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![• Hints by Moodle alone
– Adding only pulldown menu, it becomes cool
• Home / ► Site administration / ► Appearance / ► Themes / ► Theme settings
• Add title and URL In [Custom menu items] text box .
• Layered structure is possible .
– Customizing front page
• Home / ► Front page settings / ► Edit settings
• Write HTML code in Front page summary or we recommend to use an iframe .
• Theme
– Moodle has many themes as plugin .
• You can install the theme by downloaded as zip file to upload to your
moodle .
– Home / ► Site administration / ► Plugins / ► Install add-ons
– The plugins excluding theme may be hard to select [Plugin type ] . -> Refer zip’s
README.txt .
– Select theme, Home / ► Site administration / ► Appearance / ► Themes / ► Theme selector
• Boot Strap
– Developed by Twitter, responsible design by using HTML5, CSS3, jQuery .
– Moodle offers the base design ‘bootstrapbase’ and simple ‘Clean’ theme .
•
We, e-learning corp., offers Moodle custom themes .](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/moot2014-e-140224002000-phpapp02/75/Moodle-Moot-Okinawa-365-Tips-for-effective-use-of-Moodle-6-2048.jpg)
![• Changing character code
– To UTF-8
• On sandbox
• https://developer.paypal.com/
• Login as the ordinary paypal account
• From upper menu - Applications – Left menu -Sandbox accounts -[Enter
sandbox]
• When you are jumped to Non sandbox , Japanese site (maybe a kind of
bug), Enter this URL directory .
• https://www.sandbox.paypal.com/jp/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_account](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/moot2014-e-140224002000-phpapp02/75/Moodle-Moot-Okinawa-365-Tips-for-effective-use-of-Moodle-17-2048.jpg)
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Moodle Moot Okinawa #365 'Tips for effective use of Moodle'
This document discusses Moodle, an open-source learning management system (LMS). It provides an overview of Moodle's functions and how to use it effectively depending on needs. Tips are given for customizing Moodle through themes, modules, and plugins. Options for hosting Moodle like on-premises, online hosting providers, or cloud services are presented. Ways to import content from PowerPoint and create quizzes are described. The presentation encourages exploring Moodle's full capabilities and provides resources for learning more.
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Moodle Moot Okinawa #365 'Tips for effective use of Moodle'
- 1. Global standard LMS,Moodle has many functions . So that if you use Moodle efficiency or just file server , is depending on the know-how of usage . This presentation was on elearning award forum in Japan . I hope you will love Moodle as We do . Takeshi Matsuzaki e-learning co., ltd.
- 2. ● Takeshi Matsuzaki ●matsuzakit@e-learning.co.jp ● http://www.facebook.com/matsuzakit ● CEO of e-learning corporation ltd. ● Established in 2000 ● http://www.e-learning.co.jp ● http://www.facebook.com/elearningJPN ● Courseware for IT Engineers ● Moodle service ● Setting , support ● Development ● Training Reliable open source software . Don't spend money to custermize . Exploit your materials . Don't loose time to understand .
- 3. Moodle MySQL, PostgreSQL Oracle ,MS SQL RDBMS httpd Apache IIS PHP Linux Windows OS Hardware/Network • Points – Performance • Amount of students, courses – Security – Backup – Server Admin Where ? On-premises On the Internet Who do it ? bounds
- 4. • Using theimages – Microsoft • Supplying Moodle as a part of Web Matrix • http://www.microsoft.com/web/gallery/moodle.aspx/ja-jp • Hosting by Micorosoft from $ 1.29/month – Amazon Web Service EC2 • 64 images available, From only AWS price To AWS + $5/month • Hosting company – freemoodle.org • http://www.freemoodle.org/ – Joe‘s web hosting • https://www.lms.ac • By e-learning co., ltd. – Latest Moodle version, able to FTP/SSH, Design for the site 12,000yen/month – http://www.e-learning.co.jp/?page_id=444
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- 6. • Hints byMoodle alone – Adding only pulldown menu, it becomes cool • Home / ► Site administration / ► Appearance / ► Themes / ► Theme settings • Add title and URL In [Custom menu items] text box . • Layered structure is possible . – Customizing front page • Home / ► Front page settings / ► Edit settings • Write HTML code in Front page summary or we recommend to use an iframe . • Theme – Moodle has many themes as plugin . • You can install the theme by downloaded as zip file to upload to your moodle . – Home / ► Site administration / ► Plugins / ► Install add-ons – The plugins excluding theme may be hard to select [Plugin type ] . -> Refer zip’s README.txt . – Select theme, Home / ► Site administration / ► Appearance / ► Themes / ► Theme selector • Boot Strap – Developed by Twitter, responsible design by using HTML5, CSS3, jQuery . – Moodle offers the base design ‘bootstrapbase’ and simple ‘Clean’ theme . • We, e-learning corp., offers Moodle custom themes .
