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Moodle Users Association – Check out the top voted projects in July-Dec 2022 cycle

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Jaswinder Singh
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Moodle Users Association - Check out the top voted projects in July-Dec 2022 cycle
Moodle Users Association - Check out the top voted projects in July-Dec 2022 cycle

Moodle Users Association (MUA) is the community arm of Moodle project. MUA connects committed Moodlers from around the world. It allows you along with other MUA members to have a strong voice with new projects to get into Moodle core. The voting for project proposals for the July-December 2022 project development cycle is now closed.

In total there are total four projects which have been proposed for this Moodle Users Association project development cycle which are Moodle reporting, Wiki import/export, Default settings for Activities and Resource Completion criteria, PDF annotation assignment type.

Out of these project the votes received for each project is as follows:

The top voted project – Improve Moodle reporting will brings a consistent experience in Moodle reports. In version 4.0, there was a new report builder introduced in Moodle core, but the existing reports were not migrated to this new interface. As a result the reporting in Moodle is very inconsistent as many reports don’t have the ability to sort, filter, or export report data.

The project will now undergo finalizing the project requirements and committee review before another round of final voting cycle and afterwards it will be included in Moodle core in upcoming versions. You can also join the Moodle Users Association to propose & include the functionality in Moodle Core based on the votes by Association members.

Edu Labs becomes Premium Moodle Partner in Latin America

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Jaswinder Singh
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Edu Labs becomes Premium Moodle Partner in Latin America
Edu Labs becomes Premium Moodle Partner in Latin America

Edu Labs – leading eLearning services provider in Colombia, Mexico and Ecuador, becomes a Premium Moodle certified Services Partner. They have a proven track record for successfully implementing Moodle based solutions across educational, public and corporate sector in Latin America region.

Edu Labs offers comprehensive online learning solutions including consulting, hosting, customisation, certified Moodle integrations, support, training, and more to support customers. They helps customers who are realising the potential of Moodle LMS to establish their eLearning project and implement new trends, such as gamification, virtual reality and mobile learning to improve learning engagement.

“For Edu Labs, becoming a Certified Premium Moodle Partner means a lot in many ways. First, it cements our commitment to our customers and Moodle. This new status as a Premium Partner means that we are a company that offers the highest quality eLearning services to the education and workplace learning sectors,” says CEO and Founder of Edu Labs, Juan Sáenz.

“It has also provided us with an opportunity to evaluate and improve our internal processes and it is a recognition of our 11 years of experience helping our clients implement their eLearning projects with the Moodle LMS platform.” 

Adding further Juan Sáenz said, “Before the Covid-19 pandemic, most of the institutions and organisations in our region used to see online learning as a complement to on-site education and there were many fears surrounding online learning, mostly regarding its quality and limitations. The pandemic transformed this perception as the effectiveness of eLearning became better understood and customers began to see online learning as an increasingly effective way to teach and train learners and improve learning outcomes.”

For more information about EduLabs,please visit their official website – https://www.edu-labs.co/contact

Check out the finalists for Open Education Awards 2022

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Jaswinder Singh
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Check out the finalists for OEAwards 2022
Check out the finalists for OEAwards 2022

Every year, the Open Education Awards for Excellence recognizes outstanding contributions in the Open Education community. The Open Education Awards recognizes exemplary leaders, distinctive Open Educational Resources, and Open Practices from around the world.

This year the shortlist of finalists is announced first. The shortlist was selected from 89 nominations of open education excellence across 22 countries by the 12 members of the OE Awards 2022 Committee and OEGlobal Board Members.

The shortlist includes 12 open leaders and 31 open education initiatives and practices across the 14 awards categories. The winners will be announced on October 20th.

Meet the finalists in each category as below:

PEOPLE IN OPEN

Leadership Award

  • Delmar Larsen
  • Ebba Ossiannilsson
  • Robert Schuwer

Educator Award

  • Saifa Haque
  • Sushumnarao Tadinada
  • Giovanni Zimotti

Emerging Leader Award

  • Luis Clemente Jiménez Botello
  • Sarah Kresh
  • Andrea Scott

Support Specialist Award

  • Beatriz Canales
  • Ewan McAndrew
  • Ellie Svoboda

WHAT WE SHARE

Best OER

  • Explorations: An Open Invitation to Biological Anthropology from California State University Chico
  • Liberated Learners from Trent University
  • Moo MOOC: Milking your OER from University of Edinburgh
  • Open RN Nursing Mental Health and Community Concepts from Chippewa Valley Technical College
  • Open RN Nursing Management and Professional Concepts from Chippewa Valley Technical College
  • Salón de clase: Intermediate Spanish for Education Professionals from Binghamton University – SUNY
  • School for All: promoting an anti-racist education from Fundação Telefônica Vivo
  • Strategic Communication to Counter Security Threats in the Disinformation Era from Universidad Rey Juan Carlos

Open Curation / Repository

  • Digital Self-Learning Initiatives from the French Digital University (l’Université Numérique)
  • LibreTexts at University of California-Davis
  • Open Courseware at King Khalid University (KKU)
  • Repositorio de Recursos Educativos Abiertos from Ceibal

