The CHANGE You Want E-Learning To Be.
Welcome to Moodle
Presented by
Mt. SAC
Online Learning Support Center
and
Professional and Organizational Development
190 West Ostend Street | Suite 110 | Baltimore, Maryland 21230 | P: +1 410.779.3400 | F: +1 443.817.0976
www.moodlerooms.com
The CHANGE You Want E-Learning To Be.
Online Learning Support Center Team
190 West Ostend Street | Suite 110 | Baltimore, Maryland 21230 | P: +1 410.779.3400 | F: +1 443.817.0976
www.moodlerooms.com
Moodle & joule™
The CHANGE You Want E-Learning To Be.
Moodle is the world's most widely used opensource Learning Management System.
Moodle includes innumerable options to give
instructors full flexibility to create courses that meet
their teaching styles and their students' individual
learning needs.
joule™ is an adaptable learning management
platform that combines standard Moodle tools,
with enhanced services, and powerful third-party
plug-ins.
190 West Ostend Street | Suite 110 | Baltimore, Maryland 21230 | P: +1 410.779.3400 | F: +1 443.817.0976
www.moodlerooms.com
Pedagogical Philosophy of Moodle
Social Constructivism
The CHANGE You Want E-Learning To Be.
All of us are potential teachers as well as learners - in
a true collaborative environment we are both.
We learn particularly well from the act of creating
or expressing something for others to see.
We learn a lot by just observing the activity of our
peers.
By understanding the contexts of others, we can
teach in a more transformational way
(constructivism).
A learning environment needs to be flexible and
adaptable, so that it can quickly respond to the
needs of the participants within it.
190 West Ostend Street | Suite 110 | Baltimore, Maryland 21230 | P: +1 410.779.3400 | F: +1 443.817.0976
www.moodlerooms.com
The CHANGE You Want E-Learning To Be.
Learning Objectives for the Workshop
Basic Functionality
Navigating the Site
and Courses
Your Profile
190 West Ostend Street | Suite 110 | Baltimore, Maryland 21230 | P: +1 410.779.3400 | F: +1 443.817.0976
www.moodlerooms.com
Basic Features in Moodle
The CHANGE You Want E-Learning To Be.
Breadcrumbs
Resources
&
Activities
190 West Ostend Street | Suite 110 | Baltimore, Maryland 21230 | P: +1 410.779.3400 | F: +1 443.817.0976
www.moodlerooms.com
The CHANGE You Want E-Learning To Be.
Hands-on: Exploring a Moodle course
• Log in to the system.
• Find the sandbox course.
• Identify the three main areas of Moodle.
190 West Ostend Street | Suite 110 | Baltimore, Maryland 21230 | P: +1 410.779.3400 | F: +1 443.817.0976
www.moodlerooms.com
The CHANGE You Want E-Learning To Be.
Logging in to the Training Course
Accessing the Training Site
• http://mtsac-sandbox.mrooms.net
Logging in
• Username: (Same as Portal login)
• Password: (Same as Portal login)
190 West Ostend Street | Suite 110 | Baltimore, Maryland 21230 | P: +1 410.779.3400 | F: +1 443.817.0976
www.moodlerooms.com
The CHANGE You Want E-Learning To Be.
Setting the Format View to “Topics View”
• From the Settings block,
• Select Edit Settings
• From
“Format”
• Select Topics
Format
190 West Ostend Street | Suite 110 | Baltimore, Maryland 21230 | P: +1 410.779.3400 | F: +1 443.817.0976
www.moodlerooms.com
The CHANGE You Want E-Learning To Be.
Customizing Settings
190 West Ostend Street | Suite 110 | Baltimore, Maryland 21230 | P: +1 410.779.3400 | F: +1 443.817.0976
www.moodlerooms.com
The CHANGE You Want E-Learning To Be.
What will you find in Moodle courses?
Resources
Activities
190 West Ostend Street | Suite 110 | Baltimore, Maryland 21230 | P: +1 410.779.3400 | F: +1 443.817.0976
Blocks
www.moodlerooms.com
Resources
The CHANGE You Want E-Learning To Be.
Resources are links to files, URLs, repository items or constructed web pages.
• Labels help
separate sections
within your course
topics.
Label
• Allows you to
input rich
formatted text
that is housed off
the main page of
the course.
Page
• Direct link to
download files.
File
• Direct link to a
URL.
URL
• Gives access to
files in a folder
created by the
instructor.
