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The third largest Lutheran church organization in America with membership around 400,000.  Our training efforts support users here at the headquarters building in Milwaukee as well as across the US and the world. Our Moodle site is WELS.net University.  We have been using Moodle for about a year and a half to support primarily our technology system training efforts.  We do a lot of in-person training classes on our custom systems and post companion support materials online in Moodle.  In addition, we have been developing stand alone training modules for web based training.  Finally we have made use of the forum tool in Moodle as a communication vehicle for our various system user groups.  I elaborated on this in another forum post. If you are interested, you may view a live sample course that is publicly accessible.http://university.wels.net/moodle/course/view.php?id=63  It exists to support member congregations who sign up for web site hosting through our hosting vendor. .

The Change Management Toolbook is a premium resource for all change management related information, a place to network with other change practitioners (over 17,200 registered users), tap into and contribute to a growing resource base , and market your products and services.

(FREE regitration required) Are you already using Moodle in a real teaching situation? This forum is for sharing stories and tricks about using Moodle as a teaching tool. Questions and answers are welcome!

I have advertised the Diigo Moodlers group in this forum on Moodle.org with the Saturday evening thinking that the more free and flowing exchanges of ideas and good practice that we have the better. Enjoy the rest of the weekend.

"This free online word converter tool will take the contents of a doc or docx file and convert the word text into HTML code. It produces a much cleaner html code than word normally produces. This doc converter strips as many unnecessary styles and extra mark-up code as it can. It does not preserve images but it does preserve html links and other basic html formatting tags like bolding in the conversion process."

"I conducted a survey at my current school (December 2010) and am sharing some of the results here. Some of the results confirmed findings through observation, some were obvious, other not so much. I used the 'Questionnaire' module to create and deliver the survey (all through Moodle) and then exported the results to Excel to do more refined analysis that the module does not allow."

Interesting student feedback from this school survey about Moodle.

The great thing about Moodle's Open-Source framework, other than the cost savings, is the ability to customize and fine-tune your online courses to your exact specifications. Hundreds of custom third-party modules are offered for free by Moodle contributors, which once installed, can change the look, feel and functionality of your Moodle to suit your requirements. Despite their usefullness however, Moodle's list of available Moodle Modules is an exhaustive one. One often needs to sift through and try out dozens of modules before finally deciding on one.

How to Check Top 10 Courses Participants in Moodle Using LearnerScript In this LearnerScript features explanatory short video you will see how we can check your Moodle courses related top 10 enrolments or participation details using the LearnerScript tool. Let's dive into the video now! In this LearnerScript Course Report Test, we can see Moodle course table details such as Course Names, Enrolments, Completions, Activities, progress, and Number of Views details. Let's check the top 10 courses participations or enrolments in this report table. To do so You need to limit the table results to 10 then you need to Sort Enrolments in descending order! You can see the top 10 enrolments further details by clicking on the respective course enrolments numbers. Once you click on the value it will show you all the enrolled participants' details! 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 enrolment and completion details. To limit the records to the top 10 you need to click on the edit graph option then you need to sort by enrolments in descending order and limit the records to ten. This is how you can check your Moodle courses' top 10 participants' details using LearnerScript!

Courses in Moodle take by and large a pretty much prominent role. And Moodle course reports make you inspect how the learning experiences are. You get a good number of Moodle reports out of their courses, if only you require to assess their and their folks' learning (or, training) patterns. This blog post presents to you some of the most common Moodle course reports. Interestingly these 9 Moodle reports are available on LearnerScript, the Moodle analytics tool, as the Canned Reports. Right, let's get started with the nine Moodle reports related to the analytics of courses...

In the first part of 'Moodle performance' blogs, we've expounded on what it means and how to understand it. Along the same lines, we've spent some time digging deep into the subject. And knew what goes into this performance-thing. In this second blog, we will look into the software side of Moodle performance. Let's look at the first of the five software areas which have a real impact on your Moodle performance. Before moving forward to the subject, here is a small tip. Like how you tune your musical instrument to sound melodious, you have to tune various software for the best Moodle performance. Now, let's move to the subject...

Each new version of Moodle allows teachers to create more engaging online courses, and do so more easily as Moodle becomes more user-friendly. It also puts extra strain on the server(s) it runs on. I have been asking myself for a while: "Just how much more horsepower do each new versions of Moodle require?" October being Oktobertest for me, I thought I'd investigate further and run some tests of my own.

Thinking People's purpose is to provide a place for Thinking People to share, collaborate, and support ideas; seek, provide, and contribute knowledge; congregate with other Thinking People and express themselves in an intellectual community.

Thinking People's mission is to empower Thinking People from across the Globe through unity, and provide for them the means to congregate and collaborate in a positive environment while contributing to the betterment of the world.

provides over 20,000 learning materials categorised into seven main areas: Arts, Business, Education, Humanities, Mathematics and Statistics, Science and Technology\n, Social Sciences.

Multi-tenancy has been a hot topic in the Moodle community for some time now and something we are often asked about. Now that it has been dropped from the Moodle 2.3 roadmap a lot of organisations have had to revise their plans on how to achieve multi-tenancy using Moodle. In this white paper Synergy Learning Technical Director, Alex Büchner, introduces the concept of multi-tenancy, outlines the benefits and offers three approaches to achieving multi-tenancy in Moodle.

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.

Sharing Cart allows you to copy resources and activities between courses - no more having to do a backup and restore just to get at specific items. Now all your activities can be treated as learning objects. Loving it so far!

Overview of Moodle 2.0 First Look Get an insight into the new features of Moodle 2.0 Discover the benefits of brand new additions such as Comments and Conditional Activities Master the changes in administration with Moodle 2.0 The first and only book that covers all of the fantastic new features of Moodle 2.0