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Moodle 2.7

Faculty Guide

Overview

• Courses

• Activities

• Moving Activities and Resources

• Rubrics

• Grading

• Assigning Roles

• Course Management

• Moodle Resources

Courses

Courses

• Courses are the spaces on Moodle where teachers add learning materials for their students.

• Courses are created by admins, course creators or managers. Teachers can then add the content and re-organize them according to their own needs.

Course Layout Examples

• By Topic

• By Type

• By Week

Activities

What is an Activity?

• An activity is something that a student will do that interacts with other students and or the teacher.

• There are 14 different types of activities in the standard Moodle that can be found when the editing is turned on and the link Add an activity or resource is clicked.

Adding an Activity to a Course

• With the editing turned on, in the section you wish to add your activity

• Click the Add an activity or resource link (or, if not present, the Add an activity drop down menu )

• Choose an activity.

Activities

Assignment

Chat

Forum

Choice

Database

External Tool

Feedback

Glossary

Lesson

Workshop

Quiz

SCORM

Survey

Wiki

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Assignment

• The assignment module allows teachers to collect work from students, review it and provide feedback including grades.

• The work students submit is visible only to the teacher and not to the other students unless a group assignment is selected.

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Assignment Settings

• General– The General section allows you to give your assignment a name and

description.

Assignment Settings

• Availability– Setting that sets when an assignment becomes available (Allow

submissions from), when it’s due (Due-date), and when it closes (cut-off date).

Assignment Settings

• Submission Types– Here is where we can decide how a student will submit their work.

• Additional settings are explained here

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Chat

• The chat activity module allows participants to have a real-time synchronous discussion in a Moodle course.

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Choice

• A choice activity is very simple – the teacher asks a question and specifies a choice of multiple responses.

• It can be useful as a quick poll to stimulate thinking about a topic; to allow the class to vote on a direction for the course; or to gather research consent.

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Database

• The database activity module allows the teacher and/or students to build, display and search a bank of record entries about any conceivable topic.

• The format and structure of these entries can be almost unlimited, including images, files, URLs, numbers and text amongst other things.

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External Tool

• The external tool enables Moodle users to interact with LTI-compliant learning resources and activities on other web sites.

• For instance, an external tool could provide access to a new activity type or learning materials from a publisher.

• Here is a list of LTI certified tools from IMS Global.

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Feedback

• The Feedback module allows you to create and conduct surveys to collect feedback. – Unlike the Survey tool it allows

you to write your own questions, rather than choose from a list of pre-written questions and unlike the Quiz tool, you can create non-graded questions.

• The Feedback activity is ideal for the likes of course or teacher evaluations.

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Forum

• The forum module is an activity where students and teachers can exchange ideas by posting comments.

• There are four basic forum types. Forum posts can be graded by the teacher or other students.

Forums

• A forum can contribute significantly to successful communication and community building in an online environment. You can use forums for many innovative purposes in educational settings, but teaching forums and student forums are arguably the two more significant distinctions.– Forum settings– Using Forum– Forum FAQ

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Glossary

• The glossary activity module allows participants to create and maintain a list of definitions, like a dictionary.

• Glossary can be used in many ways: – The entries can be searched or

browsed in different formats. – A glossary can be a collaborative

activity or be restricted to entries made by the teacher.

– Entries can be put in categories. – The auto-linking feature will highlight

any word in the course which is located in the glossary.

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Lesson

• The lesson module presents a series of HTML pages to the student who is usually asked to make some sort of choice underneath the content area.

• The choice will send them to a specific page in the Lesson.

• In a Lesson page's simplest form, the student can select a continue button at the bottom of the page, which will send them to the next page in the Lesson.

Lesson

• Lesson settings• Building Lesso

n• Using Lesson• Lesson FAQ

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Quiz

• The Quiz activity module allows the teacher to design and build quizzes consisting of a large variety of Question types, including multiple choice, true-false, and short answer questions.

• These questions are kept in the Question bank and can be re-used in different quizzes.

Quiz

• Quiz settings

• Building Quiz

• Using Quiz

• Quiz reports

• Quiz FAQ

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SCORM

• SCORM (Sharable Content Object Reference Model) is a collection of specifications that enable interoperability, accessibility and reusability of web-based learning content. SCORM content can be delivered to learners via any SCORM-compliant Learning Management System (LMS) using the same version of SCORM.

• The SCORM module enables teachers to upload any SCORM or AICC package to include in a course.

• SCORM 1.2 is supported in Moodle but SCORM 2004 is not.

SCORM Analogy

• Let’s take DVDs for example. When you buy a new movie on DVD you don’t need to check to see if it works with your brand of DVD player. A regular DVD will play on a Toshiba the same as it will on a Panasonic. That’s because DVD movies are produced using a set of standards. Without these standards a studio releasing a new movie on DVD would have a big problem. They would need to make differently formatted DVDs for each brand of DVD player. This is how online learning used to be before SCORM was created.

• The SCORM standard makes sure that all e-learning content and LMSs can work with each other, just like the DVD standard makes sure that all DVDs will play in all DVD players. If an LMS is SCORM conformant, it can play any content that is SCORM conformant, and any SCORM conformant content can play in any SCORM conformant LMS.

