Forthcoming Moodle Webinars

LPM Saarbrücken have scheduled an interesting series of free webinars, all relating to moodle, to be held during September and October. The webinars will be presented in English, French and German. See the schedule given below.

First up is Mary Cooch (@moodlefairy) who is also currently co-running the first official moodle MOOC for beginners, which is just coming to the end of week 1. The course runs for four weeks so it is not too late to join in now!

Mary's webinar, this Thursday, will be covering "What's new in Moodle 2.5"

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Moodle Your the Best!

In this interesting infographic of the 20 Most Popular Learning Management Systems from LearnDash, Moodle heads the list with Edmodo a close second!

Way to go Moodle :)

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Free Moodle Hosting With e-Socrates

e-Socrates aims to create "the best free Moodle hosting service for everyone who wants to do e-learning activities".

You can create a course and "have the full moodle power in your hands, without restrictions of any kind!" including being able to track your students subscriptions and setting a password for the course enrolment.

In order to use the site you must "always allow website visitors the right to read your contents, you can prevent them from subscribing as students but you can't prevent them from accessing the material".

This is the only "fee" required by e-Socrates in exchange for the free hosting service.

Currently there are over 500 courses available in different languages including Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Croatian, French, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Vietnamese and Sanskrit.

Lots of sharing going on here :)

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An affordable and reliable VLE

Last year we were able to start using a VLE thanks to the development of open source software Moodle. Products such as Blackboard and WebCT being well out our price range. We are using version 1.6 which is proving to be very useful. The new version 1.8.2 contains a number of improvements that make the application more flexible and stable.  The only main drawback is that I cannot get the email feature to work with Google Apps. We are using the standard edition which allows us to set up Gmail, Google Calendar and Google Talk accounts for all our students using our own domain name.

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Technorati Tags: google apps, moodle, vle

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