Getting Started with Moodle

Bronze Level – Compulsory

Contents

• Overview of Moodle

• My Moodle Page

• Overview of Courses

• Course Settings

• Uploading Basic Resources

• News Forum

• Calendar

Overview of Moodle

Moodle is a course management system (CMS), also known as a Learning Management System (LMS) or a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). It is a free web application that educators can use to create effective online learning sites

My Moodle Page

List of your courses

If your list of courses is getting too long then you can tag some of your courses as favourites by highlighting the stars and then change the drop down to “View” “My Favourites”

Use the “Help” button to log an IT job or request Moodle help

Overview of Courses

• Teaching staff are “editors” on the courses which they teach which enables them to add resources, view logs and manage course settings

• All courses can be viewed from the “My Moodle” page to get ideas from other departments on how they are using Moodle

Click the link at the bottom of your course list

“Quick Links” block for important course documents such as Schemes of Work, Past Papers, Schedule of Assessment

Use of blocks to promote careers relating to the subject

Grid view to organise course. Could be by unit, topic, teacher

Study Plus Resources

Link to Online magazine

Student friendly

Learning Outcomes

SociologyInteractive Scheme of Work

Links to Resources/Activities

Resources Resources which can be added to your Moodle course page include:• Files such as Word docs, PowerPoint

presentations• URLs• Quizzes• Questionnaires• Online Assignments• Glossary• Choice Activity• Scheduler• External packages

Course Settings Increase/Reduce the number of sections on your course page

Course Settings

Enrol new users/students

View course as a student

Edit the course settings including course layout and maximum upload file size

View logs/stats of course usage

Course Settings

Allows you to change how big files can be when uploaded

This allows you to change the layout of the course.

Course Settings

Allows you to add or remove the number of topics/sections

This allows you to control how hidden topics are viewed either completely invisible or shown in collapsed form

Uploading Basic Resources1. Turn the editing on

2. Add an activity or resource

Uploading Basic Resources

Select your resource and click add

Uploading Basic Resources

Give your resource a name and description

Add your file and ‘Save and return to course’ at the bottom of the page

Uploading Basic Resources

Drag and drop files from your desktop into Moodle when using Google Chrome!

Moodle icons

Edit title

Delete

Update

Duplicate

Move resourceMove right

Hide/show

News Forum

Each course page has a News forum which can be used for course announcements. When you post an item anyone enrolled on the course will also receive an email

CalendarAdd important key dates into the Moodle calendar such as session slots, deadlines, exam dates. Some dates are automatically added to the Moodle calendar such as online assignment dates