Taking your Moodle for a walk

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Taking your Moodle for a walk
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What is Moodle?

• Moodle is an open source course management system
  (CMS) - a software package designed to help
  educators easily create quality online courses.
  Such e-learning systems are sometimes also called
  Learning Management Systems (LMS) or Virtual
  Learning Environments (VLE)

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Why do I care?

• Dr. Stuve made me
• Moodle allows for a great deal of flexibility to
  add or remove functionality at many levels
• Great supplement for face-to-face learning

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Managing accounts

• ?Standard email method students can create their
  own login accounts. Email addresses are verified
  by confirmation.
• Students are encouraged to build an online
  profile including photos, description. Email
  addresses can be protected from display if
  required.

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• Flexible array of course activities - Forums,
  Journals, Quizzes, Resources, Choices, Surveys,
  Assignments, Chats, Workshops
• Full user logging and tracking - activity reports
  for each student are available with graphs and
  details about each module (last access, number of
  times read) as well as a detailed "story" of each
  students involvement including postings, journal
  entries etc on one page.

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Assignments

• Students can upload a file from their computer.
  Teachers then provide feedback and grades
• Students can enter their assignment online using
  the default text editor. Teachers then read and
  make comments right on the site

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Assignments cont.

• Even if an assignment is given offline, the
  teacher can still enter the grade in Moodle so
  that the students can access their grades

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Chatting

• Teachers can post times and forums that students
  use to guide these sessions
• There are also open chat sessionsthis would be a
  good way for students to communicate outside of
  the classroom

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Forums

• Againlots of choices. The teacher can decide
  how many posts/replies are required and can rate
  them later or while the posting is going on.

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Glossary

• A teacher can add words to the glossary that can
  be accessed at any time by the students.
  Teachers also have the option to make any
  glossary term a hyperlink that will take the
  student to the respective place in the glossary
  if clicked
• Students may create their own glossary

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Lessons

• Too many options to explainif you can think it
  upmoodle can do it

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Quizzes

• Settle down!!! I made you a flippin handout.
  Gosh!

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Moodle advantages over Blackboard

• Providing individualized feedback easily to all
  assignments
• Easier to track each students activity in class
• When and how often parts of class accessed the
  course

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Blackboard advantages over Moodle

• More polished appearance
• Better gradebook
• Threaded discussions easily differentiate between
  read and unread posts
• Announcements are more prominently displayed upon
  entering the course

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Dont get whipped by a wet moodle

• This site is hugebut dont freak out.

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Resources

• Moodle has made it very easy to create web pages
  that match your needs as the teacher. There are
  workshops as well as demo courses.

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Check out Moodle and dont do drugs fool!!!!
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Resources

• http//www.humboldt.edu/jdv1/moodle/all.htm
• www.moodle.org
• www.moodle.com