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There is no learning management system (LMS) like Moodle LMS. Indisputable! (Why so? See our blog on Moodle advantages). Since Moodle LMS is a popular and open-source LMS. A large number of educational institutions tend to use it for their learning needs. As the strength of an organization varies from a few hundred to thousands, it faces a real challenge. It becomes a challenge 'how to use Moodle as a student.' In this blog post, let's help you simplify things in Moodle for you. If you are a student and are using Moodle at your organization, this post will come to your rescue. Now let's look at things on how to use Moodle as a student. One by one...

This module discusses the importance of developing materials to orient students to the LMS. Materials should also be developed to help students be successful as an online student.

"Email alone is no longer an effective tool to reach today's students and many students rarely log into your institution's learning management system, however, they do check their phones and Facebook accounts multiple times per day. ConnectYard's QuickConnect Widget can help your institution make its learning management systems more social, interactive and engaging. QuickConnect allows any user within a course to post homework and study questions using a simple HTML badge that can be easily added to popular learning management systems, including Blackboard, Moodle, Sakai and others. Those questions are then delivered to other class members through their favorite social networking site, mobile phone or email. Both students and instructors have the option of replying to questions via Facebook, Twitter, text message, or ema"

How to Track Pending Moodle Assignment Details by each Learner? In this LearnerScript features, explanatory short video you will see how we can check any particular Moodle course-related pending assignment activities report by each student using the LearnerScript tool. Let's dive into the video now! In this LearnerScript Dashboard, you need to click on the manage reports action icon and you will be redirected to the manage reports page. Scroll down till you find the "Learner assignment summary" report. Using this report, let's check the pending Moodle assignment details for each learner or student. Select any particular Moodle course for which you want to see the pending assignments using this drop-down, for instance, select the "Financial management capstone 2" course and click on the "get report" button. Here you can see 36 learners' assignments status details in this report table. To check the unfinished Moodle assignments you need to sort this report by the "Not Yet Started" column. You can see here learners named "Amanda Roberts" and "Yuva" have "zero" pending assignments. To see further details click on "Total" value and here you can see assignment completion status further details such as "number of submissions" and "status". Similarly, Let's check the most unfinished assignment details for each learner by sorting the "Not Yet Started" column in descending order. Here You can see that these students haven't started any single assignment so far! Click on the "Total" value to see all "not yet started" assignments further details for any particular learner in this "Financial management capstone 2" Moodle course. Let's check out this pending assignments report in graphical format. Click on the Graph icon from above and from this drop-down select the "Not Yet Started" line chart option. Here you can see the same pending assignment details in line graph format. This is how you can track Pending Moodle Assignment Details by each Learner for

There are many Moodle reports on LearnerScript, which come in handy and are helpful to the default roles on the plain Moodle LMS. In the previous blogs, we have introduced some of those reports. In this blog post, we would like to talk about some simple yet useful Moodle statistics reports to your learners. On LearnerScript, we simply call them 'Tiles.' They present some quick information to the Moodle student who logins to their dashboard. In other words, these reports throw some light on his learning experiences. So in this blog post, we will discuss '6 helpful Moodle statistics reports' for the student role...

How to use Moodle to engage students

Welcome to Multi-Tenancy Moodle Resource Utilization Report in LearnerScript explanatory short video. In this video, you will see using the LearnerScript tool how we can track the IOMAD or multi-tenancy moodle resource utilization. Let's dive into the video now! 1. Here in this LearnerScript "Resources participation" report you can see any particular company and its associated department-related course resources report. You can select any particular company and its associated department using the drop-down option here And also select that particular selected company, department-related course using the dropdown option here. and then click on the "Get Report" button. As we have selected the "Artificial Intelligence" course from the above dropdown, you can now see the utilization of its associated resources in a tabular format report. Here You can see "resource name", and its associated "course name", "Module", "Section", and "time spent" details columns in this tabular report. You can also check this "time spent report" in graphical format for quick references. 2. Using this "Learner Resources" report you can see any particular company and its associated department and course-related all learners or students resources utilization details. As you can see here we are looking at the "Business Ethics" course-related students resources report. In this report, you can see the details of the "Business Ethics" course Learner resources utilization details such as Learner names, the total number of resources for each learner, and total time spent on each resource by all learners. You can also apply the "time spent" graph to this tabular report for easy understanding. 3. Using this Learnerscript "Time spent on page resource" report you can see any particular company and its associated departments' specific page resource utilizations. Here in this report, you can see the details such as Page name, course name on each page, activity type, and total time spent by lear

How to Track Your Top 10 Learners Who Have Enrolled in a Maximum Number of Moodle Courses Using LearnerScript? In this LearnerScript features explanatory short video you will see how we can check your Moodle top 10 users or participants who have enrolled to maximum moodle courses using the LearnerScript tool. Let's dive into the video now! In this LearnerScript Learners Report Test, we can see Moodle Users table details such as Learner Names, Enrolled, in-progress, and completed courses, Progress, and status details. Let's check the top 10 Learners or participants who have enrolled in maximum Moodle courses in this report table. To do so You need to limit the table results to 10 then you need to sort the results by Enrolled courses in descending order! You can see the top 10 learners' further details by clicking on the respective learners' enrolled course numbers. For example, take demo student from this table, once you click on this demo student enrolled courses numbers you will see the 15 courses in which he has enrolled! Similarly, you can check other top learners' enrolled course details as well! Once you click on the value it will show you all the maximum enrolled course details for any particular Learner from this Learner report table. Now, let's add a chart for this report to see this report in graphical format! Click on the "Add Graph" option from above to add this chart. As you can see this chart is showing all the enrolled courses and completed courses details. To limit the records to the top 10 you need to click on the edit graph option then you need to sort by enrolled courses in descending order and limit the records to ten. This is how you can check your top 10 learners or participants' most enrolled moodle course details using LearnerScript!

An online site to help with student video development.

Learn how a Gulf Highlands Elementary 4th grade teacher is using innovative techniques to enhance her students' learning.

This is another messy brain dump because I've had to look this up more than twice… To be able to access activity reports in Moodle courses - The site admin must ensure that the Navigation block is active AND The course owner must add the Navigation block (The course owner can decide whether or not learners can see their own Activity reports in course settings). If you are afraid the Navigation block will confuse students (you cannot hide it) or your site admin won't allow the Navigation menu, create shortcuts to your fav reports. This post tells you how.

A video tutorial for students that provides an overview of SoundCloud and how to use it to create an audio file and then submit a link to the file via a Moodle 2 online text assignment.

"A recent review of the University's current Learning Management System has recommended that from 2012 Macquarie University move to the Moodle Learning Management System (LMS). Currently staff and students use the WebCT LMS provided by Blackboard. As this system will not be available to the University from the end of 2012 a review group was established to find a replacement."

Interesting to read of another major university that is migrating to Moodle.

"Technology-based forces of "disruptive innovation" are gathering around public education and will overhaul the way K-12 students learn-with potentially dramatic consequences for established public schools, according to an upcoming book that draws parallels to disruptions in other industries." - quote directly from article

Interactive websites for student engagement - by subject

Short screencast describing how students can add images to their wikis in Moodle.

Activity module for Moodle that allows the use JClic applets as a new type of resource in courses. The module collects and shows the results of the activities done by the students.