Category: Management Systems

  • Bad Moodlerooms

    Well, I was hoping to take in the session today from Moodlerooms about “Online Strategies and Best Practices”, but it seems that the webcast service that they use has only limited support for Mac. Bad bad bad… why would an open source based company use a closed (Real Player to boot) system for it’s webcast?…

  • iSlate-ify your WP Admin

    If you are using WordPress and an iSlate and need to update on the go, you’ll know that the admin interface on the handhelds isn’t really workable. But now, there is wphone, a “slatification” of the admin interface that works pretty good.

  • LDB is a smart cookie

    One of the keyword sets that has come up quite a bit since I posted about testing the Lock Down Browser has been “cheat lockdown browser”. So I thought one of the ways to do that would be to see if LDB know if it is indeed running inside a virtual machine – some applications…

  • Lockdown Browsers – Cheating on Demand

    Today, I was testing the Respondus Lockdown browser for the central eLearning guys and girls and as comments were going back and forth on different issues, something interesting came up… students can still cheat if the are at home by calling a friend, using another computer (just think about the number of computers in the…

  • LMS happy hour

    This was an interesting find a couple of days ago. It seems that in a 2006 study, the top three uses of an LMS had little to do with learning, but more to do with admin – they were reporting, compliance and assessment/testing. Granted the last one there lines up with teaching to some degree,…