How to add Twitter and Facebook buttons to your Moodle site

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Adding Twitter and Facebook like buttons to a website is always a good idea if you’d like to spread the word about your site through social networking. In this tutorial I will walk you through how to add the commonly seen buttons to your Moodle site. Read more

How to add a promotional banner to your Moodle front page

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If you have seen our new premium Moodle Theme’s demo site, you will notice that there is a promotional banner placed on the Moodle’s front page. By default, Moodle’s front page is the site landing page, and landing page is … Read more

How to use Dropbox as a Moodle file repository

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If you have a Dropbox account and also use Moodle, you will be glad to know that in Moodle 2.x you can connect the two together and use Dropbox as a Moodle file repository. Read more

How to set Moodle’s user login page as the site’s landing page

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It is possible to change Moodle’s default landing page to the user login page so that only site registered users are able to proceed further. Read more

How to check your Moodle site’s version and build

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As a Moodle site administrator it’s always handy to know your installation’s version and build to be able to identify version or build related bugs and decide if you need to upgrade to the latest version. Read more

How to enable Moodle’s maintenance mode

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It’s good practice to put Moodle into maintenance mode if you are going to upgrade the site, make big changes to the existing courses or test different themes for the courses. Read more

How to use Google Docs as a Moodle file repository

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Google Docs is another wonderful free online service provided by Google. In this tutorial, I am going to show you how to use Google Docs as your Moodle file repository. Read more

How to use Flickr as a Moodle image repository

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Like Youtube is known as a great online video repository, the Yahoo-owned service Flickr has gained it’s popularity as a great online image repository. It is reported that there are now 6 billion images hosted on Flickr and the number is still growing. Read more

How to visually track student progress in a Moodle course

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Recently, I was asked if there is a way for students and teachers to track the progress in a Moodle course. After some looking around on Moodle.org, I discovered a wonderful third party plugin called “Progress Bar”… Read more

How to use Google Analytics for your Moodle 2.0 site

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Do you want to obtain detailed statistics about the visitors to your Moodle site? If the answer is yes then you need to use Google Analytics to track the site traffic. Read more