QR codes are automatically added to Moodle pages

I’m really pleased to announce that the e-learning team have recently released an enhancement to Moodle which appends a QR Code to the bottom of Moodle print outs. Great work from Matt Roper in the e-leanring team, and the support of other University Teams, incluing Web Services.

The announcement was made on the Moodle Blog - http://blogs.bath.ac.uk/moodle

“We have just released an enhancement for Moodle users who want to access material on their mobile device. Many pages printed from moodle now include a QR Code (a bar code) at the bottom. You will only see these on your print outs or if you view the page in print preview mode through your browser.

You will need a bar code reader on your Mobile camera phone to read this bar code. The bar code contains the url of the page. So once accessed it will deep link to that particular page on that particular moodle course. This will make it much more efficient for people accessing Moodle using mobile devices as you as you can simply scan the bar code … no more typing in long urls using big thumbs on small keyboards

“I use this as follows, when looking through my Moodle courses, when I find a page I want to revisit later, such as a forum. I click on file >> print preview in the browser on my computer. Then I scroll to the bottom of the page, take out my mobile phone and scan the bar code. I then add this as a favourite on the web browser on my phone. So I can access it whenever I like” - Andy Ramsden, Head of e-Learning.”