Camtasia Relay & HELIX
I was speaking to the rep from Streaming Media recently (Chris) about the upcoming user group meeting in London on 16th November, which Phil will be going to. Seeing as we have been having...
Author: m.dransfield
HELIX update
Gareth has just given me an update on HELIX media server installation. They have the hardware all in place now (and the storage is now connected to the network successfully). The next job is...
My YSJ and Assignment Information from Moodle
A few students have highlighted problems with how assignment information is presented in their My YSJ portal. Students’ problems and feedback with the way information is presented, can be summarised as follows – this...
Moodle offline assignment (bulk upload)
I have been looking around for what’s happening with the assignment bulk upload feature in Moodle. This is something that our tutors really need in order to save time when loading response files back into...
New course layout in 2.3
I really like the new Moodle course layout in 2.3 “Show one section per page”. It really helps to save space on the page and seems to break the content down nicely into succinct...
HELIX Media Server
We’ve purchased the HELIX media server which will basically give us our own version of YouTube. Tutors will be able to load media into the system and have it converted to a nice format,...
Analytics block/plugin
Just read a tweet from @moodlehelen where she links to a new analytics block for Moodle. It looks pretty interesting and could be really useful for some tutors who are using Moodle in a...
Mahara integration with 2.3
Looks like Moodle 2.3 has a bit of a deeper integration with Mahara, which could be useful for students gathering evidence from things like discussion forums. Not sure how smooth it is at this...
Display topics on a new page – nice feature
I’d read about this feature before we installed 2.3 but had not seen it in action. It’s designed to reduce the ‘scroll of death’. It allows the tutor to have a new page for...
Customise course overview page even more
We’ve got quite a heavily customised course overview page (My Moodle) at the moment. Andrew James developed some neat functionality to allow users to filter course content on their pages but it’s not perfect....