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What is Moodle?

• Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning
  Environment
• A free open-source course management system (CMS)
  created by Australian programmer Martin Dougiamas

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Additional Features

• Integration with Passport York which means that
  instructors do not need to do extra work managing
  their class lists or creating new users
• introduction of Web 2.0 technologies such as
  Blogs, Wikis and RSS feeds
• ability to view usage statistics for individual
  students
• Moodle was designed for academic use, and most
  students and instructors will find it more
  intuitive and more user-friendly
• ability to continuously add new features for free
  

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Agenda

• Accessing Moodle
• General Course Organization
• Editing a Course
• Uploading Files
• Adding Text and Images
• Creating Blocks
• Using Forums
• Integrating Library and Information Resources
  into Moodle
• Questions

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Accessing Moodle

• Log into Moodle using your Passport York Account
  http//moodle.yorku.ca
• Today we will login http//moodletraining.yorku.
  ca