The lesson activity in Moodle - to use or not to use

A good friend of mine recently had problems with the Lesson Activity block in Moodle. I hadn't used it before and reviewed content from Moodle.org and even dialled a friend (our partners from NetSpot who manage our Moodle installation).

http://70.86.170.226/en/Adding/editing_a_lesson (information on the Lesson Activity)

I was excited by the prospect of being able to import PowerPoint slides as we can with other authoring tools like Adobe Presenter, Camtasia and Adobe Captivate.

Alas... disappointment.

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Some great stats about authoring tools

There are a lot of tools we can use to create online learning. Everything from MS Word through to Articulate's range of products. What I have at the following link is a ranking of tools by satisfaction. http://elearningtech.pbworks.com/ToolSatisfaction These charts group tools into authoring, rapid elearning and simulation and include another chart of how many people responded, suggesting usage rates for the tool.

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Using Adobe Connect to work on Moodle and Presenter

When you deploy something it is good to see it working. We started off by using Adobe Connect to conduct a management meeting, complete with video and audio. Okay it was only four people, however the quality was great and the meeting was a real meeting, not just a bunch of people messing around with some technology. It saved me at least 45 minutes in commute time.

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Time to update Adobe Presenter

There are three patches available for adobe presenter that you should download and install.

 http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/thankyou.jsp?ftpID=4562&fileID=4232

 

If Presenter is behaving in a strange way with some of the multimedia add-ins so if you are getting unpredictable behaviour, especially with synchronised video and animations, please let me know.