When you're using group enrolment keys users are normally given a prompt if they enter the wrong enrolment key on attemptng to enter a course. The issue is that the enrolment key prompt refers to the course enrolment key not a group enrolment key. This can cause confusion and a fair amount of frustration too.

If you're not using course enrolment keys, or you are and can live without a prompt, you may find it useful to disable the enrolment key prompt option at:

Site Administration > Course > Enrolments > Internal Enrolment - Edit.

Set "enrol_manual_showhint" to "No".

(You'll need to be logged in a as an administrator to change this).

 

 

Most people are aware that the Short Answer question type allows checking of submissions on a case sensitive basis. The short answer element in the Embedded Answer (Cloze) question type can incorporate case sensitive matching too!

Simply use "SHORTANSWER_C", or "SAC" instead of "SHORTANSWER" or "SA" when constructing your question.

Keeping your site home page free of clutter is important to make the best use of the space available. An example of this is sign up instructions which are not needed when the user has logged in. We use role overrides to achieve this simply and with no software hacks. When the user logs in the instructions disappear!

1. Create your sign up instructions using a HTML block and position above the Login block.
2. Turn editing on for the front page and locate the "Assign roles" icon for the HTML block and click it.
3. Click the "Override permissions" tab and then click the link for the Student role.
4. Click the "Prevent" radio button for the "View block" capability and save.
5. Repeat for each role other than Guest and Administrator.

There's a great new feature in the latest weekly version of Moodle (and
in the forthcoming 1.9.6 release) that enables course designers to
easily embed videos for YouTube.

With older versions it's necessary to paste in the code from YouTube
which can be daunting and students who attempt this have the code
stripped out on saving e.g. a forum post to safeguard against the
potential security risks associated with introducing code in this way.

From now on it's easy for all users to embed YouTube video by using the
in-built multimedia plugin.

1. The first step is for the site administrator to upgrade your site.
2. Enable the YouTube option.
3. Find the YouTube video you want embed and copy the URL.
4. Find the place where you want to embed the video and open it for editing.
5. The following works with the HTML editor enabled, type in some text
and select it.
6. Click on the Insert Web Link icon on the toolbar.
7. Paste in the URL from YouTube into the URL field in the pop up and
click "OK"
8. The text you typed in should now be a link.
9. Save the page and the video is safely and neatly embedded.

That's it!

The road to full conformance has been a long one even though Moodle has had a SCORM module for years. Earlier this year Moodle HQ in Perth, Australia funded a project to fix the SCORM player once and for all and to get in shape for full ADL certification.

Full complaince with SCORM 1.2 has been confirmed and the Main Moodle site at www.moodle.org proudly displays the "ADL certified logo".

Great stuff! Congratualtions and thanks to all those who made this possible.