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davefoord.bsky.social

@davefoord.bsky.social
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Freelance Ed tech consultant/trainer (mainly the use of #Moodle), owner of A6 Training and Consultancy Ltd. Loves cricket, running, mountaineering and chutney/jam making.

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davefoord.bsky.social @davefoord.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
I have been using these labels for years for my jams and chutneys, and only just noticed the labels are ‘Jam Free’
Labels showing ‘Jam free’
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davefoord.bsky.social @davefoord.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
I have just found this really useful #moodle plugin: moodle.org/plugins/loca... once set up users can bookmark pages within their courses, or add notes to pages.
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Moodle Plugins directory: Learning Tools
Create bookmarks, take notes, schedule activities and focus mode for better learning experiences … and much more!
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davefoord.bsky.social @davefoord.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Quality learning design, appears to be a dying skill In my younger days, I made my mark in education as an innovator and trailblazer in the World of Learning technology, and often clashed with the opinions of the more senior, experienced educators, who I saw as holding education back. So I…
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Quality learning design, appears to be a dying skill
In my younger days, I made my mark in education as an innovator and trailblazer in the World of Learning technology, and often clashed with the opinions of the more senior, experienced educators, who I saw as holding education back. So I recognise there is a huge slice of irony, now that I am one of those ‘more senior’ educators, and my opinions will be perceived by many as holding things back.
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davefoord.bsky.social @davefoord.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
And of course - bad jokes are always a winner
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davefoord.bsky.social @davefoord.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
No messing around, straight into something useful that people could take away and use, and not a sales pitch, like the others.
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davefoord.bsky.social @davefoord.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Best session by far today at #MootGlobal25 was by Gavin from @brickfield.bsky.social #Moodle
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davefoord.bsky.social @davefoord.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Attending #MootGlobal25 #moodle
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davefoord.bsky.social @davefoord.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Have submitted 2 proposals for presentations at #Moodle #MootGlobal25 in Edinburgh - one on creating multi-lingual moodles, and the other on creating personalised learning through FilterCodes and Generico Filters.
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davefoord.bsky.social @davefoord.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
On Tue 29 April I am presenting at the (free) #Moodle Munch on how the excellent FilterCodes and Generico plugins can be used together to do some really clever things. I hadn't come across Generico until recently, but now that I have, the options are amazing. dcu-ie.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: MoodleMunch: Series 5, Webinar 3 - Tuesday 29 April 2025. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
In this webinar, Dublin City University (DCU) and A6 Training will deliver presentations: 1. DCU will share their experiences and insights of using a Moodle tool for students to rate each other’s per...
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davefoord.bsky.social @davefoord.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
I have signed up for the #moodle #MootGlobal25 in Edinburgh, really looking forward to going - will hopefully be selected to present something.
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davefoord.bsky.social @davefoord.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
I think the discovery of the excellent filter codes plugin: moodle.org/plugins/filt... closely followed by the Grade Me plugin; moodle.org/plugins/bloc...
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Moodle Plugins directory: FilterCodes
Transform your Moodle site with the FilterCodes Plugin! Elevate engagement by inserting about 200 dynamic plain-text tags like {firstname} to create personalized learning experiences, customize your s...
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davefoord.bsky.social @davefoord.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
This is a really good article and one that is very pertinent. a couple of my clients are currently grappling with this issue - but it is really tricky, as it doesn't seem to be clear where something stops being a digital asset, and starts being a taught course.
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davefoord.bsky.social @davefoord.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
A sustainable way to provide multi-lingual #Moodle courses In my last post, I presented the argument for providing properly translated content, and in a post from a few months ago I listed a few ways that this can be achieved, detailing the advantages and disadvantages of each method. From that…
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A sustainable way to provide multi-lingual #Moodle courses
In my last post, I presented the argument for providing properly translated content, and in a post from a few months ago I listed a few ways that this can be achieved, detailing the advantages and disadvantages of each method. From that list of options, the best end solution was the approach of having a single course, and using the…
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davefoord.bsky.social @davefoord.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
I am using Bluesky to try and recreate the early days of 'the other' platform - e.g. when it was good, and it felt like I was interacting with real people (most of whom I knew) rather than corporate accounts, advertising and general rubbish, #ALTM25
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davefoord.bsky.social @davefoord.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Why there is still a need to properly translate #Moodle based learning content I support various global organisations with their Moodle based online provision, and as such many have a need to offer their courses in multiple languages. For over 10 years I have battled to find a way to effectively…
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Why there is still a need to properly translate #Moodle based learning content
I support various global organisations with their Moodle based online provision, and as such many have a need to offer their courses in multiple languages. For over 10 years I have battled to find a way to effectively do this and blogged about this recently: I have finally come up with a workable solution (which will be my next blog post).
