About Moodle …Brenda Mallinson

Bella Vista Moodle workshopJuly 2015

Outline

Structural approach

Demo & Practice

Support (Proactive & contextual)

Q & A Session

User Levels Roles Permissions

Site level:• Administrator -> can do everything• Manager -> subset of admin permissions (safer)• Course Creator -> creates courses

Course provision:• Teacher -> manage course and edit (add content)• Non-editing teacher -> same as teacher, but not edit

Course access:• Student -> access & engage with visible activities &

resources; can’t change content• Guest -> access, but not engage

Activity 1

• Purpose: Build a conceptual framework of the Moodle roles and their capabilities.

• Task: Explore the functions and capabilities of your identified primary Moodle role

• Resource: https://docs.moodle.org/29/en/Standard_roles

• Guidance: Using the link provided to Moodle.org, investigate the functionality of your role, recording brief notes.

• Feedback: Share your understanding with the group

• Duration: 30 mins

Demonstration & Practice 1

Demo:– Defaults for roles setup at site level– Roles assigned at course level– Roles can be changed at activity level

Signon & practice on the Mount Orange site:– http://school.demo.moodle.net/ – Site reset every hour

Supporting Resource:Enrolling users

Front-end site organisationSite front page:– Institutional branding and useful links and information

Categories: group your courses logicallyNote: Some roles can be assigned at category level– Manager, Course Creator

Supporting resources:– Course and category management video (1m 55s)

Examples of branding, categories & access: – Open University of Tanzania - eLMS– UKZN – Learn@UKZN– Rhodes - RUconnected

Demo:– Course creation, backup and restore

Practice on the Mount Orange site:– http://school.demo.moodle.net/ – Site reset every hour

Supporting resources: – Creating and restoring a course (video 10 mins)

– Adding a new course: Moodle docs

Demonstration & Practice 2

How would you like your course to look?– Standard settings: who, what and how– Implications of choices; Flexibility

Examples:– Themes: Show variety on Saide site– Format: ‘Collapsed Topics’ at OUT– Layout: ‘Show one section per page’ at Types of

Sport at Mount Orange School Demo site

Course Settings

Demo:– Standard settings: who, what and how

Practice on the Mount Orange site:– http://school.demo.moodle.net/ – Site reset every hour

Supporting resources: – Moodle Course Settings (video 5 mins 44 secs)

– Course Settings: Moodle docs

Demonstration & Practice 3

Course Home / Landing Page

Course Layering – Example Structure

Course Sections, Blocks, Activities & ResourcesTop section (mandatory)– News Forum (mandatory)– Add your course / module front matter

Central Sections– Summary area– Add activities & resources

Blocks – can be added to left or right sidesSupporting resources: – Course Sections Moodle Docs– Activity Chooser video (2min 32 secs)

Getting started …

Teacher - turn on editing to develop a course– Top left hand corner of your course home screen– Also from Administration block on LHS– Content editor (HTML)

Teacher & Student - site level actions / facilities:– Edit user (own) profile• Administration block / My profile settings• Personalised settings

– Blogs Blog menu block; Can be associated with course– Private messaging – from profiles

Managing your usersSite registration methods

– Manual, self, LDAPCourse enrolment

– Manual, self with key, … Groups – at course and activity levels

– No groups, separate groups, visible groupsBasic Reports and Grades

– Administration block (LHS) / Reports and GradesAnalytics

– ‘Learning Analytics in Moodle’ Doc in Google Folder

Tool tips

‘How to’ Information – pops up – Icon appears next to almost all settings choices &

boxes

Moodle Docs for this page – Icon links to contextual help appears at the bottom on

each page

Moodle Contextual Support

Moodle.org - Moodle user and developer support– Moodle Docs https://docs.moodle.org/29/en/Main_page

– Mount Orange site http://school.demo.moodle.net/

– Courses, free downloads https://moodle.net/

– Free Moodle Fundamentals course (HRDNZ): http://www.moodlebites.com

YouTube– Moodle for Teachers (M4T - Nellie Deutsch)– Moodle Bites (HRDNZ)

SlideShare, Vimeo, IT4ALL, …..

Supporting Resources

How to keep up?

• Signup to Moodle News• Search for a certified Moodle Partner• Frequent the Moodle Community Forums

Free digital books on Moodle include:

• Moodle 2.5 eBook (2013) by Mark Repp (pdf 68 pages 4.4Mb)

• Using Moodle (2008) by Jason Cole & Helen Foster 2nd Ed. (pdf 284 pages 6.3Mb)

Question & Answer Session

• What do you need to know right now?

• What would you still like to find out later?

Thank You

Brenda Mallinsonbrendam@saide.org.za

SlideShare: http://www.slideshare.net/brenda6

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