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	New Playpen being Launched today by Julian Ridden - Monday, 7 July 2008, 01:16 PM
	Morning all, today the Moodle Playpen has had a huge refurbish and now has a shiny new shell. There may be a few bugs while I fine-tune, so please bear with me. Julian

TinyMCE3 now the default editor in Playpen by Julian Ridden - Friday, 25 January 2008, 11:25 AM

As of today you will now find that the default editor in The Playpen has changed from the standard HTMLArea to a new TinyMCE3 editor. This has been thanks to the hard work of Glen Davies. There are many advantages to using the new editor. The largest being that I am using this editor to create this post from a Mac using Safari! Glen has also changed the file manager in the editor as well. Feel free to comment in our forums or grab the code yourself from  http://www.host4learning.com/moodlemce/

	Major upgrade - Now running 1.9 Beta 4 by Julian Ridden - Friday, 25 January 2008, 11:25 AM
	Happy New Year all. To mark the new year I have upgraded the Playpen to the latest version of 1.9, the Beta 4. While technically still Beta, this I would say is just about production ready when it comes to stability. Log in and have a browse around to check out the many new features for yourself.

	What is Moodle? by Julian Ridden - Friday, 25 January 2008, 11:24 AM
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	New Filters Addded by Julian Ridden - Wednesday, 18 July 2007, 03:04 PM
	Today I added 6 new Filter demo's to the Advanced Features course. These new filters give moodle the ability to dynamiclly embedd all kinds of new media into Moodle pages. From YouTube and Google video's to mindmaps and auto-syntaxed code to interactive geometrical challenges and 3d chemical models. Click here to check them out.

Available Courses

• Social Course Format

    

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• Topics Course Format

    

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• Weekly Course Format

    

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• Tabs Format

  This course is displayed with topics shown as a series of tabs

• Accordian Course Format

    

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• Daily Course Format

    

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• Flexible Page Format

    

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• Hybrid Course Format

    

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• Project Course Format

  This is an optional course format. It changes the layout and operations of the main center column of a Moodle course. Inside a course, you can select the format of a course by clicking on Admin >> Course Settings. Typically, Topics format or Weekly format is used. This format is like Topics format, except that each section of a course can be "packaged" separately. It has a separate directory and it can be backed up separately with all resources and activities together. The import function allows a teacher to share and move the section (project) anywhere on the site. Fast resource creation and bulk media file upload are also possible. Tested only on Moodle vers. 1.9.

• Shared Activities Format

  The shared activities system adds the facility for any Moodle user (e.g. students) to create their
  own shared activities which they can invite a list of other people to
  join. When they invite people, those people receive an email with a link to the activity.
  
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  example this system could be useful if users meet on a course and want
  to arrange social events between themselves, or to stay in touch after
  the course ends.

• Study Calendar Format

  An enhanced version of the weekly course format. Key features:

  • You can combine, rename, and generally configure weeks.
    (E.g. group together 2 weeks, call it 'Easter break'; or group together
    6 weeks, call it 'Block 2'.)
  • Integrates Moodle calendar events into the main display.
    
  • Students can use checkboxes to mark their progress by ticking activities and events.
• Activity Locking Demo

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• Standard Features Demo

  • Teacher: A Teacher

    

  This is a course that demonstrates many of the features built into the standard 'vanilla' Moodle downloadable from Moodle.org

• Advanced Features Demo

    

  This course highlights advanced code not available in the standard Moodle download. This is from code contributed by developers from the global community.

• Moodle Filters Demo

    

  this course demonstrates the power of Moodle filters.

• Advanced Blocks Demo

    

  This course shows off some of the many "non standard" blocks that are around to increase your site functionality

• New nWiki Demo

    

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• Portfolio Demo Course

  This course demonstrates the Portfolio module, also known as SPDC Portfolio made by Matt Oquist. The great thing about this module is that Matt has agreed to create an importer to the standard Moodle Portfolio tool when it finally materialises.

• General Discussions

    

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• Mings scorm demo
• Connie Ott

  

  May I have a sandpit, please?

• carmela

  Request for "tabs format" please!

• Benjamin Skipper

  Escuela Americana

  Technology Coordinator

  mLearning Pilot (iPod Touch and iPhone)

  Science Department Coordinator (Home course is 8th Grade Physical Science)

• Jane Whyte

  

  Jane Whyte Moodle teacher 

• Elaine Blakeman

    

  Eb's test course

   

• Daniel Abell

  Moodle example

• Explorations in Moodle

  

  Exploration in designing a teach-yourself style course for our staff

   

• Britt Yamamoto

  Hi I just want to review a course with the accordian feature...

• Giuliano Araujo Bertoti

  A person interested in moodle technology.