Open Reuse / Remix / Adaptation

  • An ENOEL Toolkit – Benefits of OE for everyone to reuse from SPARC Europe
  • Open eTextbooks for Access to Music Education from University of Edinburgh
  • Open Technical Communication from Kennesaw State University

Open Infrastructure

  • LibreTexts at University of California-Davis
  • Open Educational Resources American Public University System from American Public University System
  • TAO from Open Assessment Technologies

HOW WE SHARE

Open Collaboration

  • European Network of Open Education Librarians from SPARC Europe
  • The ICDE OER Advocacy Committee from Swedish Association of Distance Education
  • Liberated Learners at Trent University

Open Innovation

  • Innovative Sustainable Forest Management Education in the Asia-Pacific Region from the Asia Forest Research Centre, UBC Faculty of Forestry
  • Textbook Transformation Project at Chaffey College

Open Pedagogy

  • Evaluating OER for Social Justice at Lehman College, CUNY
  • The Open Pedagogy Project Roadmap from Pennsylvania State University
  • TeachOER, an online repository of OER resources and openly-licensed teaching materials from Baruch College-CUNY

SPECIAL AWARDS

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Award

  • Ewan McAndrew, Wikimedian in Residence: Wikimedia and Equality, Diversity and Inclusion at University of Edinburgh, UK
  • OpenLearn’s Race and Ethnicity Hub at The Open University, UK
  • Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom – Bolivia 2021-2022 from Wikimedistas de Bolivia

Open Resilience Award

  • Advocacy work of the Scientific Library to advance Open Education in Ukraine from the Ukrainian State University of Science and Technologies
  • TALON at the University of Calgary

For more details check out the Open Education Global website here. Open Education Global is a member-based, global, non-profit supporting the development and use of open education around the world.

Moodle 4.1 Update – Label Resource to be renamed with other features

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Jaswinder Singh
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Moodle 4.1 Update - Label Resource to be renamed with other features
Moodle 4.1 Update - Label Resource to be renamed with other features

Moodle 4.1 – the upcoming major version of the Moodle LMS is all set to make it one of the most feature rich release. The next Moodle LTS version will include many new features and improved UX/UI for different areas. As per the recent updates, the Moodle 4.1 code freeze will happen on October 17. The new major version is scheduled to be released on November 28.

After the code freeze on October 17, the Integration team will not accept any new code. It will be followed by the QA cycle which is scheduled to commence from October 24. If you are a serious Moodler, you can join the QA testing cycle. Please check out this link to understand the QA Process before the Moodle release.

Among the key issues fixed in this week, the major development is that the Label resource in Moodle will be renamed. With Moodle 4.1, the Label resource will be named as Text and Media. The other major updates include:

  • Create a new “Grades summary” report in the grade book
  • Provide a way to set HTML Editor content regardless of the current editor
  • VideoJS library upgrade to 7.20.3
  • Mustache  Library upgrade to 2.14.2

Waiting for the Moodle 4.1 release? Check out this list of new exciting features coming in Moodle 4.1. When you will be updating your Moodle site to 4.1? It is recommended to plan your upgrade since it will be Long Term Release version.

Moodle Educators – Restrict course sections using Restriction by section completion plugin

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Jaswinder Singh
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Moodle Educators - Restrict course sections using Restriction by section completion plugin
Moodle Educators - Restrict course sections using Restriction by section completion plugin

Moodle Plugins allows you to extend the functionality of core LMS to meet your institution specific requirements. Moodle Plugins are one of the easy way to add new features to Moodle. There are more than 2,000 plugins contributed by the community in the official plugins directory. In this post, we will have a look at the Restriction by section completion Moodle plugin which allows you to restrict the course section until the previous sections are completed.

Moodle allows multiple restriction conditions by default. Restriction can be based upon Activity completion, date, grade, the group or grouping the students are in or even user profile fields. The ‘Restriction set’ button also allows for more complex criteria requiring nested conditions.

You can download the Restriction by section completion plugin from the plugins directory here. Please follow this guide if you want to learn about how to install a Moodle plugin. Once installed it is ready to use without the need for any configuration.

As a teacher you can add the “Section Completed” availability condition to activities / resources / sections in the courses. While adding the condition, you have to pick the section which the student is required to complete before accessing the activity / resource / section.

Moodle Educators - Restrict course sections using Restriction by section completion plugin
Restriction by section settings

The plugin is developed by Stefan Scholz who is also the developer for other popular Moodle plugins like Designer course format. The plugin was built to enable teachers to easily restrict activities or sections to students that have completed another section.

There is another way of applying such section based restriction by adding several restrictions but it is too difficult. This plugin simplifies that for the teacher as well as shows only one condition for the students instead of showing multiple restrictions.

