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Moodle Mobile App version 4.1.0 released

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Jaswinder Singh
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Moodle Mobile App version 4.1.0 released
Moodle Mobile App version 4.1.0 released

Moodle Mobile App – the official mobile app for Moodle LMS has been updated to a new version. The new version of the mobile app is compatible with the latest Moodle version i.e Moodle 4.1. The new version of the app is improved with many updated and fixes from the previous versions.

The new Moodle Mobile App version 4.1.0 includes the following major new features and improvements:

  • Activity deadline reminders – users can set personal reminders about upcoming activity deadlines
  • BigBlueButton recordings are now available in the app
  • Contact site support link is now available in the app
  • Various accessibility improvements
  • Various performance improvements in pages such as the course index

You can download the latest version of the Moodle Mobile App from the Google play store or Apple App store.

Check out the full list of fixed issues in the new version here.

Have you updated your Moodle site to Moodle 4.1 version? Please let us know if you are facing any issues or need any support in the comments section below.

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Join MoodleMoot Japan 2023 on February 15-17 2023

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Jaswinder Singh
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Join MoodleMoot Japan 2023 on February 15-17 2023
Join MoodleMoot Japan 2023 on February 15-17 2023

MoodleMoot Japan 2023 will be held on February 15-17 2023 in Ibaraki Christian University. The MoodleMoot Japan is an annual edtech conference of educators, researchers and developers working with Moodle in Japan. The not-for-profit Moodle Association of Japan (MAJ) has organized this event each year since 2008.

If you are a teacher, educational administrator, software developer, materials developer, or IT manager then this conference will be of interest to you. If you are already using Moodle, then you can pick up ideas on how to use it more effectively as a teaching and research tool. If you are new to Moodle, then you can learn a lot from the hands-on workshops, and from talking to experienced users and suppliers of Moodle related services, such as hosting a Moodle site and creating e-learning materials.

You an register for your seat by becoming a member of Moodle Association of Japan (MAJ) by paying JPY 10,000 or Pay the conference fee and participate in MoodleMoot Japan 2023. The basic fee for attending the conference is 10,000 yen with discounted prices available for School teachers, Students and even special concession for eligible. You can register your seat for MoodleMoot Japan 2023 through the official website here.

In addition to the MoodleMoot Japan 2023, MAJ and the Asian Association of Open Universities (AAOU) are in collaboration for making Moodle as a best platform for the open and distance education in Asia. AAOU and MAJ will co-sponsor a special stream for open universities using Moodle on February 16th.

During the conference there will be special award for best innovation related to Moodle by members of MAJ. In addition there will be awards for best open courseware. You can nominate the courses before February 10 2023 in the MAJ showcase.

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Join MoodleMoot Netherlands & Flanders 2023 on February 14

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Jaswinder Singh
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Join MoodleMoot Netherlands & Flanders 2023 on February 14
Join MoodleMoot Netherlands & Flanders 2023 on February 14

The 15th MoodleMoot Netherlands & Flanders will be held on February 14, 2023 in Dordrecht. The annual conference is intended for teachers, trainers, managers, functional managers and developers. The MoodleMoot Netherlands & Flanders 2023 is community driven event, organized by Avetica – Moodle partner in the Netherlands and Belgium.

The goal is to share knowledge and experiences about this open source learning platform ‘Moodle’ so that every Moodle user learns to use their own Moodle site better and more effectively. The MoodleMoot Netherlands & Flanders 2023 will have following exciting sessions:

  • Keynote will be provided by Wilfred Rubens
  • The chairman of the day is Nienke Verhoeven
  • The developer session will be led by Bas Brands, Moodle (front-end) developer at Moodle HQ

The registration fee for each participant is € 199, including lunch. The early bird pricing discounts are available for all interested participants who will register their seats before 31st December 2022 for just € 169.

The event program is ready and you can have a look at this page for the latest schedule. The conference schedule is divided into five thematic tracks:

  1. Moodle Projects
  2. Moodle Techies
  3. Inspiration & Didactics
  4. UX & Accessibility
  5. Commerce

If you are interested in joining, please register your seat here.

