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Final MUA Project Cycle voting open now through June 19

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Jaswinder Singh
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Final Voting for the Moodle Users Association (MUA) Project development cycle Jan-June 2022 is now open. The votes for the projects which were selected in the initial voting is now reset completely. So, you can vote for your projects before June 19.

Initially there are 10 projects which have been shortlisted for the Jan-June 2022 development cycle. The top voted projects were as below:

  1. Bulk edit activities in course view page – 32957
  2. Team mode for Workshop – 31158
  3. Enhanced Forum Reports, Enhanced Forum Exports, and Enhanced Discussion Metrics – 16065
  4. Improve Moodle Reporting – 11554
  5. Make it possible to use completion criteria in if-conditions for grade calculations – 5383
  6. Moodle Wiki export and import – 4033
  7. Bulk upload of offline performances to assignment module – 3945
  8. Add the Ordering question type (qtype_ordering) into Moodle core – 3910
  9. Default Settings for Activities and Resources Completion Criteria – 1890
  10. Improve online text assignment submission screen – 1155

All individual members of MUA can cast 100 votes while the Gold, Silver & Bronze members can cast their votes as per their eligibility.

According to the forum post by Steven Miley, Some proposals were removed from final voting due to the scope of the project being too large for MUA funding, or other reasons denoted in the description. So, you will not be able to allocate votes to those projects.

You can cast your votes at the project development cycle site here.

Join the Moodle Developer meeting – June 2022 on 14 June 2022

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Jaswinder Singh
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Join the Moodle Developer meeting - June 2022 on 14 June 2022
Moodle developer meeting

Heads up for Moodle developers – The next Moodle Developer meeting will be held on 14 June 2022. The developers interested in joining the Moodle developer meeting can join the same at 08:00 UTC.

Here are the details for this Moodle Developers meeting:

Details

Tuesday 14 June 2022, at 08:00 UTC (Check this time in your location)

Meeting room: Developer meetings BBB on moodle.org

In this developer meeting, Sander Bangma – Head of Moodle LMS at Moodle HQ will share updates about Moodle LMS from HQ. In addition, Andrew Lyons will share updates about the Moodle New DevDocs.

You can also access the recording of last developer meetings here.

How to add a live poll to your Moodle course?

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Jaswinder Singh
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How to add a live poll to your Moodle course?
How to add a live poll to your Moodle course?

Moodle – the world’s most popular open source Learning Management System is used for online teaching & learning by educational institutions, corporates, medical institutions etc. In the modern age, many times the teachers needs to have online polling to get the feedback from their learners. There may be many other different use cases for including a live poll in Moodle course.

Luckily, the Live Poll plugin for Moodle is there which helps you to add a live poll within the Moodle course. It can be used for example with a teacher giving a video lecture and simultaneously getting the feedback from the learners.

How to Install Live Poll Plugin:

Live Poll is an activity plugin and it can be installed in your_moodle_site/mod directory. If you are new to Moodle, you can follow out beginners guide to install Moodle Plugins.

How to add a live poll to your Moodle course?
Live Poll in Moodle Course

How to configure Live Poll plugin:

As per the developers of the Live Poll Moodle plugin, you need to create an account on Firebase. For the people who are unaware, Firebase is a Google-backed application development software that enables developers to develop iOS, Android and Web apps. Firebase provides tools for tracking analytics, reporting and fixing app crashes, creating marketing and product experiment.

Here are the steps reproduced from the Moodle plugins documentation:

  • Go to Firebase and create an account
  • Once in the Firebase console, create a project
  • We’re using the real time database for this project. So, create a database.
  • A popup will appear to configure Cloud Firestore, select any type of security (Locked/Test) mode.
  • Switch from Cloud firestore to Realtime database (Top part of the page)
  • Access Rules and set these rules: { “rules”: { “.read”: “auth != null”, “.write”: “auth != null” } }
  • Enable anonymous authentication, if anonymous authentication is not setup, the poll will not work.
  • From the project overview page in the Firebase console, click Add Firebase to your web app. If your project already has an app, select Add App from the project overview page.
  • You can copy and paste the API Key, Auth Domain, Database URL and the Project ID to add them to the Moodle plugin settings page. Site administration > Plugins > Activity modules > Live poll

How to use in the Moodle course

Once the plugin is installed and configured properly, you can add a new Live Poll activity in the Moodle course. Turn the Editing Mode on and add a new activity.

What are the other tools which you are using to create real-time interaction with your students in Moodle course? Please share with us in the comments section below.

