Category Moodle
Setting up LDAP in Moodle LMS is a great way to enable single sign-on, the synchronization of user accounts with other systems in your organization. Once you have configured the LDAP authentication plugin in Moodle and confirmed that it is… Continue Reading →
You have been thinking about creating a new role in Moodle. Think it might solve your challenge? Here are a few things to consider before creating one or more new roles. Before we begin, lets cover what a role is… Continue Reading →
Getting started in Moodle Development? Here is a list of useful tools for Windows that may be of interest to Moodle Developers. Moodle Coding Style Guidelines In general, you can configure code editors to understand 90% of the Moodle Coding… Continue Reading →
The most social conference that I have attended since COVID started in 2020 has been the MoodleMoots, specifically MoodleMoot Global 2020 and MoodleMoot U.S. 2020. What makes virtual MoodleMoots humanized conferences? Like many virtual conferences, they include multiple concurrent sessions… Continue Reading →
Have you ever found yourself browsing the web on a smartphone and clicked on something that opened in a new tab? It is almost impossible to tell when this happens. In fact, many people don’t even realize that browsers on… Continue Reading →
I have built many multilingual Moodle sites over the years. Unfortunately you cannot make a course appear or not appear based on the user’s current language. But you can create a multilingual Moodle site and multi-language Moodle course. First you… Continue Reading →
Camtasia is one of the best and most complete set of tools out there for capturing a recording of your screen (called screencasting) but comes at a cost of $313.99 per person (as of this writing). While you might be able… Continue Reading →
So, you are have a Moodle website that runs in multiple languages. To date, you’ve been doubling up all you text doing things like “This content is in English. / Ce contenu est en français.” As a result, the site… Continue Reading →
While you may simply choose a theme based on the way it looks, smart people know that themes are more than skin deep. Here are a few things to consider when choosing a Moodle theme: Make sure that the theme… Continue Reading →
Moodle LMS maintenance upgrades is indeed something that needs to be done every once in a while. But how often should you upgrade? This article discusses the the lifecycle of software and what to watch out for when considering upgrading…. Continue Reading →
Have you ever tried to copy information from a web page or a MS Word document and got more than you bargained for when you pasted it into another Word document or web page? Text often comes with unwanted junk… Continue Reading →
There is an increasing number of businesses who are looking at Moodle LMS to meet their training requirements for their employees and/or their customers as an alternative to commercial LMS. Open source is a very attractive alternative to pricey licensing… Continue Reading →
Have you ever come across the perfect photo and wanted to use it on your blog, website, social media post like Facebook, LinkedIn or Twitter, report or print publication? Google Images has a very useful tool to search for an… Continue Reading →
Adding photos to your web page can be a great way to connect with visitors who are more visual and to make your website generally more appealing. Here is a list of websites where you can find free stock photos for… Continue Reading →
Although it is not an obvious part of the installation of Moodle, setting up Cron is very important when it comes to Moodle. For example, some emails are sent out immediately while others are scheduled and only sent out when cron… Continue Reading →
Here is a list of resources that helped me get started in Moodle development. I’ve even put together a few articles of my own to share covering topics like Getting Started in Moodle, Git for Moodle Developers in Windows and Upgrading Moodle packages for… Continue Reading →
My experience with the Moodle LMS has involved dealing mostly with multilingual sites. Unfortunately there are still many core Moodle plugins and third party plugins and themes that still do not support multilingual content. However the situation is improving with each code… Continue Reading →
The News Forum is a special Moodle forum for general announcements relating individual courses. One of these is automatically included when you create a new course. By default, only teachers and administrators can post in. Students can only read posts… Continue Reading →
Many people don’t realize that Moodle generates ID’s for every student on the site. Unfortunately there is built-in way to show students their ID. The easiest way to show students their student ID in Moodle without any programming is to use… Continue Reading →
Here are the steps to transfer your content from an existing Moodle site into another: Backup your courses from the old Moodle. Moodle provides two ways of backing up your courses. You can do this individually or by scheduling an Automated course… Continue Reading →
For developers just getting started in Moodle development, testing and fixing 3rd party Moodle plugins which are not currently supported the latest version of Moodle is a great way to get started on your way to learning how Moodle works. These plugins… Continue Reading →
You can send custom emails from within Moodle using PHP using your own forms using the email_to_user() function. By the way, did you know that Moodle actually uses the open source PHPMailer behind the scenes? A typical call to Moodle’s email_to_user()… Continue Reading →
Moodle 2.3 to 2.6.1+ for Windows comes with pieces of XAMPP 1.7.4. Although it works well, the version of PHP that comes included with it is buggy, lacks some key features for development such as a modern control panel and… Continue Reading →
The Git for Developers page on Moodle.org is pretty helpful in getting you started in developing for the Moodle LMS platform. However if you need to use Git on Windows for your Moodle development, there are some differences as the… Continue Reading →
Moodle is an Open Source Learning Management System (LMS) application that enables you to make online training courses available to your customers. This tutorial covers some of the basics of how to get your first Moodle 2.5 course up and… Continue Reading →