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Survey

• The Survey module is a course activity that provides a number of verified survey instruments, including COLLES (Constructivist On-Line Learning Environment Survey) and ATTLS (Attitudes to Thinking and Learning Survey), which have been found useful in assessing and stimulating learning in online environments.

• Teachers can use these to gather data from their students that will help them learn about their class and reflect on their own teaching.

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Wiki

• A wiki is a collection of collaboratively authored web documents.

• Basically, a wiki page is a web page everyone in your class can create together, right in the browser, without needing to know HTML. A wiki starts with one front page. Each author can add other pages to the wiki by simply creating a link to a page that doesn't exist yet.

Wiki

• Wikis get their name from the Hawaiian term "wiki wiki," which means "very fast." There is usually no central editor of a wiki, no single person who has final editorial control. Instead, the community edits and develops its own content.

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Workshop

• Workshop is a peer assessment activity with many options.

• Students submit their work via an online text tool and attachments.

• There are two grades for a student: their own work and their peer assessments of other students' work.

Workshop

• Workshop is similar to the Assignment module and extends its functionality in many ways. 

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Moving Activities & Resources

Moving Activities & Resources

Rubrics

Rubrics - Templates

Rubrics - Scratch

Grading

Gradebook

Grading Individual Activities

Assigning Roles

Assigning Roles

• A role designates what ability a user has in a Moodle site or course. To add a user to a course follow the steps below.– Navigate to the Administration block, expand Course administration,

Users, and then click "Enrolled users."

Assigning Roles

– Click the Enroll Users button in the upper right hand corner.

– Select the role to assign from the drop-down menu.

Assigning Roles

– Search for the user to enroll.

– Click the Enroll button next to the user.

Course Management

Course Management

• Importing

• Course Backup

• Course Restore

Course Management - Importing

• Course activities and resources may be imported from any other course that the teacher has editing permissions in.

• This will allow teachers to re-use instead of re-creating one or more activities or resources.

Course Management - Importing

• The following steps are how teachers can import content into their course:– In Administration > Course Administration, click on the Import link:

Course Management - Importing

– Select the course you wish to import from and click Continue.– You will be presented with the "backup settings" page. Use the check

boxes for import activities, blocks and or filters as types of items which will show on the next screen.

Course Management - Importing

– Select the elements you want to include in the import in the Schema settings step.

Course Management - Importing

– Review and click Perform import or click the cancel or previous buttons. The confirmation page will place green check marks and red marks next to the backup settings and include item list for you to review.

– You should see the "Import complete. Click continue to return to the course." message, or an error message indicating that the import process did not take place.

Course Management – Course Backup

• A course can be saved with some or all of its parts by using the course backup.

• Typically, the site administrator will set a schedule of automated course backups for the whole site.

• A teacher with editing privileges can create a backup or download an existing backup for safe keeping, or for use on another Moodle site.

Course Management – Course Backup

• The following steps are how teachers can backup their course:– Go to Administration > Course administration > Backup– Initial settings - Select activities, blocks, filters and other items as

required then click the Next button. Users with appropriate permissions, such as administrators and managers, can choose whether to include users, anonymize user information, or include user role assignments, user files, comments, user completion details, course logs and grade history in the backup.

– Schema settings - Select/deselect specific items to include in backup, then click the Next button.

– If desired, select specific types of activity to be backed up by clicking the link 'Show type options'

Course Management – Course Backup

• Back up screen with the option to select all or none

• Back up screen with the option to select activity type

Course Management – Course Backup

– Confirmation and review - Check that everything is as required, using the Previous button if necessary, otherwise click the 'Perform backup' button

– Complete - Click the Continue button

– A backup file (with distinctive .mbz extension to avoid confusion with .zip files) is then saved in the course backup area. Backup file names are of the form backup-moodle2-course-coursename-date-hour.mbz, ending in -nu.mbz when backed up with no users and -an.mbz with anonymized names.

Course Management – Course Restore

• A course backup file (.mbz) may be restored from within any existing course for which you have permission. During the restore process, you will be given the option to restore as a new course or into an existing course.

• The following steps are how a teacher can perform a Course Restore:– Go to Administration > Front page settings > Restore (if you have front

page permissions) or Administration > Course administration > Restore(if you have an empty course to restore into.)

– Upload the backup file or choose a file in the course backup area or user private backup area and click Restore

Course Management – Course Restore

Course Management – Course Restore

– Confirm - Check that everything is as required then click the Continue button

– Destination - Choose whether the course should be restored as a new course or into an existing course then click the Continue button

– Settings - Select activities, blocks, filters and possibly other items as required then click the Next button

– Schema - Select/deselect specific items and amend the course name, short name and start date if necessary then click the Next button

– Review - Check that everything is as required, using the Previous button if necessary, then click the 'Perform restore' button

– Complete - Click the continue button

Moodle Resources

Moodle Resources

• Docs.moodle.org

• Kb.moodlerooms.com

• Blackboard

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Moodle 2.7

Faculty Guide