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Friday, June 1, 2012

Upload files faster and easier in Moodle 1.9 with less mouse clicks. What do you think?

Moodle 1.9.x is like old wine that keeps getting better. There are a 1,001 different ways to innovate and enhance the code. Here's what I managed to do, recently, with the "Link to file or website" resource.



The humble Browse button has sprouted siblings. In this case nine other Browse buttons. Why settle for just one Browse button, when you can have 10 of them! In the screenshot above, you are 11 clicks away from uploading 10 files. Still, you might argue that that's 11 clicks too many still. However, considering that there are no page refreshes between which picking of each file, this feature will be welcomed, I am sure, by teachers and site administrators.

Secondly, here's what I did to enhance the "Advanced loading of files" assignment activity. Now students can upload multiple files within a Moodle assignment. They should now have less reasons why Moodle is so "clunky". The benefit of this? Less mouse clicks, less page refreshes and more student and user satisfaction. After all, time is money.




Sunday, May 27, 2012

RSS Plus - a new RSS Kid On The Block for Moodle 2.x

I. What RSS is
Do you use a Real Simple Syndication (RSS) block on your Moodle site?  RSS (Rich Site Summary) is a format for delivering regularly changing web content. Many news-related sites, weblogs and other online publishers syndicate their content as an RSS Feed to whoever wants it (from http://www.whatisrss.com/).


Friday, May 18, 2012

Eighty-Six Moodle-related articles since 5th June 2011. Just another ...

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posts to go before I hit a century of Moodle posts on my blog site! 

How would you like to be able to UPLOAD multiple student response files to assignment submissions?

Learning Outcome
At the end of this post, you will know how to enable multiple uploads of Moodle assignment response files.
This post is the companion post to my previous post on Moodlenews.com entitled“Download student assignment uploads for Moodle 1.9 in one fell swoop. What a time-saver!”. The work presented here is Terry Apprilianto’s hack for Moodle 1.9′s Assignment activity.  Many thanks also to John Holmes of Jakarta International School, for sharing this with the Moodle community.

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