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IIMA Launches its Open Learning Platform – Online@IIMA

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Jaswinder Singh
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IIMA Launches its Open Learning Platform – Online@IIMA
IIMA Launches its Open Learning Platform – Online@IIMA

The Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA), a premier global management Institute, has announced the launch of its open learning platform, Online@IIMA (https://online.iima.ac.in/) – a unified portal that serves as a single gateway to access all the existing and new online programmes by IIMA.

The Institute’s goal is to offer a range of cutting-edge online certification courses through this platform to prepare professionals for the fast-paced changes occurring in the business world, making them future-ready and well-equipped, the release mentioned.

Some key highlights of Online@IIMA are:

  • It will serve as the first touchpoint for aspirants intending to take on an intensive and high-quality learning experience to upskill and upgrade
  • Learners will have the option to choose between a wide range of synchronous or live programmes, and asynchronous or self-paced programmes, that are customised to suit their learning needs
  • These course modules have an interactive pedagogy by world-class faculty members
  • It offers a wide range of courses in Economics, Human Resources, Information System, Leadership, Finance & Accounting, and Data Science
  • Designed for a duration of four to six weeks, course modules have been carefully curated to train learners in real-world business challenges
  • These courses are also available on popular online education platforms – Swayam and Coursera

IIMA will also introduce a ‘Learning Path’ module in the future, which aims to give guidance to students to switch to or upskill, in a specific discipline. This ‘path’ will be designed with the help and guidance of faculty members and shall be customised for each candidate.

Announcing the launch of the portal, Professor Bharat Bhasker, Director, IIMA said,

Online@IIMA is a key step forward in our journey, bringing the expertise of our faculty to a larger pool of aspirants across the globe. This will not only allow for faster upskilling of the available talent pool, but also bridge the geographical barrier to high quality education. To further amplify our efforts and widen our reach, we are also offering these courses on Swayam and Coursera. We believe that Online@IIMA will also provide the same transformative learning experience that IIMA is known for, to all those who choose to participate in it.

Professor Pradyumana Khokle, Dean (Programmes), IIMA, who has been spearheading the project at IIMA, said,

Online programmes have been a part of our offering at IIMA for almost 15 years now. Over the years, we have seen an evolution of the learning needs – they have evolved and become more complex, while also becoming highly specialised. Online@IIMA is an attempt to further amplify the diversity of our offerings and bring all our online courses at one place to facilitate easy access to our learners. We hope that this single gateway helps our aspirants easily access all our repository in one place and provides for an enjoyable learning experience.

Besides the courses, Online@IIMA will also set up forums and an online learning community to facilitate greater interactions between participants and faculty members and enhance peer learning.

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Create Programming assignments in Moodle using the Virtual Programming Lab plugin

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Jaswinder Singh
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Create Programming assignments in Moodle using the Virtual Programming Lab plugin
Create Programming assignments in Moodle using the Virtual Programming Lab plugin

Moodle LMS is used to teach all types of online learning courses across the globe by millions of users. Moodle Plugins allows the educators to extend Moodle’s functionality to meet their educational requirements. In this post, we will see Virtual Programming Lab plugin which can be used to create programming assignments.

If you are an educator who is teaching computer programming or related subjects you might have noticed that the standard question types available in Moodle are not conducive for coding exercises. The Virtual Programming Lab Plugin is an activity plugin which manage programming assignments in Moodle course. You can download the latest version of the Virtual Programming Lab plugin from the Moodle plugins repository here.

Salient Features of Virtual Programming Lab plugin are:

  • Enable to edit the programs source code in the browser
  • Students can run interactively programs in the browser
  • You can run tests to review the programs.
  • Allows searching for similarity between files.
  • Allows setting editing restrictions and avoiding external text pasting.

The system integrates into Moodle, providing the usual characteristics of activities such as grading, groups, access control based on roles, access logs, backup and restore data, etc. It also has a large number of features tailored to the programming assignments like:

  • Submission control
  • File management
  • Running and evaluating submissions
  • Authorship control

There is another companion Question Type plugin which allows you to create coding exercises in Moodle Quizzes. You can check out the VPL Question plugin here.

