Moodle courses - adding buttons

Spruce up your Moodle course with buttons

I have added some code to Moodle to allow for the easy creation of navigation buttons to Moodle courses and pages. Below is a short PowerPoint guide outlining the process.

Buttons can be created from images too - just insert a link and set the Class to 'button' in exactly the same way as for the text links in the guide.

A button with an image and text is only slightly more tricky, but is best done using the HTML editor - put the image and text inside the a tags, seperated with a br linebreak.

Revision: simple clear mind-mapping with Coggle.it

Mind Maps can be a fantastic tool to revise a topic.

Coggle.it provides a simple platform for creating Mind Maps that can be shared (as below), made collaborative, or exported for printing.

Images can be included by simply dragging and dropping onto the canvas. Linking lines can be coloured a wide variety of colours and nodes can be easily moved to achieve a clear layout. Hyperlinks can be included too (try CTRL-clicking the word "Photosynthesis" in the above example). Full, easy to follow, instructions can be displayed as a side-bar.

Dominoes, triominoes, world loops and more: Formulator Tarsia

A very quick post to let you know about some fantastic free software for Windows computers.

Formulator Tarsia, available free of charge from http://www.mmlsoft.com/index.php/products/tarsia, provides an interface to quickly and easily create a variety of card sort and jigsaw activities and puzzle games. Just type in terms and definitions, or questions and answers and the program will create your puzzle which can be exported to pdf for printing.

Formulator Tarsia allows for easy formatting of mathematical formula or insertion of images.