I recently started using WebFaction as my main webhost. They are more reliable and cheaper than my old webhost, and like my old host, they have a custom panel—they do not use cPanel. Nothing against cPanel, but I’m not a big fan of cookie-cutter hosting options. One thing I like about WebFaction is their hosting …read more…
Posts contained in the “Moodle” category:
Moodle is an LMS—a learning management system. It is to online learning what WordPress is to blogging. Unfortunately, most of its users use only a handful of its features. These tutorials seek to change that.
Creating GIFT Questions in Moodle
One of Moodle’s greatest strengths is that you can create banks of questions that you can use in a variety of ways. (I’ll be examining some of those ways in future tutorials.) The flip side is that creating these questions can be a tedious and often frustrating experience. Fortunately, there is an easier way. With …read more…
Duplicating Activities in Moodle
One of Moodle’s most useful, yet most often underutilized features is the ability to back up an entire course. This feature has almost endless possibilities. You can, for instance, create a course in a localhost environment and upload it to your website when it is finished, which saves bandwidth if that is an issue. You …read more…
How to Change a Light Bulb: Using Moodle’s Lesson Module
Moodle is a powerful CMS (course management system), because it allows a high degree of interactivity, both between students enrolled in a course and between students and the course itself. Interactivity between students occurs largely in the Forum, Database, Wiki, and Glossary modules, whereas interactivity between students and the course occurs in the Lesson module. …read more…