The plugin comes with good documentation on its official website here – https://vpl.dis.ulpgc.es

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Check out the new Whiteboard features coming in BigBlueButton 2.6 version

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Jaswinder Singh
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Check out the new Whiteboard features coming in BigBlueButton 2.6 version
Check out the new Whiteboard features coming in BigBlueButton 2.6 version

BigBlueButton – world’s most popular open source virtual classroom tool will get a new version packed with a lot of exciting features. The BigBlueButton (BBN) version 2.6 is scheduled to be released soon.

Recently the BBN Team has shared updated about the new features on their YouTube channel. Check out the video below to see the new features coming in the whiteboard. The team has integrated a new powerful, easy to use TLDR based whiteboard which enables educators to increase student engagement and learning outcomes.

BigBlueButton is one of the most popular virtual classroom software which is having a tight integration with LMS’s like Moodle, Sakai, Instructure, Schoology, Jenzabar and D2L.

Check out complete details about the BigBlueButton project on the official website here – https://bigbluebutton.org/

Have you ever used the BigBlueButton on your elearning portal? What are the new features you would like to see in the BBN? Please share your views with us in the comments section below.

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IOMAD 4.1 Released with extended features

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Jaswinder Singh
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IOMAD 4.1 Released with extended features
IOMAD 4.1 Released with extended features

IOMAD – the open-source multi tenancy solution based on the Moodle LMS, has been updated to a new version. The new IOMAD 4.1 Extended edition is released recently which is based on the Moodle 4.1 (LTS Version). The new extended release adds in few changes which were missed in initial release.

IOMAD 4.1 takes the opportunity to leverage some of the core Moodle functionality for use in a multi-tenant way.

What’s new in IOMAD 4.1?

New Features:

  • Per company small logo and favicon
  • Parent company roll-up of reports
  • Complete overhaul of IOMAD eCommerce plugin

Feature improvements:

  • Course completion reports can be shown as text or graphs with a setting in IOMAD Settings plugin to decide which is the default.
  • Security checks added to ensure that course categories are only visible to users they should be.
  • Caching added to speed up the display of courses on the My Courses block.
  • Notices for PHP 8 fixed in IOMAD code.
  • Drop-down selector for companies updated to show parent/child relationships more clearly.
  • IOMAD, IOMAD Boost and IOMAD Bootstrap themes updated using new Moodle 4.1 themes.
  • IOMAD OIDC auth plugin updated using the latest Moodle 4.1 OIDC auth plugin.

You can get the latest version of IOMAD from the official website here – https://www.iomad.org/

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Kerala-based Inker Robotics Raises $1.2M Pre-Series Funding

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Jaswinder Singh
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Kerala-based Inker Robotics Raises $1.2M Pre-Series Funding
Kerala-based Inker Robotics Raises $1.2M Pre-Series Funding

Thrissur, Kerala-based Inker Robotics, under the Kerala StartUp Mission, which deals with research and delivery in robotics and futuristic technology education, has secured a $1.2 million funding. The company has secured USD 1.2 million in a pre-series fundraising round headed by AHK Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm.

Inker Robotics, which aims to create an impact on the next generation by empowering them with education in emerging technologies, expects the funding to enable them to further enhance its training delivery platform to develop more engaging content in robotics and emerging technology education.

Inker Robotics was founded by Rahul Balachandran and Amith Raman in 2018 under the Kerala StartUp Mission (KSUM).

The company claims to have a 4,500 sq ft robotics facility with 80 industry professionals. Its R&D engineers have also developed ALTON, which the company touts as the first-ever modular training robot designed to enable a holistic learning experience in robotics.

It has also set up a delivery platform – Inkerlearn – which aims to create an ecosystem wherein it integrates hardware and content to foster an engaging community, with the first product from this platform being the Inker Robomaker.

Rahul Balachandran, the founder and MD of Inker Robotics, said in a release:

We believe that our platform with its immersive and engaging approach is an effective way to teach futuristic technology skills to the young generation. We are thrilled to have the support of our investors as we work to empower the next generation with the skills they need to make them future-ready

AHK Ventures said enormous technological changes are happening daily and there was a need for creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship in the youth at global scale.

We strongly believe the Inker has the potential to make a significant impact. We are excited to become a part of Inker’s journey and look forward to leveraging our resources and networks to help Inker grow and reach new heights.

