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Moodlers – Share opinions on how Moodle LMS should integrate Artificial Intelligence(AI)

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Jaswinder Singh
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Moodlers - Share opinions on how Moodle LMS should integrate Artificial Intelligence(AI)
Moodlers - Share opinions on how Moodle LMS should integrate Artificial Intelligence(AI)

Moodle LMS is one of the most powerful open-source learning management system in the world with more than 360million users. With the recent advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI) based tools in education sector, the whole way of online teaching has changed. Moodle HQ team is also looking to integrate Artificial Intelligence (AI) based tools in Moodle LMS.

Recently, Martin Dougiamas (Founder of Moodle LMS) called all Moodlers to participate in an open survey and share your opinion. The survey ‘AI in Moodle – a community survey’ is focused to get the views from the educators who have got some hands on ChatGPT & other AI based tools.

If you are also a passionate Moodle user and are playing with the recent Artificial Intelligence (AI) based tools then you are encouraged to share your opinion in the survey. The survey will be used to decide how Moodle should Integrate with the AI tools for the benefit of teaching, learning and learning management in general.

You can access the survey here and share your opinion with the Moodle HQ team. This can shape the future of Moodle LMS and how AI can affect the online learning in the future. So, I request you all to please share your voice in the survey.

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PowerSchool & BME Partner to Expand Digital Transformation for Middle East Education Leaders

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Jaswinder Singh
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PowerSchool & BME Partner to Expand Digital Transformation for Middle East Education Leaders
PowerSchool & BME Partner to Expand Digital Transformation for Middle East Education Leaders

PowerSchool, the leading provider of cloud-based software for K-12 education in North America, has announced its partnership with Board Middle East (BME) to continue expanding its PowerPartner Program. This collaboration aims to develop access to PowerSchool’s innovative and mission-critical solutions in the Middle East.

As a part of the partnership, BME will focus on supporting educators and the nearly 8 million students enrolled across the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Kuwait, with plans to serve more than 750,000 students across these countries in the next year.

The PowerPartner Program, a global channel partner initiative, leverages PowerSchool’s regional channel partners to support localized marketing, sales, and customer deployment efforts. The platform currently channel partners serve customers in Sub-Saharan Africa, Thailand, India, the Philippines, and Uruguay, with plans to rapidly expand the program this year.

Through this partnership, educators across these countries can access mission-critical tools that are part of PowerSchool’s international localization framework, including PowerSchool’s leading learning management system (LMS), Unified Classroom® Schoology Learning, and Unified Operations™ PowerSchool SIS to support even more students and families and help them realize the promise of personalized education.

Commenting on the partnership, Chairman & Owner of BME, Abdulaziz Alsania, said:

At BME, we work to build brighter futures for students by providing integrated services and solutions to impact the whole education experience and challenge the current model of education; we strive to bring the best education technology to our region. We’re proud to partner with PowerSchool to continue driving positive changes in how education is delivered and experienced in the area.

PowerSchool aims to power the education ecosystem with unified technology that helps educators and students realize their full potential. With more than two decades of experience delivering innovative, best-in-class education technology, the company connects students, teachers, administrators, and parents to improve student outcomes. Robert Speed, Vice President of International Sales at PowerSchool, added:

We’re thrilled to partner with BME to support PowerSchool’s extensive and growing customer base in the Middle East & Africa (MEA) region. We are both dedicated to providing educators and students with technology that empowers them to realize their full potential. We are pleased to partner with BME to continue enabling digital transformation in education globally.

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Jordan-Based Abwaab Launches ChatGPT-Powered Test-Prep Experience

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Jaswinder Singh
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Jordan-Based Abwaab Launches ChatGPT-Powered Test-Prep Experience
Jordan-Based Abwaab Launches ChatGPT-Powered Test-Prep Experience

Abwaab, MENA’s fastest-growing education technology company, recently announced that it has integrated OpenAI’s ChatGPT to equip its students with a more personalized and richer test-prep experience. With this integration, students in the region can receive immediate, personalized feedback on open-ended questions.

