Display your OpenBadges Backpack in Moodle with LTI

Link to OpenBadges Backpack from Moodle with LTI How to use LTI (External Tool Activities) in Moodle These days I’ve been playing around with LTI (Learning Tools Interoperavility) and Moodle. I wanted to test what else could I do with this tool beyond providing a WP blog account to my School. The number Edu Apps built on LTI …

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My virtual attendance to #mtmoot 2014

June is usually a busy month for teachers. Final exams, grades, school reports, meetings with parents are the usual stressing tasks for all of us. So as soon I begin my summer holidays, I start to pay attention to many other forgotten activities  and hobbies. One of those activities is to read about what’s going …

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CAS_ICT: Using ICT tools for teaching Sciences

ICT for Chemistry and Physics Grade 9th To teach Chemistry and Physics we use Moodle as our LMS. With Moodle we went beyond a repository and we set up many and different learning activities as for example: A choice activity to choose an independent variable for a scientific project One assignment to submit final reports …

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Insertar un Objeto de Aprendizaje de OpenStax CNX en Moodle

Recientemente y como parte de un trabajo en la materia de Fundamentos Tecnológicos del eLearning del Máster en eLearning de la UOC  tuvimos que debatir sobre los objetos de aprendizaje del repositorio OpenStax CNX (anteriormente Connexions). Este repositorio fundado en el año 1999 por el Dr. Richard Baraniuk nos ofrece recursos educativos (Objetos de Aprendizaje) …

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Mahara: How to solve collation issue when upgrading

Today I upgraded our Mahara site from version 1.7.2 to 1.8.1 (current version). What it was expected to be an easy procedure turned out to a trouble due to a database (MySQL) collation issue. Below are the details: After doing all backups as it’s required I downloaded and unzip the new version to perform the …

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Halloween Moodle Panic: Cache Crisis

The last three weeks of October were frightful  due to a series of incidents affecting the Moodle server of my School. Randomly server crashes and a set of strange behaviours using Moodle led me, as admin, to a stressing weeks. That’s way I’m goin to collect all the incidents and write a post called Moodle …

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Jornada gratuita de presentación de Moodle a profesores

Hoy jueves, 26 de septiembre hice una presentación de Moodle a un grupo de 12 profesores que asistieron a la jornada gratuita organizada por la Fundación ObraSocialNCG en Vigo. Esta jornada fue previa al comienzo de los próximos cursos de Moodle para docentes que impartiré próximamente en colaboración con la Fundación ObraSocialNCG. El grupo de …

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