Moodle
CBEA CONFERENCE
OCTOBER 20, 2010
MRS. DEDERER
BUSINESS TEACHER
BETHEL HIGH SCHOOL
What is
Moodle?
 Moodle is an Open Source
Learning Management system.
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Similar to WebCT and Blackboard
 Moodle is an online tool that
educators can use to interact and
engage with students outside the
classroom.
 Institutions use it as their
platform to run online courses or
blended learning.
Pedagogy
 Social Constructivist
 All of us are teachers as well as learners – in a true
collaborative environment we are both.
 We learn well from the act of creating or expressing something
for others to see.
 We learn by viewing the activity of our peers.
 A learning environment needs to be flexible and adaptable, so
that it can quickly respond to the needs of the participants
within it.
 By understanding the context of others, we can teach in a
transformational way.
Moodle Advantages
 Using Moodle teachers can easily construct richly
textured web based courses.
 Lessons consist of a number of lessons, with each
lesson including reading resource and activities.
 Tailored learning resources to the abilities, learning
styles, and interests of each student.
 Learning resources are available to students
anywhere.
Advantages Cont …
 Semester courses are complete with all resources and
ready to use.
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Students can be cleaned out and new students added in for
each course.
 Educators create an online component to their
traditional classroom setting.
 Moodle can save educators time and enhance the
learning process for students while taking advantage
of Multimedia.
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Video, Text, Animation, Sound, and Graphics
Less papers to bring home to grade – assessment is online
Uses for Moodle
 Assessment
 Quizzes, submit homework, projects
 Collaboration
 Wiki, groups, cross-subject courses
 Communication
 Forums, messaging, homework feedback
 Student
 Wikis or forums, journals
 Offer downloads
 Subject course or handouts
Moodle Resources
 Web Page – create your own page
 Link to a file or Website– Microsoft Work
(homework etc…)
 Post audio/video
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Podcasts/MP3
Videos – YouTube
 Display a directory – teachers can create a folder and
place all resources there
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Easier than linking many single files
Moodle Activities
 Assignments – post instructions and students upload
work to the specific assignment
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Deadlines can be set
Refuse or accept late work
Moodle indicates if the assignment was posted late
Grade and provide feedback offline
 Choice – a simple multiple choice question; used as a
poll
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Logs all the answers and provides the statistics
Moodle Activities Cont…
 Workshop – works like a super assignment
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Pick some student’s work
Choose a theme
Mark up the work
Students look at exemplar material and mark examples
Promotes students producing work that hits the marked theme
 Forum – allows a person to make a statement, give a point
of view, or ask a question
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Students can reply to the forum and their peers
Ratings can be assessed
Turns into a threaded discussion
Excellent for Current Events
Moodle Activities Cont …
 Quiz
 Best activity
 Types of Quiz: MC, short answer, numerical, true/false,
matching, essay
 Marks the quiz for the teacher
 Pre-prepared questions make creating a quiz take a minutes
work
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Build bank of questions
Provides valuable feedback – “What your students don’t
know.”
Examples: SAT questions
 When students finish the teacher can download a spreadsheet of
marks listing all parts of the question
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Disadvantages
 Moodle needs to be installed on a Web Server
 On your own computer - web hosting
 Your school’s server
Grade Book
 No online grade book within your district
 Moodle Grade Book
 Create weighted categories
 All students for each class will automatically be entered
 Reports can be generated
Example Sites & More Information
 Springdale Schools
 http://moodle.sdale.org/
 Norwalk Public Schools
 http://moodle.npsteachers.org/
 Moodle Community
 http://moodle.org/