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What is Moodle?
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Moodle is essentially a website that has a number of templates and resources that can used and adapted as required. At a simple level it makes it easy for those people with no experience of web development to create online resources to share.
With this in mind ... Moodle can be used in a number of different ways depending on the needs of the people who are going to be using it. Here are some ways in which it can be used:
- to share resources, online ... 24 hour a day availabilty
- to enable communication ... forums, chat, messages
- to add interactivity ... quizzes, communication tools, learning objects
- to enable collaboration ... wikkis, the glossary and database tools
- to allow for distance learning ... available on the web
- to support blended learning ... used in conjunction with traditional face to face teaching
- to reduce workload ... online assignment submission and marking, self marking quizzes
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Most small moodle sites concentrate on only a few of these functions - typically it is used initially to provide resources for its users, and then developed into a communication and interactive learning tool.
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 'VLE in Action' - a teachers TV video showing how a secondary school are using Moodle (20MB) file - A sample course from Coleg Gwent file
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| 3 | What do you want to do?
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Make documents available to students
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Direct students to useful websites
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Communicate with students
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Set quizzes and games for students
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Click on the picture to view the resources
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Make documents available to students
- This is best thought of as a two stage process.
- Upload the file from your computer to the Moodle site server (Watch how to do it)
- Display the file to the users (Watch how it's done)
 Uploading Files - frequently asked questions Resource
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Direct students to useful websites
- Lists of websites are useful guides to students. Adding them to your Moodle course is an easy process.(See how it's done)
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You may also want to add some information about the website or suggest tasks to the user. This can be done by adding a label to the course, which contains both your text and the relevant web address. (Watch a demonstration)
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- More on websites Resource
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Moodle has facilities to communicate with learners in a variety of ways. For most methods of communication the learners will need to log on to the site, because the system needs to know the email address of the learner in order to send out messages.
ForumsForums can be added to courses and tutors or learners can use the forum to send messages to everyone on the forum. (See how it's done) Note that learners have to log on to the system to use the forums.
Chat online
If learners are logged on to the system at the same time as yourself you can communicate directly with them using the Chat system built into Moodle. (Watch this in action). As with forums, users need to have a username and password and be logged into the system to use chat.
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Set quizzes and games for students
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Questions and quizzes can be added to your Moodle to provide a quick form of assessment or revision. If your learners are logged onto the Moodle the system will keep track of the scores, so that you, as the teacher, can keep track of how your students are doing.
The quiz system on Moodle has a question bank which stores all the questions you set. This first demonstration shows how to add a true/false question to the question bank. The second demonstration shows how a multiple choice question is constructed.
The last demonstration shows how to use the questions to create a quiz.
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- Quizzes - frequently asked questions Resource
 Moodle quiz
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| 8 | Getting Started
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JISC RSC East Midlands
The JISC Regional Support Centre for the East Midlands is one of 13 RSCs covering the UK. It's our job to support the development of e-learning and Information Learning Technology in FE, Sixth Form and Specialist Colleges, Adult and Community Learning, Work Based Learning and aspects of Higher Education. We cover teaching and learning, management, staff development, technical IT and business support.
This course was devised by the RSC East Midlands. It is freely available for use by the clients of any RSC. The course can be zipped up as a Moodle course and placed in a college Moodle, please contact the RSC East Midlands for the zip file if this is required. |
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