Moodle 2 Masterclass

www.pukunui.com / info@pukunui.com
Facilitating Education Phone: 1300 466 635 or +61 8 9328 4545
Tuesday, 13 November 12

Who is This?


Perth - Sydney - Melbourne - Hong Kong - Beijing - Kuala Lumpur


Engagement is Key!


is the

x e
e-Learning
swiss army knife

online learning often fails
because the
users are
disconnected


Engagement


Explore Customise
React Interact
Test

Create
Engagement
Query Repeat
Trigger
Respond
Enquire
Pause

Contribute Connect

Collaborate


Day One Agenda
Our cooking highlights
❖ Plating up a perfect Dish ❖ More Advanced Ingredients
❖ What is a Theme? ❖ Use of the Workshop Tool
❖ The HTML and Main Menu Blocks ❖ Use of the Database tool
❖ Clever use of Labels
❖ Setting up your Homepage
❖ Using Moodle 2 Orphaned Items
❖ Creative linking Techniques


Plating up a perfect dish
❖ What is a Theme?
❖ The HTML and Main Menu Blocks


More Advanced Ingredients
❖ Use of the Workshop Tool
❖ Use of the Database tool


Day Two Agenda
Our cooking highlights
❖ Cooking with Game ❖ Moodle plugins
❖ Completion Tracking
❖ Course scaffolding with conditionals

❖ Baking the Perfect Roll
❖ Advanced use of Moodle Roles


Cooking With Game
In this session we will cover

❖ Lesson scaffolding in Moodle
❖ Game based learning practice


Baking a perfect Roll
❖ Overriding of roles at the activity level
❖ Assign roles at the Activity Level
❖ Hiding activities for groups (Time permitting)


❖ What is a Theme?
❖ The HTML and Main Menu Blocks


❖ Do you suffer from dull looking courseware?

❖ Do you think all Moodle courses look the same?

❖ Do students complain about lack of engagement?

This session looks at innovative uses of existing Moodle tools to
create visually engaging and instructionally sound courseware.
More importantly we will look at innovative ways to solve the
SODding issue (Scroll of Death) suffered by many large courses


The room you’re in matters!


People enjoy video games because
their creators put engagement before
everything else

eLearning authors often put
engagement a distant second to
academic rigor

The key to using any technology effectively is
underpinning it with the right pedagogy
@vnarayan
Academic Advisor (eLearning and Learning
Technologies), Unitec New Zealand


Customising Themes
Unit: Plating up a perfect dish


Why Use Themes?

❖ Meet brand requirements

❖ Match an existing site

❖ Present a more engaging design for your particular audience

❖ Establish a unique look and feel for your site. be a Stand out!


Highly Customisable
❖ Blocks can go anywhere

❖ Many options set by developer who created
the theme

❖ Easy to add dropdown menu’s

❖ No code needed to personalise site


HANDS ON SESSION


Crafty Blocks


Why use HTML Blocks?
❖ Anything can be added to a HTML block

❖ Make content stand out.

❖ Just like a Label...but on the side!

❖ Not as scary as you think


Why use the
Main Menu block?
❖ Great way of adding materials to a site
frontpage

❖ Can make things “Not Visible” without being
hidden

❖ Use in concuntion with labels and HTML
Blocks


Setting up your Homepage


Think ahead
❖ What is the objective of the homepage

❖ How can we make it work best for our
students?

❖ Using a “Topic Section” to add material to
the homepage


More Advanced Ingredients


More Advanced Ingredient
❖ Use of the Workshop Tool
❖ Use of the Database tool


Cooking With Game


1 + 2 =

different learning
and teaching styles

Linear flow Adaptive flow


Problem based learning Game based learning

Narrative based learning


Baking a perfect Roll


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