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Moodle doesn’t support full-fledged gamification within the core. However there are many features which can be used for gamifying your Moodle course like Activity completion, Conditional Access, Badges etc.
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In human resource industry, 360 degree feedback is known as “multi-rater feedback“, “multi-source feedback“,or “multi-source assessment“. The feedback is provided by subordinates, peers, supervisor and self-feedback.
Over the years, Moodle community members have requested for a 360 degree feedback activity in Moodle. The long desired wish is now true with the release of the 360° feedback – developed by Juan Pataleta : Core developer at Moodle HQ. The new 360 degree feedback activity plugin enables you to run 360 appraisals directly within Moodle. The course participants can give feedback about other participants. You can include the participants in the feedback based on their role like teacher, manager and student. While setting up the 360 degree feedback activity, you can add 2 different question types – Ratings and Comments. The ratings will be averaged in the overall calculation. Via Miloš Bajčetić
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DualCube team has released a new Moodle plugin – “Quiz Analytics”. The quiz analytics plugin extends the reporting capability of Moodle quizzes. The user can see different graphs portraying relevant data as follows:
* Attempt Summary – This graph has the logged in user’s statistics for the last attempt he/she made on that quiz. In case of quizzes allowing single attempt, that attempt is considered the last attempt. * My Progress and Predictions – This tab contains several sub-tabs which gives the idea of how the logged in user has fared over time and the hardest question he/she faced. There’s also a tab specifically for quizzes offering multiple attempts to show the logged user a predictive analysis depending on other users’ attempts and best scores. * Question Categories’ Analysis – This tab is dedicated to the categories/tags all the questions are associated with. The graphs here in the sub-tabs shows the question distribution among categories and an idea of how challenging the categories proved to be. * Scores’ and Questions’ Stats – This tab contains two sub tabs, one showing the number of students in each grade category and the other providing a through analysis of all the questions present in the quiz. Via Miloš Bajčetić
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Online learning is always cursed with low engagement and poor completion rates. Educators always face this challenge and need to address it during the course design process. If you will not take of your course during the design stage, you may also be a victim of the same. Researches shows that in-class polling can be … Via Miloš Bajčetić
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Have you ever thought of giving freedom of choosing the groups on their own to students in your Moodle course? This freedom can help in bringing out a good team work and collaboration among peers.
According to the Social Constructionism pedagogy – We learn particularly well from the act of creating or expressing something for others to see”. Moodle Groups allows you to create learning activities which encourages the students to work as a team to achieve a collaborative goal. Creating a group in a Moodle course is a simple process for a teacher. However, the teacher has to either manually assign the users in the course or else they will added on a random basis. But what if you would like the students to choose their own peers in the groups? Moodle Group choice activity plugin allows students to enrol themselves in a group within a course. It is based on the standard Choice activity in Moodle. As a teacher, you can configure the groups offered, and the most number of students allowed in each group. Via Miloš Bajčetić
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Moodle site administrators always strife to improve the Moodle site performance to deliver a better user experience. As a Moodle administrator, you need to continuously monitor the hardware as well as software performance. But, can you check the Moodle performance through a GUI within Moodle.
The answer is Benchmark Plugin for Moodle. Mickaël PANNEQUIN from France, updated the plugin for Moodle 3.3 compatibility. The “Benchmark” can be used to do various tests to find the quality of the Moodle platform. The lower the score is the better performance of your Moodle. Via Miloš Bajčetić
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Take a look on Twitter or Facebook at any time and it’s clear that nowadays we express ourselves in a variety of media, from text to video. As a new participant in a Moodle course, you can introduce yourself in a forum with short description, a photo and -since Moodle 3.3 – some cool emojis. But wouldn’t it be even better if you can add a short video or sound file too? With a new plugin from the guys who brought us BigBlueButton – you now can!
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The Academic Moodle Cooperation (AMC) has announced updates to its plugin family (already a strong roster of 9) for compatibility with Moodle 3.3. The updates are the result of ongoing cooperation among AMC members and the Moodle community at large. These plugins are designed for general use across the Moodle site and its activities, often in the form of enhancements to default Moodle functionality. When you are taking a look at these, chances are you wonder why some, if not all, are not a Moodle default!
https://www.academic-moodle-cooperation.org/en/module/ Via Miloš Bajčetić
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Are you an educator whose role involves correcting your learners’ spelling, punctuation and grammar? Perhaps you make use of the tools in word-processed documents, such as tracking changes in Microsoft Word? Or perhaps you annotate with comments within Moodle’s assignment activity, now made even more efficient with Google and Microsoft authentication and the Google document converter?
If so, then you’re sure to be interested in Corrections, a simple but effective plugin that enables you to correct learners’ work typed directly into Moodle. It’s an add-on for the popular, accessibility-focused Atto text editor and it enables educators to select and specify particular types of errors – with explanatory comments if needed. Via Miloš Bajčetić
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Students like preparatory questions for exams. However, it’s hard to provide a large quantity of questions for all the self-assessments and exams. That’s why the University of Applied Sciences Rapperswil developed the Moodle plugin StudentQuiz. StudentQuiz enables students to collaboratively create their own question pools within Moodle. Even if an individual student contributes a few questions only, a large cohort can easily build up an extensive question pool.
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Moodle Quiz engine is one of the best among the all available learning management systems. You can customize Moodle quizzes to meet all sector specific requirements from small individual students to large universities, from STEM to language and music teaching etc. But have you ever need to use Moodle for offline quizzes?
