If the title caught your attention, then chances are: * you’re an instructor new to online learning or, * you’re a department administrator seeking to draw instructors to online learning or, * you’re an instructional designer helping instructors integrate technology into their teaching practices At any rate, this series is aimed at illustrating how using [...]
So, where to begin? Let’s talk about what you already DO know: your syllabus. Every instructor has a “plan” for what content they are going to deliver to their students, what tools and resources they will be using, and how they are going to assess the learning of their students. This is the all-powerful “syllabus”. [...]
Link to Moodle Site Administration: Bringing Together Technology and Usability course – the course provides detailed information on Moodle implementation practices, community-building, and site administration configuration.
Moodle Process note: When doing a Moodle installation, you should use 1 server and the processes outlined for backup/restore/reset a course. # Using two servers and backing up and restoring across servers, unless you’ve an enterprise MySQL installation and team, is bad practice. # Find out how the software was intended to work, how it [...]
If you’ve already got courses built on Moodle using an unsecure server and you switch to a secure server, the http will not auto-translate to https in all of your course links. Moodle seeks out the root file path to swap out and update links when courses are restored – meaning it takes the “http://yourserver.com/file.php/###/” [...]
Restoring across servers is going to break links coded in Moodle modules unless the “add a resource” function is used at the activity level.
Find out how the software was intended to work, how it actually works, and then apply this knowledge.
Using two servers and backing up and restoring across servers, unless you’ve an enterprise MySQL installation and team, is bad practice.
Moodle Process note: When doing a Moodle installation, you should use 1 server and the processes outlined for backup/restore/reset a course.
Moodle is an open-source learning management system (LMS). It has been around for awhile. Currently, it’s the hot “new” system in competition with other LMS courseware systems – both public and private – such as WebCT/Blackboard, Angel Learning, Desire2Learn, Sakai, ETUDES NG, and various textbook publisher versions of LMS systems. The draw of Moodle is [...]