Totara recently announced the launch of Totara Cloud, which will become available later this month. If you are a small business or proprietorship who needs a corporate learning management system for a handful of people, then TotaraCloud is for you. Or perhaps you looking to implement Totara LMS for a large organization - Totara Cloud is a great to play around with the deep feature set.

Since they were recently acquired by LinkedIn, lynda.com has become an extremely well-known name in the eLearning industry. We are excited to be partnering with them to provide our learners access to their large library of video tutorials, and online courses. 

Once you have created your Moodle course the next step is to enroll your learners into that course! The following instructions are for manual Moodle enrolments.

Lambda is partnering up with the online learning company, lynda.com, to provide an extensive library of video tutorials, and online courses that can be directly integrated with Moodle.

Now that we have shown you how to set up Moodle, courses, and users, it’s time to learn how to set up the most used Moodle feature - Quizzes! Knowing how to create a moodle quiz is going to be essential for Moodle administrators and teachers as it is a great way to test knowledge comprehension before, during and after modules and courses. The great thing about the Quiz feature in Moodle is that quizzes can be set up to be automatically marked, or saved for grading by the instructor later.

We've previously discussed how gamification is changing corporate training. But what does a gamified course actually look like? And how do gamified course results compare with those of a more traditionally designed course based on the same content?

Introduction Here’s the scenario: You are about to setup your Moodle LMS installation, and you aren’t sure where to start, what to consider, or what you should know. The good news is if you are outsourcing your Moodle hosting - which is the recommended method - the Moodle installation process will be taken care of for you. Moodle hosting vendors, like Lambda Solutions, help take away the headache of installing the site on a server, and remove stress surrounding the optimization of your Moodle site's performance. 

Six Companies Form the Partners of Open Source Educational Technologies (POET) Working Group to Develop Common Standards for Moodle Plugin Development The nature of open source projects allow for massive growth in a small periods of time due to contributions from many developers. Like any large project or organization, one can imagine the difficulties that may arise to ensure that innovation in code is kept on track with a common goal and mission.

Introduction Here’s the scenario: You are about to setup your Moodle LMS installation, and you aren’t sure where to start, what to consider, or what you should know. The good news is if you are outsourcing your Moodle hosting - which is the recommended method - the Moodle installation process will be taken care of for you. Moodle hosting vendors, like Lambda Solutions, help take away the headache of installing the site on a server, and remove stress surrounding the optimization of your Moodle site's performance. 

Course Creation in Moodle There are a few best practices to follow when it comes to creating Moodle courses. Here are some things to consider. Keep students engaged by having activity based courses (with assignments, and quizzes), or socially based (with forums, chats, and wiki’s). Sticking to only one delivery method can cause boredom, but changing up the delivery method keeps the mind stimulated.