was absolutely the right decision. Then they were surprised to get pushback. And that’s not because anybody was acting in bad faith, but because the conversations were being convened without everyone at the table.”

How Can Teachers Utilize TeachAI?

The educators who are interested in learning from TeachAI’s resources and future guidances, webinars, etc. can go to TeachAI.org and select the “get updates” button on the homepage to receive updates. Educators interested in taking a more active role with TeachAI can select the “join TeachAI” button located on the home page to potentially participate in the research and work the organization is conducting.

Organizations from the public, private, and nonprofit sectors are also welcome to join the partnership.

“Like any new technology, it’s going to be bumpy and wild, and we should expect some false starts,” South says. “We should expect stories of AI being used in ways that make us all uncomfortable, but I think we’ll also discover really exciting applications that make us excited for the future of teaching and learning.”

What Organizations Are Involved in TeachAI?

TeachAI will be coordinated by a steering committee formed by Code.org, Educational Testing Service (ETS), International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), Khan Academy, and World Economic Forum.

The effort will include input from tech companies such as Amazon, Cisco, Microsoft, and OpenAI, and education organizations such as AASA (The School Superintendents Association), College Board, Council of Chief State School Officers, National Association of State Boards of Education, National School Boards Association, as well as education ministries and associations from Brazil, Germany, Kenya, Malaysia, South Korea, UAE, UK, and other countries from six continents. These organizations reach millions of teachers and hundreds of millions of students worldwide.

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Leverage Edu Launches University Operating System Univalley OS

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Jaswinder Singh
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Leverage Edu Launches University Operating System Univalley OS
Leverage Edu Launches University Operating System Univalley OS

Leverage Edu, the leading migration-tech platform for higher education, has launched Univalley OS, the world’s most comprehensive university operating system. Univalley OS is a University Saas solution that enables universities to streamline and automate student recruitment processes, from application assessment to payment tracking to visa issuance.

As a part of the initiative, Univalley OS leverages artificial intelligence to help universities assess applications 10x faster, receive and manage student payments in international currency, and conduct automated credibility interviews powered by AI. It also integrates with almost every existing CRM/CMS platform available with universities traditionally and offers free-of-cost migration for non-compatible software.

Founded in April 2017 by Akshay Chaturvedi, Leverage Edu helps students figure out what they should do, where they should be, wherever they are in the world – to realise their full potential. The platform allows students to navigate and assess their journey thus far, matches them to personalised mentors, counsels them towards their higher education dream with an employability lens, and ensures that everyone punches way above their weight to make dreams come alive and truly be able to level up.

The company has built an outcome-focused technology-led student counselling platform that gives them access to a one-stop dashboard for their entire study abroad journey. It helps students with services like visas, accommodation, and education loans.

Speaking on the launch, Founder & CEO of Leverage Edu, Akshay Chaturvedi, said:

At Leverage, we have had a product-first approach from day zero. We have always been intentional about never building anything for vanity’s sake. Reverse infact. How to solve for a stakeholder better. How to improve those input line items. How to build a deeper relationship. How to translate into better delight. Etc etc. etc.

To make the student experience increasingly seamless, we have engaged in extensive dialogue with partner universities for the last full year. What we learned was simple: we need to empathise with Universities as much as we can and solve for them – in an easy, simple, plug-and-play style. And that’s how Univalley.com came together, with my co-founders Digvijay, Aman and their insane teams spending countless hours on building this right up from ground zero to one; I am personally thrilled about everything the students will gain as a result of Universities adopting the Univalley OS.

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Canadian HRTech Company GSoft Launches Skills Assessment Platform Talentscope

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Canadian HRTech Company GSoft Launches Skills Assessment Platform Talentscope
Canadian HRTech Company GSoft Launches Skills Assessment Platform Talentscope

GSoft, the Canadian technology company behind a suite of revolutionary software products that improve the employee experience, has recently announced the launch of Talentscope, its new platform empowering teams to map and assess their skills to understand better what it takes to succeed.

GSoft enables companies to manage their digital transformation with ShareGate peacefully. The platform helps managers contribute to the team’s performance, engagement and recognition with Officevibe and facilitates simplified and personalized onboarding experiences for new employees with Softstart. The company’s mission is to enable people to work at their best, which meets a growing need since its software makes a difference for tens of thousands of companies in more than 100 countries. 

