Moodle

Mar 14, 2014

Moodle News: March 2014

As part of DELTA’s ongoing efforts to keep you informed, here’s the latest Moodle News to help you make the most effective use of Moodle in your courses. Moodle Upgrade Moodle 2.6 is now available for you to begin preparing summer and fall courses. Expect to see only minor changes in the Moodle user interface,…

Jan 10, 2014

Highlights from the November Moodle Moot

DELTA’s Scott Watkins and Marty Dulberg attended the 2013 Moodle Moot conference in New Orleans, on Nov. 5 and 6. They learned about the future direction of Moodle, heard about the innovative uses of Moodle on other campuses and brought home some great ideas for future features in our own Moodle. Here are some of…

Jan 10, 2014

Moodle News

As the new semester gets underway, here’s the latest Moodle News to help you make the most effective use of Moodle as you’re teaching your courses. New Features in Moodle WeBWorK block to create and administer online homework in Moodle. (more info) Nanogong plug-in to record audio clips within Moodle. (more info) Moodle Workshop module…

Dec 2, 2013

LMS Updates, Fall 2013

As part of our ongoing efforts to increase the usability and feature set of WolfWare, and improve performance and make the system more robust, DELTA recently made several updates to our campus learning management system (LMS) tools, specifically Moodle. Here is a summary of work performed during the fall 2013 semester. August 2013 Fixed margin…

Dec 7, 2012

Moodle 2: What’s Coming

For those of you who are interested but were unable to attend, Marty Dulberg and Cathi Phillips gave a seminar on December 4, titled “Moodle 2: What’s Coming.” The seminar was recorded to make it available to anyone interested in watching it. Please note that this will be redone in February when we have more…

Nov 15, 2012

Moodle 2 Upgrade FAQs

Included here are some of the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) about our recent upgrade to Moodle 2 for summer sessions. If your question isn’t here, please leave a comment and we will do our best to answer it! When was Moodle upgraded? DELTA upgraded the Moodle academic servers from version 1.9 to 2.3 in May…

Sep 16, 2011

NC State Enterprise Learning Management System (LMS) Updates

Here are some exciting changes that have been made to NC State's LMSs over the last six months, and some updates on where we as a campus.

Mar 14, 2011

LMS: Updates to Elluminate and the Course Request Tool(Archive)

We wanted to let you know about two changes to our LMSs. 1) Elluminate Live has a new look! 2) Requesting Courses in Moodle has a few changes.

Mar 9, 2011

Shortening the List of Courses in Moodle

For the last eighteen months, the default setting in Moodle has been to leave courses available to students even after the semester is finished. As a result, the list of available courses keeps growing. This has led to concerns from both students (see this article in the Technician) and instructors about finding their current courses…

Aug 27, 2010

LMS Maintenance on August 28

Schedule Moodle: Saturday, August 28, 8:00am – 11:00am Moodle Some fixes for issues reported after the upgrade on 14 August. Fix some display errors with ncsu_* themes where the visited links did not match the rest of the theme. Also add a missing gradebook icon to the NCSU developed themes. Install the Respondus plugin for…