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"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.

Link .mp4 video as you do .flv and avoid the hassles of creating/uploading/linking multiple versions of the same movie.

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.

Write up of the inaugural SA Moodle Meetup 2010 with summaries of sessions, links to resources discussed, etc.

This is an online converter that allows you quickly create quizzes and glossaries from textfiles by generating Moodle XML. Unlike GIFT format our converter is absolutely human-readable. Large numbers of questions and glossary entries can be easily created with a minimum of effor

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. .

Excellent website on instructional computing. Lots of resources and training. Moodle site with an impressive template, lots of flash and other add-ons, site includes tutorials on Flash

A free online polling tool that allows you to create an unlimited amount of polls and receive an unlimited amount of responses for free.

iMoot is an annual event where the Moodle community of over 32 million users are provided the opportunity to join together on a global scale. This web based event engages a global audience of Moodle practitioners, administrators and decision makers in one event for an online e-conference with a difference!

"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.

Mahara is an open source e-portfolio system with a flexible display framework. Mahara, meaning 'think' or 'thought' in Te Reo Māori, is user centered environment with a permissions framework that enables different views of an e-portfolio to be easily managed. Mahara also features a weblog, resume builder and social networking system, connecting users and creating online learner communities. Interoperate out of the box with Moodle

This is a collection of 2 Minute Moodles - an attempt to simplify and show how to use a range of Moodle features to a busy teacher.

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.

features of a real WebQuest

Senior Futurist at the DaVinci Institute, and Google's top rated Futurist Speaker. Unlike most speakers, Thomas works closely with his Board of Visionaries to develop original research studies. This enables him to speak on unusual topics and translate trends into unique business opportunities.

In the previous blog post, we've looked at some of the points for when to consider going for LearnerScript. In this blog, we'll look at some more points to thoughtfully consider this Moodle reporting tool. Let's move forward from where we've left in the Part I blog. Meanwhile, visit the website and social links of LearnerScript to have a comprehensive approach to Moodle analytics.

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...

In this webinar, we talk about the updates from version 3.0 of LearnerScript, the advanced Moodle reporting tool. The latest version includes various changes like UI, new reports, a single version for all databases, and sundry. More importantly, LearnerScript Lite has been introduced for budget-friendly Moodle analytics. Let's have a look at the points covered. Agenda: Overview of the Release Notes A brief live demo on LearnerScript 3.0 Introduction to LearnerScript Lite and its demo site Q & A Duration: 30 minutes

"There is nothing that beats mind maps when it comes to increasing one's retention rates. Mind maps enable our minds to visually process information creating thus strong neural pathways to hold the learned information for an extended period of time"