ReportGradeMaintain Communicate Facilitate Course Facilitation Tutorial In this tutorial, you will learn best practices and techniques for course facilitation

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Course Facilitation Tutorial

In this tutorial, you will learn best practices and techniques for course

facilitation specific to the Moodle platform in the areas of:

communication, maintenance, grading, and reporting.

Overview | Tutorial Instructions



Overview

This tutorial was designed to introduce you to some best practices in online course facilitation. At the conclusion of this tutorial, you will be able to:• Discuss facilitation techniques used in the online

classroom.• Identify resources, activities, and blocks.•Use standard communication tools in Moodle.




Tutorial Instructions

To use this tutorial, click on the topic you want to learn more about.

Some topics have sub-menus directly beneath the main menu. Explore

the tutorial in any order that you would like.

To return to the main menu, click on the Home icon located in the

lower left corner of the screen.

For additional Help resources , click the Question icon located in the

bottom right corner.




Where to Find Help

Moodle is literally a world-wide system, and there are many places where you can

find assistance to further your Moodle knowledge.

Here are some recommended resources for finding more information on any

Moodle-related topic:

•Using Moodle by Mary Cooch (video tutorials on Youtube)

•Moodle Manuals at moodle.org (text-based)

Remember that you can always search on Moodle.org as well for help with core

Moodle questions. You may want to bookmark these sites so that you have direct

access to them later.




Facilitate Overview

Before you begin facilitating a course, there are a few things you will want to do

beforehand that will not only make your course run smoother but make your life easier too.

In this section you will learn how to set up a practice course with a fake student account,

update your profile so it is optimized for facilitation, use feedback activity to improve your

course instruction, and then wrap up with a few reminders and tips on facilitation.

Practice Shells & Accounts

Your Profile

Feedback

Things to Remember



Facilitate > Practice Shells and Accounts

Practice Shells & Accounts | Your Profile | Feedback | Things to Remember



Facilitate > Your Profile




Facilitate > Feedback Activity




Facilitate > Things to Remember




Communicate Overview

Communication with students in an online/virtual environment is

critical. Consistent communication ensures that students feel

connected and part of the online and course community. Strategically

use Moodle functionality to communicate with your students through

tools you will explore in this section.

Messages

News Forum



Communicate > Moodle Messaging

Moodle Messaging | The News Forum



Communicate > The News Forum

The News forum is

another effective means

of communication in

Moodle.

It’s the default forum for

general news and course

announcements found in

every Moodle course.

Users enrolled into courses

are also automatically

subscribed to the forum,

meaning they receive e-

mail copies of posts made

by the instructor.

Any post to the news

forum mails automatically,

if the Mail Now button is

selected, or within 30

minutes by default.

The News forum is

recommended for

important

announcements because

it also shows up in the

Latest News block, as

well as being archived in

the forum and sent to

the students’ e-mail.

Moodle Messaging | The News Forum



Maintain Overview

Although you may not be building out your own course, it is

important to understand how that process works. Having basic

knowledge of this will allow you to maintain your course, should

something need to be changed. We will have a high-level overview of

course building pertaining to modules now.Resources

Activities

Activity Settings

Blocks



Maintain > Resources

Resources are links to

files, URLs, repository

items, or constructed

web pages that are not

graded, which the

instructor provides for

the students. Moodle

provides a variety of

ways to input content

into courses via

Resources.

Resources | Activities | Activity Settings | Blocks



Maintain > Activities

Activities are interactive

components of the

course that are typically

graded upon completion.

Think of activities as

those which foster

communication, assess

or provide feedback, and

which require the student

to interact with content.




Maintain > Activity Settings

Each activity module has

different settings that

control how it works for the

teacher and the students.

Many of the options that you

will find in the settings are

similar, but some are

activity specific. If

something in an activity isn’t

working the way you think it

ought to, check the settings

to make sure some feature

is not disabled.




Maintain > Best Practices with Blocks




Grade Overview

As the course facilitator, you may not necessarily be building your

gradebook, but you will be grading. If something isn’t working as

expected, you should at least have a basic working knowledge of

the gradebook.

In this section, you will look at the basics of the gradebook, briefly

review categories and aggregations, look at tips for grading and

some general best practices for grading.Gradebook Management

Grading Tips

Best Practices with

Gradebook



Grade > Gradebook Management

Gradebook Management | Grading Tips | Best Practices



Grade > Grading Tips




Grade > Best Practices with Gradebook




Report Overview

Reports allow teachers to track, in detail, course, item, and user

activity. Moodle reports instantaneously log user interactions

straight into the database. It logs views, actions, grades, uploads,

and many other interactions that are done by users.

Moodle Course Reports

Using Course Reports



Report > Moodle Course Reports

Course reports are one

of the most used

reports in Moodle.

Accessing reports is

quite easy: just enter

the course in which you

want to gather the data

and use the Navigation

block to find the link to

reports.

Moodle Course Reports | Using Course Reports



Report > Using Course Reports

The Logs list users

interaction with the

system. You can see what

pages the student

accessed, the time and

date they accessed it, the

IP address they came from,

and their actions. Use

filters to sort information

by course, participant, day,

activity, and action.

The Live logs show the

same information but are

only taken from the

database records of the

last hour.

The Activity reports

show the number of

views for each activity

and resource. Information

is organized by topic.

The Participation

reports display which

students have

participated in a

particular activity. You

can use filters to look

back on days, or sort by

role or action. Once the

report is generated, you

can select a user and

send them a message.

Moodle Course Reports | Using Course Reports

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ReportGradeMaintain Communicate Facilitate Course Facilitation Tutorial In this tutorial, you will learn best practices and techniques for course facilitation