Quiz
- Create and give online quizzes
- Variety of question formats
- Option for immediate feedback
- Questions and answers can be shuffled – can have only one question per page – this might stop cheating
- Can require password or specific network address – you could give out the password at the start of the class, or require the IP address of the school, not home
- Option to set time limit
- Variety of statistics provided for teacher – Item Analysis Table (stats) If you find that your key is incorrect, the stats don’t work, you can change the key and select re-grade
- Short Answer questions – how do I grade? – 100% if correct, 75% if spelled incorrectly Topika –t**a
- Define what science – use * (wildcards) and the key words that you hope to find
- Essay questions could be online assignments – Can you aggregate everyone’s answers so you can compare them?
- Can you export the marks to Power Grade? (we would be interested in First Class Teacher). They would be Excel Spreadsheets
- Question Bank – could have students answer 3 questions, each student would get different questions
- Invest some time thinking about your categories, you might want subcategories
- Tool for bringing content into the course
- Text files
- HTML files
- Links to webpages
- Video and audio clips
- Directory Feature available
- You can do any of these things anywhere in Moodle – you might want to place an often referred to file on the front page, or if it applies to a particular lesson you would place it there
Some people have a problem including a document multiple times. Suggestion: Document management systems – you could put documents onto another server and link to them – metacourse (designed to manage course material this would be if you offer more than one course, have document open in a new window)
- Could be words with definitions
- Every entry in the glossary can be linked to any word in the course
- Students can add words to the glossary
- Can go beyond words, If you have 20 documents that you like to use they can be added to the glossary, you can then search and link to the glossary, you could make a glossary of sounds – embedded audio clips
- Can connect glossary to block on the side to show new words, you can put pictures of kids in glossary and different pictures come up
- Human anatomy – Choice activity to pick organ, make mini research paper with photos and links to web pages, students make three questions from their research, added it to the quiz bank, teacher used the questions to make the exam
- You can have more than one glossary in a course, you might want to populate the glossary and then ask the students to carry on.
- You could ask students to grade each other’s glossary entries.
- Can be linear
- Can be adapted – branched to a variety of activities and questions
- Makes sense when you are teaching entirely online
- If you are not entirely online, students could create lessons
- In v1.8 you can do this entirely within the course, you do the lesson on limbs, you do the lesson on muscles etc.
- Designed as a collaborative space
- Only one person can edit per page
- Michelle suggests that you make a page for each of your students to get around this idea, this makes it a little less collaborative, but allows everyone to enter
- Anything you want done in a group could be done in a wiki
- Student use examples
- Develop a textbook for the course
- Create collective study guide – a page for each topic or chapter
- Choose your own adventure book, everyone works together to develop the framework and character, split into two group and write next branch, split further and write the next branch in the end every student would write a branch. Good example of peer editing
- Meeting minutes, post agenda, take minutes
- Could be a class ePortfolio
- You might want a different Wiki outside Moodle for some activities, you might get more powerful tools, more public than in Moodle
- Students can attach files to the wiki
No email, there is a plug-in, subject line, attachments
Look for message icon (envelope) beside users list
Students can send you a message if they have a question.
They can see other students online and send them a message.
Class discussion – allows you to talk to several students at one time
** start out with it on, but set guidelines for use**
If you are offline, you will receive the message through e-mail or when you login again
Teacher should have Course Creator rights, if we want them to develop their own courses.
- Decide on course format
Weekly – Michelle likes this format for teachers, problem: some projects may last more than a week
Topic – Could put dates at the top of the page
Social – for discussion courses,
Course start date is important if you are using the weekly format.
- Hidden section – you can collapse them or make them complete disappear. Michelle uses completely hidden
- Show grade – if you want students to see their grades in Moodle, show grades. If you are using another grade book, you don’t want to show grades, students can still see their grades for individual assignments. Michelle recommends that you should find a way to show your students their grades.
- Activity report – yes, can be useful to track where they have been (a website they would like to go back to), tracks time spent on activities
- Maximum upload size – take the max limit available and then limit for particular assignment – 64mb
- Themes – you can allow teachers change their themes, Michelle recommends that teachers not be able to change themes, the same theme in the course shows continuity, some people would have a different themes for different groups, science, math, LA. There are more themes available on the Moodle.org site or remote-learner.net will create a theme $$
- Course Enrollable – No, if we have entered students manually. Yes, you may have students enroll that you don’t want there, their name would appear in your lists, and they might hand in assignments etc, messy! Students can enroll themselves, you can set a date range for enrollment
- Enrollment duration – how long the students can be in your course. Leave at unlimited, some students may continue to use the course after it is over.
- Group mode – No, separate or visible – Michelle leaves it at No, or groups from separate courses could be grouped, groups also would limit the number of items you might have to mark.
- Availability
- Enrollment Key
- Guest access – can see everything, but can’t do anything, they can see forum posts that you may not want to share, you could turn off roles for forum to deny guests from viewing forums. If you were using Moodle just as a webpage, you might want to allow guests
- Language – do not force
Add On – (Modules and Plugins) - Black list (no access), white list, (has access to messaging) grey list (can’t use messaging through this time)
We finished the day, exploring and playing with Moodle.
Thanks Michelle Moore
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