Moodle 2019-Design tricks Pt 1 taken from real examples- step by step

[@giovannagordon6362]

Great explanations, as usually, thank you Russel. The only thing that seems a bit complicated for me it to resize the video frame. I am applying your teaching tips for my French classes, and sharing your training videos with my teacher friends in other countries.

[@ttvRussell]

Giovanna, really glad I could help. Changing the video size is not that important. Try this video, I think I cover it in this video too kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y5nVg4qNoLB2iZI I hope that helps you.

[@ShannonTurner-o3r]

Having to build all my courses in Moodle (currently using Blackboard) and these videos are super helpful! Love the look of your layout!

[@ttvRussell]

Thank you Shannon. More free videos in this Playlist: kzbin.info/aero/PLqYj2sOxDkVwE3TQSy8hcsHaLVXf4b6xu

[@victorwinn6901]

Using Moodle for the first time. Videos are excellent. Incorporated many of your tips

[@ttvRussell]

Great to hear!

[@annalizamagno5263]

Thank you for these very helpful tricks

[@ttvRussell]

Glad I could help. More free Moodle videos here www.teachertrainingvideos.com/moodle

[@DavidBruno]

Thx Russell you're a very comfortable speaker and guide

[@ttvRussell]

I put loads of videos on my website about Camtasia and they are very popular. You might find them useful: www.teachertrainingvideos.com/Camtasia_Training

[@marcmarivel5529]

Brilliant teaching, excellent video with lots of useful tips. Thank you Russell.

[@ttvRussell]

Glad it was helpful! Thanks for the comment. I have added some new videos on Moodle here www.teachertrainingvideos.com/moodle

[@e-learninggate797]

Russell you are a great designer !!!!

[@ttvRussell]

Thanks! I have some new stuff coming out very soon. It might be worth signing up to the newsletter on my website www.teachertrainingvideos.com/sign-up.

[@richardcarabine6925]

Thanks Russell. Clear and easy to follow.

[@ttvRussell]

Richard, glad to know it was useful. Thanks

[@Msjudibeefl]

Very informative and easy to follow! Thank you!

[@ttvRussell]

Judi, thank you again for your lovely comments. I am glad to help.

[@mwayimchuchu6588]

Thanks this is so helpful

[@ttvRussell]

No problem! I put loads of videos on my website about Moodle and they are very popular. You might find them useful. www.teachertrainingvideos.com/moodle

[@mwayimchuchu6588]

@@ttvRussell thanks so much will certainly do. I am setting up an open E-learning platform for institutions that can't manage to setup own LMS in Malawi (Africa) skeleton of the project system is on elearnmalawi.org So institutions will be registered as departments, etc I have figured out on the restrictions to ensure everyone has access to the right content for their institution and multiple institutions using same Moodle. it's going to work just fine I would have loved if each institution had a specialized cloud server but since am currently sole financing the project the best I can do is explore the shared aspect. Embarking on sourcing funds for trainings, your videos will help in the project if funding will be available after hands on training I would provide links to your videos for further tutorials.

[@mwayimchuchu6588]

@@ttvRussell sure will benefit from this resource and will update you of any positive progress so you can appreciate your contribution to the project

[@billylucena1462]

Nice tutorial Russell.. What moodle theme you are using in this tutorial?

[@ttvRussell]

Sorry Billy, not sure. Just one of the standard ones that comes with the basic package.

[@tonic1675]

simply the best :-)

[@ttvRussell]

Thanks, tonic.

[@diagnembaye423]

Very informative, I really appreciate.

[@ttvRussell]

I am very glad to help Diagne.

[@jamienat.1943]

I love the video! :)

[@ttvRussell]

Thanks for that, Jamie.

[@sabyasachinag8128]

Thanks Russel. Great video as usual. One quick question - how were you able to get the title of the topic (Flipped Classroom Unit 1) to vertically align with the image? I am unable to do that. In the video (3:52) you seemed to click somewhere, I didn't get that. What exactly did you have to do to vertically align the text?