Folder
190 West Ostend Street | Suite 110 | Baltimore, Maryland 21230 | P: +1 410.779.3400 | F: +1 443.817.0976
www.moodlerooms.com
Use the HTML Editor to its Full Potential
The CHANGE You Want E-Learning To Be.
Moodle’s Tiny MC HTML editor is very similar to a word processor.
•
Customize fonts and backgrounds
•
Create links and anchors
•
Insert tables
•
Display pictures and emoticons
•
Clean up messy word HTML formatting.
•
Embed rich media by toggling to HTML source
190 West Ostend Street | Suite 110 | Baltimore, Maryland 21230 | P: +1 410.779.3400 | F: +1 443.817.0976
www.moodlerooms.com
Create a Resource in your course
The CHANGE You Want E-Learning To Be.
•
Create a Label
•
Create a Page
•
Add a URL
•
Upload a file
•
Create a folder
•
Practice duplicating, moving and removing your newly created
resources.
190 West Ostend Street | Suite 110 | Baltimore, Maryland 21230 | P: +1 410.779.3400 | F: +1 443.817.0976
www.moodlerooms.com
Activities
The CHANGE You Want E-Learning To Be.
Activities are interactive components of the course that are typically
graded upon completion.
Forum
Glossary
Quiz
Assignments
Chat
Choice
Database
Wiki
Feedback
Lesson
190 West Ostend Street | Suite 110 | Baltimore, Maryland 21230 | P: +1 410.779.3400 | F: +1 443.817.0976
www.moodlerooms.com
Interacting with Course Activities
The CHANGE You Want E-Learning To Be.
Moodle includes a wide range of activity modules that can be
used in a course, including:
•Users exchange
discussion posts
•Asynchronous
communication
•Announcements
•Collect work from
students, review it
and provide
feedback
•4 standard
assignment types
•Powerful delivery
control
•Multiple question
types
•Question banks
•Auto-grading
•Vocabulary list
•Users can create
their own glossary
terms
•Auto-linking to
terms in content
Forums
Assignments
Quizzes
Glossary
190 West Ostend Street | Suite 110 | Baltimore, Maryland 21230 | P: +1 410.779.3400 | F: +1 443.817.0976
www.moodlerooms.com
The CHANGE You Want E-Learning To Be.
The Forum Activity
Select a forum type that matches your goals.
Q & A forums
• Encourages individual thinking (have to respond before viewing).
• Make sure you post the question in the forum itself, not the general
forum introductions.
• Be aware of the 30 minute default window for editing.
Each person posts
one discussion
• Can help control participants who tend to dominate conversations.
Single simple
discussion
• For one continuous threaded conversation.
• Allows students to see the entire perspective of the class without
additional clicking (or by only reading certain participants) – not a
good way to communicate vital info, however.
Standard forum
for general use
• Good all purpose forum that allows for multiple postings by each
participant. Great format for a help desk forum.
190 West Ostend Street | Suite 110 | Baltimore, Maryland 21230 | P: +1 410.779.3400 | F: +1 443.817.0976
www.moodlerooms.com
The Assignment Activity
The CHANGE You Want E-Learning To Be.
Assignments allow instructors to collect work from students,
review it and provide feedback/grades.
Moodle Core includes 4 assignment
types:
Upload a
single file
Advanced
uploading
of files
A student can
upload a single file.
Multiple file
submission, allowing
students to type a
message alongside
their submission.
Online text
Offline
Activity
Students type
directly into Moodle
Teachers provide a
description and due
date for an
assignment outside
of Moodle.
190 West Ostend Street | Suite 110 | Baltimore, Maryland 21230 | P: +1 410.779.3400 | F: +1 443.817.0976
www.moodlerooms.com
The Quiz Activity
The CHANGE You Want E-Learning To Be.
Moodle’s quiz module is a powerful assessment tool with
numerous options.
Different question
types
Randomly generated
quizzes from banks of
questions
Allow repeated
attempts
Moodle scores it all
Automated feedback
Timing limits
JavaScript security
Results report
190 West Ostend Street | Suite 110 | Baltimore, Maryland 21230 | P: +1 410.779.3400 | F: +1 443.817.0976
www.moodlerooms.com
More Hands on Activities:
Creating Assignments
The CHANGE You Want E-Learning To Be.
• Task 1: Create an Online Text assignment
• Add an Online Text assignment activity.
• Name activity as Topic 1 journal and add a fictitious
prompt.
• Task 2: Add a Forum discussion
• Add a Standard forum for general use (or one of the other
types).
• Add your prompt and Save changes.
• From the front page, click on the Forum activity.
• Add an example post.
