Dec
18
2008
One of the problems we ran into with Moodle this semester was its inability to allow you to assign arbitrary numbers to letter grades. You can create a letter grade scale, e.g. A-F, and Moodle will assign values to those letters for you, but you can’t manually tell it you want an A- to be “92″ instead of “90″ (or visa versa).
It’s functionality that exists in Blackboard, and this feature request in Tracker seeks to get it added to Moodle.
Dec
02
2008
By default, individual course scales should not be accessible to other users on the site unless they’ve been designated a site-wide “standard” scale, which is something only admins can do.
However, we’ve discovered that if you create a Grade Item (via Grades > Choose an Action > Categories & Items > Add Grade Item) and click on the “Scale” drop down menu, you see all the custom scales available on the site.
Update 12/2/2008
It turns this is a duplicate of an existing bug, which will be fixed in Moodle 1.9.4:
Dec
01
2008
Open University has deployed iTunes U, Apple’s free education version of its popular iTunes Store. This post talks about the OU’s adoption of the service as well as some of its early experiences with it.
I’ll be curious to see what impact this has on iTunes U/Moodle integration. OU is a huge Moodle school, and I have to think that they would want seamless integration between the two services.