[@ttvRussell]

Hi Sabyasachi Nag. It looks like I did a simple cut and paste'. I wanted to get the topic text 'flipped classroom' into a different place next to the image before going on to use the Moodle editing tool. Try again yourself. Russell.

[@jayanu6465]

not working by just cut and paste , please explain how u did it

[@mangalaprathaban]

Highly useful!

[@ttvRussell]

Glad I could help and glad it was useful

[@roisinnicgiollaruaidh4281]

Hello Russel, thank you for the great video! I was asked to help design the layout of a Moodle course for doctors but it's my first time using Moodle and for some reason my settings/controls are different to yours. I don't have the option to change the colour of the fonts and I'm struggling as I have such limited editing options, as far as I know it is just a regular Moodle account. Do you know why that could be?

[@ttvRussell]

I am really sorry, that seems very odd. There are different templates but normally the actually editing options are the same. I can't help you. It may be something to do with the text editor that is being used in your version of Moodle. Speak to the admin people.

[@sharonpypops8828]

Hi Russel, thanks again for a simple and effective explanation! I would like to set up my home page with all the different modules in my course, sort of like a blog, with large rectangles for each module that have the title and a background photo behind the title. Sort of like when you arrive at a blog home page, they often have a lovely large photo at the top of the page along with the website name. Is that possible in Moodle? Thanks in advance!

[@ttvRussell]

Sharon, I am not sure you can do that. You might need a certain template or you would have to be quite tricky and do a work around using images but you would need to go into the HTML. I am sorry, I can't help but I have never tried to do that, though you have got me thinking!!

[@sharonpypops8828]

@@ttvRussell Oh well, thanks for letting me know! I am not tech savvy at all, so if you say it would be tricky (or not possible) then I'll try a different design. Thanks for replying!!

[@marilynwetterer4459]

Has anyone found the plugin to give the horizontal rule for activities?

[@ttvRussell]

I don't know of any. All I do is delete all the stuff in the side bar so that the main content is what shows on the page and it looks tidier. I am only using Moodle with the standard set up and I use one of the basic templates.

[@tusharbansal9576]

Hey. It was an informative tutorial but I have a query. In this tutorial, like you are manually adding images and course name as heading ,description and lot of stuff. But I have to repeat this thing again and again for every course. But I want that whenever i add a new course in moodle, it shows a same background image on the top for each course automatically so that i don't have to set image again and again for every course, and whenever i add activities in any course, it shows name and description of that activity automatically. How can i do that?

[@ttvRussell]

As I don't do many many courses I don't know the answer and it is a fair question. I think this depends on the template you use. For example at some places I work the templates they use for the Moodle courses take away a lot of my work, Speak to your admin people regarding using a template

[@ronaldkemsies9162]

Thanks, Russell! I was wondering how to display my Moodle activities/resources horizontally as buttons. Is that a plugin that has to be installed?

[@ttvRussell]

Ronald, yes it is a plug in that you need to install.

[@bollycanuk]

@@ttvRussell Hi Russell, a couple of questions: 1) What theme are you using? 2) what plugin did you use to get the activities to list horizontally? Thanks

[@JenniferSouthcombe]

HI Russel - really appreciated your videos! I'm wondering which plugin you used to horizontally display the activities. I love the ability to save space but they still have the completion box acess!

[@kirkhockin5924]

@@ttvRussell Which Plugin? What's it called? Thanks!

[@sirone91007]

I use Books =)

[@ttvRussell]

I put loads of videos on my website about Camtasia and they are very popular. You might find them useful. www.teachertrainingvideos.com/Camtasia_Training

[@sirone91007]

What is your screen recorder sir? thank you!

[@ttvRussell]

I am using Camtasia.

[@JeysHairWireNC]

Hello, I'm new to Moodle and your videos have been very helpful. I copied the embedded code and pasted it. The video shows in the edit screen but when I click save and look at the live screen, there is no video just a large blank space where the video would be. I'm using a Mac but I don't think that matters.

[@JeysHairWireNC]

I figured it out. I actually refreshed the screen and it works!

[@ttvRussell]

Great.