Moodle is a web-based course management system that allows classrooms to extend onto the web. It provides students with tools for discussion and interaction beyond the classroom, like forums and chat. Instructors can also easily email students and view grades. Moodle offers easy access to class documents and resources and is similar to other course management systems like Blackboard and WebCT.
How are you using Moodle? Posting resources and announcements? Collecting assignments? Launching SCORM content? In a typical course, these activities are all you see, which means there are many Moodlers who are missing out on some of Moodle’s best features!
An attempt to explain Moodle to our staff or anyone else by using an analogy with modular Lego bricks.
Background details and accompanying video clip available at: http://tomazlasic.net
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A short overview of simple course design concepts using Moodle, presented by Mark Drechsler at the 2012 Murdoch Teaching & Learning Forum (http://www.murdoch.edu.au/Teaching-and-Learning-Forum/)
How are you using Moodle? Posting resources and announcements? Collecting assignments? Launching SCORM content? In a typical course, these activities are all you see, which means there are many Moodlers who are missing out on some of Moodle’s best features!
An attempt to explain Moodle to our staff or anyone else by using an analogy with modular Lego bricks.
Background details and accompanying video clip available at: http://tomazlasic.net
Free to use, translate and share for non-commercial purposes.
Enjoy
Tomaz Lasic
http://tomazlasic.net
Twitter @lasic
A short overview of simple course design concepts using Moodle, presented by Mark Drechsler at the 2012 Murdoch Teaching & Learning Forum (http://www.murdoch.edu.au/Teaching-and-Learning-Forum/)
Presentation on NJIT's pilot program using Moodle as a learning management system. Given in cooperation with NJEDge.Net for other NJ schools. Not somewhat, "historical" since it was presented in August 2007 (THis is a revised version from an earlier presentation also available here.)
A presentation from the NJEDge.Net Faculty Best Practices Showcase in March 2007 on NJIT's pilot program using Moodle as a learning management system and examining the open source and "free" aspects of Moodle and the support needed to implement it on a campus.
Moodle est une plate-forme d'apprentissage en ligne (en anglais : Learning Management System ou LMS) sous licence libre servant à créer des communautés s'instruisant autour de contenus et d'activités pédagogiques. Le mot « Moodle » est l'abréviation de Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment : « Environnement orienté objet d'apprentissage dynamique modulaire »
1. What is Moodle?
Moodle is a web based Course Management
System That allows the classroom to extend
onto the web.
Moodle is similar to WebCT and Blackboard
Course Management Systems
2. Common Functions
This program allows a common place for
students to go for many classroom’s
resources.
Using Moodle, you can post news items,
assign and collect assignments, post
electronic journals and resources, and
more.
Moodle offers an easy access to class
documents.
3. Common Functions
It provides students with tools that extend
discussion and interaction beyond the classroom
walls. For example, it provides asynchronous
discussion tool using Forum as well as real-time
chat using the Chat tool.
Moodle also provides instructors with a very
suitable communication means: Quickmail. You
can email any or all of the students from within
Moodle in just a couple of keystrokes.
Choice is a useful activity to gain group
feedback.
4. Common Functions
The Calendar block is a very popular and useful
function in showing global, course or personal
events.
The Grades function is another useful function
that faculty members can employ to list the
grades of tests and quizzes of each enrolled
student.
The Groups function is a tool that instructor can
use to put students in groups for different
projects or assignments.
5. How to login to Moodle?
Go to the African Studies home Type your username and password
page, under Resources Click and then click the Login button.
on the Afrocourse link
Or type:
http://www.afrocourse.org in
any Internet browser and press
the Enter key.
If you forget your username or
password, click on the Yes, help
me log in button and follow the
instructions to change or reset your
password.
6. Moodle can be utilized by staff in the
following areas:
Committee work (Using Files, discussion forum,
Calendar and Quickmail)
Projects – (Using Files, discussion forum,
Calendar and Quickmail)
Sharing files and information
Training – Professional development
Run a survey
Use the Choice tool to Get a quick group
feedback.
7. Moodle can be utilized by staff in the
following areas:
Committee work (Using Files, discussion forum,
Calendar and Quickmail)
Projects – (Using Files, discussion forum,
Calendar and Quickmail)
Sharing files and information
Training – Professional development
Run a survey
Use the Choice tool to Get a quick group
feedback.