Founded in September 2019 by former General Manager of Uber for the GCC and Levant, Hamdi Tabbaa, Sabri Hakim, and AI expert Hussein AlSarabi, Abwaab aims to improve the out-of-school learning experiences for Arabic-speaking youth by making high-quality education accessible to every student regardless of socioeconomic background.

Speaking about the initiative, Co-founder & CEO of Abwaab, Hamdi Tabbaa, said:

Our vision is to unleash the potential of students in the region by providing them with a high-quality, accessible, and personalized educational experience. Leveraging the latest AI technologies allows us to make big strides towards this. We are excited about what this integration will bring to the millions of students who rely on us.

Since most secondary-school ministry examinations in MENA contain this question type and there has been a reliable resource for students today, the latest development marks a massive milestone for EdTech in the region with over 100 million students. This integration will allow Abwaab to double down on building and diversifying its question bank, further cementing its title as the region’s test-prep powerhouse.

Since its inception, the startup has built a comprehensive national curriculum test-prep experience for secondary-school students from Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Iraq, and Jordan. Students can practice, get tested, and compete against one another, all in one place. The platform also offers other high-in-demand features such as video lessons, live sessions and a forum for Q&A with subject matter experts.

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Moodle teachers – Use the FastTest plugin to create Moodle Questions in Excel

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Jaswinder Singh
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Moodle teachers - Use the FastTest plugin to create Moodle Questions in Excel
Moodle teachers - Use the FastTest plugin to create Moodle Questions in Excel

Moodle LMS is one of the most popular open-source Learning Management system (LMS) in the world. It is used by more than 360 million users across 242 countries. In this post we will discuss about the FastTest Moodle plugin which allows you to easily write most of the Moodle Question types in Microsoft Excel.

The FastTest Plugin is essentially a Utility which allows you to write Moodle Questions in Microsoft Excel. After writing the questions, you can export them in xml format and then import in Moodle question bank. To use the FastTest plugin, you should have the Microsoft Excel Desktop app as the web version will not work. Also you need to allow the permission to use Macro’s in Excel.

You can download the FastTest plugin from the official Moodle plugins repository here. The download package includes many files which serves different purpose as below:

  • FastTest – PlugIn.xlsm (executable with macros)
  • FastTest – DataBase.xlsx (file necessary to export the questions and save backup copies in an orderly manner)
  • FastTest – DataBase – Example.xlsx (file with sample questions, written in Spanish)
  • MOODLE.xml (file necessary for MAC users to generate the file to import into Moodle).
  • FastTest – Game.xls (file to export Multiple Choice 1 Correct Answer questions to a game.

You need to go through the FastTest Plugin.xlsm file and start creating your questions. With this utility plugin you will be able to focus more on writing your questions instead of navigating through various pages.

Once you have written them in the plugin, the XML file is generated, just by pressing a button. To upload the question bank in Moodle, you only need to import the XML file to the platform.

What are the other creative ways you are using to create Questions for your Moodle course? Please share with us in the comments section below.

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What is Microsoft Designer and How to use it for education?

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Jaswinder Singh
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What is Microsoft Designer and How to use it for education?
What is Microsoft Designer and How to use it for education?

Microsoft Designer is the latest addition to the tech giant’s AI powered tools list. It is an AI image generation tool to help Microsoft compete with other giants like Canva, Adobe and others. Microsoft Designer is a powerful tool that allows users to create visually stunning designs, graphics, and layouts for a wide range of projects. Whether you’re a teacher, student, or professional designer, Microsoft Designer is a versatile and user-friendly application that can help you bring your ideas to life.

What is Microsoft Designer?

Microsoft Designer is a design tool that is part of the Microsoft 365 suite of applications. It allows users to create professional-quality designs and layouts for a wide range of projects, including flyers, brochures, posters, presentations, and more.

One of the standout features of Microsoft Designer is its ease of use. The application comes with a wide range of pre-designed templates and layouts that users can use as a starting point for their projects. These templates can be customized with your own text, images, and graphics to create a unique and eye-catching design.

