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Tailoring Moodle: Enhancements for an Optimized Learning Experience

This presentation, delivered at the JALTCALL International Conference in 2007, explores seven practical tweaks to Moodle that can enhance its functionality for both educators and learners. The tweaks cover a range of improvements, from standardizing romaji names to adding a language menu on all pages. Each adjustment is designed to be easily implemented by Moodle administrators and teachers. The session, featuring experts from various universities, emphasizes collaboration and practical solutions to enhance the Moodle learning environment.

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Tailoring Moodle: Enhancements for an Optimized Learning Experience

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  1. Tailoring Moodle to Your Own Needs JALTCALL International Conference, Waseda University, Tokyo, 2 June 2007 Don Hinkelman, Sapporo Gakuin University Thomas Robb, Kyoto Sangyo University Paul Daniels, Kochi University Andy Johnson, Sapporo Gakuin University Gordon Bateson, Kanezawa University Peter Ruthven-Stuart, Hakodate Future University

  2. Gordon Bateson: Moodle Tweaks Overview • Seven tweaks: easy -> difficult • Can be implemented by: • Moodle administrators • Moodle teachers • Arose from collaboration between: • programmer-teacher: GB • CALL-teacher: teacher with previous experience using yahoo.com for CALL

  3. Gordon Bateson: Moodle Tweaks (1)Standardize romaji • What it does: • standardizes the romanization of user’s first name, last name and city • converts any double-byte roman letters, spaces and punctuation to single-byte equivalents • Demonstration: • http://call.kanazawa-gu.ac.jp/moodle/english/2007/login/signup_form.php • Where to get it • http://englishforum.sgu.ac.jp/downloads/bateson/1.standardize-romanization.txt

  4. Gordon Bateson: Moodle Tweaks (2)Cell phone email addresses • What it does: • Allow Moodle signup using (cell phone) email addresses, which can contain “invalid” character combinations: • repeated full-stops, “..” • a full-stop just before the at-sign, “.@” • e.g. hong-kong-man...@r.vodafone.ne.jp • Demonstration: • http://call.kanazawa-gu.ac.jp/moodle/english/2007/login/signup_form.php • Where to get it • http://englishforum.sgu.ac.jp/downloads/bateson/2.validate-email.txt

  5. Gordon Bateson: Moodle Tweaks (3)Language menu on all pages • What it does: • Adds a language menu to every page which has a Moodle header • Demonstration: • http://call.kanazawa-gu.ac.jp/moodle/english/2007/ • Where to get it • http://englishforum.sgu.ac.jp/downloads/bateson/3.language-menu.txt

  6. Gordon Bateson: Moodle Tweaks (4)Improve multilang filter • What it does: • allow nested <lang> and <span> tags in multilang blocks • accommodates htmleditor which in some browsers uses <span> for bold and italic, causing the standard multilang filter to terminate multilang blocks prematurely • Demonstration: • http://call.kanazawa-gu.ac.jp/moodle/english/2007/ • Where to get it • http://englishforum.sgu.ac.jp/downloads/bateson/4.multilang-filter.txt

  7. Gordon Bateson: Moodle Tweaks (5)Show/Hide section details • What it does: • adds a toggle switch to hide and display specified activities on the course page. • makes display of sections containing many activities more manageable • Demonstration: • http://call.kanazawa-gu.ac.jp/moodle/english/2007/ • Where to get it • http://englishforum.sgu.ac.jp/downloads/bateson/5.show-hide-activities.txt

  8. Gordon Bateson: Moodle Tweaks (6)Useful links block • What it does: • combines the useful links from several other blocks into one single block • different links for teacher or student • text shown in user’s preferred language • Demonstration: • http://call.kanazawa-gu.ac.jp/moodle/english/2007/ • Where to get it • http://englishforum.sgu.ac.jp/downloads/bateson/6.useful-links.txt

  9. Gordon Bateson: Moodle Tweaks (7)Rotating banners and links • What it does: • displays a rotating selection of images in an html block • the advanced version can optionally allow a link for each image • Demonstration: • http://bateson.kanazawa-gu.ac.jp/moodle/16/ms/ • Where to get it • http://englishforum.sgu.ac.jp/downloads/bateson/7a.banners.txt • http://englishforum.sgu.ac.jp/downloads/bateson/7b.banners-and-links.txt

  10. Gordon Bateson: Moodle TweaksAdvice • You can do quite a lot with Javascript • won’t interfere with CVS and upgrading • Small changes to your Moodle scripts are usually OK • if you use CVS, changes are automatically merged • otherwise you need to keep patching, manually or semi-automatically (e.g. WinMerge) • Offer code improvements on the forums or tracker • small improvements that have been tested • even then, the developers may be too busy to implement the changes.

  11. Gordon Bateson: Moodle TweaksLinks • http://englishforum.sgu.ac.jp/downloads/bateson • /Tailoring-Moodle.BATESON.html • /Tailoring-Moodle.BATESON.full.doc • /Tailoring-Moodle.BATESON.ppt

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