Agenda and items covered at the latest meeting of the group

1. Moodle User Group
Phil Hardcastle
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www.rsc-em.ac.uk November 15, 2012 | slide 1
RSCs – Stimulating and supporting innovation in learning

2. Agenda
9:30-10:00 Coffee / Networking
10:00-10:10 Introductions
10:10-11:00 Moodle 2.3 and other news
11:00-11:20 Coffee / Networking
11:20-11:40 The Lesson Module
11:40-12:00 External Tools
12:00-12:30 Catch up – what have you been doing?
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3. Moodle 2.3 & News
 Moodle 2.3
– Came out over the summer
– Big change is drag and drop uploading and assessment
submission
– This is rumoured to work with IE 10
– Upload one file and put in multiple locations – the file
will update all copies
– Needs Private files to be enabled
– You can only upgrade to Moodle 2.3 from Moodle 2.2 or
later. If upgrading from earlier versions, you must
upgrade to 2.2 as a first step.
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4. Private Files
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5. Moodle Cloning
Cloning Moodle
This is something it is important to be able to do: To make a
clone of your Moodle so you can test dangerous things (like
an upgrade) safely, before you do it for real.
The procedure is described on
http://docs.moodle.org/23/en/Moodle_migration . (To migrate
your site from one server to another, first you clone it onto
the other server, then you delete the original. If you just want
a clone, stop before deleting the original.)
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6.  Alternatives
 We have some induction courses with a long list of
topics and we have used alternative course
formats in order to avoid the ‘scroll of death’.
These are some suggestions:

 -Use the ‘Course menu’ block which displays a list
of topics. Although there is no a version for
Moodle 2.2, we are using the version for Moodle
2.0 and it is working fine. November 15, 2012 | slide 6