Designer can also generate written captions and hashtags relevant for social media posts, offering several suggestions users can choose from. It can also create animated visuals, complete with backgrounds and text transitions, powered by AI.

How to use Microsoft Designer for education?

Microsoft Designer is a versatile tool that can be used in a wide range of educational settings. Here are just a few examples of how it can be used to enhance teaching and learning:

  • Creating presentations: Microsoft Designer can be used to create engaging and visually stunning presentations for lectures, workshops, and conferences. With its wide range of templates and design tools, it’s easy to create a professional-quality presentation that will capture your audience’s attention.
  • Designing posters and flyers: Microsoft Designer can be used to create eye-catching posters and flyers for school events, fundraisers, and other activities. With its range of templates and design tools, you can create a unique design that will help promote your event and attract attendees.
  • Creating infographics: Infographics are a great way to present complex information in a visually engaging way. Microsoft Designer makes it easy to create your own custom infographics, with a wide range of templates and design tools that can be used to create charts, graphs, and other visual representations of data.
  • Designing digital newsletters: Microsoft Designer can be used to design digital newsletters for school or class updates. With its range of templates and design tools, you can create a visually appealing newsletter that will keep students and parents up to date with the latest news and events.
  • Creating lesson plans and instructional materials: Microsoft Designer can be used to create visually engaging lesson plans and instructional materials. By incorporating graphics and other visual elements into your materials, you can make them more engaging and help students better understand complex concepts.

Who Is Microsoft Designer For?

Anyone who wishes to create simple social media templates or posters would benefit from Microsoft Designer’s results. To get started with Microsoft Designer, you need to navigate to https://designer.microsoft.com/ As of now it is available in Preview which will likely to be improved over the upcoming weeks.

Recently, Microsoft Designer team has added the feature to instantly generate captions and hashtags to help fuel your social posts. 

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HireQuotient Launches ChatGPT-Powered Future of Talent Sourcing EasySource

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Jaswinder Singh
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HireQuotient Launches ChatGPT-Powered Future of Talent Sourcing EasySource
HireQuotient Launches ChatGPT-Powered Future of Talent Sourcing EasySource

HireQuotient, a Singapore-based HRTech startup that automates interviews and hiring processes for companies, announced the launch of EasySource, the world’s first fully automated talent-sourcing with embedded ChatGPT. As a part of the development, EasySource helps recruiters create curated talent pipelines and engage candidates effectively with minimal human intervention to reduce time-to-hire drastically.

It is a free product geared for sourcing candidates for sales & marketing roles in the US. The platform utilizes cutting-edge technology to identify the most relevant job seekers from active and passive talent pools based on their skills, interests, relevant experience and US work authorization.

To engage qualified candidates, the product hyper-personalizes communication across email and LinkedIn using embedded ChatGPT and automates multi-channel outreach using workflows optimized for generating the maximum response. Speaking on the launch, Chief Executive Officer of HireQuotient, Smarthveer Sidana, said:

The philosophy behind building EasySource was to empower recruiters to ‘find the right talent, right now’. We are proud of the capabilities we have built into this product that expands recruiters’ bandwidth exponentially as they discover a top talent for any role and engage them at scale with hyper-personalized messaging. This has been made possible only because of our vast experience in the HR Tech space, which has given us deep insights into the challenges recruiters face in building a robust talent pipeline.

Recruiters can automate outreach to candidates on their email IDs, send them a LinkedIn connection request, and send them a LinkedIn InMail with personalized messaging. They can manage candidate responses within the dashboard and visualize the talent pipeline at multiple levels based on their evaluation of the candidates.

The launch of EasySource comes when organizations need help finding and hiring qualified candidates from highly skewed talent pools. EasySource provides a much-needed solution to this problem by simplifying the sourcing process and enabling organizations to identify and engage with the right talent.

Co-founded by Smarthveer Sidana and Eugene Goh in 2021, HireQuotient helps companies test business skills at scale and engage realistically with potential hires. The company aims to disrupt the hiring process for business roles globally. With a suite of products and solutions spanning talent sourcing to assessment and interviewing, the startup offers organizations a streamlined and efficient approach to identifying and hiring top talent. Its innovative products and solutions are used by over 100 organizations, including BCG, Accenture and DHL to name a few.

