Moodle

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…

Aug 20, 2010

The Gory Details of the Moodle Performance Issue of August 18, 2010

This post provides more technical details related to the Moodle performance degradation we saw on Wednesday, 8/18. Warning, there is a lot of technical jargon below! This is a narrative of the events as they happened.

Aug 16, 2010

Vista to Moodle: Everybody’s Doing It

Blackboard.com has discontinued the Vista product line, and come June 2011, this Learning Management System (LMS) will no longer be available at NC State. All courses being taught using Vista need to be migrated to Moodle, and instructors have two options: Migrate their course content manually with the support of workshops and online job aids, or…