Moodle Grades

I’ve been a slow learner this week. Although I know about our browser woes, I started new discussions with students in their private forums that we are using as journals. I ended up with sad children who thought I hadn’t written back to them because they couldn’t see the second message since Internet Explorer mashes […]

Browser Blues

One step forward, two steps back…

Our step forward was that our wonderful technician put Netscape on the old computers in lab B while we were gone at camp last week. Those that are running Mac OS 9.2 are now working well in Moodle using Netscape.

The steps backward come on the oldest computers. Those […]

Which Wiki? or The Trouble Without Email

My friend and colleague John approached me for suggestions regarding an upcoming web project he plans to undertake with his class of fourth and fifth students. He was planning on having them create posters to share information about alternative energy at the end of their energy unit. He then wanted them to be able to […]

Failing the Moodle Quiz

All right, between getting ready for our upcoming environmental ed trip, and working such long hours to get the Moodle running while still teach all my courses, I’ve been only averaging a few hours of sleep per night all week. That is my only defense…

On Thursday we went into the creaky old lab to […]

Motivation to Moodle

Lately I’ve been doing a bit of soul-searching about why I am battling to bring blogs, wikis, Moodle, and online calendars to my students. I can tell that some of the people I am annoying in my district think I’m inserting technology where none is needed.

Then I read this quote from Bud’s blog…

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Mucking Around with Moodle Settings

Instead of being a dutiful teacher and getting caught up in my correcting last night. I added the rest of our students to the Moodle. I had some trouble getting the csv file to upload, but it worked eventually.

Next I spent time playing around with the themes. My thought was to see which themes […]