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About Moodle …Brenda Mallinson
Bella Vista Moodle workshopJuly 2015
Outline
Structural approach
Demo & Practice
Support (Proactive & contextual)
Q & A Session
User Levels Roles Permissions
Site level:• Administrator -> can do everything• Manager -> subset of admin permissions (safer)• Course Creator -> creates courses
Course provision:• Teacher -> manage course and edit (add content)• Non-editing teacher -> same as teacher, but not edit
Course access:• Student -> access & engage with visible activities &
resources; can’t change content• Guest -> access, but not engage
Activity 1
• Purpose: Build a conceptual framework of the Moodle roles and their capabilities.
• Task: Explore the functions and capabilities of your identified primary Moodle role
• Resource: https://docs.moodle.org/29/en/Standard_roles
• Guidance: Using the link provided to Moodle.org, investigate the functionality of your role, recording brief notes.
• Feedback: Share your understanding with the group
• Duration: 30 mins
Demonstration & Practice 1
Demo:– Defaults for roles setup at site level– Roles assigned at course level– Roles can be changed at activity level
Signon & practice on the Mount Orange site:– http://school.demo.moodle.net/ – Site reset every hour
Supporting Resource:Enrolling users
Front-end site organisationSite front page:– Institutional branding and useful links and information
Categories: group your courses logicallyNote: Some roles can be assigned at category level– Manager, Course Creator
Supporting resources:– Course and category management video (1m 55s)
Examples of branding, categories & access: – Open University of Tanzania - eLMS– UKZN – Learn@UKZN– Rhodes - RUconnected
Demo:– Course creation, backup and restore
Practice on the Mount Orange site:– http://school.demo.moodle.net/ – Site reset every hour
Supporting resources: – Creating and restoring a course (video 10 mins)
– Adding a new course: Moodle docs
Demonstration & Practice 2
How would you like your course to look?– Standard settings: who, what and how– Implications of choices; Flexibility
Examples:– Themes: Show variety on Saide site– Format: ‘Collapsed Topics’ at OUT– Layout: ‘Show one section per page’ at Types of
Sport at Mount Orange School Demo site
Course Settings
Demo:– Standard settings: who, what and how
Practice on the Mount Orange site:– http://school.demo.moodle.net/ – Site reset every hour
Supporting resources: – Moodle Course Settings (video 5 mins 44 secs)
– Course Settings: Moodle docs
Demonstration & Practice 3
Course Home / Landing Page
Course Layering – Example Structure
Course Sections, Blocks, Activities & ResourcesTop section (mandatory)– News Forum (mandatory)– Add your course / module front matter
Central Sections– Summary area– Add activities & resources
Blocks – can be added to left or right sidesSupporting resources: – Course Sections Moodle Docs– Activity Chooser video (2min 32 secs)
Getting started …
Teacher - turn on editing to develop a course– Top left hand corner of your course home screen– Also from Administration block on LHS– Content editor (HTML)
Teacher & Student - site level actions / facilities:– Edit user (own) profile• Administration block / My profile settings• Personalised settings
– Blogs Blog menu block; Can be associated with course– Private messaging – from profiles
Managing your usersSite registration methods
– Manual, self, LDAPCourse enrolment
– Manual, self with key, … Groups – at course and activity levels
– No groups, separate groups, visible groupsBasic Reports and Grades
– Administration block (LHS) / Reports and GradesAnalytics
– ‘Learning Analytics in Moodle’ Doc in Google Folder
Tool tips
‘How to’ Information – pops up – Icon appears next to almost all settings choices &
boxes
Moodle Docs for this page – Icon links to contextual help appears at the bottom on
each page
Moodle Contextual Support
Moodle.org - Moodle user and developer support– Moodle Docs https://docs.moodle.org/29/en/Main_page
– Mount Orange site http://school.demo.moodle.net/
– Courses, free downloads https://moodle.net/
– Free Moodle Fundamentals course (HRDNZ): http://www.moodlebites.com
YouTube– Moodle for Teachers (M4T - Nellie Deutsch)– Moodle Bites (HRDNZ)
SlideShare, Vimeo, IT4ALL, …..
Supporting Resources
How to keep up?
• Signup to Moodle News• Search for a certified Moodle Partner• Frequent the Moodle Community Forums
Free digital books on Moodle include:
• Moodle 2.5 eBook (2013) by Mark Repp (pdf 68 pages 4.4Mb)
• Using Moodle (2008) by Jason Cole & Helen Foster 2nd Ed. (pdf 284 pages 6.3Mb)
Question & Answer Session
• What do you need to know right now?
• What would you still like to find out later?
Thank You
Brenda [email protected]
SlideShare: http://www.slideshare.net/brenda6
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