• vanderlei carbonara

  Professor

• Test for PHHS

  Include please if possible  in v1.9

  Any form of quiz 

  Assignment with a grade and comment

  Mentees block

  ILP block / Concerns/ Targets

   

• Introduction to Moodle

  This course will allow teachers to try out the various features of Moodle to determine if they would benefit from creating their own course.

• Hot potatoes

    

  A repositry for totally free resourses available for sharing. My intention is to automate science homework in Secondary School I work in (All Saints , Mansfield, UK)  so I don't have to mark any routine stuff. 

  I have a collection of 90 plus hot potatoes (Science) That I WOULD BE HAPPY TO SHARE  as a starter for any one elses school Moodle. They are mainly for  age 11-14, but include several for age 14-16

  All source and image files add up to about 60 MB

  It would also (on request) be possible for me to back up each complete year group course as a backup file for y7 / y8 /y9. This would give the course structure including the use of groups for each class within a year group (We have 8 classes per year group) These groups prevent each class seeing each others wiki's or forums.

• Katie Gempel

   

• Sue McShane

    

  Sues's Testing sandpit

• Phil Macoun

  

  This sandbox is where I plan to experiment with the features of Moddle that might make it an excellent school portal site.  I will be trying to set up a course, install a calendar system, experiment with user and permissions and how the css can be modified to change the look and feel of the site.

• David Thomas

  

  a course for my students to come to and use

• Adelphi Testing

  

  This course will be used for testing and development purposes for Adelphi University.

• Selwyn Test Moodle ek-12345

  

  The summary is that I am testing moodle.

  Enrolment key is 12345

• Sandra Bargery

  Set up a demo moodle site

• Sue Gerrey

  

  Learning about Moodle.

• Cheryl Turner Elwell

  

  My institution is considering moving to Moodle and I would like a place to explore features, show ideas to colleagues, and learn more about the system.

• Greenwood Senior High School

  

  To show the world how Moodle can be used for lower school education and how Moodle can work

• University of Bath Moodle 1.9 sandpit

  

  A sandpit for the University of Bath.

• Moodlemática - MinhoMat

  

  Curso destinado à exploração pelos participantes na sessão "Moodlemática" a decorrer durante o MinhoMat 2007.

• AISNSW Training

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• WiZiQ Live Class Module Demo

  

  This course is to see the WiZiQ Live Class Module working for Moodle version 1.9
• WizIQ Demo Course

  This course is to demo the features of the integrated WizIQ demo
• Steve James

  A Test area
• Year 10 Art - Barrenjoey High School

  

  Not sure yet - art topic for Term 3
• Shore Training Demo

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• JR's Blogging Demo

    

  This course has been created to allow users to explore the blogging possibilities within Moodle
• Global Environments - Natural Hazards

  Global Environments - Natural Hazards
• mark jenkins

  We currently run blackboard community system and as head of learning resources I am championing a switch to blackboard. I have downloaded a version on my own laptop but my support team are having problems with the development server and I could really use a sandpit to help me show colleagues what moodle and do. Apologies if this is the wrong place to request this or if you do not create sandpit for this purpose.
  
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• Moodle Pedagogues

  

  This is a space for users to investigate and share insights into Moodle Course design and delivery.
• John Clayton

  

  Portfolio Test
• Anton's Playpen

  A playpen for Anton to have fun with all his new toys.
• soooooooooood`

  

  sooooooooooooooood
• OGHS

  

  Testing the new features of Moodle
• Leigh Chislett

  Staff PD
• YvonneDemo

  Yvonne's demo in Julian's sandpit site.
• Kat's playground

  Kat's playground
• English Wheel

  You will learn about English Wheels
• Nicole's Test Moodle Course

  This is the course for my understanding of Moodle.
• What is an English Wheel

  What is an English Wheel?
• Fred fred

  

  Hi this is Fred's course
  
  
• Mary

  Trying this out
• Example Course

  

  This course illustrates how to use Moodle to create interactive courseware and performance based assessments that support e-portfolio reporting requirements.
• Nicky Westberry

    

  This course will explore various perspectives on online interactive task design including the mapping of effective pedagogies onto asynchronous computing tools.
• David J McClelland

  Sandpit in a playpen
• Dean's Sandpit

  

  Learn and play with the features of Moodle as we wait for our own installation
• Courtney's Sandpit

  Site to experiment with new modules and features in Moodle.
• Test Course

  

  This is a sample course built in v.1.9 to test/try out the differences between it and 1.8. Especially the new formats and the great plugins that have been uploaded to this site.
• Admin Course 08

  

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• Sydney Moodle User Group
• Theme Demo's

    

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Course categories

Course Layouts

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3

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8

Feature Demos

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Discussion Forums

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Requested Sandpits

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Miscellaneous

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