Lesley Coe's List: MoodleModules

Book
-This module makes it easy to create multi-page resources with a book-like format.

I see the duplicate now - I think this one would be a good feature but if there were an installation problem, I still think the regular book is very useful.


Advanced Book, by Amr Hourani.

you can highlight / mark text and write your own comments, feedback, more description.

it looks like having a hard book while writing your comments on some lines or paragraphs.

this is an amazing feature for educators and online students where they can write their notes on any chapter or sub chapter or lines or paragraphs to back to them whenever the need and it will appear like tooltip.

This module gets input from quiz, glossary or questions and plays some games.
Highly requested -

The games are: hangman, crossword, cryptex, millionaire, sudoku, "Snakes and Ladders", "Book with questions" and "The hidden picture"
If you like the idea goto http://bdaloukas.gr/moodle
Currently works with Greek, English, German, Frence and Spanish language.

Feedback -
The Feedback module allows users to create and conduct surveys to collect feedback.

Incredibly useful for reflection and PD evaluation.

This progress tracker is a hack of the Topic Course Format. It enables users to keep tabs of their progress through a course by allowing them to tick completed activities.

See demo video: http://bioinf1.sgul.ac.uk/healthinformatics/private/mdl-progress-tracker/

It is purposefully not a Course Format - instead the page simply lists all the resources for a particular course and displays tickboxes next to each one. Additionally, users with editing privileges (and when in editing mode) can show or hide each tickbox, and/or hide the course page's Section0.

Assignment Rubric

-Allows teachers to generate and grade assignments using rubrics within their moodle course.

Allows even reminders to be added to a calendar event a specified amount of
time before the event is to occur. When the reminder is to be sent, a
message or e-mail will be sent to the users affected by the event in question
(message if site messaging is enabled).

With this feature, the adding calendar event dialogue will allow you to
specify reminder information.

A week based format that solves the issue of the 'Scroll of Death' when a course has many weeks. All weeks have a toggle that displays that week. The current week is displayed by default. One or more weeks can be displayed at any given time. Toggles are persistent on a per browser session per course basis.

A moodle theme with drop down menus.

Course Format: Topics Tabs

Displaying courses in tabular links, also grouping all blocks and administration into one tab, sliding smoothly, very nice and simple and doesn't distract learners

This block allows to download all files of a course in one zip archive. It facilitates the participation for students in courses with lots of resources (files or directories).

Blog alternative (I haven't used it yet but it appears to be more useful and controlled than the standard installation blog feature)

An alternative blog system for Moodle. Can be used in place of, or in addition to, the standard Moodle blog system.

* Provides user blogs (similar to Moodle ones; everyone has their own blog) and course blogs (add an instance of the module to a course, and students in the course can all contribute to a shared blog).
* Full support for comments. Comments can be turned off for a particular blog or post, but otherwise people can leave comments in both user and course blogs. In order to avoid spam, you currently have to be a logged-in user in order to leave comments, even if the post itself is open to the public.
* Access control levels: private (user only), course members, logged-in users, or worldwide.
* Group support for course blogs (so you can have per-group blogs).
* Blog-specific tags. Tags are not connected to the Moodle tag system but apply only within the blog. You click on a tag to see all posts in the current blog with that tag.
* User display options - change the name of your blog (from My Name's Blog to whatever you like) and add a description.
* Standard Moodle 1.9 role/permission support (eg if you want to make it so students can't post to course blogs, etc).
* Post and comment management. You can edit or delete posts and delete comments, but deleted or previous text remains available to administrator users. (This is necessary in various circumstances.)
* RSS and Atom feeds.
* Automatically integrates with the OU search system (if that is installed) to provide fulltext search of blog posts.

An alternative blog system for Moodle. Can be used in place of, or in addition to, the standard Moodle blog system.

* Provides user blogs (similar to Moodle ones; everyone has their own blog) and course blogs (add an instance of the module to a course, and students in the course can all contribute to a shared blog).
* Full support for comments. Comments can be turned off for a particular blog or post, but otherwise people can leave comments in both user and course blogs. In order to avoid spam, you currently have to be a logged-in user in order to leave comments, even if the post itself is open to the public.
* Access control levels: private (user only), course members, logged-in users, or worldwide.
* Group support for course blogs (so you can have per-group blogs).
* Blog-specific tags. Tags are not connected to the Moodle tag system but apply only within the blog. You click on a tag to see all posts in the current blog with that tag.
* User display options - change the name of your blog (from My Name's Blog to whatever you like) and add a description.
* Standard Moodle 1.9 role/permission support (eg if you want to make it so students can't post to course blogs, etc).
* Post and comment management. You can edit or delete posts and delete comments, but deleted or previous text remains available to administrator users. (This is necessary in various circumstances.)
* RSS and Atom feeds.
* Automatically integrates with the OU search system (if that is installed) to provide fulltext search of blog posts.

This is a very simple block that adds google search to moodle.

This patch allows multiple copies of a course to be instantly created based on a course template.

Useful for PLC course creation as well teachers wishing to use a pre-made course template for course creation.

Admin report that provides log of messages sent by users in your Moodle install. Report can be sorted in several ways and filtered by the user involved (both to and from), or just by the user it is from or to.

Quiz Report Analysis is a useful self-assessment tool for the Moodle Quiz module, based on the findings of the studies in open learner modelling. Student can view their performance and progress in a quiz in a very detailed form (textual and graphical) and compare it to that of the other students who attempted the quiz. Quiz Report Analysis is always enabled for the teacher. Textual descriptions and charting information are available to students and teacher. Analysis of student performance is both per attempt and per question category. In this way students realize explicitly which topics they know and which topics they need to study harder. Quiz Reports Analysis supports various quiz options such as adaptive mode, student review options and quiz grading methods and uses the appropriate quiz feedback fields for student feedback. It consists of four sections:

*Textual Presentation*
In this section, students can view their performance in a particular quiz attempt. Data is presented in text and includes performance stats per attempt and per question category, such as the types of questions posed, known/problematic topics and misconceptions, not answered questions, performance feedback etc.

*Graphical Presentation*
In this section, students can view their performance in a particular quiz attempt. Attempt performance is presented in bar charts and includes detailed stats about current attempt and each question category. Student can also view which question types were used per question category presented in pie charts.

*Attempt Comparison*
In this section, students can compare their performance in a quiz attempt to the average performance of students in all quiz attempts. The average performance of students is calculated, considering the quiz grading method and data is presented in bar charts. If quiz grading method is Highest Grade the average student performance is calculated, selecting for each student the attempt with the highest grade(if there are more than one, select the most recent of them) and calculate the m

This module provide students a way of fast memoizing list of "things". This is a typical indexing exercise, where a map of coupled things should be learned and retained. We say "thing" because either key or value could be any related pair of text, images or sounds.

This module implements a full Leitner system to mechanically support the memoization process of the relationships. The couples to be learned are first attached to a deck of cards. These are initially considered as difficult to learn. The teacher can choose a learning curve using 2, 3 or 4 decks. 4 decks should be used for large set of definitions. When the student fails answering a card, he will tell it and let the card stay in the same deck. If he has the correct answer, he will ask for passing the card to the second deck, so considered as less difficult to learn. The process is repeated for all decks till the last one where card will remain. The decks are triggered so the student knows which he should review. Difficult cards will trigger more often thant trivial cards. Trigger delays are adjustable.

When a student do not apply for reviewing decks, cards may downgrade automatically to an higher difficulty deck.

Teachers can create a checklist of assignments to be completed.  Both students and teachers can monitor student progress through the course assignments.

Allows a course with guest access enabled to determine whether specific resources should be public or private.