7 Tips to Optimize your Gmail

We often might receive tens or even hundreds of emails each day. Without proper and easy-to-use tools or techniques to manage and automate certain tasks, we probably will sink in piles and piles of unread and uncategorized emails from everywhere. Gmail provides a rich and flexible email and task management platform. It features a very...

Kickstart your study!

With the beginning of the new academic year, new students are embarking on new challenges, schedules, timetables, duties, responsibilities, to-do lists...etc. This amount of information and chores could be overwhelming and hard to observe. So here are some tips to kickstart your new academic year. Be Digital! Use to-do lists, note taking and other productivity...

Twitter in Education

Twitter, as a popular and dynamic social platform, could be effectively utilized by educators to enrich and diversify the teaching experience. The "Hashtag" is like a dynamic magnifier that filters and orders the massive amount of data that is populating the web. The teacher can create a hashtag related to the topic or subject that...

Moodle – Motivating Educators

Teachers, lecturers, and educators, in general, all need motivation and some kind of productive competition, which in turn will enhance the overall teaching quality & creativity. One of the many valuable tools that Moodle provides is Reports. I've been using Moodle's Most Active Courses (Weighted) Report to send weekly statistics of the top 10 most...

Moodle – Simple Upgrade Shell Script

Moodle administrators often need to upgrade their Moodle core to the latest stable version (recommended best-practice), along with other PHP and web server relevant components and dependencies. The upgrade process consists of a number of repeated and predefined steps and procedures, therefore, it might be a time-consuming process if it has been done manually. So,...