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TWO Page Guide to Using Moodle
 Think of your Moodle course as an empty shell, which you can fill with avariety of resources, activities and modules. Students login into the courseand can interact and engage with other participants in a variety of ways. Your course will even keeps track of your students’ daily activities, providinga valuable history to provide feedback, encouragement, and evaluation.
Once you have logged into your course, TURN EDITING ON.Editing Icons
 
The Icons appear next to different items on thecourse page.Move item left.Move item rightMove Up/Down. (requires selecting new position)Edit this ItemDelete this ItemHide/Show this ItemGroups
Settings Page
 You can set the overall settings for your course from this page.
Course Description –
Gives a description of your course.
Format
- Weekly or Topics (depends on frequency of use)
Number of Weeks/Topics:
Determine how many sections you need at first(you can hide extras or change the total later.)
Start and End Date:
Set if you are using the weekly format.
Guest Access –
Determines who can login and view your course
 Enrollment Key -
A password needed to access content
Creating Folders and Uploading Documents
I recommend you gather all documents you wish to include on course intoone folder on your computer, and then upload them into different foldersahead of time. To upload documents, click on
Files in Administration
. Make folders fordifferent document types: PPT, Documents, Pictures, etc. Then Upload alldocuments up into the different folders. Now, when you use Link to File inResources, you can choose your documents easily.
 
Resources, Activities, Blocks
Listed below are the most useful items to add to your course shell. Getcomfortable with the resources and the activities first.
RESOURCES
Label
– Used to create headings or add images to the top of a section. Bestfor making your Moodle look more attractive and distinct.
Text Page
– Creates a page of text with no formatting options.
Web Page
– Creates a web page, allows formatting, HTML, embed codes,and more.
Link to a File or Website
- Create a link to a webpage or allows you toupload a document and link to it.
Display a Directory
– Creates a link to a folder with a variety of documentsfor students to access or download.
ACTIVITIES
Assignments
–Students can submit completed assignments (including Worddocuments, PowerPoint, and other file types).
Chat
– Students can engage in discussion in a chatroom.
Forum
– Students can reply to main topic threads and each other in adiscussion board.
Glossary
-- Students can post key terms, concepts and vocabulary for yourcourse.
 Journal
– Students respond freely to topics privately for the teacher to read.(Similar to forum, but private)
Quiz
– Students can take an online quiz and it will score responses and givea grade.
Survey
– Pre-created surveys for students regarding learning.
Wiki
– Students can edit wiki page or pages (a wiki is a shared document orseries of documents) editable by all students in the class.
BLOCKS
Blog Menu –
Allows students to create blog posts.
Calendar
– Creates a calendar module for posting upcoming events.
Course/Site Description
– Adds your course description to a separatemodule.
Global Search
– Students can search the site for terms or keywords.
HTML
– Useful for embedding images, videos to the side modules.
Latest News
– Provides a list of news events related to the site.
Messages
– Allows for sending messages to other students and instructor.
Online Users
– Shows list of users currently online.
People
– Shows list of all enrolled students.
Poll
– Creates a poll and keeps track of student replies.
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