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davefoord.bsky.social @davefoord.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
The #MoodleMoot Global 2025 has been confirmed as 16-18 September in Edinburgh. moodle.com/events/mootg...
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MoodleMoot Global 2025 - Moodle
MoodleMoot Global is our annual in-person event where Moodle enthusiasts come together and collaborate, and learn from each other. You won't want to miss out!
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davefoord.bsky.social @davefoord.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Trying to use AI to create video caption files in different languages for YouTube. At first I was impressed when I did this with 1 file, but now that I am trying to do this with 16 files, it is getting very confused - it keeps returning English files instead of Spanish, or losing the timestamps
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davefoord.bsky.social @davefoord.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
thanks for the correction - the host company did come up with a different license amount which was slightly less, but still prohibitive. they told us this was a very special offer they had negotiated with HQ....
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davefoord.bsky.social @davefoord.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Switching from Moodle Workplace to Moodle LMS This post is a reflection on the process that I’ve been through where we have moved from Moodle Workplace to Moodle LMS and by sharing some of the experiences with you here, will help anybody else trying to do a similar thing. One of the organisations…
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Switching from Moodle Workplace to Moodle LMS
This post is a reflection on the process that I’ve been through where we have moved from Moodle Workplace to Moodle LMS and by sharing some of the experiences with you here, will help anybody else trying to do a similar thing. One of the organisations that I support has been using Moodle Workplace for Just over three years however we came to the conclusion that Moodle workplace was no longer suitable and they would actually be better off using Moodle LMS.
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davefoord.bsky.social @davefoord.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
in the process of working through the scouts new online inclusivity training course, which has been created in a totally inaccessible, awful scorm package....
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davefoord.bsky.social @davefoord.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Yesterday I came off my road bike at high speed - luckily I managed to get away with relatively minor injuries (broken elbow) - so 1 handed typing for me for a bit, although will see how narration works as an alternative.
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Dale Davies @daledavies.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
I'm excited to share something I've been working on... Moodle Registration Rules - a new plugin designed to help Moodle admins reduce spam registrations and improve security without relying solely on reCAPTCHA. 🔗 moodle.org/plugins/tool...
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Moodle Plugins directory: Registration Rules
An enhanced reCAPTCHA alternative and anti-spam tool to prevent automated spam bots from creating fake accounts in Moodle.
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davefoord.bsky.social @davefoord.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
And if anyone is interested in Generico Filters and Filter Codes, I am presenting about this in April’s #Moodle Munch www.dcu.ie/moodlemunch
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MoodleMunch | Teaching Enhancement Unit
MoodleMunch is a community of practice centred around Moodle and related digital learning tools, led by Dublin City University. It aims to share good digital learning and teaching practice, foster con...
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davefoord.bsky.social @davefoord.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
I am really starting to get into the excellent #Moodle Generico Filter - moodle.org/plugins/filt..., which when used in combination with moodle.org/plugins/filt... can do some really clever things - I can create very personalised elements within courses en masse
moodle.org
Moodle Plugins directory: Generico Filter
Generico is a simple filter for creating templates of code snippets and text that can be inserted into Moodle text areas.
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davefoord.bsky.social @davefoord.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
So what I am trying to do is work out why the one that is working is doing what it does, so I can do the same to the other one. The settings in the profile are identical (apart from different name, and options etc). It has totally confuddled me
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davefoord.bsky.social @davefoord.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
In general the profile fields that are on the sign up page, appear in the table, the ones that aren't don't (which I guess is an expected behaviour) - but I have one field that is not on the sign up page, that is populating and an identical one that isn't.
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davefoord.bsky.social @davefoord.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
The fields are NOT set to appear on the sign up page (and must not be). However, one of the fields populates, and the other one doesn't - these are the settings.
screenshot of the settings applied to the user profile field
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davefoord.bsky.social @davefoord.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
#Moodle peeps: I have 2 user profile fields (with same settings), both drop down lists, with a default value set. neither appear on the user facing new account page. When a user creates an account, 1 of the fields gets populated in user_info_data but the other doesn't. Any ideas?
