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Category Archive for 'enhancements'

Better session handling

Posted in announcement, browser, enhancements, error, forums, post, session, syndicated-posts, troubleshooting on Aug. 12, 2011 by

When you log into our Moodle (perhaps via your portfolio), you start a browser ‘session.’ During the ‘session’ you can move around in Moodle without having to log in repeatedly. For the most part sessions are invisible to users, something between the browser and the server. And that’s how it should be. We recently made […]

Better session handling

Posted in announcement, browser, enhancements, error, forums, post, session, syndicated-posts, troubleshooting on Aug. 12, 2011 by

When you log into our Moodle (perhaps via your portfolio), you start a browser ‘session.’ During the ‘session’ you can move around in Moodle without having to log in repeatedly. For the most part sessions are invisible to users, something between the browser and the server. And that’s how it should be. We recently made […]

What’s new?

Posted in announcements, enhancements, scheduler, syndicated-posts, upgrade, upload on Mar. 14, 2011 by

We upgraded Moodle this past Saturday morning. For the most part the changes are minor, but there are at least two differences you may want to take note of. The procedure for uploading files to a course has gotten easier. You will now see an “upload” dialog directly on every screen in your course file […]

Flash cards and new Lesson options

Posted in announcement, announcements, enhancements, flash-cards, lessons, syndicated-posts on Mar. 1, 2011 by

We made two improvements to our Moodle installation this morning: Flash cards We added a “Flash card” module. To use the module instructors can turn editing on for a course page and then choose “Flash Card Set” from the add-an-activity drop-down menu. Please get in touch with your Academic Computing Manager for additional assistance. Enhanced […]

Simple file upload

Posted in announcement, announcements, enhancements, file, forums, improvement, syndicated-posts, upload on Jan. 26, 2011 by

Adding files to our Moodle courses has gotten much easier. See a demo of the more efficient procedure at:
http://moodle.blogs.wesleyan.edu/moodle-in-fifteen/minute-2-add-a-syllabus/

Current Courses List

Posted in announcements, enhancements, syndicated-posts on Jan. 24, 2011 by

You may already have noticed a change that we have made to our Moodle dashboard: The list of your courses in the upper left is now organized so that your current courses are displayed separately from the others and prominently at the top of the list. We hope this change will help you more easily […]

Guest access now available

Posted in access, enhancements, guest, login, permissions, syndicated-posts on Nov. 9, 2010 by

All of our Moodle courses are created with guest access disabled. In addition we had been hiding the guest access button on the login screen. Now that we have had a better chance to test it, we have made the guest access button visible so that instructors can offer guest access comparable to what we […]