Over the years, eLab has developed some plugins for Moodle, in order to increase the effectiveness of the platform through the addition of some useful features:
MocLog
MocLog (Monitoring Online Courses with Logfiles) is a module of Moodle allowing the realization of a monitoring system, that helps to analyze the logfiles of Moodle effectively and efficiently.
Go to the project website
Read the paper presented at the Moodle Research Conference 2012
GISMO
GISMO (Graphical Interactive Student MOnitoring and tracking system) is a module for Moodle which extracts data about users’ personal activity on the Moodle and represents them graphically. GISMO allows Moodle teachers to graphically visualize the behavior of their classes and students, highlighting trends and identifying students who need special care.
Go to the GISMO project website
Read the paperpresented at MoodleMoot Italia 2010
DOOR
DOOR (Digital Open Object Repository) is an open source software which allows to create free learning object repositories, using the IMS standard. DOOR can be integrated into Moodle (until version 1.8.x) through the dedicated plugin. Since the first version was released (September 2006), DOOR has been downloaded over 6,000 times.
Go to the DOOR website
Text-cloud
Text-cloud is a Moodle block that automatically generates a text-cloud with the most frequents keywords of each course. The size of the keywords in the visual representation corresponds to the frequency of the keywords in the resources of the course.
Read the paper presented at MoodleMoot Italia 2011
Notifications
Notifications is a Moodle block which allows the users enrolled in a course to automatically receive notifications about the main changes occurred within the course (e.g., new resources added, resources modified, etc.). Notifications are sent by e-mail, RSS or SMS, according to the student’s choice.
Read the paper presented at MoodleMoot Italia 2011
MoodleWebSMS
MoodleWebSms is a Moodle block which allows teachers to send SMS to all the users enrolled in their course.
Download MoodleWebSMS 1.0 (42 KB) (only for Moodle until version 1.9.x)
Glossary
Glossary is an open source web application which allows to manage a multi-lingual and multi-user glossary.
Go to the Glossary website.