Moodle Admins – Use filtercodes plugin to create more personalised user experience

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Jaswinder Singh
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Moodle Admins - Use filtercodes plugin to create more personalised user experience
Moodle Admins - Use filtercodes plugin to create more personalised user experience

Moodle is the most popular open source Learning Management System in the world. It is being used by more than 350 million users across 242 countries around the globe. Great collection of Moodle plugins is among one of the major key reasons behind Moodle’s popularity. In this post, I will share my views about the Filtercodes plugin.

The filtercodes plugin is a very handy and useful plugin. It allows you to easily customize and personalize the site and course content. As a content creator you can use pre-defined tags to make a more personalised user experience for your students. There are more than 175 plain-text tags already available for use.

FilterCodes Moodle plugin

You can download the filtercodes Moodle plugin from the official plugins directory here. In case you are new to Moodle LMS, you can follow this guide to learn how to install Moodle plugins. Once installed, you can start using the tags almost everywhere in Moodle.

Usage of the FilterCodes tags requires no knowledge of HTML. So, you can use personalised tags like {firstname}, {fullname}, {city},{username}, {email} etc. In addition there are many more UI elements like {courseprogress},{mycourses}, {teamcards}, {coursegrade} , {coursecount students} etc.

Check out the full list of available tags here. The plugin also works well with Contact Form and other plugins.

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

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Add contact form to your Moodle portal using the Contact Form plugin

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Jaswinder Singh
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Add contact form to your Moodle portal using the Contact Form plugin
Add contact form to your Moodle portal using the Contact Form plugin

Moodle is one of the most popular open source Learning management System in the world. With so many contributed Moodle plugins, it is easier for anyone to extend Moodle’s functionality in all areas. Moodle LMS offers more than 52 different types of plugins and at present there are more than 2050 plugins in the official directory. In this article, I will show you how you can add a contact form by using the Contact Form plugin.

Contact Forms are integral part for any website as they allows the users to connect with site administrators. The admins can setup custom HTML forms and the users can provide the requested information. This plugin can also work as the following in Moodle:

  • Support request form.
  • Request a course form.
  • Information request form.
  • Lead generation form.
  • Membership application form.

Contact Form Plugin

The contact form plugin for Moodle allows your site to process and send information submitted through HTML web forms to the site’s support email address. The plugin is very well maintained over the years and is available for all Major Moodle versions.

You can download the contact form plugin from the official plugins directory here. In case you are new to Moodle, please follow this guide to learn how to install a Moodle plugin. Once installed, you need to make sure that the email settings are properly configured for your Moodle. You can use the Mail Test plugin to verify your Moodle email configuration. Secondly, you need to enter a proper support email address in Moodle.

Then you can easily create the contact form using the HTML code. If you don’t know how to create the form in HTML, the plugin comes with easy to get started templates using the Filtercodes plugin.

For complete details about how you can use the Contact form plugin, please read the documentation here.

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What’s next after Moodle 4.1?

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Jaswinder Singh
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What's next after Moodle 4.1?
What's next after Moodle 4.1?

Moodle 4.1 – the latest LTS version of Moodle LMS was released few weeks back. The new Moodle 4.1 is packed with a lot of exciting new features with a focus on improving the User experience and making it easier for educators. Many such improvements include the Database activity, Gradebook, Inline Question editing, integration of TinyMCE editor and many more.

Now, after the release of Moodle 4.1, the Moodle HQ development team is working towards many more new features in upcoming Moodle versions. During the MoodleMoot Global 2022, Barry van Oudtshoorn – Moodle Platform manager presented about the upcoming features in Moodle.

The new features as highlighted by Barry during his presentations includes:

  • Site and Course templates
  • Better blank page experience
  • TinyMCE will be set as default editor
  • More messaging integrations with plugins
  • Matrix Integration
  • Research on course hierarchy
  • Bulk editing course activities
  • Moodlenet integration
  • UX improvements for Quiz, Gradebook etc.

You can check out the complete video below:

What are the other new features which you would like to see coming in Moodle core? Please share with us in the comments section below.