190 West Ostend Street | Suite 110 | Baltimore, Maryland 21230 | P: +1 410.779.3400 | F: +1 443.817.0976
www.moodlerooms.com
The CHANGE You Want E-Learning To Be.
Switch role to…
An instructor has the ability to “switch
roles” – allowing him/her to view
the course through the lens of
another role.
It’s easy to do this:
1.
Turn editing on
2.
From the Settings block, select
a role from the Switch role
to…options
190 West Ostend Street | Suite 110 | Baltimore, Maryland 21230 | P: +1 410.779.3400 | F: +1 443.817.0976
www.moodlerooms.com
The CHANGE You Want E-Learning To Be.
Setting the Format View to “Folder View”
• From the Settings block,
• Select Edit Settings
• From
“Format”
• Select Folder
Format
190 West Ostend Street | Suite 110 | Baltimore, Maryland 21230 | P: +1 410.779.3400 | F: +1 443.817.0976
www.moodlerooms.com
The CHANGE You Want E-Learning To Be.
Blocks
• Features that are similar to
an app, widget or gadget.
• Some blocks are Moodle
blocks
core and available to all
clients; some are joule only.
• Add blocks from the dropdown menu while editing is
turned on for the course. If a
block isn’t available in the
Blocks drop-down, it may
need to be enabled by an
admin for the site.
190 West Ostend Street | Suite 110 | Baltimore, Maryland 21230 | P: +1 410.779.3400 | F: +1 443.817.0976
www.moodlerooms.com
Block Docking
The CHANGE You Want E-Learning To Be.
Docked blocks
Dock icon
Un-dock icon
190 West Ostend Street | Suite 110 | Baltimore, Maryland 21230 | P: +1 410.779.3400 | F: +1 443.817.0976
www.moodlerooms.com
The CHANGE You Want E-Learning To Be.
Hands-on: Exploring a Moodle course
• Log in to the system.
• Identify the Navigation and Settings blocks.
• Dock the Navigation block and browse through the
options.
• Dock the Settings block and browse through options.
• Dock another course block and then undock it.
• Find the course FallPilot2011-Your Name
• Use breadcrumbs to return to the course main page.
190 West Ostend Street | Suite 110 | Baltimore, Maryland 21230 | P: +1 410.779.3400 | F: +1 443.817.0976
www.moodlerooms.com
The CHANGE You Want E-Learning To Be.
Navigation Block
Displays navigable links
Links can be expanded/collapsed
Includes links to both Home (the front page)
and My home (the new My Moodle page)
Easy way to find your courses
190 West Ostend Street | Suite 110 | Baltimore, Maryland 21230 | P: +1 410.779.3400 | F: +1 443.817.0976
www.moodlerooms.com
The CHANGE You Want E-Learning To Be.
Settings Block
Course Administration
Comprises links to sub menus,
activated by a click
Includes the following important
features:
• Turn editing on/off
• Edit settings (for pages, resources,
activities, etc.)
• Switch role to…
• Login as (when viewing a user’s full
profile)
190 West Ostend Street | Suite 110 | Baltimore, Maryland 21230 | P: +1 410.779.3400 | F: +1 443.817.0976
www.moodlerooms.com
User profile
The CHANGE You Want E-Learning To Be.
The user profile page gathers together all known
information about a particular user.
You can do the following from your Profile page:
•Edit personal details
•Upload your picture
•Modify your site preferences
•Track forum participation
•Blog
•Enter and view notes
•View reports
190 West Ostend Street | Suite 110 | Baltimore, Maryland 21230 | P: +1 410.779.3400 | F: +1 443.817.0976
www.moodlerooms.com
The CHANGE You Want E-Learning To Be.
Profile – Where to Access
Clicking on
your name
Blocks
Access other
participants’
profiles
• Upper right hand corner
• Or anywhere it appears in the
course
• Navigation
• Settings
• People block
190 West Ostend Street | Suite 110 | Baltimore, Maryland 21230 | P: +1 410.779.3400 | F: +1 443.817.0976
www.moodlerooms.com
The CHANGE You Want E-Learning To Be.
Commonly Used Blocks
Calendar
People
Latest news
Messages
HTML
Activities
My private
files
190 West Ostend Street | Suite 110 | Baltimore, Maryland 21230 | P: +1 410.779.3400 | F: +1 443.817.0976
www.moodlerooms.com
Calendar block
The CHANGE You Want E-Learning To Be.
Calendar enables users to manage personal and assigned events.
