Moodle is going to have a service break on Thursday the third of January 2013 starting at 10 o'clock. The break will last for a couple of hours and is expected to be over by 2 o'clock pm. During the service break Moodle will be unavailable. Please remember to schedule your working plans accordingly! During [...]
Author Archives: Anni Rytkönen
New course category for SSKH
6.11.2012 – 17:57
Course areas for the Swedish School for Social Science (SSKH) in Moodle have sofar been listed under the course category for the Faculty of Social Sciences. Now SSKH has got it's own course category with proper heraldic theme colouring. The IT-responsible at SSKH, Christian Lindblom, has moved most SSKH course areas to the new category. [...]
Hiding your email address in Moodle may have unwanted consequences
12.10.2012 – 16:25
Moodle users have the opportunity to edit their profile setting on to whom the email address will be displayed. The default and recommended value for the setting Email display is Allow only other course members to see my email address. Users may also change the value to Hide my email address from everyone. If you [...]
Is your Moodle in Finnish?
12.9.2012 – 15:20
Do you have to change the language in Moodle from Finnish to English every time you have logged in? Instead, change the language setting in your profile; then you can use Moodle in English as default! To change your language settings: Log in. Change the language to English from the drop-down menu at the upper [...]
Moodle updated – new features for teachers
18.6.2012 – 9:05
The UH Moodle has been updated to a new version (2.2.2). Most of the old functionality is intact, the most notable changes include New Navigation and Settings blocks, which make the user interface more consistent. Watch a video demonstration (1 minute) of the new user interface. Setting up enrolment keys is no longer done in [...]
Midsummer week 2012: service break
7.12.2011 – 17:17
There will be a long service break in Moodle on the Midsummer week between 18 and 21 June 2012. The break may end earlier than expected. During the service break Moodle is not available and contents are not accessible. Please note the service break in the evaluation of Period 4 courses in a way that [...]
Moodle support during the summer
20.6.2011 – 10:13
During the summer holiday months of June and July, Moodle email support (ok-moodle at helsinki.fi) response times can be a bit slower than usual. Emails are read and replied to within a week, instead of the normal three working days.
Languages used in Moodle: survey results
26.5.2011 – 15:10
In April we asked for responses to our survey concerning languages used in Moodle. We received 227 responses - thank you all for your effort! A short summary on the results is presented below. Teaching is given mainly in three languages at Helsinki University – Finnish, Swedish and English. Thus, our VLE Moodle is also [...]
What languages do you use in Moodle?
1.4.2011 – 16:53
Moodle can at present be used in three languages: Finnish, Swedish and English. The used language - via both language selections and used phrases - is an essential part of using Moodle and how it works. Teachers' and students' language choices do not show in Moodle statistics, and information concerning user preferences does not exist [...]
Copying text from Word to Moodle
31.12.2010 – 17:28
Many Moodle users want to write their texts using a proper word processor, like MS Word, before copying the final version to Moodle. The direct copy-paste does not work properly, because of all Word metadata included in the clipboard copy. The traditional way of dealing with the problem is to paste the text to Notepad [...]