Dave Foord

@davefoord
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Educational consultancy and training, usually to do with learning technologies and quite often the use of #Moodle. Former FE/HE lecturer. Plays cricket and climbs mountains. Owner of A6 Training and Consultancy Ltd
The different ways to make a #Moodle course multi-lingual

I am not a linguist nor a translator, but as someone who supports various global organisations, I have spent a large part of the last 10 years trying out the different methods of providing multi-li…

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My 3rd post in my series on the need to move away from SCORMs: https://davefoord.wordpress.com/2024/01/12/alternatives-to-scorm/
Alternatives to SCORM

This is the third post in my serious exploring the need for education providers to move away from using SCORMs, the others being: The inconvenient reality that we should stop using SCORMs How do or…

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How do organisations strategically move away from SCORM?

In my previous post titled ‘The inconvenient reality that we should stop using SCORMs’ I presented the case for why we have to move away from using SCORMs. In this post, I will try and …

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@tewe I don't think you can do this with the feedback module - I have used the database activity instead for this very reason - but if you use groups within your course, the way database activity works, is the entry is directly connected to the group at point of creation which is a real pain (e.g. if the user changes group, they lose access to their own entry) which may stop this being an option for you
I have written a blog post titled 'The inconvenient reality that we should stop using SCORMs' https://davefoord.wordpress.com/2024/01/03/the-inconvenient-reality-that-we-should-stop-using-scorms/ to hopefully stir a few things up with the elearning sectors: #Moodle
The inconvenient reality that we should stop using SCORMs

I have been writing this blog post on and off for the last 2 years, but up until now have not had the confidence to publish – as I expect what I have to say here, won’t sit comfortably …

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If any #Moodle users are interested in how to add your own CSS to the mobile app, then this may help: https://davefoord.wordpress.com/2023/05/31/moodle-tricks-of-the-trade-adding-your-own-css-to-the-moodle-mobile-app/
#Moodle Tricks of the Trade – Adding your own CSS to the Moodle Mobile App

This is the 21st entry, in the Moodle Tricks of the Trade series. Moodle comes with a mobile app (that is free for the users to download), and when set up correctly is a very useful addition to the…

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@linos that looks really useful.
@marcusgreen and in a similar vain - with the example of #moodle free doesn't mean 'cheap' or 'low value', it means not constrained.
@noemu So may orgs fall into the trap of thinking that because the #Moodle software is itself free, it is therefore 'cheap' - which is the wrong mentality. The software is free, which means there is money available to spend on setting it up properly, and training staff to use it. If orgs think like this, they will create systems that work.
Supporting organisations who dropped Moodle, but are now switching back

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