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Heidi Atha Diane Look Buena Vista School District. What is Moodle ?. Course Management System (CMS) CMS’s give educators tools to create a course web site and provide access control so only enrolled students can view it. What else can Moodle Do?. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Heidi AthaDiane Look
Buena Vista School District
What is Moodle?Course Management System
(CMS)CMS’s give educators tools to
create a course web site and provide access control so only enrolled students can view it.
What else can Moodle Do?Moodle can provide an easy way to
upload and share materials.Participants can hold online discussions
and chats.Teachers can give quizzes and surveys.Students can collaborate with ideas,
stories, and assignments.Students can journal either privately or
publicly.These are just a few things Moodle can
do…..
Moodle is Open SourceCommunity of DevelopersMoodle can be ModifiedMoodle Software is Free!
Moodle WorldwideOver 13,000 sites from 158
countries73 languagesPrimary school through
University level
Getting to Moodle (Today)To get to Moodle, go to
bvschools.org/bvsdonline
Where Do We Go From Here?Click on the TIE link
Click on TIE Moodle Class 2008
Signing InUsername and password–No spaces
Here We Are!
Left Side ToolsThe tools on the left hand side of the
screen are:People
◦ These are the people who have been set up in this class.
Activities◦ These are the various activities that this
class has access to…there are many more.Search Forums
◦ This is a search tool for various forums by this class
Administration (You have to be logged in as an administrator to view it this way)
◦ This is where you would edit the pages of your class.
Course Categories◦ These are the courses and classes that
have been created in your school.
Right Side Tools These can be personalized
Messages◦ You can see any messages from
individuals in the school Moodle community.
Blog Menu◦ You can create your own blog,
review past blogs, define your blog, and review others blogs.
Online Users◦ This shows the people who are
currently logged on to the course.
Calendar◦ You can add events, due dates,
and your own personal time management.
Right Side Tools (Cont.)These can be personalized
In the administrative role, you will be able to add blocks to the right side toolbar if you wish.
Here are some that are offered
Administrative and Teacher Functions:Moodle ModulesAssignments
◦ Enable teachers to grade and provide comments for uploaded files and assignments created on and offline.
◦ The teacher may choose whether to prevent late submissions, whether to allow students to resubmit their assignment (for re-grading) and whether to receive email alerts when students add or update their submission.
◦ This is where you can submit documents, lesson plans, etc.
Chats◦ The chat module
allows participants to have a real-time synchronous discussion via the web.
◦ This is a useful way to get a different understanding of each other and the topic being discussed.
Administrative and Teacher Functions:Moodle Modules
Choices◦ Here a teacher asks a
question and specifies a choice of multiple responses.
◦ This 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.
Administrative and Teacher Functions:Moodle Modules
Databases◦ Here you can
create various databases that the whole class can contribute to.
Administrative and Teacher Functions:Moodle Modules
Feedback ◦ This tool allows
you to gather feedback about anything you wish.
◦ Participants can either be anonymous, or have their username shown…your choice.
Administrative and Teacher Functions:Moodle Modules
Forums◦ It is in forums that
most discussion takes place.
◦ Forums can be structured in different ways, and can include peer rating of each posting.
◦ The postings can be viewed in a variety of formats, and can include attachments.
Administrative and Teacher Functions:Moodle Modules
Glossary◦ This activity
allows participants to create and maintain a list of definitions, like a dictionary.
◦ The entries can be search or browsed in many different formats.
Administrative and Teacher Functions:Moodle Modules
Hot Potatoes◦ This module
allows teachers to create multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill quizzes using Hot Potatoes software.
Administrative and Teacher Functions:Moodle Modules
Journaling◦ Free response
opportunities for students to reflect on the lesson, etc.
Administrative and Teacher Functions:Moodle Modules
Lesson◦ A lesson delivers
content in an interesting and flexible way. It consists of a number of pages
◦ Each page normally ends with a multiple choice question.
◦ Navigation through the lesson can be straight forward or complex.
Administrative and Teacher Functions:Moodle Modules
Quiz◦ This module allows
the teacher to design and set quiz tests, consisting of multiple choice, true-false, and short answer questions and more.
◦ Each attempt is automatically marked, and the teacher can choose whether to give feedback or to show correct answers.
Administrative and Teacher Functions:Moodle Modules
Stamp Collection◦ This module allows teacher to
give "stamps" (i.e. picture with a comment) to students so they "collect" these stamps.
◦ The activity can be used in many ways, such as motivative bonus marks, absence marks, certification records etc.
Teachers can enable this module to show stamps to all students, just show stamps to the individual student to whom it was awarded or to hide them completely
Administrative and Teacher Functions:Moodle Modules
Storytelling◦ this module aims to
facilitate the creation of a storytelling activity to children (from 6 to 12 years old).
◦ This module assists kids in the creation of writing stories that they can keep private (only for their eyes), share with friends (course share) or be public (to every moodle site user's).
Administrative and Teacher Functions:Moodle Modules
Survey◦ Gathers feedback
from students using pre-packaged questionnaires.
Administrative and Teacher Functions:Moodle Modules
Wiki◦ The Moodle wiki
module enables participants to work together on web pages to add, expand and change the content. Old versions are never deleted and can be restored
Administrative and Teacher Functions:Moodle Modules
To find out more about Moodle, or to download Moodle for your school go to www.moodle.org