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  • Moodle™ and Joule: Beyond the classroom

    Moodle™ and Joule: Beyond the classroom is based on the social constructivist pedagogy founded on the ideal that a learning environment needs to be flexible and adaptable and that if we can come to understand others we can teach in a transformational way.

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  • Best practices: Creating calculated questions for Math and Science courses

    Last week Rebecca DeSantis provided tips for creating Quiz questions in Moodle™. Today I am going to talk about Quiz but will focus on calculated questions and the best practices for using them in your math and science courses.

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  • Best Practices: 30 Tips for Creating Quiz Questions in Your LMS

    Discover 30 useful tips to design excellent assessment activities for your courses in your LMS.

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  • Best practices: Rule #1 of course design? Don't panic

    Over the years I have learned a thing or two about designing online courses. The first is as Douglas Adams articulated so well don't panic.

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  • Best practices: The top 10 administrative settings for saving instructors time

    As someone who has been fortunate enough to serve many Moodle™ roles (student course facilitator course builder and site administrator) I’ve been asked many times…

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  • Best practices: Supporting effective group work using Moodle™ Tools

    Well-designed groups can make a world of difference in the quality of the learning climate. But in order for student group participation to be successful students and instructors must honor the process of team learning.

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  • Best practices: Six tips for taking advantage of Joule's comparison reports

    If you follow this blog you already know about the advantages of Moodle™ core reports and the enhanced Joule Reports. Open LMS Summer 2012 release included several features to assist instructors and facilitators within Joule LMS.

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  • Is Flexpage right for me? Five benefits of Flexpage in Moodle™ 2

    Open LMS Inc. recently made a great contribution the open-source Moodle™ community by releasing the Flexpage course format for Moodle™ 2. Flexpage is one of the most versatile course formats created for Moodle™ 1.x and its new and improved version is now available for anyone who wants to install the module in their Moodle™ 2 instance.

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  • Best Practices: Advanced Grading With Checklists

    Our recent Summer 2012 release of Joule included two advanced grading methods: Moodle™ core’s Rubric and our Joule Checklist. If you were already using Joule’s marking tables, they were automatically upgraded to Moodle™ core rubrics. If you were using the Joule checklist, they were upgraded to the Joule checklist.

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