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I-CampusBuddy Raises $500k in Strategic Funding From IppoPay

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Jaswinder Singh
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I-CampusBuddy Raises $500k in Strategic Funding From IppoPay
I-CampusBuddy Raises $500k in Strategic Funding From IppoPay

I-CampusBuddy, a company that provides enterprise resource planning (ERP) software solutions to the education industry, has recently raised $500,000 in a strategic funding round from IppoPay Technologies Private Limited, a Chennai-based fintech platform. With the fresh capital, the startup plans to expand its product suite beyond enterprises and target smaller schools and education institutions.

I-CampusBuddy, engages and collaborates with schools, colleges, universities and training institutes to automate processes and achieve digital transformation. On a single platform, I-CampusBuddy along with other features offers end-to-end solutions through a comprehensive set of modules, such as, CRM, finance, academics, communication, collaboration, productivity, e-learning, assessment and asset management.

Arun Solanki founded I-Campusbuddy as a simple and versatile institute management software, ideal for preschools, schools, colleges, universities, training centres and educational institutes. The platform helps institutes integrate disconnected business operations such as student administration, human resources, and financial systems previously handled by disparate legacy systems while satisfying the need for real-time, on-demand information. It offers end-to-end solutions through comprehensive modules, such as CRM, finance, academics, communication, collaboration, productivity, e-learning, assessment and asset management.

I-Campusbuddy also provides access to the right information and functions to all members of the institute community, including administrators, leaders, staff, students and parents. It offers a user-friendly, technologically advanced solution to integrate the institutes’ processes.

Speaking about the fundraising, Founder of I-CampusBuddy, Arun Solanki, said:

Our goal is to make campuses paperless, faceless, cashless by providing academicians and operations team with right information at the right time to reduce repetition and errors, increase productive time for core tasks, and spend less time on operational and administrative concerns. Collaborating with IppoPay will definitely be a step forward in achieving our goal since collection and payments are the most time-consuming areas of operation for any institute. IppoPay’s participation as a strategic investor is greatly appreciated.

I-CampusBuddy has one of the best product suites focused on large educational institutions in the country today driving fees of over Rs.1000 Cr. They will use the funds to expand their product-suite to go deeper beyond enterprises and target smaller schools and education institutions.

Ramprashanth Ganesan, CSO of IppoPay, added:

We see immense potential in Arun’s business. Moreover, it aligns with our goal to provide a verticalized infrastructure product for the EdTech sector. The education payments space is an area we are actively evaluating and seeking to enhance the capabilities of educational institutions by offering ERP and payment collection services to schools and colleges. We predict that demographics and rising affordability will drive consumption in this sector which has been traditionally very close to the heart of Indian families.

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Cast your vote to pick your favorite projects in MUA Project cycle

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Jaswinder Singh
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Cast your vote to pick your favorite projects in MUA Project cycle
Cast your vote to pick your favorite projects in MUA Project cycle

The Moodle users Association (MUA) is running into another new Project Development Cycle – January-June 2023. The new project development cycle is live since last reported here. Now, it’s the time to cast your votes to pick up your favorite projects.

MOodle Users Association gives you the chance to vote for your favorite projects and get them included in the Moodle LMS depending on the MUA’s final decision. For this Project development cycle the preliminary round of voting will close on March 22, 2023.

Here are the projects proposed in this development cycle:

  1. Allow Activity Completion Settings for Topics/Weeks
  2. Improve availability of activities and resources overview pages in Boost theme
  3. Show information for teachers about submissions on the course main page in the Boost theme
  4. Add the Ordering question type (qtype_ordering) into Moodle core
  5. Badge criterias as subplugins

After the preliminary voting ends, the project requirements will be finalized for the top voted project until Mid-May 2023.

Based on the negotiations with Moodle HQ and MUA committee reviews the Final Project Voting Cycle will go from 5 June to 19 June 2023.

Check out this page to choose your favorite project in MUA Project development cycle January-June 2023.

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Moodle Admins – Update custom course field values easily using this plugin

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Jaswinder Singh
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Moodle Admins - Update custom course field values easily using this plugin
Moodle Admins - Update custom course field values easily using this plugin

Moodle LMS is one of the most customisable and flexible open-source Learning Management system. It is backed by a strong community and a vast collection of contributed Moodle plugins. The LMS can be completely customised to meet the requirements of any industry or company or educational institute.

