Tag: Student

  • What are the benefits of elearning?

    What are the benefits of elearning?

    This year, forecasts show that the elearning market globally will be worth over $243b. Before the digital era, lecturers in lecture halls and classrooms conducted their classes face-to-face. Some universities offered distance learning courses by mail, which were the precursor of elearning courses.  In this post, we’ll look at the benefits of elearning, both for you,…

  • How to create engaging discussion forums for elearning courses

    How to create engaging discussion forums for elearning courses

    Discussion plays an important role in education. It helps students embed their learning, challenges their assumptions, and furthers their knowledge. If you are using an LMS to deliver eLearning courses, you should give serious thought to adding discussion forums to facilitate further learning. It’s also a great opportunity to get feedback and gauge how well…

  • The Move to Moodle 4.0 Series (2 of 4): New Moodle Icons

    The Move to Moodle 4.0 Series (2 of 4): New Moodle Icons

    In this second post about the upcoming Moodle 4 improvements, we introduce you to the new Moodle icons and some changes to the course page structure. The ability of users to manage the information on courses they are taking – such as how much they have completed, level of attainment, etc – are critical to…

  • 5 tips for building an engaging Moodle course

    5 tips for building an engaging Moodle course

    In this latest post, we explore ideas for building an engaging Moodle course. Moodle is one of the most prominent and reliable learning platforms in the market. Its open-source offering helps educators develop a comprehensive online learning experience easily and efficiently. Indeed, the platform has become increasingly popular as more educators transition to blended or complete online…

  • H5P and Moodle

    H5P and Moodle

    Lecturers, teachers and instructional designers who want to improve the learning experiences of their students, should take a look at using H5P activities within their Moodle site. H5P is an open source project which allows you to create interactive, responsive, HTML5 learning activities.

  • Most Popular Moodle Plugins of 2018

    Most Popular Moodle Plugins of 2018

    If you run a Moodle site, most likely you will have some third-party plugins. Moodle plugins are popular with users everywhere. The popularity of these plugins is measured by the number of downloads with the theme-based plugins among the most popular. Let’s look at the most popular Moodle plugins of 2018.

  • Elearning courses in Malaysia

    Elearning courses in Malaysia

    Digital learning technologies have given birth to elearning courses in Malaysia and other parts of the world. However, some elearning courses are better than others. The best ones have several defining features the rest lack. So, it’s good to understand what separates the best courses from the rest before developing your own.

  • New version – Moodle 3.5 Released!

    New version – Moodle 3.5 Released!

    Last month, Moodle 3.5 was released. The release is an awesome upgrade on the previous version of the worlds most popular elearning tool. Building on the success of Moodle 3.4, the major improvements of Moodle 3.5 are GDPR compliance and a focus on improving usability.

  • Upcoming Fortnightly Tips

    Upcoming Fortnightly Tips

    Three months ago we started Fortnightly Tips, Pukunui’s free fifteen-minute webinar showing you tips and tricks for the Moodle™ LMS. Since March we have had seven webinars, with topics ranging from Competencies to Activity Completions. Fortnightly Tips was even streamed live from iMoot, allowing Fortnightly Tips users the chance to sample the world’s largest fully online…

  • Conditional Quiz Questions?  Why yes you can!

    Conditional Quiz Questions? Why yes you can!

    Conditional Quiz Questions. Very exciting! This week I have the pleasure of sitting in on Shane Elliott running the Pukunui Course Creator two day training. It’s always great to see the Pukunui team presenting our standard courses, as we all have our unique flourishes, pet peeves and passions that we focus on.