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davefoord.bsky.social @davefoord.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Really excited that MoodleMoot this year is in UK. Never been to one before
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davefoord.bsky.social @davefoord.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Yup really odd! The fact that the invoices were correct, the money would have balanced at both ends (otherwise I would have spotted it), it was just an error at their end updating their internal ledgers - this is a major global org, so not sure why they are sifting through stuff this far back
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davefoord.bsky.social @davefoord.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Just had a client from over 2 years ago email me claiming they had paid me twice for a piece of work. They didn't double pay me, I just submitted 2 invoices in quick succession. Curious as to what has triggered something their end to spot this after all this time
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davefoord.bsky.social @davefoord.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
It has been a tough couple of days, but the migration from #Moodle Workplace to LMS is complete. A couple of glitches that we had to work through, but we got there.
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davefoord.bsky.social @davefoord.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
We are still in January, but I have already earned my 2025 'Particularly helpful Moodidler' badge from #Moodle
Screenshot showing the 3 Moodle badges that Dave has earned, each being for 'Particularly helpful Moodler' for the year 2023, 2024, 2025
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davefoord.bsky.social @davefoord.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
The easy answer to your questions is that informal learning is harder to monetise, and thus won't appear at these shows. The amount the 'vendors' invest into these shows is staggering.
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davefoord.bsky.social @davefoord.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Today one of my clients is carrying out a move from #Moodle Workplace to Moodle LMS - it has taken a lot of work to get to this point, I am both nervous and excited at the same time, and looking forward to a beer this evening. I will blog about the process once all done.
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Litbowl @litbowl.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
I want to share my experience today with Google support, trying to get Gemini (their AI/plagiarism machine) turned off in my Google workspace account. That account is where I personally do all my work communication—I am an editor, and most of my work contracts explicitly ban any use of Generative AI
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davefoord.bsky.social @davefoord.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
After many months of preparation, next week one of my clients will make the move from Moodle Workplace to Moodle LMS. I am unaware of anyone else making the move in this direction - so I have had to work through lots of unknowns. A busy few days ahead for me.
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davefoord.bsky.social @davefoord.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Oldest son took me winter climbing yesterday. My first time wielding ice axes and crampons in anger in over 20 years. Was superb.
Dave Foord, wearing a white helmet, and climbing up an icy route in North Wales
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davefoord.bsky.social @davefoord.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Park run completed (volunteered and ran). Weather today is rubbish, so working for rest of the day, then heading into the hills tomorrow instead.
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davefoord.bsky.social @davefoord.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Agreed - lots of clicks usually equates to a badly laid out site/course with students desperately trying to find something.
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davefoord.bsky.social @davefoord.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Just deleted my Twitter account - feels really good to be away from what has sadly turned into a complete cease pit.
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davefoord.bsky.social @davefoord.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Completed my 30th Parkrun of 2024 (17 different locations), although I am getting noticably slower, I still love doing them.
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davefoord.bsky.social @davefoord.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
A bit of Xmas Eve ‘excitement’ as the electrics keep tripping. Managed to eventually isolate problem to dishwasher, so prospect of cooking turkey on camping stove averted…
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davefoord.bsky.social @davefoord.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
I have been testing the Deepl plugin for #Moodle and it looks really good - still a bit buggy, so I haven't got it fully working yet, but the developer is working on it, so hopefully it will be usable soon. But - this is held back by tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-8... - please vote if interested
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davefoord.bsky.social @davefoord.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
I have chicory coffee which makes for a very pleasant afternoon drink without the caffeine
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davefoord.bsky.social @davefoord.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Today I am carrying out some basic editing of videos (chopping up a long video into lots of shorter chunks). I am finding Microsoft's free ClipChamp - really easy to use for this purpose.
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davefoord.bsky.social @davefoord.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Of course, but he tells me the tutors don’t seem to check or care, and having a longer list of well formatted references gets him better marks…
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davefoord.bsky.social @davefoord.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Interesting talking to oldest son (final year at uni) who tells me the standard behaviour is when it comes to creating a reference list, rather than referencing the actual sources they have used, they just use AI to suggest a list, and then blindly copy and paste the list into their assignment
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davefoord.bsky.social @davefoord.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
I have opened a #Moodle tracker issue for this: tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-8... if anyone is interested and would like to vote
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davefoord.bsky.social @davefoord.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
This is a huge issue for anyone genuinely wanting to make their #Moodle multilingual (by using {mlang} tags).
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