Creative Uses of

Moodle Modules •Paula Clough

•WOW 2010

•Glendale, AZ

Introduction

Paula Clough

Educational Technology Coordinator

Douglas Unified School District #27

Moodle.org Message Paula Clough

Email paula_teach@yahoo.com

Twitter paula_teach

Moodle Sources for information on Moodle open source

software:

•Moodle.org

•Demo.moodle.org

• Coolcourses.moodle.org

•Using Moodle forums

•Moodle Exchange

•MoodleCommons.org

•NOTE: This presentation was written when Moodle

1.9 was the latest version. The links now go to the

Moodle 2.2 documentation. link here

Labels and Navigation

Labels for Table of Contents •Basic use: use with long course

pages to give some control.

•Click on the collapsible button in the

right upper corner of the topic box.

•Copy the URL from the address bar.

•Go to first topic box.

•Turn on editing, resources drop down,

select label.

•Type in text, highlight text and click on

the link icon.

•Copy the url in the address bar of

popup, click OK

•Save changes…try it out

Choice

Choice Features •Only one question or Choice allowed.

•Many answers possible.

•Limits may be set on each answer.

•Can select whether to publish results to students or

not and when to publish.

•Choose whether results are anonymous or not.

•Choose whether to have a column for unanswered.

•Can allow choice to be updated.

•http://docs.moodle.org/en/Choices

Practical Uses of Choicefrom

Kristian Still (Moodle.org)

•A simple question to answer, to kick start - the beginning of a lesson. •A question left unanswered from a lesson - that needs an answer. Now home study. •As feedback about a lesson, as assessment for learning. •As they are so fast to set up - they can even be used as a polling tool, although there are other tools out there.

Simple Poll With

Images/Videos/ Sounds •Use HTML Coding in the answers to pull in pictures/ videos / sounds

•Video of how to by Mary Cooch: •http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=145882#p637792

•Choice can be used for

Voting Mock or Real •Students can participate in elections. •Use anonymous publishing after the close of the choice. •Automatic results…no ballot counting •Can also be used for mock elections.

Research Project Task List •List the steps for a project.

•Students can update the choice. Students return to choose the step they have just completed.

•Fast and easy monitoring for teacher and students.

Register for a Group/

Course •Students choose a group or activity.

•Teacher can decide whether to allow changes.

•Can limit number who can chose each group.

•With report, teacher can quickly form groups.

AgreementFrom Art Lader (Moodle.org)

•User agreements, assignment criteria, anything that students need to take responsibility for reading and understanding

•Choice allows teachers to track who have said they read and understand.

Quizzes

Quiz Features •Uses a question bank that allows sharing of questions across the course or the Moodle site.

•Allows a variety of answers: Multiple choice, checkbox, true/false, short answer, essay, random short answer, matching, cloze, etc.

•Easy to export/import

•Can allow multiple retakes

•Allows manual grading

•Permits question and answers to be shuffled

•Item anlysis

•http://docs.moodle.org/en/Quiz_module

Checklists •Checklists for projects, teaching units, program skills. •If reuse with new group, need to clear all user data first, per Brett Hinton, (Moodle.org)

Building Speed of Knowledge

Use •Teacher builds a quiz of knowledge

in course. (could be vocabulary,

basic skills, etc.)

•Practice test is timed with unlimited

retakes.

•Students practice the test with

teacher checking their time.

(Competing against self)

•When student gets the time where

they want, they take a final quiz

based on the practice test they have

been practicing on.

Random Questions •To use random selected question, must put the

questions into the same category.

•Different question will be selected each time a student

takes the quiz.

•Will not allow the same question twice in the same

quiz.

Lessons

Lesson Features •Very structured.

•Allows the delivery of content and questions that are

answered to show learning.

•Complicated to set up, but once finished can be very

helpful as the content and questions go together.

•http://docs.moodle.org/en/Lessons

Audio/Podcasts/Videos •Adding audio

or video to the

lesson allows

multimedia

content

delivery.

Glossaries

Glossary Features •Two main types: Main and Secondary

•Can be teacher only or students

•Upload of files or pictures allowed—only

Encyclopedia format shows pictures in the entry.

•Searchable in several ways

•Linking is available

•May restrict duplicate entries

•Comments may be allowed

•Easily shareable with import/export feature

•http://docs.moodle.org/en/Glossaries

Glossary Formats •Continuous Without Author

•Encyclopedia

•Entry List

•FAQ

•Full Without Author

•Full With Author

•Simple, dictionary style

Database Features •Very flexible as the fields have to be added.

•Many different types of fields. (date, text, checkbox,

dropdown boxes, pictures, files, URL, etc.)

