gettingstartedwithmoodle
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Getting Startedwith Moodle
About Me
•Humboldt State University–LMS ITC, coordinated Blackboard-Moodle conversion, training & support
•Moodlerooms–Documentation, online course development
•Graduate Student–CSU East Bay M.S. Ed Online Teaching & Learning ‘10
...About You?
Icebreaker Exercise:
1. Edit Profile to be your real name
2. Take the Using Moodle polls in the “Moodle Training Resources” course
What is Moodle?• Modular-Object-Oriented-Dynamic-
Learning Environment– Flexible, open-source Learning Management
System
• 100% online or supplement to a traditional classroom.– Miss a class? Keep in the loop– Enrich synchronous course
• Resources and learning activities built upon the principles of collaboration and detailed feedback. – Moodle's Philosophy: Social Constructivism
Creator: Martin Dougiamas, Creator: Martin Dougiamas, Perth, Western Australia Perth, Western Australia
24.6 million registered users24.6 million registered users
2.3 million courses2.3 million courses
1.9 million teachers1.9 million teachers
208 countries 208 countries
Available in 78 languagesAvailable in 78 languages
Largest site – 200,000 usersLargest site – 200,000 users
Slide by Slide by Tomaz LasicTomaz Lasic
http://human.edublogs.org
world facts world facts (September 2008)(September 2008)
How to Moodle
• Sign up with a hosting provider– Moodle Partner - Moodlerooms
• Moodle Experts – host, customize/develop, support• 10% profits back to Moodle.org
– Monthly Hosting: globalclassroom.us, Ninehub
• Self-Host– System administrator – Support team
Tools
Student Experience
• Demonstration: Blended Class– Moodle to supplement face-to-face
• As a resource• As a means to enrich face2face, assess learning,
and
• Demonstration: Online Class
Instructor Orientation• Login and access course from MyCourses page• Turning Editing On• Design Decision: Course Format by Topics or
Weekly dates– Course Settings – name, choose format, # of
topics, summary, availability• Name your Topics• Topic Controls
Building Your Course -ResourcesAdd a Resource is used to present content in your
course.
By the end of this unit, you will be able to:
• Add a file • Create a Moodle Book• Create a web page• Add a link to a website• Insert a label to give more information• Embed video, images and external links
Building Your Course -ResourcesDemo: 3 Main Ways to Display Content.
Syllabus as: a link to a file, a book, a web page, a link to a website
Activities:
Create a link to a file
File directory & organization
Create a Book
Compose a web page
Link to a website
Insert a Label
Embed Media - Video, audio, widgets, presentations (ie Slideshare)
Embed a video, an image, an audio
Content Control Icons
Building your Course - Blocks
•Add supplementary links, tools & resources•Calendar•Online Users
Building your Course - Activities
• Building your Course: Activities Activities used to engage learners with resources
you've added, to show their learning, to assess learning and give feedback.
most can be graded some allow students to rate the works of others
and provide feedback Major Course Design Decision - which activities
would best fit with your learning objective in your student's application/analyzing/evaluation of learning?
Building your Course - Activities
By the end of this session, you will be able to: Post an announcement in the News forum Create a Choice to poll students or as a signup Create a Chat for synchronous discussion Create a Forum for discussion Create a Wiki for collaboration Create a Glossary for vocabulary building & research
Create Assignments for students to submit to Create a Quiz to assess students or provide practice
Uses, Demo, Practice, Discussion
• First, the activity will be introduced with ideas for use
• Then, the activity will be demonstrated
• Next, you'll practice setting up the activity
• Lastly, we can share ideas about using this activity in your courses
News Forum
• The News Forum: Posting an Announcement– Emailed to students– Appears on course page in the Latest
News block
Choice Uses
• Poll student opinion• Stimulate thinking about a topic
– As an advanced organizer to introduce a unit, ask a prequestion, ideally connecting a concept to student's prior experience.
• Assess prior knowledge• Sign up
– For a topic or presentation date
Choice Demo
Favorite Food PollSignup for a tool/technique
Collaboration in Moodle
Chat• Synchronous communication
– Can schedule a session to happen once or reocccur at specific dates/times
• Use for office hours • Space for group work collaboration• Last-minute test study - Set up a chat room
for the night before an exam so students have a place to go and ask questions.– Optional: Have a T.A. moderate
Chat Demo
An open chat with scheduled office hours
Forum Uses• Tool for collaboration and peer review
– Enforce groups so that students can collaborate on projects
– Require the posting of a project as a discussion topic, require feedback to fellow learners.
• Problem based learning– Assign groups to solve a problem, identify and correct a
misconception, etc. – Q & A Forum Type: Students must post answer before see
others• Weekly reading discussion
– apply concepts from the reading– discuss a case study– use as resource to collect questions for in-class discussion
Forum Uses• Tool for class-wide FAQ
– Have one for whole class and/or ones for particular units
– Have them consult the forums and the responses before sending you an email.
• Interview a guest expert • Student moderation of a topic/issue• Social Forum
– for chatting non-class issues – Icebreakers
• Post your own first to model
• Management tips:– View all forum posts by a student in profile
Forum Demo
• Importance of Reading Standard Discussion
• Importance of Reading Simple Discussion• View all posts made by a user in profile
Wiki• A wiki is a page (or pages) that several people
can edit together.
• Each of the changes are saved in versions of the page, and the old versions can be retrieved to be re-examined.
