Going Online with Moodle

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Going Online with Moodle
Going Online with Moodle

• Keith Wills
• keith_at_scphoto.com - http//class.scphoto.com

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What is Moodle?
Humboldt State Moodle has 12,288 courses and
42,121 users.
Moodle was designed to help foster online
learning communities. It has an active
development and support group (very important for
open-source projects) and has users in over 150
countries. Moodle was built as a virtual
learning environment with a social constructivist
process in mind.
330,000 registered users on moodle.org moodle.org/
stats/
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Definition

• verb - the process of lazily meandering through
  something doing things as it occurs to you to do
  them an enjoyable tinkering that often leads to
  insight and creativity.
• If youre writing a proposal, say it means
  Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning
  Environment
• The constructivist philosophy guided the original
  users that designed the software
• Anyone who uses Moodle is a Moodler.

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IT IS FREE!

• You can run it on your server or rent space at
  siteground.com

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Course Management System

• Set of tools and a framework that allows for
  somewhat easy creation of online course content,
  management and interaction with students.
• WebCT Blackboard arecompetition
• Over 40 of college coursesare done with a CMS

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Technical Information

• Moodle runs without modification on Unix, Linux,
  Windows, Mac OS X, Netware and any other system
  that supports PHP 4.3.0
• Designed in a modular way - allows flexibility to
  add/remove functionality at many levels.
• Upgrades easily - has an internal system to
  upgrade its own databases and repair itself over
  time.
• Requires only one database, generally SQL, and
  can share it with other applications if
  necessary. (MySQL 4.1.16).

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Review of Features
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Calendar
The Calendar allows you to enter events in
various categories (User, Course and Site). You
have the option to also show upcoming events,
assignments etc., and recent activity in the
course.
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Chat
The Chat feature in Moodle will facilitate real
time conversations between users. It can be
logged.
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Administrative Functions

• Course settings
• Back up and restore
• Import courses and assignments
• Question bank to share
• Files available for groups or classes
• View grade sheet and export to Excel

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SETTINGS - teacher
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Editing and Student View

• The EDIT view allows the teacher to add content,
  edit content, add activities and resources,
  rearrange content, and hide content from
  students.

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Composing a Page

• Easy WYSIEYG interface
• Add photographs
• Put links to otherweb pages
• Spell Checks

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Forums
A Forum is a posting area where students can
create or contribute to a topic with their own
comments (AKA bulletin board or discussion)
OPTIONS include Grade posts, set open/close
date, no reply, one reply only etc.
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QUIZ tool
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Quiz Information and Grades
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Workshops
A Workshop allows peer assessment of documents
and self-assessment activities, while providing
the teacher with opportunities to both manage and
grade material.
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Journal
The Journal feature will allow every student to
have a personal journal that only they and their
teacher will be able to access.
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Glossary
The Glossary feature in Moodle acts as a
definition resource - entries can be set to
create highlighted hyperlinks within the course
itself.
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Assignments
Assignments (online, offline) can be delivered to
students, and they can upload files which you can
grade online and give feedback.
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Easy to Grade
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Organized by Groups

• Set groups to represent a class or period
• Enroll into groups using enrollment key
• Groups can have different access to shared
  assignments

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Reports
User activity on Moodle can be monitored using
the Logs option. This features levels of detail
from module, to student details, grouped by date
and time
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Activities (tools)

• Blogs
• Wikis
• Quizzes with different kinds of questions
• Database activities
• Surveys (not fully featured now)
• Chat
• Glossaries
• Activities
• Data field types (for the database activity)

• Peer assessment
• Multi-language support (over 60 languages are
  supported for the interface)
• Moodle is modular, can be extended by creating
  plugins for specific new functionality.
• Graphical themes
• Authentication methods
• Enrollment methods
• Content Filters

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Going Online with Moodle
Going Online with Moodle

• Keith Wills
• keith_at_scphoto.com - http//class.scphoto.com