Karen Vitek's List: Moodle Tools

"Moodle articles for Instructors are organized in the following categories:"

Lots of Moodle Tutorials

"Moodbile is a PHP based web Application that plugs into these services, and allows the Student to access part of the Moodle’s Learning Tools from a Mobile Browser (Android, iPhone, etc) and devices like the OLPC XO."

"The OER@UCT blog serves as a reflection and collaboration point for staff involved with Open Educational Resources at the University of Cape Town. The project is part of a greater movement toward creating open access to information and educational resources. We believe that no one with the desire to learn should be cut off from educational material simply because they do not have the means to study in a traditional fashion. The internet enables access to information and we want to make sure that high quality learning materials are available to those with a thirst for knowledge."

"Moodlerooms is committed to creating a more effective and engaging education community by providing educators and learners across the globe with proven, enterprise-level e-learning solutions. "

"An illustrated guide to creating and maintaining a Moodle site, from course creation, file management and adding resources and activities."

On this web page you can find the documents provided by Moodle to help you with your course.

"The purpose of this page is to give an overview of Moodle to a new user of Moodle. You can find many links to other pages in the text which will give more technical details and "how to" ideas. For new users, we would like to point out the Documentation box on the left side of every page in MoodleDocs. The Teacher link brings up a welcome and a short list of key pages of interest to a teacher, including examples of use. A list of all teacher documentation articles can also be found under Category:Teacher link found at the bottom of most teacher pages. "

This site provides third party themes to download and use on your Moodle site. There are some free themes available here.

Click on Moodle Videos under Video Tutorials to learn how to use the themes.

"Create your own educational portal using our free Moodle themes. Impress your students, teacher, colleagues with a good-looking Moodle installation. Our templates are perfect for educators who want to easily manage their courses by creating an attention-grabbing online learning community website."

This web site provides free Moodle themes to use with your Moodle site and the ability to create your own theme. Click on 5 Step Process to learn how you can create your own theme.

"Themato is an initiative to promote Moodle and the ease of using it with a clean UI. It is carefully curated and nurtured by a group of enthusiasts from the moodle community. In a constant endeavour in meeting our client's look & feel requirements with respect to the Moodle LMS, we found that there was looping need that had to be catered to, all the time. Most of the Moodle installations across many universities, schools and institutes require branding of their LMS. Using this service it will be an easy 5 Step Process. And the best part is, it is FREE "

This is a collection of presentations (PowerPoint, Flash, YouTube, etc.) about Moodle collected on the official Moodle site.

"This page contains links to Moodle presentations (of size 1-2 MB). Please send additional / updated presentations and details of presentation authors to docs@moodle.org. "

Hot Potatoes is freeware that can be used in Moodle. Your Moodle site administrator will need to add the Hot Potatoes activity to your Moodle site.

"The Hot Potatoes suite includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web. Hot Potatoes is freeware, and you may use it for any purpose or project you like. It is not open-source."

This site was created by Tomaz Lasic to help other educators learn how to use Moodle.

"This is a collection of 2 Minute Moodles – an attempt to simplify and show how to use a range of Moodle features. The list will grow as I find time to cook some more."

Using Twitter can help you expand your personal learning network. Read this article to find some Moodle educators to follow on Twitter. There's a link to follow all the Twitter educators mentioned in the article.

"Please note that this list is subjective, it’s not meant to be comprehensive or complete and there are a good many Twitterers all contributing to Moodle news not on this list (just watch the post titles). With the entire Moodle Twitter community things would be much more boring around here."

"Youtube user domanskiRPS has a great collection of Moodle tutorials for new users/teachers which might help clarify how to create forums, use assignments or embed videos. Check out the whole collection at http://www.youtube.com/user/domanskiRPS."

If you are interested in learning more about SCORM this site will give you an in-depth explanation.

"SCORM is a set of technical standards for e-learning software products. SCORM tells programmers how to write their code so that it can “play well” with other e-learning software. Specifically, SCORM governs how online learning content and Learning Management Systems (LMSs) communicate with each other. SCORM does not speak to instructional design or any other pedagogical concern, it is purely a technical standard."

Mister Moodle answers a question about creating quizzes. This is part of the Moodle News web site.

"This question comes from an old Moodle acquaintance. Moodlenews has covered a lot of quiz related materials and questions over the past year, but here’s one that all teachers might find interesting,"

"Welcome to Mount Orange School

LuMaxArt FS Collection Orange0161This is not a real school.

It is a site designed for you to see and play with Moodle 2.0 and explore ways you could use it in real places where people teach and learn.

You can be a student, teacher, parent, even a principal in here!"

"The presentation focused on providing an overview of what was currently possible with the Mt. Orange School, Moodle’s new demonstration site where you can get a feel for what’s possible with Moodle 2.0 and well trained teaching staff. In additional Tomaz explained that the school site in its entirety is available for download so that users can dive in deeper and play with the settings and features without affecting the live site or causing undue administration."