• Types:– Class collaboration– Individual/Teacher collaboration– Group collaboration
Wiki Uses • Lecture Notes• Bra ins torming• Group Projects
– Record research, create outlines– Produce a guide, article, brochure, etc.
• Consider asking to have best of submitted to Wikipedia or another web wiki
– Collaborate on assignments that are submitted to forum posts or uploaded to assignments
• Portfolio - Student-teacher, student collects artifacts in Wiki
• Journa l
Wiki Demo
• Web 2.0 Participant's Blog URLs• Edit & Add another page• Tabs & Menus• Research Wiki – Groups on
Glossary
• Instructor and/or student created• Entries organized by category• Entries can be commented on• Entries can be revised based on comments• Entries can be moderated by Instructor for
approval into Glossary
Glossary Uses• Vocabulary building - Repository for key concept
definition• Research Activity –
– Assign each student (or team) to contribute a definition (and categorize appropriately if applicable).
– Multiple definitions can be rated, with the highest-rated definitions submitted the final class glossary.
• Mini-projects - small research projects to create resources for each other.– Have students research a topic (like organs in the body)
then create an encyclopaedia-style glossary entry with pictures and resources.
– Create glossary entries for biographies of historical people or those in the field.
Glossary Uses• Embed information on key concepts with
autolinking– Anytime someone mentions a glossary term in
a lesson, forum, or wiki, the word is linked back to the definition in the glossary.
– Credit for word use: Assign points to using glossary terms in students' forum posts.
• Random Glossary Block– Tip or Vocab Word of the Day/Week/Upon
Refresh– Draws randomly or sequentially
Glossary Demo
Literary Terms GlossaryAdd a new entry
Assessment in Moodle
Assignments
• Advanced uploading of files – submit to Moodle– PPTs, spreadsheets, Worksheet Word Docs– Review/mark file & reupload to student; Drafts
• Upload a single file – submit to Moodle • Online Text – compose & submit in Moodle
– In-line commenting – Ideal for short written assignments; journals
• Offline activity – submit in class/non-graded Moodle– To give credit and/or feedback for real-world activities like
participation, presentations, etc– To grade a non-graded Moodle activity ie Wiki, Choice.
Assignment Demo
Upload a file as studentOnline Text as studentGrading an Online Text
Grading a file
Quiz
• Formal tool to assess learning • Practice or Self Assessment
– Zero-points for practice with concepts (use an older quiz that aren't giving again)
– Adaptive (allow them to retake question immediately within same attempt)
– Strengthens understanding
• Question types: Multiple choice, Embedded (Cloze), Matching, True/False, Short Answer Essay, Numerical, Calculated, – Can import in a number of formats
Quiz Features• Item analysis - identify defective test items &
knowledge gaps.
• Rapid, Explanatory feedback based on selection– Overall feedback based on final grade range
• Randomly generate quizzes from pools of questions
• Allow students to re-take quizzes multiple times– Optional: enforce a time delay between attempts
• Pools can be reused in multiple quizzes, shared between classes
Quiz Demo
Moodle QuizVocabulary Quiz Results
Lesson• Present content like an article or a graphic,
followed by questions on what they just saw– Supports engagement & mental models– Can be used as a flashcard exercise
• Student is shown pages (cards) in random order. Usually these are question pages.
• Setup 1: "After a correct answer" set to "Show an unseen page" never shows the same page twice (even if the student did not answer the question associated with the Card/Page correctly).
• Setup 2: The other option is "Show an unanswered page" which shows the student pages that may have appeared before but only if they answered the associated question wrongly.
Lesson
• Create simulations and case studies to respond to student input - a Choose your own Adventure book. – Branching: Each page in the lesson can be followed by
a question, and the resulting page depends on the answer the student gives.
– Create a flowcart for organization to avoid confusion!– Supports application, analyzing, scaffolding to learner's
ability
Lesson Demo
•Complex; no time for demo or practice•Walkthrough settings
Managing your Course: Administration
•Assign Roles•Groups•Backup•Reports
–Who's doing what and when.
Extending Moodle3rd party modules add more features
Moodle.org – Downloads – ModulesHaven't used most of these yet
• Flexpage – Alternative Course Format
http://premier.demo.moodlerooms.com/course/view.php?id=37
• Google Integration – single sign on
• Sloodle – sloodle.org– Take Choices in SL; submit SL 3D to
Moodle assignment
• Filter: Insert Question into Resource or Activity.
Extending Moodle
• Mindmap – Create mindmaps
– Student-editable or not
– Private, group, public
– Export XML, PDF, image
• Map – Build maps with Google or
Openstreetmap
– Student or Instructor created
– Automatically populate student locations
Extending Moodle• Flashcard
– An indexing exercise for a map of coupled things (any pair of related text, images, or sounds) to be learned and retained.
– Can create from matching questions
• Game – Create games from your quiz
questions and glossary entries
– Hangman, Crossword, Cryptex, Millionaire, Sudoku, Hidden Picture, Snakes/Ladders
Extending Moodle• Skype
– Video calling, file sending, chat
– As module (schedule & open session from Moodle)
– As block (see what users are on Skype right now)
• DimDim Web Meeting, Wimba & Webex (coming soon)
– Create, Schedule & add to calendar; open session from Moodle
• NanoGong - http://gong.ust.hk/nanogong/moodle.html
– Audio Recording in Moodle HTML editor
– Audio Activity - Assignment type
...And More
• Database• Surveys• Outcomes
– tie your standards to Moodle activities
• Rubrics• Gradebook• Attendance