Moodle

Apr 25, 2011

TMS 211 – Weaving an integrated course

Distance education has come a long way since Dr. Jon Rust started teaching Introduction to Fiber Sciences (TMS 211) via post more than 20 years ago. 

Dec 14, 2010

NC State University Enterprise Learning Technologies update

As we complete the fall 2010 semester, we continue moving forward with our Learning Management System (LMS) transition from Blackboard Vista to Moodle. At the same time, we continue to make progress on a single point of entry for our enterprise-level, Web-based instructional systems for students and faculty (https://wolfware.ncsu.edu). There are a number of changes we’ve made during the fall semester, and several that we are planning that we would like to share with you. 

Oct 22, 2010

LMS Maintenance on October 23

We have a maintenance window scheduled for Saturday, October 23. This post contains information about the work scheduled to be performed on our learning management systems during that maintenance window. 

Oct 16, 2010

Reflections on Educause 2010

A number of colleagues (and myself!) attended the Educause conference (which focuses on Information Technology and Higher Education) in Anaheim, CA, the week of October 12. I enjoy the opportunity to attend this conference when I can because I find that the sessions tend to be around the larger, strategic issues that higher education faces… 

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 13, 2010

NC State University Learning Management System (LMS) update

Contributions from: Dr. Donna Petherbridge, Dr. Martin Dulberg, Stacy Gant, Greg Kraus, David Howard, Jeff Webster, Laura Stephenson, Bill Hicks & Daniel L’Hommedieu Gearing up for another academic year while continuing our LMS transition from Blackboard Vista to Moodle, and moving toward a single point of entry (WolfWare) for our enterprise-level, Web-based instructional systems has… 

Aug 13, 2010

Moodle 2.0 Preview

I recently attended the Moodle Moot in Austin, TX where Martin Dougiamas, the founder and lead developer of Moodle, gave a keynote on the state of Moodle 2.0 and I want to share with you some of what is coming in this version. First, version 2.0 has been in development for a couple of years… 

Aug 11, 2010

LMS Maintenance on August 13 and 14

Schedule Elluminate: Friday, August 13, 4:00PM – 5:00PM WolfWare and Moodle: Saturday, August 14, 6:00AM – 12:00PM Elluminate We are upgrading to version 10 of Elluminate which includes the following features: many accessibility enhancements for people using assistive technologies the new Activity Window which allows a person to see in one location all the updates… 

Jun 14, 2010

Instructors Create Coursepages in Just Days at Twelfth Summer Institute

Each summer, DELTA sees an increase in the number of faculty members charged with the task of putting some or all of their course content online. This sometimes daunting request leaves faculty members with a choice: Meander all summer through scattered resources on online teaching tools and methods, or attend DELTA’s one-week Summer Institute on…