Simple overview of features of Moodle to use in classrooms

2. Outline
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1. Learning Management System
2. Journal Entries
3. Group Discussions
4. Chat Sessions
5. Upcoming Events
6. Online Quizzes
7. Online Databases
8. Blogging
9. Organizing Class tools
10. Inclusion of two or more subjects
11. Checking Roles
12. Reducing fail rates
13. Sustainability results
14. Group tracking success

3. Learning Management System
• A system that allows
o setting up of subject instances,
o administering the subject,
o documenting student feedback and any changes made to teaching
and learning,
o tracking and reporting changes and impact of changes,
o delivering the subject
• Effectively using LMS (Blackboard, Moodle) since 2009
• Used LMS for class sizes ranging from 50 – 600
• Used LMS for zero-level to 300-level subjects
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4. Journal Entries
Individual
Journal
Entries
- can be
made private,
so that only
lecturer can
track entries
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5. Group Discussions
Group
Discussion –
can be open
to whole
class or to
groups of
students
within the
class
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6. Chat Sessions
Chat Sessions
– groups of
students log
on to chat
and debate
topics
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7. Upcoming Events
Upcoming
Events –
saving any
deadlines on
calendar
work as
reminders
for students
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8. Online Quizzes
Online tests
and quizzes –
can be
automatically
graded or
emailed to
your mailbox
for grading
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9. Online Databases
Online
databases –
create online
databases to
make various
reading
material
available or
to allow
student
submissions
of projects
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10. Blogging
Use blogging
to track
group
discussions
for projects
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11. Organizing Class Tools
Allows grouping
and creating
blocks for all
handouts, lecture
notes,
announcements
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12. Inclusion of two or more subjects
Allows access to
students from
more than one
subject if
instances
included while
creating subject
instance unlike
SMP or MyUOWD
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13. Checking Roles
Roles – can
view student
role, what
they can see,
access and
change
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14. Reducing Fail Rates
Using guided
discovery to
reduce fail
rates –
conference
publication
ERA C
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15. Sustainability of results
Impact of
using LMS to
reduce fail
rate is
sustainable
with varying
factors such
change in
teacher, class
size, subject
matter –
publication
ERA B
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16. Group tracking success story
Blogging can
be used to
track group
work, grade
member
participation
– publication
ERA C
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17. Contact and Support
For further assistance or clarifications
Zeenath Reza Khan
Email: zeenathkhan@uowdubai.ac.ae
Instructor
Faculty Representative, Moodle Working Group
Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences
University of Wollongong in Dubai
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