Nephila Web Technology become a Moodle Premium Certified Service Provider in Philippines

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Jaswinder Singh
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Nephila Web Technology become a Moodle Premium Certified Service Provider in Philippines
Nephila Web Technology

Nephila Web Technology has become a Moodle Premium Certified Service Provider in Southeast Asia. Nephila Web provides IT solutions, e-learning services and LMS to Schools, universities and organizations. Established in 2011, Nephila Web have been Moodle Partner since 2016 in the Philippines.

They offer a full suite of Moodle based services including hosting, training, support, consulting, integration, content development etc. By becoming the Premium Certified Service Provider, Nephila Web Technology will now be able to deliver Moodle Workplace to its corporate clients.

On this special occasion, Sheryl Villaroman, Chief Executive Officer of Nephila Web says:

“Becoming the first Premium Moodle Partner from Southeast Asia speaks of our pioneering efforts to make Moodle part of the conversation about innovation in education in the region.

Becoming a Premium Partner adds to our integrity and credibility as a Moodle Services Provider. We believe we will be able to gain more trust from our clients and leads of higher value, which we now feel more confident to pursue.”

Nephila Web clientele includes Philippine Science Highschool, University of the Philippines (UP) Law Complex & Philippines’ Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA).

Insynergy Consulting (ISYC) becomes Moodle Premium Partner in Spain

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Jaswinder Singh
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Insynergy Consulting (ISYC) become a Moodle Premium Partner in Spain
Insynergy Consulting (ISYC) become a Moodle Premium Partner in Spain (Image Credits - ISYC)

Insynergy Consulting (ISYC) has now become a Premium Moodle Certified Service provider in Spain. Insynergy Consulting (ISYC)  is one of the first partners in the Moodle Certified Service Provider network and the first partner in Spain for more than 15 years.

As a Premium Moodle Certified Service Provider – Insynergy Consulting (ISYC) will provide organisations access to Moodle’s enterprise learning management platform, Moodle Workplace. ISYC CEO – Francisco Moren Sanz, said:

“Joining this select club of Premium Partners is recognition of our great professional work and will allow us to expand in the business world. In particular, to take advantage of the trend of large companies to equip themselves with their own LMS platform.”

After the COVID-19 pandemic, learning and development have become critical drivers of performance and talent retention in workplace settings. The corporates in Spain are looking to implement tools to engage diverse learners and maximise employee training outcomes. Moren Sanz added:

“The business market has always been an important sector for ISYC. Access to Moodle Workplace will allow us to better service learning and development requirements for certifications, automation, reporting, course design and training.”

ISYC clientele includes a deep track record in Spain which includes Heineken, Grupo, EURUNI, Specific Home Portal for Students/TeachersGrupo Alecop, El Corte Inglés etc.

Participate in OSS4SDG Hackathon to Contribute towards Sustainable Development Goals for Quality Education

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Jaswinder Singh
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OSS4SDG Hackathon to Contribute towards Sustainable Development Goals for Quality Education
OSS4SDG Hackathon to Contribute towards Sustainable Development Goals for Quality Education (Image Credits - UN & EU Commission)

The Open Source Soſtware for Sustainable Development Goals – OSS4SDG Hackathon is the first of a series of hackathons. It is a joint collaboration between the European Commission Directorate-General for Informatics and United Nations Office of Information, Communications and Technology.

The goal of the first hackathon will be to tackle SDG 4 Quality Education with Moodle selected as the first open-source community. The last date for submissions has been extended till 13th June 2022 to give participants some more time to work on their submissions.

During the Hackathon, the team is looking for proactive ideas and solutions in these areas to help improve performance, expand video conferencing functionality, and consequently reach more students. There are two challenges in the hackathon which are:

  1. Mobile app challenge: Improve or extend existing Moodle plugins (or create your own) for the Moodle mobile app, so that users can access all Moodle functionalities via mobile devices.
  2. LMS VidCon challenge: Improve or extend existing Moodle plugins for video conferencing so that users can further easily switch to virtual classes with little effort.

While all participants who qualified will receive a participation certificate and a participation Moodle badge. The winners will receive formal recognition from UN officials and the European Commission and their proposals will be used and published. Additionally all winners will receive a special certificate and special Moodle Badges.

Easily navigate within your Moodle course using the Navigation Buttons plugin

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Jaswinder Singh
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Moodle is the acronym for Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment and it can be easily extendd with the help of Moodle Plugins. There are more than 1980+ plugins shared by the Moodle community developers in the Moodle plugins directory. One such plugin is Navigation Buttons block which is currently being maintained by Davo Smith.

The navigation buttons plugin is available for all Moodle Versions. You can download the compatible version from the Moodle Plugins directory here. It is worth to mention that the plugin is actively maintained over past so many years

Introducing Navigation Buttons Moodle Plugin

How to install:

To get started with the Navigation Buttons plugin, you need to download it from the Moodle Plugins directory. Since, it is a Blocks type Moodle plugin, you need to install it into your_moodle_site/blocks/  directory followed by completing the installation process through the Notifications page.