- 7. • Many convertingtools for PPT to flash, PPT to HTML5, but not enough . • Moodle offers the module ‘Book’ similar to PPT – ‘Book’ offers continuity pages (html) – ‘Book’ can read from some htmls together . – Pages in a ‘Book’ is editable as html, so that you can insert several kind of contents such as Youtube videos . • Weak point of ‘Book’ – Anyone can copy ‘Book’ as characters . – A bit slow behavior – ‘Book’ from Powerpoint is not working without IE .
- 8. • How aboutOSS image viewer ? – – – – Galleria Display http://galleria.io/ Image gallery with JS . Free for basic version. Charged theme $9-$29 Changing PPT’s default size 960*720 • http://support.microsoft.com/kb/827745/ – File name was Japanese, change it to English . • for /f "usebackq delims=スライド tokens=1" %i in (`dir /b スライド *.JPG`) do ren スライド%i slide%i • Using Galleria Display on Moodle. – Zip files such as css , image, and js , upload them as files to Moodle, Unzip and set main file. – With htmls ,Making moodle ‘file’ or upload in another place. Embed as iframe on other modules . – Using PHP .
- 9. • Want tomake videos . – Excluding in this time. • Distribute videos . – Study parameter • Load of the server and network – File format ? • MP4 , flv , or wmv – MP4 is the best – How to distribute • Embed in the moodle server – High load of the server and network • Using stream server • Using CDN : Contents Delivery Network
- 10. • Cloud Frontis Amazon’s CDN – Data transfer rate $0.201/GB (about 100GB 2,000yen) • ACFVideo offers function between Moodle and Cloud Front – We, e-learning corp. , offer it as OSS . – https://github.com/matsuzakit/moodle-activity_acfvideo CDN amazon cloud front Set URL and policy of expiry Direct Access
- 11. • Self enrollment –Users can add himself . • Each course can have a different enrollment key . • Home / ► Site administration / ► Plugins / ► Authentication / ► Manage authentication • Set ‘Email-based self-registration’ ON . • By using reCAPTCHA, prohibit from spam by robots . • Adding many users once – Making CSV file . – Changing user profile or adding group , is also possible . username password lastname firstname email course1 course2 emo02 Cafe9876! 千葉 健一 2@somedomain.com newemp emo03 Cafe9876! 東京 花子 3@somedomain.com newemp emo04 Cafe9876! 埼玉 花男 4@somedomain.com emo05 Cafe9877! 神奈川 光 5@somedomain.com emp01 Cafe9876! 埼玉 健一 type1 type2 1111@somedomain.com 1 senioremp 2 1 • Other systems integration . – CAS, IMAP, RADIUS, Shibboleth – Home / ► Site administration / ► Plugins / ► Authentication / ► Manage authentication
- 12. • You caninsert ‘Quiz’ with many formats . • Home / a course / ► / Question bank / ► Import • For the format, there are some good documents, or you can make it based on exported formats . • Easy GIFT format (easy by using Excel) https://www.facebook.com/elearningJPN 選 選 択 選択 選択 択 選択 選択C 選択肢 選択E 選択肢 A B正 選択肢B 選択肢C D正 全部 肢 肢A 正誤 D 正誤 E 正 誤 誤 数 誤 DELDELDEL $CATEGORY:C25 クイ 対象 N ズタ クイ 問題 コー 形式 O イト ズNO NO ス ル 問題 1 C25 日本で２番 目に高い山 4 はどれです か？ 2 C25 1 2 富士 山 1 単一選択 1 日本で２番 目に長い川 利根 単一選択 5 1 はどれです 川 か？ 1 北岳 石狩川 奥穂高 岳 間ノ岳 天塩川 北上川 ::C251-1:: 日本で２番目に高い山はどれですか？{~富士山 =北岳 ~奥穂高岳 ~間ノ岳 ~}DELDELDEL DELDELDEL $CATEGORY:C25 ::C252-1:: 信濃川 日本で２番目に長い川はどれですか？{=利根川 ~石狩川 ~天塩川 ~北上川 ~信濃川}DELDELDEL
- 13. • What isbadge ? – Open Badegs – a new online standard to recognize and verify learning – Developed by Mozilla – When a student fulfill a condition , the badge issues. – The badge is saved in a bag. – An organization can have its own bag , or Mozilla offers it as ‘Backpack’ .