For example, let’s assume that you want to assess large number of students on same time. Creating hardware infrastructure for such an exam can be costlier affair. What if you can take the exam offline like on paper & pencil and then grade them in Moodle? Like this you can assess a large number of students in a short span of time. To support offline quiz, there is a Moodle plugin – “Offline Quiz“. The Offline quiz Moodle plugin adds paper-and-pencil multiple-choice quizzes to Moodle. The offline quiz plugin is developed by Academic Moodle Cooperation and is compatible with all stable Moodle versions till Moodle 3.2. Via Miloš Bajčetić, Juergen Wagner, J-Philippe Saingre
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Add audio and video annotations to text, anywhere an Atto text editor is present. This plugin adds buttons for recording audio or video (with audio) to the editor's toolbar. Using WebRTC technologies, all recording is done instantly in the browser. After recording, users can embed the annotation directly into the text they are currently editing. The recording will appear as an audio or video player in the published writing.
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Online teaching is always cursed with low engagement and higher dropout rates as compared to traditional brick and mortar learning methods. Moodle teachers also face the problem of low student interaction within the course. If you are also facing the same problem, there are many ways to improve the student interaction within your Moodle course. Via Miloš Bajčetić
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A new Question type plugin - Multi True False is released in Moodle plugins directory. This new plugin allows you to include multiple true false question within a single question. Via Miloš Bajčetić
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H5P is fast becoming the most preferred choice of educators around the world to create interactive content. It’s open source nature, ease of sharing and reusing are the main reasons for its popularity. H5P is also very much popular among Moodle teachers. The H5P Moodle plugin is among the top 3 most downloaded Moodle activities plugins.
H5P is now used by more than 26,000 sites all around the globe with addition of 1000 new users every week. Recently, the H5P development team updated the H5P Moodle plugin. The new version of the H5P plugin is equipped with new features and improvements based on the Moodle community feedback. Via Miloš Bajčetić
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SurveyPro Moodle plugin allows the creation of custom survey assembling fields and format elements. Surveypro module is developed to answer the more frequent requirements of end users. Like: * Conditional branching * Subset of questions available to teachers ONLY * Speed up form fill as much as it is possible * Force the user to provide a his/her own answer * Possibility to add custom reports etc. Via Miloš Bajčetić, Alan Bessette
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Over the last 15 years, Moodle community has contributed more than 1380+ plugins, which caters to new features and requirements along with Moodle Certificates. Via Miloš Bajčetić
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Instead of upgrading the version of Moodle that we’re using for this academic year, we decided to install some additional plugins to give staff some extra tools and functionality to play with. We’ll be releasing more detailed blog posts about each of these plugins as part of our regular Moodle Monday posts throughout the academic year. Via Miloš Bajčetić
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Are you a Moodle administrator who used to manage multiple Moodle sites? You might have experienced the pain of configuring the same settings again and again on production, development and other instances of your Moodle site. Is there any way to simply copy and export all configuration settings from one Moodle instance to another? Answer to the question is yes.
Admin presets block is a Moodle plugin which allows you to simply export the site settings to .xml presets, import and load other sites presets. The plugin which was initially developed by David Monllaó, is now being maintained by Clément Prudhomme & Nikolaos Papoutsis. Recently, the Admin presets plugin was updated to a new version compatible with Moodle 3.3 version. By using the admin presets block, you can export all the site settings into .xml files which can be later imported to other Moodle sites. It also provides rollback of applied changes and partial loading of presets which is a great feature for administrators. Via Miloš Bajčetić
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Moodle's improved course overview dashboard contains details about past, in progress and future courses, with radial progress indicator and upcoming deadlines. However, there is no way to alter the display options for the improved course dashboard. Learning Works – New Zealand, along with Mathew May & Jeremy FitzPatrick contributed a new Moodle plugin – My Courses. The My Courses block provides an alternate dashboard for learners. It shows their enrolled courses and progress throughout the course if there is course completion enabled. Via Miloš Bajčetić
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Enable users to upload files from their private storage directly into Moodle. Supports Nextcloud and ownCloud!
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H5P has revolutionized the elearning industry in past few years because of the freedom to create interactive content easily. It is getting more popular day by day because of the ease it provides in creating, sharing and reusing the interactive content. Since the release of the official H5P moodle plugin, it stays in the top 5 most downloaded activities plugins.
H5P allows you to create and reuse interactive content across various devices without installing any special software. You can create new H5P activity right within your browser. There are many activities out there and you can choose whatever suits your need. We had covered the top H5P activities for Moodle teachers. Via Miloš Bajčetić
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MooTyper is an Activity module. A course admin, manager, or teacher creates the activity and prepares it for use by selecting the keyboard layout and lessons to use. It can be set up to present a series of exercises from a lesson or to present one selected exercise from a lesson as a typing exam. Once set up, students can then start to type the current exercise. When a student finishes an exercise his achievement is saved into a database, so the teacher can then view grades.
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Moodle Quiz engine is one of the best among the all available learning management systems. You can customize Moodle quizzes to meet all sector specific requirements from small individual students to large universities, from STEM to language and music teaching etc. But have you ever need to use Moodle for offline quizzes?
For example, let’s assume that you want to assess large number of students on same time. Creating hardware infrastructure for such an exam can be costlier affair. What if you can take the exam offline like on paper & pencil and then grade them in Moodle? Like this you can assess a large number of students in a short span of time. To support offline quiz, there is a Moodle plugin – “Offline Quiz“. The Offline quiz Moodle plugin adds paper-and-pencil multiple-choice quizzes to Moodle. The offline quiz plugin is developed by Academic Moodle Cooperation and is compatible with all stable Moodle versions till Moodle 3.2. Via Miloš Bajčetić
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