Melbourne Moodle Users Group (MMUG) - Moodle Monday Wrap Up and Thank You

I'd like to thank the 17 people who came along to last night's Melbourne Moodle Users Group (MMUG) face-to-face Moodle Monday at CLB Training and Development in South Melbourne. By all accounts, it was a great success with several people coming forward to showcase their various projects.

In particular, I'd like to thank Fiona Blair from NMIT for showing us a real-world example of the use of conditional activities in Moodle and +Katharine Ebbs from the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM) for showing us some of the wonderful things ACEM are doing with their Moodle.

I'd also like to thank +David Isaacson from CLB for showing us his work in Adobe Captivate and Moodle. I look forward to our next Moodle Monday on Monday 18 March at 6.30pm in the virtual classroom.

I'm Doing the Moodle Course Creator Certificate (MCCC)

In case you're wondering why you haven't heard from me in a while it's because I'm currently completing an online course, namely the Moodle Course Creator Certificate (MCCC). It's an 8 week course which finishes at the end of November. I'm doing the course through an official Moodle partner. The course isn't hard but it is a bit of a struggle finding the time as I'm kept fairly busy managing Graccon Learning Solutions. Anyhow, I'm sure it'll all be worth it in the end.

My Adobe Photoshop CS4 Problem and How It Was Resolved Thanks to the Adobe Windows Photoshop Forum

The other day I was having a design problem so I posted a message titled Why does my logo lose its transparent background when I copy it from PowerPoint into Photoshop? in the Adobe Windows Photoshop Forum. In particular, I had a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation that contained a client's logo and I needed to capture that logo so I could use it in Moodle. Initially, I copied the logo and pasted it into Adobe Photoshop CS4.

However, the logo had a transparent background in PowerPoint which it seemed to lose once it was in Photoshop. I tried copying and pasting the logo several times but on each occasion I ended up with a logo that had a white background. Anyhow, I decided to post a message in the Adobe Windows Photoshop Forum. Suffice to say, less than 24 hours later I had received two responses.

In one response the author suggested I capture the logo from PowerPoint in a different way. Instead of selecting the logo then clicking Copy it was suggested that I simply right-click on the logo and click Save as Picture. So I gave it a go and used Save as Picture to save the logo in PNG format before opening it up in Photoshop. Suffice to say, my logo now has a transparent background rather than a white one. Thanks Mike.