Comments for The Moodleman Blog

Comment on Moodle 2.0 Sneak Peak - Conditional Activities by kristianstill

kristianstill — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 19:37:56 +0000

Now thats a very motivating tool for students. Unlocking is something young people often experience in their gaming worlds. Complete XYZ and get a bonus level, the mystery room, new character, new move/power or end level boss. It certainly got me curious enough to sign up.

Comment on Creating a custom Moodle Theme - LIVE!! by Rahul

Rahul — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 19:06:20 +0000

Hey this is fantastic. Link no 5 is not working.can you send me more easy links to download it .

Comment on Allowing Parental Access to Moodle by Andy H

Andy H — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 11:26:54 +0000

Thank you Moodleman! I have been meaning to work out how to do this after the guys from Studywiz showed us a similar login for their VLE. I just KNEW it could be done but had no idea how to do it.

I’ll be implementing this over the Christmas break stuffed with turkey.

Merry Christmas to you moodleman and I can’t wait to see what you produce in 2009!

Andy

Comment on Allowing Parental Access to Moodle by Maurice Cummins

Maurice Cummins — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 01:34:44 +0000

Nice work, Julian. Your description is clear and you model the use of Web 2.0 effectively with the YouTube video tutorial also.

I was looking for a magic parent role that auto assigned a user account for them too.. I know - too much to ask!

Cheers,
Maurice

Comment on Allowing Parental Access to Moodle by moodleman

moodleman — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 02:11:34 +0000

There is no bulk method that I am aware of. (

Yay, you are the first to receive a threaded response in comments

Comment on Allowing Parental Access to Moodle by Steve van Ommen

Steve van Ommen — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 10:35:21 +0000

A well considered post! This does seem like a handy way of gaining an impression of just how much interest parents are taking in their child’s work on Moodle. That’s as long as we don’t assume that this is totally representative of parent’s interest in their child’s education.

Comment on Alfresco tie-in in Moodle 2.0 by PK

PK — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:41:34 +0000

It’s good to hear about Alfresco API in 2.0. I am recently exploring Alfresco on my own and found it as really powerful environment.
If there is some way to collaborate on this or how to support it, please let me know, maybe I will be able to help

Comment on Allowing Parental Access to Moodle by Joe Thibault

Joe Thibault — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:39:54 +0000

This is a great post, well planned out and very informative.

I’m curious though, this must be a huge burden on the administrator of a Moodle site. Granted, it’s a great resource, but I imagine it would take hours to even hook up 100 students or so to the parents on the site.

Any ideas if there is a bulk solution, even only in testing at Moodle.org or elsewhere? If not…I guess I’ll hit the drawing board!

Comment on Allowing Parental Access to Moodle by RichardMac

RichardMac — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 13:28:22 +0000

We’re rolling out Moodle K-12 in our district, but one teacher at a time. The thing I see with this idea is that students will GIVE their names and passwords to their parents… maybe not in Junior/Senior High, but certainly below that. So all a parent has to do is log in AS their student.

We just stress to our teachers that, even though it is somewhat password protected, it is still web based and should be treated as web publishing.

Comment on Moodle News Dashboard Widget by Ian Scott

Ian Scott — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 21:00:17 +0000

For all those disappointed Windows users you could install one of the RSS feeders to your Vista sidebar and them point it to the various moodle feeds.
Not as bespoke as Julians but hey it gets you the info.