With a mission to equip organizations with the right tools to find and retain their rising stars, Talentscope is building an operating system for the future of work, making skills the north star of the employee experience. The platform aims to give companies the necessary information about their people’s skills so they can instantly assess changing needs and thrive in an increasingly volatile market. It uses AI to give employers a clear view of their team’s capabilities and blind spots. The product also formulates clear career paths for employees, which can help organizations retain their top talent.

Speaking about the development, Chief Executive Officer of GSoft, Simon De Baene, said:

In a fast-paced market, companies that fail to invest in their talent get leapfrogged by competitors that do. This is why we created Talentscope – we want to empower people-first teams to map their skills, develop their abilities, and accelerate their growth to create more fulfilling and productive workplaces.

Co-founder & Head of Product, GSoft, Guillaume Roy, added:

With Talentscope, we’re on a mission to give organizations the right tools to find and retain their rising stars to reach employee and organizational success. This solution leverages top macroeconomic and technological trends to help businesses future-proof their workforce and gain a competitive edge.

GSoft aims to help teams and organizations map their available skills, develop talents and accelerate growth to create more fulfilling and productive workplaces. Talentscope’s offerings include:

  • Map & Scope Skills: Map their team’s skills in minutes, avoiding standard long turnarounds.
  • Plan the Workforce: Make data-driven workforce planning decisions based on timely skills-based insights.
  • Develop and Retain: Design skills-based career paths that keep the workforce engaged and fulfilled.
  • Unlock Internal Mobility: Break down silos and tap into the workforce’s full potential with an internal talent marketplace that boosts mobility, performance and employee happiness.

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Moodle Teachers – Restrict Course based on other Course Completion

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Jaswinder Singh
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Moodle Teachers - Restrict Course based on other Course Completion
Moodle Teachers - Restrict Course based on other Course Completion

Moodle LMS is one of the most popular open-source Learning Management System (LMS) in the world. It allows you to easily customize the functionality and adapt to your institution requirements. Many times, Moodle teachers want to let students complete a course before allowing them the access to another course. In this post, we will see how you can restrict Course based on other Course Completion.

Let’s say that you are teaching Mathematics in your Moodle and you want the students to complete the Number System se before they can dive deep into more difficult topics like Arithmetic etc. So, you can use a Moodle plugin – Restriction by other course completion.

The plugin is developed in a way that you can setup the access to a course only when the students have completed another course. You can download the Restriction by other course completion plugin from the Moodle plugins repository here.

Once installed, you can use this plugin in your courses. You need to configure it in the following manner:

  • Setup the course completion criteria in the Number System course.
  • Then Setup restrict access on the first section of Arithmetic course and put Number System as the completion requirement.

The plugin has a compatible version with Moodle 3.4-4.2 versions. So, you can assume that this plugin is well maintained over past years.

The plugin is doing a wonderful job by allowing you to setup the chain courses (the students need to complete the course in a particular order). What are the other useful Moodle plugins which you are using on your Moodle site. Please share with us in the comments section below.

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Moodle HQ added Liip AG as Moodle Premium Certified Partner in Switzerland

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Moodle HQ added Liip AG as Moodle Premium Certified Partner in Switzerland
Moodle HQ added Liip AG as Moodle Premium Certified Partner in Switzerland

Liip AG – a trilingual (de/fr/en) digital agency, has been added as Moodle Premium Certified Partner in Switzerland by Moodle HQ. The Moodle HQ team announced the addition of Liip AG to the Moodle Partner network. The edtech company has a proven record of accomplishment of delivering innovative and high-quality digital solutions to clients across various industries.

As a Moodle Premium Certified Partner, Liip AG gains access to exclusive Moodle Workplace resources, enabling it to enhance its technical capabilities and expand its customer base. The EDU team at Liip AG said:

Being recognised as a Certified Moodle Premium Partner demonstrates our organisation’s commitment to delivering exceptional customer service and support. This certification opens doors to new business opportunities, enhances our credibility, and validates our leadership in the edtech space.

Liip AG works to find the best solution for their users, standing for digital progress, user-orientated innovations with a social, environmental, and economic impact. They work with clients to offer affordable solutions with out-of-the-box functionality or individually tailor Moodle to your user’s specific needs.

With the addition of Liip AG to the Moodle Premium Certified Partner, there are now 102 partners overall. Check out the Moodle partner in your region here.

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