Reasons Students Blog article

Just come across this article in Educause on the reasons students blog. Thought you might enjoy it !!

• The reasons students blog

What do you think ?

Moodle RUG: Martin Dougiamis Update

Last week, I attended the summer Moodle RUG (London). Martin Dougiamis (Moodle Founder and Lead Moodle developer) gave the following insights into the development of Moodle over the next year.

• Grade book revamp: The gradebook revamp has been long overdue and reflects the shift of scale Moodle has had since its initial incarnation as a localised project with a handful of users to worldwide multi-platfrom VLE solution. Version 1.9 (hopefully by christmas) promises a new flexible system whereby grades are pushed to a central table from anywhere in Moodle. Another new feature within this is the concept of completion, whether of task or course that will allow multiple activities to contribute to a single assessment.
  
  Much of it has been written with BTEC - type course in mind.
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Did you know .. you could create a crossword ?

You can create a Crossword using Hot Potatoes (On your Desktop). The resulting file can then be uploaded into Moodle. Moodle will also record your students results.

Heres how to do it ...

Tutorial Movie: How to create a crossword

Tutorial Movie: How to add a Hot Potato Quiz to your course

Moodle Upgrade

During the summer holidays, I will be upgrading Moodle as I set it up for next year. It will have a 'new look' and hopefully much improved presentation.

New Features include:

• My Moodle: Giving Students instant access to all their deadlines, unread forum posts and course events. They can add their own blocks and RSS feeds.
• Accessibility: The Moodle interface will be fully compliant with XHTML Strict 1.0 and major accessibility standards.
• Feedback: introduction of new activity to allow the creation of anonymous questionaires.
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