Within moodle – there’s an Office 365 option which allows you to link to your files in OneDrive – this saves you having to re-upload files when you update Word and PowerPoint files image CC-BY-SA-4.0 via Wikimedia
If you want to add an interactive Word Cloud to your VLE, you can use Mentimeter to do this. The Word Cloud will be embedded in your course and students will be able to submit entries at any time when the ‘Audience pace’ setting is selected. Mentimeter is free to create an account. Watch this… Continue reading #618 Display a Mentimeter Word Cloud in your VLE
Icons can be used in a range of different ways, from helping students to navigate your learning resources, to creating unity in your VLE’s with your colleagues. Flaticon provides you with free access to a huge range of different icons. If you are using the free licence, then you must add an attribution onto your… Continue reading #588 Flaticon: Over 3 million free icons!
Do you want to share a series of videos? By creating a playlist, you can do just that. Watch the video to find out how: Featured image: CCO from Pixabay https://pixabay.com/photos/headphones-music-song-foam-2588235/
Another method of reducing the amount of scrolling in Moodle on an area is to use the OneTopic format. This places tabs at the top of the page which represents topics or weeks. Instead of showing everything at once, it’s broken down in to topics. There’s less scrolling for your users. Image by OpenClipart-Vectors from… Continue reading #538 OneTopic format in Moodle
Make your Moodle page less cluttered and more visual with the Grid Format in Moodle. Make your Moodle area more visual and minimise the scrolling that users need to do. Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay
The Recycle Bin in Moodle 3.3 enables you to recover recently deleted items in your Moodle area, phew! You can recover items you have deleted in the past 7 days, but after that time they are permanently deleted. Don’t panic if you can’t see your Recycle Bin in your Moodle area, it only appears once… Continue reading #461 Don’t Panic! Recover deleted items in Moodle
Following on from our earlier posts on forms in Office 365, in this video we explore how you can embed those forms into your Moodle site! In a later post we’ll look at how you can create quizzes in your forms too, so keep an eye out for that one. Featured image: CCO by Pixabay
If you have used a Moodle assignment, or have completed an offline assignment and want to return the marks online, the offline marking worksheet for Moodle assignments makes this quick and easy to do. You can even use it to return feedback comments to students! Featured imaged shared under a CCO licence from Pixabay
Sometimes you might want to know the engagement from students about resources and activities within Moodle. This video shows how to do that using the Course participation report. Featured image: “Minature Figures” by WiR_Freebies is licenced under CC0
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