•Set up Templates

•HTML can make the lists look special

•Searchable

•Comments may be allowed

•Presets and entries can be shared

•Can use groups

•http://docs.moodle.org/en/Database_module

Glossary

Database

Search-

able

Comments

Shareable

Linkable

No

Groups Groups

Several

Formats

Must set

Fields

Must set

Templates

Secondary

can feed into

Main

Restrict

duplicate

entries

Teache

r and /

or

Student

Format

is

flexible

Collabor-

ative Uses

Authoriza-

tion can be

required

New Resource for

dictionary/glossaries •New website which allows words to be listed.

•Pick the definitions already uploaded or add own.

•Download lists in several versions…including Moodle

•http://dictionary.k12opened.com/

•Thanks Karen Fasimpaur and K12opened.com

Types of Glossary/Database

Uses Language and Vocabulary

Sharing with Others

Communication

Classroom Management

Assignments

Study Resources

Resources

Language/Vocabulary •Audio

•Pictures

•Super Glossary SchoolNet Multimedia

SchoolNet

Sharing With Others •Annotated Book Reports

•Sharing Relevant Internet Links

•Sharing Reports

•Mini Research Project

•Biographies

Communication •Teacher’s Blog

•Classroom Blog

•Collaborative Work

•FAQ Glossary

•Tip of the Day

Teacher Blog •Continuous

without author

format.

•Put date first to

have in order

through the

school year.

•Allow comments

or not.

Collaborative Work Set up the Glossary.

Click on the “Locally Assign Roles” at the top of the

set up screen.

Assign students the teacher role so they can go in and

edit the entries.

Use Encyclopedia format if you want students to be

able to upload a picture and show it in the entry.

Make sure the edit always is set to yes.

When the project is completed, you can reset the

glossary settings to edit always: no and take the

students out of the locally assigned roles as teachers.

Classroom Management •Classroom Portfolio

•Participant Introductions

•Student of the Week

Classroom Portfolio Students have a place

to keep work.

Set to authorize

entries and then don’t.

It will remain private

between teacher and

student.

Student of the Week •Encyclopedia

format

•Enter photo with

or without text.

(Text would be

included)

•Use Random

Glossary Entry

Block

Assignments •Ratable Recipe Archive

•Poetry Collection

•What Happened in the Year….?

•Overview of Topic

•Community Directory

Poetry Collection •Students add poetry

they have either found

in their research or

what they have written

themselves.

•With Encyclopedia

glossary, uploaded

pictures will show.

What Happened in the

Year…? •Students pick a

year and enter

important events

in history for that

year.

•No duplicate

entries are

allowed.

•May enter events

forgotten by

another student

with comments.

Study Resources •Quiz Questions from Student Mini Research

•Concepts from Chapter 1,2,3

•Course Notes Glossary

Resources •All About Citations: Our Class Bibliography Rules

•Database of Articles

•Job Tips and Tricks

•Moodle Tips Glossary

All About Citations: Our

Class Bibliography Rules •Give the

description of the

parts of a

bibliography

entry for each

type of resource.

•Give an

example in the

same entry for

reference.

Databases

Journal & Daily

Assignments •A little fancy HTML to

get the look.

•Shows on Interactive

Whiteboard at

beginning of class.

•Has Journal prompt

and the work of the

day.

•Students who miss

class can easily see

what was done.

Individual Student File

Repository •Allows students to upload

files they are working on.

•Can have one or several

files for each entry.

•Turn on the teacher

approval and don’t approve

to keep private.

•OR set up separate groups

with each student in a

separate group.

Database for Collecting

Quiz/Test Questions •Students make

questions for the

quiz or test.

•Objectives/

Standards PO’s

listed with check

boxes to link to

the question.

National Science Database •Resources to go

with specific

curriculum

performance

objectives.

•Can be shared

with other

teachers/sites

easily with import

and export

features.

Research Results Database •Database can

allow groups to

separate while

they work.

•Can become a

teaching/presenta

tion tool.

•Could be a

research tool for

this or other

classes.

Book Reviews

Maryel’s Database Presets •Sharing all kinds

of info and

resources.

•Sharing the

presets for

databases.

•Some creative

HTML for

columns and

colors.

Characterization Database

Student Behavior

Records/Referrals •Fields are editable

•Can set it to look

like a form already in

use.

•Easily searchable to

see how many

referrals a student

has.

•Could be made

available to all

teachers/

adminstrators

Mechanics

General How to set up a glossary

Using Moodle: Glossary Forum

How to set up a database

Database FAQ’s on Moodle.org

How to set up a choice

How to set up a quiz

Please note these links now go to Moodle 2.2

documentation.

Specific Useful Tasks How to set up Random Glossary entry

Database presets

Database category listings in Moodle.org

How to import glossary entries

Thanks to: •Moodle.org--- all of them– especially Helen, Mary and

Maryel

•Javier Baca– without him there would be no Moodle

at DUSD

•Leanne Bowley (my boss) for encouraging me to work

on this presentation

•Moodlerooms for the training and moral support (Gina

and Sheila and others)

•Larry for all your patience while I moodle