If you are not familiar with Moodle plugins installation, check out the complete Moodle Plugins Installation guide here.

How to Setup:

You can setup the Navigation Buttons plugin as an administrator after installation. You can choose how the navigation buttons will appear for different activities in Moodle course. You can choose to show the navigation buttons when activity completion is marked complete or else choose to show them always as shown below.

Easily navigate within your Moodle course using the Navigation Buttons plugin
Navigation Buttons plugin settings for administrator

As the teacher you need to Turn the Editing Mode On and then click Add a Block to your course page and choose ‘Navigation Block’.

Customise the button appearance by clicking on ‘Edit the Navigation Button settings’ in the newly created block.

Points to be noted:

The plugin provide a unique feature to show the quick navigation buttons above & below the course content area. But with Moodle core focusing on improved user experience, do you really need this plugin on your Moodle. Can the users navigate to next activity through the side menu. Just ponder upon these thought before using the Navigation Buttons Plugin.

Submit your presentation proposal for MoodleMoot Global before 30 June

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Jaswinder Singh
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Submit your presentation proposal for MoodleMoot Global before 30 June
Submit your presentation proposal for MoodleMoot Global before 30 June

Call for presentation proposal is open for the upcoming MoodleMoot Global 2022. The MoodleMoot Global will be held in Hotel Barceló Sants, Barcelona, Spain from 27-29 September.

This will be the third Global MoodleMoot and this time it will be held in person. So you will get a chance to connect with  Moodlers around the world to learn & share your ideas around Moodle.

This year the MoodleMoot Global will be focussed on the following topics:

  • Moodle of the future
  • Realising the full potential of Moodle
  • Integrating Moodle with external tools
  • Supporting an international and diverse community
  • Learner centred education: empowering learners
  • Using Moodle in unique and unexpected ways

Submit your presentation proposal before 30 June

You can submit your presentation proposal to present your ideas, case studies and showcases of best practices with Moodle LMS and Moodle Workplace.

Click here to submit the proposal.

An Introduction To Plugins In Moodle LMS, Types & Description For Beginners

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Jaswinder Singh
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An Introduction To Plugins In Moodle LMS, Types & Description For Beginners
Moodle Plugins Introduction

Moodle as the name suggest is Modular in nature. You can extend the Moodle functionality  by installing plugins on your Moodle site.

Moodle Plugins directory is the official area where you will find Moodle Plugins compatible with different Moodle versions. As on 19 May 2022, there are 1978 Plugins available in the Directory. These plugins are developed and shared by 1097 Moodle community members.

The easiest way to add new functionality in Moodle is by using Plugins. First have a look around the Moodle Plugins directory to see if there is a plugin already developed by Moodle community doing the job. Otherwise you can easily write your own Moodle Plugin.

Moodle core allows you to add various types of plugins to extend the functionality of different areas. In Moodle 4.0 release, the question bank is upgraded to allow plugins to extend the quiz functionality.

Overall Moodle allows more than 59 types of plugins. Moodle plugins are sorted by types, the most popular filtering criteria in the directory.

The plugin type often determines the location in the Moodle directory where they should be installed like mod_Plugin need to be kept in Moodle/mod directory.

Here is the complete list of Moodle Plugin Types available in Moodle.

Planning before using Moodle Plugins

  • User Experience Evaluation – This includes decisions not to install plugins due to conflicting or overlapping functionality.
  • Server Storage space & memory consumption analysis.
  • Site performance Impact
  • Support for Moodle Plugin
  • Future compatibility

If you  are looking to learn how to write your own Moodle plugins, then you can follow this guide.

MoodleMoot Brasil 2022 – Check out the final presentation schedule

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Jaswinder Singh
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MoodleMoot Brasil 2022 - Check out the final presentation schedule
MoodleMoot Brasil 2022 Schedule

Fasten your seatbelts for the MoodleMoot Brasil 2022 as the event will take place on 27 May 2022. This year the event will be completely online and the interested community members can register for free through this link. The schedule for the MoodleMoot Brasil 2022 is out now with lot of exciting topics.

The presentation topics include Gamification in Moodle, Gamified Learning, Using skills in Moodle, Cost optimization in cloud enviroments. There will be case studies and ebooks also during the MoodleMoot Brasil 2022.

Check out the complete schedule for the MoodleMoot Brasil 2022 here – https://moodlebrasil.org/category/mootbr22/palestrante-27052022/

The registrations for the attending the MoodleMoot Brasil 2022 are open. All interested community members can register for the event through this link. The registrations for the event are completely free of cost.

What are the topics you are looking to attend in the MoodleMoot Brasil. Please share with us in the comments below.

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