4 event types:
•Site
•Course
•Groups
•User
Calendar
automatically
populates:
•Chat sessions
•Opening of activities
•Due dates
Cool features:
•Edit events
•Change preferences (time,
first day, etc)
•Export events
190 West Ostend Street | Suite 110 | Baltimore, Maryland 21230 | P: +1 410.779.3400 | F: +1 443.817.0976
www.moodlerooms.com
The CHANGE You Want E-Learning To Be.
Hands-on: Calendar
• Create a calendar event.
• Click on the month you want to add an event.
• Click on the New Event button.
• Add an event ( e.g. your birthday, homework
reminder).
190 West Ostend Street | Suite 110 | Baltimore, Maryland 21230 | P: +1 410.779.3400 | F: +1 443.817.0976
www.moodlerooms.com
The CHANGE You Want E-Learning To Be.
Messages Block
Communicating with Students
• Messages block
Messaging can be done
• Participants in the Navigation block
either from:
• joule Reports
Used for private
communication between
student/teacher or
student/student.
• Similar to ICQ, Gchat, Yahoo
Messenger.
Messages are not course
specific.
• Teachers who have multiple courses
can view messages from any of their
students in any course section.
190 West Ostend Street | Suite 110 | Baltimore, Maryland 21230 | P: +1 410.779.3400 | F: +1 443.817.0976
www.moodlerooms.com
The CHANGE You Want E-Learning To Be.
Messages
•
Enables private communication
•
Messages can be sent to multiple users
•
If a recipient is offline, the message can
be emailed to him/her by default
190 West Ostend Street | Suite 110 | Baltimore, Maryland 21230 | P: +1 410.779.3400 | F: +1 443.817.0976
www.moodlerooms.com
The CHANGE You Want E-Learning To Be.
How does Messages work?
190 West Ostend Street | Suite 110 | Baltimore, Maryland 21230 | P: +1 410.779.3400 | F: +1 443.817.0976
www.moodlerooms.com
The CHANGE You Want E-Learning To Be.
How does Messages work?
To send a message click
on Messages in the
Messages block.
To view messages sent to
you, click on the envelope
next to the sender’s name
in the Messages block.
190 West Ostend Street | Suite 110 | Baltimore, Maryland 21230 | P: +1 410.779.3400 | F: +1 443.817.0976
www.moodlerooms.com
The CHANGE You Want E-Learning To Be.
How does Messages work?
My contacts drop-down menu allows
you to contact course participants
and view previous conversation
and notifications.
Screen Layout
•
Left : List of people to
message.
•
Right: Your message or
history with a user.
190 West Ostend Street | Suite 110 | Baltimore, Maryland 21230 | P: +1 410.779.3400 | F: +1 443.817.0976
www.moodlerooms.com
Hands on: Messages
The CHANGE You Want E-Learning To Be.
• Task 1: Send messages to course participants
• Go to Navigation > My courses.
• Select one of the courses.
• Click on the Participants link.
• Send a message to all course participants.
• Task 2: Messaging Preferences
• Go to Settings > My profile settings > Messaging to opt to
be notified when you receive a new message.
190 West Ostend Street | Suite 110 | Baltimore, Maryland 21230 | P: +1 410.779.3400 | F: +1 443.817.0976
www.moodlerooms.com
The CHANGE You Want E-Learning To Be.
Where to find help!
Footer of any Moodlerooms site
Moodlerooms Tutorials (“Clickables”)
http://www.moodlerooms.com/resources/tutorials/
Moodlerooms Manuals
http://manuals.moodlerooms.com
Moodle Docs
http://docs.moodle.org
190 West Ostend Street | Suite 110 | Baltimore, Maryland 21230 | P: +1 410.779.3400 | F: +1 443.817.0976
www.moodlerooms.com
For more information, visit:
the OLSC Website: olsc.mtsac.edu
190 West Ostend Street | Suite 110 | Baltimore, Maryland 21230 | P: +1 410.779.3400 | F: +1 443.817.0976
The CHANGE You Want E-Learning To Be.
www.moodlerooms.com
The CHANGE You Want E-Learning To Be.
Q&A
190 West Ostend Street | Suite 110 | Baltimore, Maryland 21230 | P: +1 410.779.3400 | F: +1 443.817.0976
www.moodlerooms.com
The CHANGE You Want E-Learning To Be.
Thank-you for joining us!
•
Explore, explore, explore! We only saw the highlights!
•
For more information….
190 West Ostend Street | Suite 110 | Baltimore, Maryland 21230 | P: +1 410.779.3400 | F: +1 443.817.0976
www.moodlerooms.com