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Online Course for Moodle Developers Launching October 1st

Moodle Partner HRNDZ has recently announced an online course for people interested in developing for Moodle. The course is a part of their ongoing Moodlebites.com series. Justin Hunt, well known plugin developer (see: PoodLL, Genrico, MyTube,YouTube Anywhere, and YouTube Submission, Skim Import, and Blog Export) will be facilitating the course.

מקור: Online Course for Moodle Developers Launching October 1st | Moodle News

אוג 08

How To Use the DigitalOcean ELK Stack One-Click Application | DigitalOcean

The DigitalOcean ELK Stack One-Click Application provides you with a quick way to launch a centralized logging server. The ELK Stack is made up of three key pieces of software: Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana. Together they allow you to collect, s

מקור: How To Use the DigitalOcean ELK Stack One-Click Application | DigitalOcean

יול 28

What’s Your HTTPS Grade? A Case Study of HTTPS/SSL at Mid Michigan Community College

What’s Your HTTPS Grade? A Case Study of HTTPS/SSL at Mid Michigan Community College

  • Why is SSL important?
    • Users reuse passwords across sites outside of your institution
    • Why have SSL enabled on Moodle? Don’t let Moodle be your weakest link.
  • Just having SSL isn’t enough — what’s your grade?
    • Qualys SSL tool
  • Overview of recent SSL vulnerabilities (POODLE, Heartbleed, etc.)
  • Sample configuration for protecting against these vulnerabilities
    • Apache
    • Nginx

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מקור: MoodleMoot US 2015: Presentations

יול 28

Using Google’s Web Speech API with Moodle for Language Learning

Using Google’s Web Speech API with Moodle for Language Learning

Voice recognition (speech-to-text) and speech synthesis (text-to-speech) are powerful tools which, up until now, were not easily available to educators wishing to design their own computerized speaking activities. Google’s Web Speech API, with voice recognition and speech synthesis, now makes it possible to develop powerful web-based speaking activities within Moodle for language learning purposes. The presenter will demonstrate sample Moodle language learning activities that utilize the Web Speech API. The activities include a computerized speech assessment plugin, a web-based audio recorder, and a voice shadowing activity with speech recognition… [more info]

מקור: MoodleMoot US 2015: Presentations