User:James Neill

Currently working on

1. Using Quiz
2. Moodleposium
   1. Open education with Moodle and Wikiversity
   2. Moodleposium/2010
   3. James Neill/Moodleposium/2010
   4. Moodleposium/2009
   5. James Neill/Moodleposium/2009

I'm reading/learning/trying

1. Export
2. GIFT format
3. Gradebook improvements in Moodle 1.9.5
4. Student tutorials
5. MoodleDocs:Transclusion - trying to figure out how to transclude content e.g., across multiple pages and sites
6. HTML editor
7. HTML linking
8. Course homepage
9. Course formats
10. Shared activities course format
11. Hot Potatoes
12. Inserting css to create a new header/banner (Robson)
13. Embedded screen case videos in slide presentations (Ridden)
14. 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.

James Neill/Bio

1. Been using Moodle as a teacher moderately extensively since 2008 and a Moodle Mentor at the University of Canberra - but still learning about how to James Neill/Using 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. Advocate of open academic principles and practices.
4. Interested in disruptive technologies, open educational resources, and usability.
5. Generally, I'm most active over at Wikiversity: my Wikiversity user page. Also see twitter and linkedin.

James Neill/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

James Neill/People

(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

James Neill/See also

These are some of my user James Neill/Subpages which contain notes about using Moodle

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

Some other (technical) subpages

• James Neill/MediaWiki - not much here; technical notes about using MediaWiki

James Neill/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