YSJU Moodle Certificates – using Mozilla’s Open Badge Framework
It’s often difficult to get colleagues to engage in staff development opportunities related to TEL. This
document introduces the idea of creating an YSJ Moodle certificate which will enable staff to gain
recognition for the work they are doing online in the Moodle environment.
The recognition for achievement will be awarded by the TEL team in the form of Mozilla Open
Badges – Mozilla’s initiative for recognising online achievement. For more information on the
initiative please visit: http://openbadges.org/en-US/
Mozilla describe Open Badges on their website in the following way:
Learning today happens everywhere but it’s often difficult to get recognition for skills and
achievements gained outside of school. Mozilla’s Open Badges project is working to solve that
problem, making it easy for any organisation or learning community to issue, earn and display
badges across the web. The result: recognising 21st century skills, unlocking career and educational
opportunities, and helping learners everywhere level up in their life and work.
http://www.openbadges.org/
The YSJU Moodle certificate will be made up of three awards:
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YSJU Moodle Bronze Certificate
YSJU Moodle Silver Certificate
YSJU Moodle Gold Certificate
A badge will be awarded for each certificate (Bronze, Silver and Gold). If a member of staff
completes all the certificates they will be awarded the YSJU Moodle Master Award. A breakdown of
each of the awards can be found below.
The course content and resources that make up this certificate will also be used to help support the
University partners who are using the system overseas.
Breakdown of each certificate
Moodle Bronze Award
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Introduction to Moodle at YSJU
What Moodle can be used for?
Technology Enhanced Learning Framework
Creating a course & user enrolment
Logging into Moodle
Understanding the course overview page
 Filtering courses on the course overview page
Managing your profile
Moodle and copyrighted material
Moodle Silver Award
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Understanding the Announcement forum
Managing your course settings
 Make your course unavailable to students
 Adding additional topics
 Changing the course layout
Course Design & Management
 Add a topic heading and summary
File Management
 Uploading a file
 Uploading multiple files
 Creating a folder
 Using the file picker
 Adding images
 Duplicate resources
Adding Resources
 Book
 Label
 YouTube video
 Page
 Lightbox Gallery
 URL
Assignments
 The assignment process
 Adding and editing an assignment activity
 Submitting assignment
 Downloading submissions
 Hiding the assignment link
 Providing feedback
 Quick grading
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Student grading page
Moodle Gold Award
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Copying content from a previous course
Creating and deploying quizzes
Adding Activities
 BigBlueButton
 Quiz
 Feedback
 Wiki
 Workshop
Conditional activities
Assignments: Understanding TurnItIn and GradeMark
Bronze Award Course Content
Introduction to Moodle
Moodle is the University’s Learning Management System (LMS). It’s a web based system that allows
academic staff to create engaging and interactive online learning activities to support face-to-face
teaching.
This course will introduce you to Moodle and will help you get your module’s online presence up and
running. Throughout the course you will find references to the University’s Technology Enhanced
Learning Quality Framework. This framework aims to assist staff to meaningfully incorporate
technology into the learning and teaching approach of their modules in ways that are underpinned
by the principles of the Learning & Teaching and Assessment Strategy 2011-2015.
Creating a Course
Before you get started with Moodle you need to ensure that a course for your module has been
setup. All credit bearing modules are automatically created in Moodle based on the information
provided by the module leader in a system called Moodle Modules.
The Moodle Module application uses this information as well information from SITs (student record
system) to create the course and automatically enrol the students.
NB. Students will only be enrolled on modules once they have logged into Moodle. If they have
never logged into Moodle they will not appear on any courses even if they are enrolled on them in
SITs.
Non-accredited courses can also be created in Moodle by using the request a course feature from
the useful links block from within Moodle.
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A comprehensive guide to using Moodle Modules
A guide on how to create a non-accredited course
NB: You must take responsibility for making your module selections in Moodle; otherwise you will
be without a Moodle course for the start of next academic year.
Logging into Moodle
You can access Moodle in a number of ways, and since it is a web based application, you can access
it from anywhere with an internet connection. This means if you’re at home or away on holiday, you
can get access to Moodle as long as you have an internet connection.
To access Moodle type this address into your browser’s address bar:
http://moodle.yorksj.ac.uk
On the Moodle homepage you should see a login box. Type in your university network username and
password, this is the same username and password that you use when logging on to your computer.
Now click the login button to be granted access to Moodle. You will be taken to the courses
overview page.
Your course overview page
The Moodle course overview page displays a list of all the courses you are enrolled on. As courses on
Moodle are kept for a minimum of 3 years the number of courses appearing on the course overview
page can become unmanageable for some members of staff.
Course Filter
Moodle and copyrighted material
It is important to consider copyright status, when adding course materials to modules in Moodle.
Remember that distributing material in electronic format, including uploading it to Moodle,
constitutes copying and is likely to infringe the rights of the copyright owner unless you have
permission from them.
Remember, if in any doubt ask permission from the copyright owner before you copy, modify
or distribute their work. Contact the subject librarian for your faculty for further advice.
Here’s some links that may help get you started:
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Do I need to get permission, before using text, tables or diagrams in Moodle?
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Can I make items on my reading list available electronically?
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Do I need copyright clearance to use slides and video in Moodle?
Does copyright exist on the internet? Surely I can use materials that I find on the internet for
educational purposes?
What about linking to other websites?
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What about using images and resources from other web sites? Am I able to use any images
downloaded from the internet in my teaching?
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How does copyright apply to the electronic environment?
If I use material as part of an assessment do I still need copyright permission?
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How long does it take to get copyright clearance and how do I get it?