Moodle was updated during the service break on third January. There were no drastic changes, mostly small improvements to the user experience. This video (18 minutes) summarizes the most important improvements: Two things mentioned in the video are note applicable to the UH Moodle installation: (Starting at 8:50 in the video.) UH Moodle does not [...]
Category Archives: News
Moodle service break on 3rd January 2013
10.12.2012 – 15:32
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 [...]
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. [...]
New course area request form
4.9.2012 – 14:38
All teachers in need of a new Moodle course area are kindly asked to use the new request form at http://ok.helsinki.fi/moodle-en/howto/request-course-area/. The course areas are usually created within a day of the request, and an email will be sent to the teacher once the course area is ready.
Moodle support on vacation 11.7.-5.8.2012
6.7.2012 – 16:08
Moodle support team will be on their summer holidays during a few weeks in July and August. Therefore email support (ok-moodle at helsinki.fi) response times will be slower than usual. Allthough all emails are read and replied to in the middle of August, at the latest. We wish you all a warm & sunny summertime! [...]
Moodle training for teachers on 21st August
26.6.2012 – 16:10
Moodle 2 – new features This course is intended for teachers who have previous experience in using Moodle. The objective of the course is to introduce the participants to new features of Moodle 2. We will take a look at the new course navigation, file management, registration methods, and other new features according to the [...]
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 [...]
Moodle version update in June
20.3.2012 – 12:31
The UH Moodle server will be updated to a new version (2.2) during the week before Midsummer (18th–21st June). During this week, Moodle will be unavailable. After the update, Moodle is available at the old address (http://moodle.helsinki.fi) with a new user interface and the old basic functionality. The new version also includes new features supporting [...]
Submissions folders will no longer be available after 17th June
20.3.2012 – 12:30
After the Moodle upgrade in June 2012 submissions folders no longer work. If you need the contents of the folders after 15th June, you will have to convert the folders to a format understood by the new Moodle version. Old submissions folders are archived automatically and kept until the end of the year 2012, so the folders [...]
Changes in using the UH wiki in Moodle
20.3.2012 – 12:30
The user synchronization between the UH wiki and Moodle course areas will no longer work after the Moodle upgrade in June. All links to wiki spaces in Moodle course areas will continue to work, but new users enrolling in the Moodle course area have to be added to the wiki space manually (see the Confluence documentation). [...]