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Moodle 2.5 Release

Submitted by ghenrick

on May 19th, 2013 at 3:54:08 PM

As promised Moodle HQ has now released the much anticipated Moodle 2.5. It is available to download from the Moodle.org site.

There are a lot of cool new things and improved old things in this release which are sure to make many users admins and teachers alike very happy. I have blogged on some of these including:

Badges (see blog/video post)
Installing Add-ons from inside Moodle UI (see

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Moodle 2 versions of the Moodle Tool Guide

Submitted by ghenrick

on March 2nd, 2013 at 8:55:43 AM

As you may remember I released a Moodle 2 version of Moodle Tool Guide which was created by Joyce Seitzinger (@catspyjamasnz).

There are now a number of language translation/variations of it.

The other available versions of the Moodle 2 Tool Guide are:

English version by Gavin Henrick (@ghenrick)
Spanish translation by Alfredo Ruiz.
German version by Ralf Hilgenstock and Susanne Gebauer and Gerald

moodle

Moodle 2

Toolguide

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Some thoughts on MOOCs

Submitted by ghenrick

on December 31st, 2012 at 7:33:24 PM

Over on my blog, I wrote some thoughts on MOOCs over two posts:

Some random thoughts on MOOCs - Dec 18th

Over the last few years we have seen Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) go from few in number to now there are a good number of them out there, with the most recent announcement of Futurelearn promising even more.

What is a MOOC though?

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Using Moodle with the Dropbox Repository

Submitted by ghenrick

on October 24th, 2012 at 9:01:18 AM

Although it has been available for quite a while, after a number of questions I have put up a blog post going through all aspects of the Dropbox repository setup.

So for the workshop I had to set up three new Dropbox users.

A user for the institution

A user – Paul Jones who will be the student in the Moodle course

A user – james Smith who will be the teacher in Moodle.

The institution account is