General
| This is a practice area to help you familiarize yourself with the Moodle |
| Below you will see a number of topics that explain and demonstrate the various features of Moodle and how you might use them with students. |
Topic outline
Topic 2
- Forums are the bread and butter of Moodle. It is in forums that most discussion takes place. Forums can be structured in different ways, and can include peer rating of each posting. The postings can be viewed in a variety for formats, and can include attachments.
Topic 3
- Assignments allow teachers to grade electronically submitted material or 'offline' submissions such as paper-based assignments or class presentations.
Topic 4
- This module allows the teacher to design and set quiz tests, consisting of multiple choice, true-false, and short answer questions and more. Each attempt is automatically marked, and the teacher can choose whether to give feedback or to show correct answers.
You can create a question bank that you can use to make multiple quizes.
Topic 5
- This activity allows participants to create and maintain a list of definitions, like a dictionary.The entries can be searched or browsed in many different formats.
Topic 6
Activity: Wiki (core)
"Wiki Wiki" in Hawaiian means, "really fast". A wiki is a web page that anyone can add to or edit...really fast! It enables documents to be authored collectively and supports collaborative learning. Old versions are not deleted and may be restored if required.
This is a great tool for brainstorming, and collaboratively working on a document.Topic 7
- This module is a very important reflective activity. The teacher asks the student to reflect on a particular topic, and the student can edit and refine their answer over time. This answer is private and can only be seen by the teacher, who can offer feedback and a grade on each journal entry. It's usually a good idea to have about one Journal activity per week.
Topic 8
- Here a teacher asks a question and specifies a choice of multiple responses. This can be useful as a quick poll to stimulate thinking about a topic; to allow the class to vote on a direction for the course; or to gather research consent.
Topic 9
Activity: Feedback & Questionnaire (3rd party)
The Feedback module allows you create online surveys and collect user responses. You can easily create questions with multiple choice or text responses.
The Questionnaire module is a more robust survey tool.Topic 10
- The Chat module allows participants to have a real-time synchronous discussion via the web. This is a useful way to get a different understanding of each other and the topic being discussed.
Topic 11
Blog
Moodle users can post to their own blog site. To access a user's blog, click on their name from the course participants list, then click on the "Blog" tab from the profile page. At the administrative level, view restrictions can be set for all blogs. These restrictions include, allow course members, site members, or the whole world to view the blog.
Note: Currently there is no "comment" feature with blogs in Moodle.Topic 12
- A lesson delivers content in an interesting and flexible way. It consists of a number of pages. Each page normally ends with a multiple choice question. Navigation through the lesson can be straight forward or complex.
Topic 13
Activity: Podcast (3rd party)
You can post Podcasts in Moodle. After recording and editing your podcast with tools like Audacity upload it to the Podcast module.
Note: There is no "comment" feature in the Podcast module.Topic 14
- This module allows teachers to create multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill quizzes using Hot Potatoes software.
- The Hot Potatoes module needs to be made visible via Administration >> Configuration >> Modules.
Topic 15
- A Workshop is a peer assessment activity with a huge array of options. It allows participants to assess each other's projects, as well as exemplar projects, in a number of ways. It also coordinates the collection and distribution of these assessments in a variety of ways.
Topic 20
- Resources can be prepared files uploaded to the course server; pages edited directly in Moodle; or external web pages made to appear part of this course.
Links to uploaded files (Moodle automatically assigns the icons according to the file type):
Topic 21
You can add additional functions to your Moodle page by inserting a "block" on the right or left column. Moodle comes pre-configured with a number of different block. Or you can us the "HTML Block" to add anything you want.
To add a block to your page, turn editing on and then select the desired block from the drop-down menu on the right column.
More info on blocks can be found at:
http://docs.moodle.org/en/Blocks
Topic 22
Block: HTML (core)
Think of the HTML Block as a mini webpage. You can create and display any HTML in a the block. You can even embed HTML from another source like TeacherTubeTopic 23
The calendar, on the upper right corner of the page, allows teachers to add events for the class to see. Students can also use this as a private calendar to keep track of their own events.
Topic 26
In Moodle, you can upload and run interactive Java applets and Flash movies. Students can interact with them alone, in a small group or as a whole class discussion.Topic 27
Moodle has the ability to convert mathematical text entered in a special way into symbolic notation. You activate it by surrounding an expression or equation with "$$$"
For example if you type "$$$f(x)=3/(x^2)-12$$$" into a forum post, it will return:
$$\Large f(x)=3/(x^2)-12$$
Here's a more sophisticated example:
Entering $$$x = \frac{{ - b \pm \sqrt {b^2 - 4ac} }}{{2a}}$$$, yields:
$$\LARGE x = \frac{{ - b \pm \sqrt {b^2 - 4ac} }}{{2a}}$$- YOU TRY IT!
Click on the forum below and make a post with a TEX expression.
Topic 29
Text Filters (May be applied to any text in a Moodle site)