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AI-Powered Video Interview Platform VireUp Raises Funds at $4.1M Valuation

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Jaswinder Singh
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AI-Powered Video Interview Platform VireUp Raises Funds at $4.1M Valuation
AI-Powered Video Interview Platform VireUp Raises Funds at $4.1M Valuation

VireUp, an AI-powered automated video interview and training platform, has recently received an undisclosed amount in funding from Estonia-based Startup Wise Guys and angel investors at a $4.1 million (£3.3 million) valuation, according to a report. The London-based company plans to utilize the fresh capital to improve its algorithms, introduce new products and scale up services in targeted markets.

Co-founded by Efe Pazarçeviren and Arda Çelebi in 2019, VireUp aims to help recruiters make fast, well-informed, data-driven and unbiased decisions while providing a fair opportunity and a more rewarding experience for the applicants.

VireUp’s vision is to revolutionize job interviews by moving from the traditional question-and-answer model to a dynamic conversation. The platform wants to help recruiters hire the candidates that have the best fit for a role while also allowing all applicants to interview for any position providing them with the best experience. It also aims to remove the stress and uncertainty from job interviews and make them productive for everyone involved.

Using advanced Natural Language Processing (NLP), the startup automatically evaluates how satisfactorily the applicant answers the interview questions considering the recruiter’s expectations. Its technology enables one to explain the reasoning behind the evaluation to the recruiter and the applicant through individual feedback.

While the recruitment firm is based in the UK, its co-founders are from Turkey. According to Pazarçeviren, the company has an extensive network and customers there.

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Moodle Teachers – Bulk Enrol users in your course easily just by their email address

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Jaswinder Singh
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Moodle Teachers - Bulk Enrol users in your course easily just by their email address
Moodle Teachers - Bulk Enrol users in your course easily just by their email address

Moodle LMS is one of the most flexible learning management systems (LMS) int he world. The Moodle plugins collection allows you to add new functionality and customise it according to your requirements. In this post we will see one of such extremely useful Moodle plugin which can help save a lot of time for your teachers by bulk enrolment.

The User bulk enrolment Moodle plugin allows the teachers to simply bulk enrol students in their courses using their email address. It is intended to save the time requirements of manual enrolment wherein a teacher has to go and search each user one by one and enrol.

With the User Bulk Enrolment plugin, the teachers can just create a list of students email address and then paste it to enrol them in the course. This can be a huge time saver for the teachers who are doing in manually in all of their courses. The User Bulk Enrolment plugin also supports adding students to the group.

How to use the User Bulk Enrolment Moodle plugin

You can download the user bulk enrolment plugin from the official Moodle plugins database here. If you are new to Moodle, please follow this guide to learn how to install a Moodle plugin. Once installed and enabled by site administrator, as a teacher you can start using this plugin.

You will see a “User bulk enrolment” menu item within the jump menu on the course’s participant’s page. To enrol existing Moodle users into the course, the teacher will then have to add a list of e-mail adresses to the form on this page, one user / e-mail address per line.

Optionally, the teacher will be able to create groups and add the enroled users to the groups. All he must do is to add a heading line with a hash sign and the group’s name, separating the list of users. Example:

# Group 1
alice@example.com
bob@example.com
# Group 2
carol@example.com
dave@example.com

But before using the plugin, you need to make sure that the user account is already created in Moodle. This plugin will only enrol the users in your course. It won’t create Moodle user accounts on-the-fly.

What is the other time saving tips you are using with your Moodle LMS. Please share with us in the comments section below.

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HRTech Startup Paycor Acquires People-Development Platform Verb

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Jaswinder Singh
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HRTech Startup Paycor Acquires People-Development Platform Verb
HRTech Startup Paycor Acquires People-Development Platform Verb

Paycor HCM, a leading provider of human capital management (HCM) software, has recently announced the acquisition of Verb, an Austin-based people development platform incorporating behavioural science and proprietary microlearning content to create best-in-class workplace training. With this acquisition, Paycor will support organizations with their top priority of empowering leaders to develop winning teams.

