Last week I blogged about the oodles of Moodle I had come across (mainly via Twitter) in the last few weeks. No sooner had I posted the blog, then more Moodle stuff came winging my way … so I am back to add a post script to the last Moodle post!

Moodle Tool Guide for Teachers which, in the words of its creator @catspyjamasnz is a ‘poster size guide for teachers, allowing them to compare the functionality and pedagogical advantages of some standard Moodle tools’. It also includes notes about how easy or tricky the tool is to set up.

Moodle Course Round-up (where are all the shared resources?) is a post from Moodle News that lists some of the places you can go to access and use other’s Moodle courses. It also includes a link giving you the opportunity to share your own courses … as does this invite from Moodle HQ, asking for courses that could be part of the new Demo Moodle mentioned in my last blog post.

5 Steps to Moodle Success – a blog post sharing (via an easy to follow mindmap) how one organisation has introduced Moodle to their staff in 5 straightforward steps. I am pleased to see that the first step is for staff to use Moodle as a learner themselves … there’s nothing like putting yourselves in the shoes of the learner to see how it ‘feels’ and to work out how you can make it the best experience possible, imo!

And one last thing before I sign off on Moodle for now … did you know you could create your own RSS feeds for Moodle forums? I didn’t until I was discussing how a Learning Centre could push their news out to students and staff rather than relying on them visiting their Moodle page and we both were wishing that Moodle Forums had their own RSS feeds. Well (following a bit of investigation) our wish has come true … thanks Moodle!

(If you would like this blog post as an audio file please click this link or right click the link and choose to save the mp3 file. Please note: the audio file was created quite simply by pasting the text into Balabolka (one of the tools available as part of My Study Bar/EduApps) and saving as an mp3 audio file)

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