moodle

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verb

To dawdle aimlessly, to idle time away.

Less commonScrabble 9

Meanings

moodle1

verbmoodle (third-person singular simple present moodles, present participle moodling, simple past and past participle moodled)

present singular third person moodles · participle present moodling · participle past moodled · past moodled

  1. To dawdle aimlessly, to idle time away.

    Over a sonata by Schubert he — well, I suppose I must not say that he moodled, or maundered, or anything of that sort.

    1931, Bernard Shaw, Music in London, 1890-94, page 154
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    The Poet moodles (from Brenda Ueland's If You Want to Write). She fools around, meanders, and takes time for feelings and not just ideas.

    2002, Elijah Mirochnik, Debora Claiborne Sherman, Passion and Pedagogy, page 354

    I cannot begin to count the number of times I have moodled, set a sermon aside, often in midstream, and taken a walk through the church gardens, or around the city block, even caught a brief nap on the study sofa; in other words, I have let my mind lie fallow, and then returned to the task with inspiration renewed.

    2006, J. Barrie Shepherd, Whatever Happened to Delight?, page 69

    She moodled all day and all night. Hundreds of tiny notions streamed from her head and ideas bounced back and forth, but no real possibilities formed.

    2015, Paige Britt, The Lost Track of Time, page 62

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nounmoodle (plural moodles)

plural moodles

  1. alternativeAlternative form of Moodle.

    Better yet, take advantage of shared drives, moodles, and blogs as online resources.

    2008, Grace Sammon, Creating and Sustaining Small Learning Communities, page 207
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    We could equally explore the potential of wikis, drupals, moodles and other software for reflecting on performance making.

    2011, Michael Anderson, David Cameron, John Carroll, Drama Education with Digital Technology

    Share what has been created in a binder or consider high-tech collaboration tools such as blogs, wikis, or moodles.

    2013, Joni Turville, Differentiating By Student Learning Preferences, page 97

    The institute continuously strives to host training programs for teachers and students to develop and learn course contents using 'moodles' available for teaching and learning activities.

    2014, Nikku Bala Raju, Hatta Zulkarnain Ahmad, Social Work Education and Practice, page 64

    The students do not only use smartphones and social media for entertainment, but they use them for information sharing, content sharing, academic peer group discussion, accessing learning websites and applications, and for accessing moodles.

    2022, T Ravikumar, R. Anuradha, R Rajesh, N. Prakash, “Smartphone Usage, Social Media Engagement, and Academic Performance”, in V. Suma, editor, Evolutionary Computing and Mobile Sustainable Networks, page 362

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nounMoodle (plural Moodles)

plural Moodles · alternative moodle

  1. Modular object-oriented dynamic learning environment.

    Many Moodles exist throughout the education sector.

    2010, George Veletsianos, Emerging Technologies in Distance Education, page 202
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    Moodles are relatively new Web 2.0 tools, thus there is not an abundance of empirical research regarding them.

    2013, Kris Helge, Laura McKinnon, The Teaching Librarian: Web 2.0, Technology, and Legal Aspects, page 16

    Interviewee C did a one-hour lecture to introduce the DGBL topic using Moodles – a blind learning approach.

    2019, Anna Visvizi, Miltiadis D. Lytras, Akila Sarirete, Management and Administration of Higher Education Institutions in Times of Change, page 160
verbMoodle (third-person singular simple present Moodles, present participle Moodling, simple past and past participle Moodled)

present singular third person Moodles · participle present Moodling · participle past Moodled · past Moodled · alternative moodle

  1. To use a Moodle, either as a teacher or as a student.

    Happy Moodling!

    2014, Jaswinder Singh, How to use Moodle 2.7, page iii
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    Over the years, many teachers have developed instructional content using Moodle (anyone who Moodles is a Moodler!).

    2011, William N. Bender, RTI in Middle and High Schools

    One day, classroom students are accessing the Cloud as well as Skyping, and the next day they are Moodling.

    2015, Allan A. Glatthorn, Floyd Boschee, Bruce M. Whitehead, Curriculum Leadership

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