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Getting Started with Moodle

Getting Started with Moodle. Bronze Level – Compulsory. Contents. Overview of Moodle My Moodle Page Overview of Courses Course Settings Uploading Basic Resources News Forum Calendar Course Codes and enrolments. Overview of Moodle.

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Getting Started with Moodle

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  1. Getting Started with Moodle Bronze Level – Compulsory

  2. Contents • Overview of Moodle • My Moodle Page • Overview of Courses • Course Settings • Uploading Basic Resources • News Forum • Calendar • Course Codes and enrolments

  3. Overview of Moodle Moodle is a course management system (CMS), also known as a Learning Management System (LMS) or a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). It is a free web application that educators can use to create effective online learning sites

  4. Use the “Help” button to log an IT job or request Moodle help My Moodle Page If your list of courses is getting too long then you can tag some of your courses as favourites by highlighting the stars and then change the drop down to “View” “My Favourites” List of your courses

  5. Overview of Courses • Teaching staff are “editors” on the courses which they teach which enables them to add resources, view logs and manage course settings • All courses can be viewed from the “My Moodle” page to get ideas from other departments on how they are using Moodle Click the link at the bottom of your course list

  6. “Quick Links” block for important course documents such as Schemes of Work, Past Papers, Schedule of Assessment Grid view to organise course. Could be by unit, topic, teacher Use of blocks to promote careers relating to the subject

  7. Study Plus Resources Link to Online magazine

  8. Sociology Interactive Scheme of Work Student friendly Links to Resources/Activities Learning Outcomes

  9. Resources which can be added to your Moodle course page include: • Files such as Word docs, PowerPoint presentations • URLs • Quizzes • Questionnaires • Online Assignments • Glossary • Choice Activity • Scheduler • External packages Resources

  10. Course Settings Increase/Reduce the number of sections on your course page

  11. Course Settings Edit the course settings including course layout and maximum upload file size View logs/stats of course usage Enrol new users/students View course as a student

  12. Course Settings This allows you to change the layout of the course. Allows you to change how big files can be when uploaded

  13. Course Settings Allows you to add or remove the number of topics/sections This allows you to control how hidden topics are viewed either completely invisible or shown in collapsed form

  14. Uploading Basic Resources 1. Turn the editing on 2. Add an activity or resource

  15. Uploading Basic Resources Select your resource and click add

  16. Uploading Basic Resources Give your resource a name and description Add your file and ‘Save and return to course’ at the bottom of the page

  17. Uploading Basic Resources Drag and drop files from your desktop into Moodle when using Google Chrome!

  18. Moodle icons Move resource Update Move right Edit title Hide/show Delete Duplicate

  19. News Forum Each course page has a News forum which can be used for course announcements. When you post an item anyone enrolled on the course will also receive an email

  20. Calendar Add important key dates into the Moodle calendar such as session slots, deadlines, exam dates. Some dates are automatically added to the Moodle calendar such as online assignment dates

  21. Course Codes and enrolments Your course will have a course code from JLC systems which automatically enrols the students attached to this code. If a student isn’t enrolled on your Moodle course it will be because they aren’t enrolled on JLC systems.

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