In Moodle 3.7 version, Moodle HQ team introduced a new feature with support for custom course fields which can be defined globally by the admin and which can then be set on the course settings page of a particular course by teachers and managers. However, setting or changing custom field values for a large number of existing courses manually on each course settings page is a tedious task.

So, if you are also a Moodle administrator and looking for a solution to bulk update the course custom fields, you can use the Set Course Fields Moodle Plugin. The Moodle admin tool plugin allows managers to set and overwrite custom course field values for all courses in a category, including subcategories.

You can download the latest version of the ‘Set Course Fields’ Moodle plugin from this link in official repository. After installing the plugin, it is ready to use without the need for any configuration.

To use the plugin, administrators and users who have the tool/coursefields:setfields will find a new menu item ‘Set course fields’ in the secondary menu of each course category overview page.

Kindly note that this plugin will create an adhoc task in your Moodle LMS to set all the course fields in the background. This requires that cron be enabled. After the next cron run, the course fields of all courses in the given course category are set to their new values.

What are the other useful Moodle plugins you are using on your elearning portal? Please share with us in the comments section below.

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Moodle Plugins directory now have 2,100 plugins

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Jaswinder Singh
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Moodle Plugins directory now have 2,100 plugins
Moodle Plugins directory now have 2,100 plugins

Moodle LMS is one of the most popular open-source learning management system in the world. The LMS is having a good support from the Moodle community which is evident from the vast collection of plugins, good and updated documentation, language packs and support forums.

Recently, the Moodle plugins directory has reached a huge milestone with 2,100 contributed plugins. The huge number of Moodle plugins allows all the educators around the world to customise the LMS as per their requirements.

The plugins in the official Moodle plugins directory are contributed by more than 1,158 community developers. In case, you are not using Moodle plugins for your elearning portal, please go through this guide.

Here are some of the most popular Moodle plugins in last one year:

Which Moodle plugins you are using on your elearning portal? Share your favourite with us in the comments section below.

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Texas-Based Recruiting Platform HeadRace Raises $6M in Seed Funding

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Jaswinder Singh
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Texas-Based Recruiting Platform HeadRace Raises $6M in Seed Funding
Texas-Based Recruiting Platform HeadRace Raises $6M in Seed Funding

HeadRace, a Texas-based software company that operates a network for recruiting services, recently announced that it has raised $6 million in seed funding. The round was led by Greylock, Susa Ventures, and Breyer Capital with participation from Packy McCormick, Kindergarten Ventures, and Blue Lion Global.

The startup offers two critical features for employers unique to its platform. First, it is the only technology platform that shows employers’ recruiters’ placement records to give them added confidence that they are working with quality recruiters with vast networks. And second, it helps recruiters collaborate, often lowering the time it takes to fill open roles. HeadRace makes it easier for employers to find qualified and interested candidates to hire in addition to helping independent recruiters grow their earnings.

Co-founded by three early Uber marketplace leaders, Laszlo Korsos, Kevin Brinig, and Amos Barreto, HeadRace is an HRTech company that offers the best opportunities to connect with new customers and earn. Employers who use the platform get access to a network of tenured recruiters via curated recommendations or by posting an opportunity for recruiters to discover.

Speaking about the company, Co-founder & CEO of HeadRace, Laszlo Korsos, said

As an economist, what always struck me about hiring was that the experience and economics were woefully inefficient. Employers are always looking to lower costs on hiring, but they don’t want to sacrifice on quality. We believe there is an opportunity to democratize the hiring process with technology, and that’s why we started HeadRace.

HeadRace has been in private beta for the past few months. During that time, it has helped companies place people in various roles, including COO, CMO, Software Engineer, Account Executive, and Data Scientist. Now that the portal is publicly available, it is expected to revolutionize the recruitment industry by providing employers and recruiters with a more efficient, cost-effective, and user-friendly way to connect with one another.

David Thacker, Partner, Greylock, added:

Employers are frustrated with the recruiting agency model – it is outmoded, broken and expensive. HeadRace offers businesses access to a network of experienced recruiters with proven results, a streamlined product experience, and the power to name their prices.

In addition, HeadRace’s software helps independent recruiters save on overhead costs like legal and payment processing – supporting everything from the retained executive, container, or contingent searches, to even finding new opportunities for amazing final-round candidates.

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