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Comment by Tammy Stephens on February 22, 2013 at 3:52pm

Archive of the webinar on the Moodle Gradebook is available at https://eclass4learning.eduvision.tv/Default.aspx?q=IsahXh4JBPR7G3U...

Comment by Tammy Stephens on February 19, 2013 at 7:00am

Free webinar on the Moodle Gradebook

Thursday, February 21st at 11am PT, 12pm MT, 1pm CT, 2pm ET

https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/255188082

Anyone who registers will receive an archive of the webinar.

Comment by Tammy Stephens on February 11, 2013 at 3:17pm

New Blog Post: Moodle and the iPad http://www.eclass4learning.com/moodle-and-the-ipad/

Comment by Kristin Gregory on January 25, 2013 at 5:05pm

Thanks all. We do use embed codes and URLs to post videos from our You Tube channels. Per Craig's suggestion, I deleted any videos & podcasts that I did have posted on my Moodle page. It got me to the error message faster, but still not a solution. (and still no response from our Moodle IT guy)

Kristin

Comment by Joe Liaw on January 25, 2013 at 2:14pm

If embed isn't working for you, it's because your Site Admin has to enable it under the Security settings.

I like to use Vimeo for embedding because my school needs to block YouTube to preserve bandwidth.

Good luck!

Comment by Mark Heilbrunn on January 25, 2013 at 2:11pm

You don't need to upload any videos to your moodle site to include them.  Upload them to a site like youtube or schooltube.  Here is what to do:

1. Upload your video to a video sharing like like youtube or schooltube.
2. Somewhere on that page with your uploaded video is the "embed code."  copy it to your clipboard.
3. Write your question (or whatever) in Moodle.
4. Move the cursor where you want your video to be.
5. Click the "HTML" button. A window should pop up showing the html code for your question
6. Paste the embed code into the popup window
7. click the "Update" button on the bottom of the popup window.
8. X out of the popup button, and you should see the video player in your question.

Mark Heilbrunn

Prep Academy for Writers

Queens, NY

Comment by Kristin Gregory on January 24, 2013 at 4:22pm

Thanks Craig! I'll ask about the files. I know that I have 2 videos, but they are only a few minutes long - no where near an hour, but it's worth checking out.  Our site is hosted on a dedicated server in our district (my building actually). I'll forward your info to our admin to see if he can find anything or at least send me a copy of the moodledata info. I have numerous videos posted via embed codes and URLs, but that shouldn't matter.

I appreciate the help!

Kristin

Comment by Craig Magtutu on January 24, 2013 at 5:42am

Kristin - revisiting the size of your backup files... there must be a logical explanation for the enormous 1.2 GB backups. I would bet that a handful of actual videos files were uploaded into your courses at some point. As little as one hour of reasonable quality video can be nearly 1.2 GB on its own.

How is your Moodle site hosted? If you can get a file listing of the server, you might be able to investigate a bit... Moodle's data directory - usually called moodledata - is a common storage space for all of the courses hosted on the site. Anything uploaded goes into that folder. Unfortunately there are usually a gazillion subfolders inside of it. If I were hunting for big files, I would start by getting a list of everything in moodledata (including subfolder contents), and sorting by file size. I'm not sure if that's possible for you, but perhaps your admin can assist.

Hope that makes sense.

Craig

Comment by Matt Stockinger on January 10, 2013 at 8:05am

Note: the equation typed with TeX will appear with subscripts displaying correctly.  I tried to use the  HTML tag in this post to display it here, but it isn't working on my screen.

Comment by Matt Stockinger on January 10, 2013 at 8:02am

Hi Christina-

 

Have an admin install the WIRIS plugins (there are two packages: WIRIS quizzes, and the WIRIS filter plugin).  The WIRIS site will talk about annual fees, but if you get the plugins through moodle.org, they're free.  They allow you (and students) to create graphs within moodle activities or quizzes.  The goodies go much further, but graphs are a great start.

See https://moodle.org/plugins/view.php?plugin=filter_wiris and https://moodle.org/plugins/view.php?id=26.

 

Whether or not you install WIRIS, you can use LaTeX in moodle to create nicely formatted items.  See http://docs.moodle.org/24/en/Using_TeX_Notation.  TeX has a learning curve, but if you start by learning just a few tricks you can go a long way.  For example, 2H₂ + O₂ → 2H₂O is entered in moodle by typing

%% 2H_2 + O_2 \rightarrow 2H_2O %%

You type the TeX above, and the actual equation appears to students.  I find this faster to type than using gnarly Word shortcut keys.  You can try it now; if it doesn't work, then an admin might have to enable some TeX stuff within Moodle.  (It's built-in though).

-Matt

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