Moodle and Web 2.0

HTML block? Unless you’re a confident or enthusiastic coder, this doesn’t sound like something that would appeal to a regular Moodle educator. But you’d be wrong! The HTML block is one of the most versatile standard blocks in Moodle, and you don’t need to understand any HTML to be able to use it. Need to display a link to your organisation’s help desk? Want to brighten up the course with some relevant images? Want to add a twitter feed? All these and more may be achieved with the HTML block. Even better, you can add several of these blocks to your course page, all with different purposes

Good news! Activity completion or completion tracking, available in Moodle 3.4, lets students see their progress through their Moodle course through the use of checkboxes on the side of activities. There are two types of checkboxes to help your students: dotted and solid. The boxes with dotted lines are automatically ticked when a student hits a certain criteria, such as completing a quiz. Whereas the boxes with solid lines can be clicked manually by students to display that they have completed the activity.

100% student support for the workshop activity, the ability to take payments & sign up for Moodle courses through PayPal support, and various support to do more on the go on your app are just some of the new features awaiting you! And what’s even more exciting coming up?? Moodle Mobile 3.5 is coming in May with a new look and feel, in the form of several UX (User eXperience) performance and design improvements.

Did you know each course in Moodle has its own gradebook which can be accessed from the grades link in the navigation drawer? The gradebook contains the grades for each student in the course. By default, students and teachers can see this link and students can use it to can access their course grades.