- 14. • Criteria – Coursecompletion – Activity completion Completion Home / ► Site administration / ► Advanced features Enable completion tracking ON In a course, set ‘Enable completion tracking’ ON. Conditional access Home / ► Site administration / ► Advanced features Enable conditional access ON Home / ► Site administration / ► Badges / ► Add a new badge Recommend PNG , Maximum size 256kb. Mozilla Backpack needs square , 64x64px, 128x128px, 220x220px
- 15. • Want tosell your courses on Moodle • Moodle has paypal module . – How it works ? – Need Moodle account • Recommend self-enrollment . – Entering charge course, jump to paypal . – After finishing payment on paypal, a few minutes later , he/she can study the course . May 2013, In Japan SoftBank and PayPal got relationship
- 16. • On Moodle –Enable on the site • • • • • Home / ► Site administration / ► Plugins / ► Enrolments / ► Manage enrol plugins Set paypal and enable paypal . Settings Enter paypal’s mailaddress in ‘PayPal business email’ . ‘Allow PayPal enrolments’ YES – Enable on the course • Home / ► Courses / ► a course / ► Users / ► Enrolment methods • ‘Add method’ PayPal • Enrol cost – Using sandbox • config.php • $CFG->usepaypalsandbox = true; • You make virtual sellers and buyers on the sandbox , and testing . – This Moodle plugin is called classic API , Paypal offers newer one, REST API .
- 17. • Changing charactercode – To UTF-8 • On sandbox • https://developer.paypal.com/ • Login as the ordinary paypal account • From upper menu - Applications – Left menu -Sandbox accounts -[Enter sandbox] • When you are jumped to Non sandbox , Japanese site (maybe a kind of bug), Enter this URL directory . • https://www.sandbox.paypal.com/jp/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_account
- 18. Adobe® Connect™ isa web conferencing platform for web meetings, eLearning, and webinars. It powers mission critical web conferencing solutions end-to-end, on virtually any device, and enables organizations from leading corporations to the U.S. Department of Defense to fundamentally improve productivity. (Adobe HP) On-premise version, installing Adobe Connet to the own server . （This time we use On-Premise version) Hosted version , using Adobe Connect as SaaS . From Moodle to Adobe Connect directly Single Sign On(SSO) Able to make Connect reference room by Moodle .
- 19. Assign Moodle user Connectrole Host Presenter Participant
- 20. • Moodle official siteforums – Moodle QA forums , very active – https://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?id=50 – https://moodle.org/ • Moodle Association Japan : MAJ – A private organization in Japan, certified by Moodle HQ – http://moodlejapan.org/home/ – https://www.facebook.com/groups/103710113036755/ • Moodle Tokyo Cafe – Learning Moodle together in Tokyo, Mr. Fujita in Yokohama NFPCA – https://www.facebook.com/groups/136123803133175/ • Moodle courses by e-learning corp. – http://www.e-learning.co.jp/?page_id=438 – Course Creator (2days) – Admin Basic(1day)