User:James Neill

From MoodleDocs

Current

1. Moodleposium/2009
2. User:James Neill/Moodleposium/2009

I'm reading/learning/trying

1. Gradebook improvements in Moodle 1.9.5
2. Student tutorials
3. MoodleDocs:Transclusion - trying to figure out how to transclude content e.g., across multiple pages and sites
4. HTML editor
5. HTML linking
6. Course homepage
7. Course formats
8. Shared activities course format
9. Hot Potatoes
10. Inserting css to create a new header/banner (Robson)
11. Embedded screen case videos in slide presentations (Ridden)
12. OU wiki

Usability

1. Course formats
2. Development:Quiz Usability portal
3. Usability Forum
4. Development:Moodle User Interface Guidelines
5. Usability FAQ
6. Usability tracker
7. Users should be able to toggle centre column sections open/closed

Please come and see my sandpit Moodle site at UC - I welcome your suggestions.

Contents 1 Current 2 I'm reading/learning/trying 2.1 Usability 3 Bio 4 My Moodle 4.1 Profile pages 4.2 Fora posts 4.3 Moodle sites 5 People I'm 'working' with 6 Related apps 7 See also 8 External links

Bio

1. Pretty much a Moodle noob - still learning about how to use Moodle.
2. Lecturer in psychology, University of Canberra (UC), Australia -- UC switched from WebCT to Moodle in 2009. I'm a "Moodle Mentor" (helping staff in my discipline to adopt/adapt to Moodle)
3. Interested in disruptive technologies, open educational resources, and usability.
4. Generally, I'm most active over at Wikiversity: my Wikiversity user page. Also see twitter and linkedin.

My Moodle

Profile pages

• Uni of Canberra
• Moodle.org
• Moodlemootau.org
• Wikiversity Moodle Sandbox

Fora posts

• Using Moodle

Moodle sites

• Sandpit
• Social Psychology
• Survey Research & Design in Psychology

People I'm 'working' with

(whether they like it or not! :) - feel free to add yourself or adjust your description - this is a wiki ;) )

• Alan Arnold - UC lead for its Moodle implementation
• Chris Collman - Moodle- & wiki-knowledgable friendly/helpful fellow
• Helen Foster - MoodleDocs admin
• Martin Dougiamas - [1] - Lead Moodle creator & omniscience
• Minh-Tam Nguyen - UC tech for its Moodle implementation
• Olli Savolainen - usability dude
• Sue DeMoor - UC lead trainer for its Moodle implementation
• Tim Hunt - a Moodle developer; maintains quiz module

Related apps

1. Equella
2. Mahara
3. Wimba

See also

These are some of my user subpages which contain notes about using Moodle

• Moodle - a general starting point for some of my Moodle interests
• Quiz - a Moodle activity which I'm keen to learn about
• Training notes - some detailed notes from a 2-day Moodle training
• Using Moodle - some practical stuff I'm learning about Moodle for teachers

Some other (technical) subpages

• MediaWiki - not much here; technical notes about using MediaWiki

External links

• Moodle.org - Demo
  • Using Moodle
• Pages I've tagged as "moodle" on del.icio.us
• Moodle (my notes on ucspace - could be migrated to here)
• Riverview playpen - Julian Ridden's highly renowned demo Moodle site