Moodle

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= Introduction =

Before the workshop on moodle: 1) Make sure you have been set up on moodle (meaning you have at least one empty course assigned to you that you can create and work in). 2) Once logged into moodle, you can join our the Moodle 101 class so that you have access to some of the many links that are there. If you need the enrollment key...email me: nhammond@cysd.k12.pa.us 3) Watch and read through this slideshow on Moodle (explained through Lego). Click the right side of the slide to go to the next slide or you guessed it click the left side of the slide to go back.

=**What is Moodle?**=


 * 1) Moodle is an online course management system or Virtual Learning Enviroment
 * 2) It can organize your online and document resources by unit (or any other way you'd like). Integrating sound and video is simple and any resource can be set to be visible or invisible to students with a simple click.
 * 3) Your class page in moodle can only be accessed by each student's individual username and password (the same district provided one) and you control which students are allowed to subscribe to each class.
 * 4) Also, virtually every student activity is logged in the background and teachers have easy access to these (they can track what a student has done and when).
 * 5) Because of these protections Moodle's Forums are a safe place for students to write responses to various prompts back and forth in a way that is visible to each other or only visible to the teacher
 * 6) Moodle can "teach" information one presentation page (like a powerpoint page) at a time with an assessment question at the end of the page that determines what series of pages the student will next be given (branched presentations).
 * 7) It can create online quizzes that are automatically graded and entered into its gradebook.
 * 8) The gradebook is full featured and easily reflects both online and traditional paper grades.
 * 9) These are just some of the things Moodle can do.

media type="custom" key="4466151" align="center" =Help Files= http://docs.moodle.org/en http://www.moodletutorials.org/index.php

=**Moodle Features:**= Forums: text types only as well as uploading files (ie. jpg, ppt, etc) to comment on them (There is 5mb? filesize limit) (grading options) Journals: Private communication between teacher and student. (grading options) Organizing Unit Resources (links, documents, etc) Creating Webpages (only visible to students subscribed to your moodle course) Quizzes: online computer-graded and manual grading options (i.e. essay and open ended questions) Grade Management: Dynamically updated gradebook for any of moodle's gradable assignments (forums, journals, quizzes, etc)

=MOODLE SKILLS=

**SKILL #1: Setting Up A Course**
General: > Most teachers will want to set up their Course Layout style as a TOPIC format (not week). > If you teach multiple sections of your one moodle course you only need to set-up and manage one moodle class. You will make use of the GROUPS function to keep the two classes separate except when/if you want them to interact between each class (ie a forum or a wiki for example)
 * Course Layout:
 * Teaching multiple sections and Moodle's GROUP feature:

(docs) [] (video) @http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=moodle&sitesearch=

**SKILL #2: Course Tools**
General: http://youtube.com/watch?v=OtUrqrYUDyg&amp;feature=user (Breadcrumb navigation aid) http://youtube.com/watch?v=unfhIf82_uk&amp;feature=user (icons in Edit mode) @http://youtube.com/watch?v=_hxN2DuJ3Cg (arrow tools for moving links) http://youtube.com/watch?v=QDgmG-olHwA&amp;feature=related (uploading and inserting pictures) http://youtube.com/watch?v=oVjdmKcXTMo&amp;feature=related (AJAX is enabled through editing your profile...not the way shown on this video) (Note: Darth Vader voice)
 * Teach students about the breadcrumbs navigation bar
 * If you have lots of things to move around then you might want to go to your Profile and turn AJAX on (however, turn it off before clicking on anything else or blocks can get jumbled out of order again)

**SKILL #3: Resource Organization**
(ctrl click and save to desktop)

(docs) []

(video) @http://www.veoh.com/videos/v14206638GRdhgszd (video) http://youtube.com/watch?v=ryNutEUq8Gw (Labels)
 * Insert a Label:**

(video) @http://www.veoh.com/videos/v14206641xZP5MJrj (video) @http://www.veoh.com/videos/v1420663982hQ8gaD (video) @http://www.veoh.com/videos/v142066404GbZZB9r(video) (video) http://youtube.com/watch?v=oRJxXkhmmQI (Weblink) (video) @http://youtube.com/watch?v=p_m2hG_YVIo&amp (adding youtube)
 * Compose a Text page** (not really usefull...use Compose Web Page instead)
 * Compose a Web page**
 * Link to a File or Website**
 * Link to a Youtube Video** (one way of doing it)

(video) http://youtube.com/watch?v=tntl12p0IVs&feature=user (zipping 3 files into one file/package for easier upload) Note for Mac users: Select the files you want to combine and choose "Archive" in Tiger or "Compress" in Leopard (click to open those video tutorials) (video) http://youtube.com/watch?v=T-3X4Wbr1ow&amp;feature=user (uploading and unzipping) (video) http://youtube.com/watch?v=MZ-_yUdE5dk (adding Files into a subdirectory) (video) http://youtube.com/watch?v=GG4Wetgkwuk&amp;feature=related (adding files)
 * More on Files**

(video) @http://www.veoh.com/videos/v142066428fddtJc4 (docs.moodle) []
 * Display a directory**

**SKILL #4: Moodle Activities**
(docs.moodle) http://docs.moodle.org/en/Assignment_module (video) http://youtube.com/watch?v=MuoiJ3HzfIg&amp;feature=related (creating assignments) (video) http://youtube.com/watch?v=M5BCYqPS3g8&amp;feature=user (Assignment Dropbox idea) (video) http://youtube.com/watch?v=f0--jUhi86E&amp;feature=user (shows quick grading of an assignment with comments)

(docs) @http://docs.moodle.org/en/Forums