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Moodle/SLoodle Experiments – Issue 1

A couple of years back we rigged up a Moodle VLE server (http://moodle.org) and set up some “courses” to support collaborative meetings especially to allow for file resource interchange and sharing,...

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Moodle/SLoodle Experiments – Issue 2

I attended a briefing about the new SLoodle 2 toolset on the EduNation III region of Second Life on Sunday 18-Sep-2011 by Paul Priebsch (avatar name: Fire Centaur). About 30 other educators were...

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Moodle/SLoodle Experiments – Issue 3

A way to display good quality text is important in the classrooms. Shared Media/Media-on-a-Prim (MOAP) allows a small number (say 4-6 simultaneously active) feeds from web pages, video, Flash, etc. to...

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Moodle/SLoodle Experiments – Issue 4

We have been held up for a while in our experimentation with Moodle/SLoodle since the new versions (2.1.2 as at 10-Oct-2011) required a later version of PHP than our servers were set to. Apache/PHP...

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Moodle/SLoodle Experiments – Issue 5

I have now used the admin account to set my self with a role of “course creator”. Logging back on as myself I had the extra site administration menu to create a course. The setup was pretty easy and I...

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Moodle/SLoodle Experiments – Issue 6

I have been in contact with the SLoodle development and test community in the last few week, as they are preparing a release that can work with the latest Moodle 2.1+. The time now seems right to try...

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Moodle/SLoodle Experiments – Issue 7

After a small change in a login method made by Edmund Edgar, one of the SLoodle developers, to one file at mod/set-1.0/shared_media/index.php the 2.0.10-alpha release of SLoodle works in the SLoodle...

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Moodle/SLoodle Experiments – Issue 8

I have been testing elements of the SLoodle Second Life toolkit version 2.0.10 alpha alongside Moodle 2.1.2 and the SLoodle module 2.0.10 alpha with a few revisions being made by Edmund Elgar, a...

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Moodle/SLoodle Experiments – Issue 9 – Mobile Apps

There is an iPhone/iPod/iPad app called “My Moodle” which provides mobile device access to Moodle 2.1+. See http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/my-moodle/id461289000 The experimental Moodle 2.1.2 site at...

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Moodle/SLoodle Experiments Issue 10 – Cron and the Zombies

Its Halloween, and the Zombies have attacked! There has been a bit of a struggle to get the “cron” job running on the Moodle setup. cron.php is an admin routine that is run every few minutes to do a...

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Moodle/SLoodle Experiments Issue 11 – Walled Garden or Castle Battlements and...

Our experience of setting up Moodle as an administrator, for a couple of sample courses of different kinds (weekly, topic based and social format) and by adding in the SLoodle module both in the web...

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Moodle/SLoodle Experiments Issue 12 – Customised Inworld Object

With kind support from Edmund Edgar I have been experimenting with the “Demo Object” in SLoodle, which is a stub or template for developing customised objects in Second Life or OpenSim which can...

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Moodle/SLoodle Experiments Issue 13 – External Tools as Course Activities

Moodle 2.2 released today (6-Dec-2011) includes a facility which allows for the embedding of tools that are provided externally as activities on courses. Close integration is possible using the IMS...

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Moodle – University of Edinburgh – Playground Informatics

The University of Edinburgh Moodle Virtual Learning Environment is now available at https://www.moodle.is.ed.ac.uk A playground for experimentation with Moodle for the School of Informatics distance...

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Experiments with Moodle

The chosen Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) for distance education delivery in the University of Edinburgh is Moodle, an open source platform.  Initially it is available for use for on-line and...

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Moodle/SLoodle Experiments Issue 14 – OpenVCE.net Moodle and SLoodle 2.1 Beta...

We have now updated http://openvce.net/moodle from Moodle 1.9 to Moodle 2.2 since the appropriate up to date PHP version is available on the Linux server used for the site. The site is currently set...

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Moodle/SLoodle Experiments Issue 15 – a Custom SLoodle Demo Object

To provide a basis for custom facilities in a SLoodle classroom or virtual world meeting space, Edmund Edgar, one of the core SLoodle developers, has described how to add a new (demonstration or...

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AI Planning Course on University Moodle VLE

AI Planning is a masters level course taught at the University of Edinburgh School of Informatics by Gerhard Wickler and Austin Tate. A version has been prepared for on-line and distance education uses...

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Edinburgh MOOCs

On 3rd October 2016 a celebration of the first 5 years of University of Edinburgh Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) took place in the Playfair Library in the University’s Old College. 35 MOOCs on...

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