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Moodle Plugins – Total 248 plugins received Early Bird Badge for Moodle 4.1

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Jaswinder Singh
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Moodle Plugins - Total 248 plugins received Early Bird Badge for Moodle 4.1
Moodle Plugins - Total 248 plugins received Early Bird Badge for Moodle 4.1

Moodle 4.1 – the latest Moodle version was released few weeks back. Moodle 4.1 is packed with a lot of exciting new features which includes database, gradebook, question bank, integration of TinyMCE editor and many more. While the latest LTS version is released with many new features, many Moodle plugin developers also updated their plugins to make it compatible with latest version to be eligible for Early Bird badge.

The Moodle Plugins Early Bird badge – which is awarded to the Moodle plugins which have a stable version compatible with the new Moodle version on the date of its release. For Moodle 4.1, the Badge is awarded to 248 plugins in total. (228 plugins already approved while others are in review)

The early bird badge is a good motivation for Moodle plugin developers to update their plugins as soon as possible. Which in turn is helpful for the users of the plugins as they can plan the upgrade to latest Moodle version easily without waiting for the plugins to be updated.

Moodle Plugins - Total 248 plugins received Early Bird Badge for Moodle 4.1
Moodle Plugins – Total 248 plugins received Early Bird Badge for Moodle 4.1

However, as per the stats shared by Aurélie Soulier – Moodle Community Engagement Lead, the Early Bird badge plugins is gradually decreasing. It reached its peak during the Moodle 3.9 version release with 16% plugins receiving the Early Bird badge. But for Moodle 4.1, there were only 248 plugins which have received the Early Bird badge. For Moodle 4.0, total 264 plugins have received the Early Bird badge.

When you are planning to upgrade your Moodle to Moodle 4.1 version? In case you need any advise or support, you can ask us in the comments section below.

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Moodle Admins – Use Moodle email test plugin to troubleshoot your email bugs

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Jaswinder Singh
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Moodle Admins - Use Moodle email test plugin to troubleshoot your email bugs
Moodle Admins - Use Moodle email test plugin to troubleshoot your email bugs

Moodle is one of the most popular learning management system (LMS) in the world. It is being used by more than 350 million users around the world across 240 countries. There are many exciting features in Moodle which helped it gained so much popularity. One such feature is the robust notifications and email delivery system.

The robust notification as well as email delivery system triggers notifications/emails for users depending on the action required. For example, for any upcoming assignment submissions, the students will receive a notification as well as email before the due date. However, there may be times when the Moodle administrators faces problems with emails delivery.

The Moodle email test plugin is developed by Michael Milette which helps you to test Moodle’s email system. Please note this function is intended for Moodle administrators only.

You can download the latest version of the Moodle Email test plugin from the official plugins directory here. In case you are new to Moodle you can follow this guide to learn how to install a Moodle plugin.

The plugin will generate a trace of the SMTP dialogue will be displayed if the email message cannot be sent for any reason. Once you send the test message you can check it out in your inbox or otherwise you will see the error.

The plugin is pretty helpful for Moodle administrators to troubleshoot problems with email delivery to the students and other users. The plugin is maintained very well over past many years by the developer. In case you are having troubles with email notifications in Moodle, you can use this plugin to troubleshoot.

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

How to use Moodle 4.1 Book – Teacher’s Manual Free Book Download

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Jaswinder Singh
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How to use Moodle 4.1 book cover
How to use Moodle 4.1 book cover

I am really thankful to each one of you as I have updated my previous Moodle Book – How to Use Moodle 2.7 for the latest Moodle version i.e. Moodle 4.1. You can download the latest version of How to use Moodle 4.1 PDF book from this link.

As the previous version, this version is released under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) License.

The text is 250+ pages and focuses on all aspects of Moodle 4.1 standard modules and functionality, detailed information on all settings available to users (including administrators) and screenshots of various configuration screens. It is a perfect companion for all Moodle educators to use Moodle more effectively.

If you’re looking for a desktop companion or a guide to provide new users a quick reference, this updated Moodle 4.1 book might be just what you are looking for.

This is my small effort to whole Moodle community and in keeping the Moodle as world’s best open source LMS. I will be awaiting for your feedback about the book. In case you like the book, please consider my request here.

Please share your feedback about the book and how it helped you in the comments section below.

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