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.
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How to use Google Docs as a Moodle file repository
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.
How to use Flickr as a Moodle image repository
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.
How to visually track student progress in a Moodle course
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”…
How to use Google Analytics for your Moodle 2.0 site
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.
How to install a new Mahara Theme
We have just released our first free Mahara theme – Orange. The theme is developed to be consistent with our free Moodle theme – Mandarin, so you can use them together to form a seamless “Mahoodle” setup…
How to bulk upload users to Mahara
Adding users one by one in Mahara can be a tedious admin job. Luckily, Mahara actually provides a quick and easy way for adding multiple users at one go…
How to pull a Twitter Feed into Moodle
Twitter has become ubiquitous on the web nowadays. Displaying your organization’s Twitter Feed on your website is an effective way to inform your site visitors or users about your latest news and events…
Moodle, Mahara and Mahoodle
Recently, we have launched our Moodle and Mahara demonstration sites. If you are interested in the open source e-learning platform and e-portfolio system, you should definitely take a look…
How to add a horizontal navigation menu in Moodle 2.0
A horizontal navigation menu is an almost must-have element for all websites these days, and it has become a website design convention. Site navigation has a great impact in terms of user experience, hence it is essential to have this enabled for your Moodle site…
Embed YouTube videos into your Moodle 2.0 course
More and more teachers and trainers are using video clips to enhance their material these days. As YouTube has gained great popularity among educators, I’m going to show you how to embed YouTube videos into your Moodle course…
Add custom welcome message to Moodle’s login page
By default, Moodle’s login page looks like Figure 1 shown below, with the default login form centered on the page. In this tutorial, I’m going to quickly show you how to add a custom welcome message next to the login form as shown in Figure 2…