Moodle Monday - embed a webpage into a Moodle Web Page

This tip will show you how to embed a web page into a Moodle Web page so that students view outside links while still in Moodle.  Doing this can help students feel secure that they are working on the activities you have prescribed.

After Creating a new web page, click on the  Toggle HTML button.

In the text editor, paste this code, replacing the link to CNN with which ever link you want your students to go to.

 

Go to the bottom of the page and SAVE. 
Now when you students click the link to the web page, they will stay in Moodle, but see  the web content you have linked.

Linky Thursday

We have just a few interesting links for you this week.

 http://intervue.me

Intervue.me is a questionnaire creator on the web that allows interviewees to respond via web cam. Link to your questionnaires, and upload video clips as mp4 files into your course.

http://nikpeachey.blogspot.com/2011/04/create-video-questionnaires.html

This is a nice tutorial created by a blogger to explain how to use intervue.me

www.codecademy.com

Would you like to upgrade your computer skills? Codecademy.com is a simple, free website where you can learn basic javascript programming.

Spring Break!

Moodle Monday

Adjusting Your Course Outline to reflect Spring Break

Spring break is scheduled for March 5 – 9, 2012. If you have a course full of resources and activities and are using the Weekly format option to organize your course in Moodle, you may wish to add a blank week for spring break. Follow the steps below to quickly and easily reformat your course.

Click on the Settings link in the Administration block.

      

           Scroll down to the “number of weeks/topics” drop down menu and add an extra week to the current number. Save the changes.

You will now have a blank week at the bottom of your course.

Scroll down to the new, blank week, and left click on the arrow to the left of the indicated dates for that week.      

 

 

      With the left mouse button still depressed, drag the arrow up until the blank week is on top of the March 5 – 11 week. Release the button.

There! Moodle will automatically renumber the dates to reflect the extra week, and all of your course materials will reflect the correct date. Remember to change the label for the week if you are in the habit of titling each week with additional labels.