Heidi Atha Diane Look Buena Vista School District

Heidi AthaDiane Look

Buena Vista School District

What is Moodle?Course Management System

(CMS)CMS’s give educators tools to

create a course web site and provide access control so only enrolled students can view it.

What else can Moodle Do?Moodle can provide an easy way to

upload and share materials.Participants can hold online discussions

and chats.Teachers can give quizzes and surveys.Students can collaborate with ideas,

stories, and assignments.Students can journal either privately or

publicly.These are just a few things Moodle can

do…..

Moodle is Open SourceCommunity of DevelopersMoodle can be ModifiedMoodle Software is Free!

Moodle WorldwideOver 13,000 sites from 158

countries73 languagesPrimary school through

University level

Getting to Moodle (Today)To get to Moodle, go to

bvschools.org/bvsdonline

Where Do We Go From Here?Click on the TIE link

Click on TIE Moodle Class 2008

Signing InUsername and password–No spaces

Here We Are!

Left Side ToolsThe tools on the left hand side of the

screen are:People

◦ These are the people who have been set up in this class.

Activities◦ These are the various activities that this

class has access to…there are many more.Search Forums

◦ This is a search tool for various forums by this class

Administration (You have to be logged in as an administrator to view it this way)

◦ This is where you would edit the pages of your class.

Course Categories◦ These are the courses and classes that

have been created in your school.

Right Side Tools These can be personalized

Messages◦ You can see any messages from

individuals in the school Moodle community.

Blog Menu◦ You can create your own blog,

review past blogs, define your blog, and review others blogs.

Online Users◦ This shows the people who are

currently logged on to the course.

Calendar◦ You can add events, due dates,

and your own personal time management.

Right Side Tools (Cont.)These can be personalized

In the administrative role, you will be able to add blocks to the right side toolbar if you wish.

Here are some that are offered

Administrative and Teacher Functions:Moodle ModulesAssignments

◦ Enable teachers to grade and provide comments for uploaded files and assignments created on and offline.

◦ The teacher may choose whether to prevent late submissions, whether to allow students to resubmit their assignment (for re-grading) and whether to receive email alerts when students add or update their submission.

◦ This is where you can submit documents, lesson plans, etc.

Chats◦ 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.

Administrative and Teacher Functions:Moodle Modules

Choices◦ 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.


Databases◦ Here you can

create various databases that the whole class can contribute to.


Feedback ◦ This tool allows

you to gather feedback about anything you wish.

◦ Participants can either be anonymous, or have their username shown…your choice.


Forums◦ 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 of formats, and can include attachments.


Glossary◦ This activity

allows participants to create and maintain a list of definitions, like a dictionary.

◦ The entries can be search or browsed in many different formats.


Hot Potatoes◦ This module

allows teachers to create multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill quizzes using Hot Potatoes software.


Journaling◦ Free response

opportunities for students to reflect on the lesson, etc.


Lesson◦ 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.


Quiz◦ 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.


Stamp Collection◦ This module allows teacher to

give "stamps" (i.e. picture with a comment) to students so they "collect" these stamps.

◦ The activity can be used in many ways, such as motivative bonus marks, absence marks, certification records etc.

Teachers can enable this module to show stamps to all students, just show stamps to the individual student to whom it was awarded or to hide them completely


Storytelling◦ this module aims to

facilitate the creation of a storytelling activity to children (from 6 to 12 years old).

◦ This module assists kids in the creation of writing stories that they can keep private (only for their eyes), share with friends (course share) or be public (to every moodle site user's).


Survey◦ Gathers feedback

from students using pre-packaged questionnaires.


Wiki◦ The Moodle wiki

module enables participants to work together on web pages to add, expand and change the content. Old versions are never deleted and can be restored


To find out more about Moodle, or to download Moodle for your school go to www.moodle.org

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