Link to edit a course

In Moodle 3, the editing of a course is possible if one is a teacher or with other editing rights.

The URL to directly edit a known course uses the commands update&return=1.

In the following examples, the course ID is 100

Open the course page
course/view.php?id=100

and to open the page as in editing
course/modedit.php?update=100&return=1

Any page that is already having an edit session 
mod/page/view.php?id=100&notifyeditingon=1

This is introduction should help with understanding the framework.

Moodle 3.1 LTE

Looking forward to better support for mobile and tablet devices.

Apple's iPad and Pearson Education is in trouble

If only contents were ceated on open systems, nobody would be left out of knowledge pursuit.

LA Unified School Disctrict have voiced their concern of the 2013 iPad project as reported in LA Times.

Its a lot of money that went into their education system. Would you have proposed Moodle combined with content providers to deliver contents for Apple?

See http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-ipad-curriculum-refund-20150415-story.html

Designing Contents for eLearning, Effectively

For those who have just started in Moodle, it would be wise to design the contents instead of jumping head-on to create it.


1. Get a clear picture of what is the intended content and its audience
Spend some amount of time to determine that required content. For a start, refer to an existing Lesson Plan or discuss with another person who is also familiar with the contents.
As a guide:

1. Determine a clear objective
2. What might the difficult for the learner to understand?
3. Determine a way to measure what was learnt

2. Make the contents active
Learning that may already be interesting such as those with action-oriented and includes user behaviour and is easily added to contents. For informative items that look like its going to be a boring bullet point presentations, it will kill an online learner. Use visual designs for this type of contents to help retention.
As a guide:

1. Look for graphics online
2. Use word association
3. Look at different ways of presenting multimedia contents

3. Create meaningful activities
Design activities with the learnings in mind. Activities can be done within the same content, external online resources or offline. It will take extra effort initially, but custom activities will keep learners coming back for more.

Tools for Learning

The annual survey on tools for learning is out and the result from 61 countries is largely predictable. Of interest is Moodle being at #12 and TED Ed at number #26.

Top 100 Tools for Learning 2014 from Jane Hart

Following are items that caught my attention. What was of interest to you?

1. Twitter
2. x
3. YouTube
4. PowerPoint
5. x
6. WordPress (Isn't this a general site creator? Whats it doing here?)
7. x
8. x
9. x
10. x
11. Google+ Communities and Hangout
12. Moodle
13. x
14. x
15. x
16. x
17. x
18. x
19. x
20. x
21. x
22. x
23. x
24. x
25. x
26. TED Ed
27. x
28. x
29. x
30. x
31. Gmail
32. x
33. x
34. x
35. x
36. x
37. x
38. Coursera
39. x
40. KhanAcademy
41. x
42. x
43. Excel
44. x
45. x
46. PowToon (This is a surprise)
47. x
48. x
49. x
50. Udutu
51. x
52. Jing
53. x
54. x
55. Flickr
56. x
57. x
58. Quizlet
59.  x
60. x
61. Mahara
62. x
63. SurveyMonley
64. x
65. Microsoft Sharepoint
66. Haiku Deck
67. x
68. x
69. Google Apps for Work, Govt & Edu
70. x
71. x
72. x
73. x
74. x
75. Google Sites
76. Delicious
77. x
78. x
79. Tumblr
80. x
81. x
82. OpenOffice
83. x
84. x
85. x
86. x
87. x
88. x
89. x
90. Edpuzzle
91. x
92. Firefox & Add ons (Whats this doing here?)
93. xxxx

Starting the community

This new version of Moodle is really starting to show its colours.

After the initial confusion with changes from version 1.9, it looks like there are great things to come. I am working on gathering the Moodle groups together in Malaysia. At the moment its via face book.

Look forward to your participation at https://www.facebook.com/pages/Moodle-Community-Malaysia/126691500742399