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A Teacher/Facilitator’s First Taste Of Moodle – A Practical Guide (Part I)

Engaging students to LEARN in in a modern environment

Frankie Kam18th April 2011

Note: SCM stands for “Stamford College Malaysia”

What is Moodle?Moodle is a Virtual Learning Environment that is used by educators to:1. Put online material for students to access2. Engage students with online learning material 3. Complement traditional classroom learning with

online activities:• Forums• Embedded video• Web 2.0 interactivity

3. Monitor students’ online work and to hold students accountable to the teacher/facilitator/lecturer

4. Get students to increase their Student Learning Time (SLT) by spending time learning online

Why use Moodle?Every educator worth his or her salt should give Moodle a try for these reasons:1. Moodle allows you to extend your classtime to after-

school-hours• Homework can be given and monitored by the

lecturer• Homework, whether done or not done can be

monitored 2. The Web is the natural environment for Generation

Y & Z (the Facebook generation of youth) and is the environment of choice to engage students in

3. With Moodle you can get feedback from students and you can interact with them through comments and opinions.

How to use Moodle?The following slides will cover the following topics:

Logging inEditing your account profileSetup a basic courseEditing a Course Adding Content Inserting Titles and Summaries Inserting Content Add a Resource Insert a label Compose a Text Page Compose a Web Page Link to a File or Website Display a Directory Add an Activity Assignments Forums Editing Content

How to use Moodle?

The following slides will cover the following topics:

•Logging into your pre-setup account•Editing your account profile•Setup a basic course

(a) Logging in to http://scm.moodurian.com

Key in your username and

password

(b) Editing your account profile

To EDIT your account

details, click on your username

(b) Editing your account profile

To EDIT your account

details, click on Edit profile

To change your PASSWORD,

click on Change

Password

(b) Editing your account profile

1. Enter your new password

3. Enter your email address (Yahoo, Gmail, hotmail,

stamford.edu.my)

4. You may upload a picture of yourself as

your icon

5. To save your profile information, click Update

profile

2. To see your password text, check this box

(c) Setup a basic course 1. Click on this icon to

go to the FrontPage

2. Click on this link to Add a course

3. Add a new

course.

4. Select the category of your course

5. Type in your Course name and Course ID

(c) Setup a basic course

1b. Try Collapsed Weeks, you can also change the number

of weeks (duration) of the course and the Start and End

date of the course

1. Select a Format

2. Enter an Enrolment key (password), e.g.,

123Students must use this

key to enrol in your course.

3. Save your changes

(c) Setup a basic course

1. Click on Living Skills to enter your Course

2. You can now see your course.

Congrats for coming this far so far.

The End For Now

• More to come in Part2.