Paycor provides a human capital management (HCM) platform that modernizes every aspect of people management, from recruiting, onboarding, and payroll to career development and retention. Headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, the startup delivers deep product functionality, standard integrations, and certified expertise in sales and service to meet the needs of industries and organizations. It currently serves more than 30,000 customers.

Speaking about the acquisition, Chief Strategy Officer of Paycor, Swati Garodia, said:

We look forward to welcoming the talented and passionate Verb team to the Paycor family. With ongoing talent shortages and the accelerating pace of change, it is critical for companies, large and small, to invest in upskilling their internal teams and frontline leaders. With the acquisition of Verb, we will provide our customers with the most engaging, results-oriented, and personalized learning solution on the market.

Post the deal, Paycor plans to fully integrate Verb into its HCM platform and accelerate the development of Paycor Paths, a new product designed to help organizations inspire positive and sustainable behaviour change within their frontline leaders through a series of personalized development journeys. As part of Paths, Verb will enable Paycor’s customers to deliver personalized and effective employee learning experiences at scale.

Founded by Suzi Sosa, Verb is built to upskill and develop managers and their frontline teams quickly. The firm has a library of more than 100 hours of proprietary, bite-sized soft skills content that addresses various talent development needs. The platform enables HR and Learning & Development leaders to choose between pre-built, ready-to-launch learning programs or to develop a custom learning program, such as manager training, leadership development, employee onboarding and DE&I training.

Chief Executive Officer of Verb, Suzi Sosa, added: We’ve built an incredible learning platform.

We’re thrilled to join forces with Paycor to bring it to millions of frontline leaders. Our action-based learning helps employees and managers develop the soft skills they need to succeed. By combining Verb with Paycor Paths, we will help companies create a culture of continuous learning and development while also showing clear ROI on training. Paycor is the ideal partner to help us achieve the impact we’ve always wanted.

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Talent Management Platform True Acquires Diversity Hiring Startup Jopwell

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Jaswinder Singh
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Talent Management Platform True Acquires Diversity Hiring Startup Jopwell
Talent Management Platform True Acquires Diversity Hiring Startup Jopwell

True, the premiere global platform of innovative talent management products and services, recently announced its acquisition of Jopwell, a hiring platform focused on advancing the careers of Black, Latinx and Native American students and early-to-mid-career professionals.

Jopwell perfectly complements the executive-level recruitment focus of True Search and its sister organization AboveBoard. According to the press statement, this holistic offering solidifies True as the leading technology and services firm for advancing diversity, equity and inclusion in leadership.

Commenting on the acquisition, Co-founder & Co-CEO of True, Brad Stadler, said:

Jopwell and True share three significant goals–to empower underrepresented talent in the workforce, to help companies meet their goals for diversifying leadership, and to bring the most innovative talent solutions to market. We couldn’t be more excited about the impact we can make together, especially under Jopwell’s continued leadership of co-founders Ryan Williams and Porter Braswell.

The startup helps companies fulfil their diversity and inclusion goals with business units AboveBoard (an inclusive executive platform and community) and Jopwell (the first and leading diversity tech platform for early-mid career professionals). It also backs promising companies through its investment firms, True Equity and Vera Equity.

Co-founded by Brad Stadler and Joe Riggione, True aims to evolve the talent management industry by creating tools and services that increase transparency and efficiency within the global talent market—adding value to the worldwide talent pool, its clients, and everyone who provides talent-related services. The platform consists of a collection of brands, including True Search (retained executive search), TrueBridge (advisory, interim and fractional executive placement), Thrive (Talent CRM software), and Synthesis (leadership assessment and development tools).

Co-founder & CEO of Jopwell, Ryan Williams, commented:

This partnership with True’s global reach and resources expands the value we deliver to our partners and community members. We’re aligned from our technology roots to our shared visions for disrupting the talent industry for the better of all people.

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