Moodle for English

Teachers

Specialization Course
Martín Ulises Aparicio
2010
Moodle and ESL/EFL
• Moodle is a free online course management
system (CMS) also known as a Learning
Management System (LMS) or a Virtual Learning
Environment (VLE) which is especially good for
language teaching. With its many useful and friendly
tools, it can integrate all our online functionality in a
single application. Since 2002, Moodle has been
developed on a socio-constructivist approach to
learning.

• The word Moodle was originally an acronym for

Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning
Environment, which is mostly useful to programmers
and education theorists. It's also a verb that
describes the process of lazily meandering through
something, doing things as it occurs to you to do
them, an enjoyable tinkering that often leads to
insight and creativity.
•  Without any web editing skill, teachers can
present online material to be a coherent
whole and simplify the way students access
it by Moodle interface.
• Moodle can run without modification on
Unix, Linux, Windows, Mac OS , Netware
and any other system that supports PHP,
including most webhost providers.
• Moodle is available in 40 languages, and it
is Open Source software, which means you
are free to download it, use it, modify it and
even distribute it (under the terms of the
GNU General Public License).
• Moodle can be used in a large deployments
and hundreds of thousands of students.
• Many institutions use it as their platform to
conduct fully online courses, while some use
it simply to augment face-to-face courses
(known as blended learning).

• Many of our users love to use the many

activity modules (such as Forums, Wikis,
Databases and so on) to build richly
collaborative communities of learning around
their subject matter (in the social
constructionist tradition), while others prefer
to use Moodle as a way to deliver content to
students (such as standard SCORM
packages) and assess learning using
assignments or quizzes.
• Moodle and Language Learning
List of Participants
A participant’s profile
A discussion content under a topic
Picture and MP3 in Moodle course
 Basic Modules
• The “People” Box: Participants, Profile, Activity
reports
• Administering Your Class: Settings, Teachers,
Students, Backup, Restore, Scales, Grades, Logs,
Files, Help, Teacher Forum
• Adding Content:
• Adding a Resource: Compose a text page,
Compose a web page, Link to a file or web site,
Display a directory, Insert a label
• Adding an Activity: Assignment, Chat, Choice,
Forum, Glossary, Hot Potatoes Quiz, Journal,
Lesson, Quiz, SCROM, Survey, Wiki, Workshop
• http://www.opensource.idv.tw/moodle/course/view.ph
p?id=16 A course to learn how to install moodle in
your computer, step by step.
• How to design a moodle course: the storyboard
exercise
http://www.slideshare.net/pvdhyden/how-to-design-a-
moodle-course-the-storyboard-exercise-presentation

• Open Source for Educator

http://www.opensource.idv.tw/moodle/