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

MoodleMoot DACH 2023 will be held in Zürich from June 13-16

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Jaswinder Singh
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MoodleMoot DACH 2023 will be held in Zürich from June 13-16
MoodleMoot DACH 2023 will be held in Zürich from June 13-16

The MoodleMoot DACH 2023 will be organized from June 13-16 in Zürich. The event was cancelled in 2022 due to unknown reasons. It was last held in 2020 during the COVID pandemic as a completely virtual event. The MoodleMoot DACH 2023 will include DevCamp & Barcamp sessions.

The community event is hosted by Technische Hochschule Lübeck, Vienna University of Technology, University of Vienna, Academic Moodle Cooperation (AMC), ETH Zurich & eDaktik.at – Moodle Partner Austria.

Complete details about the event will be available in early November 2022.

For more information about the MoodleMoot DACH, you can check out the official website here. You can also follow them on Twitter or Facebook.

Moodle Educators – Use the Popup activities course format for elementary users

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Jaswinder Singh
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Moodle Educators - Use the Popup activities course format for elementary users
Moodle Educators - Use the Popup activities course format for elementary users

Moodle – the most popular open source Learning Management system (LMS) is used across 242 countries among 340 million users. It is used across all kinds of learning environments including the primary grade students, schools, universities, corporate training etc. In this post, we will see the Popup activities course format which can be quite handy for you as a pre-primary/elementary school teacher.

Popup Activities course format can display the course resources and activities embedded in modals instead of redirecting from the course page. This can be quite helpful for the students who are new to online learning. It is a perfect fit for younger students who will find it easy to navigate through course resources and activities. When students finish an activity or resource, they return to the course page by closing the modal without waiting for the course page to load again.

You can download the Popup Course format from the official Moodle plugins directory. The plugin is developed by Daniel Thies. You can follow this guide to install the plugin on your Moodle site. Once installed, there are basic configuration steps related to navigation and course index.

As a teacher you can change the course format to the Popup Activities and start using it. By default it will not show any change to the teacher role, so you need to check it as a student. Currently, the popup activities course format supports – Book, Choice, Custom certificate , File, Folder, H5P activity, Page, Poster, SCORM, URL, and Videotime activities. Other unsupported activities will be displayed as normally like in topics format.

What are the other plugins you would recommend for teaching young students in pre-primary/elementary grade. Please share with us in the comments section below.

Download – Popup Activities course format

Moodle Educators – How you can use Zoom Meetings in your Moodle course?

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Jaswinder Singh
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Moodle Educators - How you can use Zoom Meetings in your Moodle course?
Moodle Educators - How you can use Zoom Meetings in your Moodle course?

Zoom is one of the most popular web- and app-based video conferencing service. It has been used across many institutes for online training, meeting and online conference. In this post, we will see how you can use the Zoom meetings in your Moodle course.

Moodle offers a lot of plugins which allows you to extend the functionality across different areas. Here is a brief introduction to all Moodle plugin types which are available. You can find training courses on Moodle Academy to get started with Moodle plugins development. One such fantastic plugin is the Zoom Meeting Moodle plugin.

The Zoom Meeting Moodle plugin allows tight integration with Moodle, supporting meeting/webinar creation, synchronization, grading and backup/restore. However, before starting to use this you will need a business or educational Zoom account to configure and setup. To connect to the Zoom APIs, this plugin requires an account-level app to be created.

You can download the Zoom Meeting Moodle plugin from the official plugins directory here. You can follow this guide to install the plugin on your Moodle site. Once installed, you will need the API level access to proceed. You can follow this guide to complete the installation process.

After finishing the configuration, you can add the Zoom meeting in a course and use it for your students. You can take help from this guide to configure the zoom meeting in Moodle.

In case you face any problems while using the Zoom meetings in Moodle, please let us know in the comments section below. What are the other best web conferencing solutions which you are using on your elearning portal? Please share your thoughts with us in the comments section below.

Moodle Educators – Allow students to hide the timer in Quiz for students

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Jaswinder Singh
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Moodle Educators - Allow students to hide the timer in Quiz for students
Moodle Educators - Allow students to hide the timer in Quiz for students

Moodle is the world’s most popular open source Learning Management System which is used across 240+ countries and more than 300 million users across the world. The capability to fit into any elearning environment makes Moodle one of the most widely used open source LMS around the world. Recently, one of the educators asked about the possibility of hiding the timer in quiz in Moodle forums.

According to a new forum thread shared by Philipp Imhof on Moodle community forums, he needs the capability to hide the quiz timer to avoid the stress for students. He suggested to have the options to make timer configurable with possibility to show/hide, mandatory show during last X Minutes.

Other prominent Moodle users also joined the discussion and shared their views. Matthias Giger shared a code to hide the timer for users who don’t want to see it. Rick Jerz also supported the idea of hiding the timer from accessibility point of view. Tim Hunt – the maintainer of the Moodle quiz and question bank since long time also showed his interest.

At present, the Moodle quiz timer is showing the time remaining in the quiz on the top of the quiz page. Check out this Moodle docs page to understand more about the Moodle Quiz timings and how the timings are handled. In the upcoming Moodle 4.1 version, the quiz timer will respects the time extensions made while the quiz is underway.

You can also join the forum thread discussion here to share your views.

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