Moodle Training - basic 1hour class for Teachers/Facilitators. Note: assumes accounts pre-created for staff to save time.

1. modurian.com
A Teacher/Facilitator’s First Taste Of
Moodle – A Practical Guide (Part I)
Engaging students to LEARN in
in a modern environment
Frankie Kam
18th April 2011
Note: SCM stands for “Stamford College Malaysia”

2. What is Moodle?
Moodle is a Virtual Learning Environment that is used by
educators to:
1. Put online material for students to access
2. Engage students with online learning material
3. Complement traditional classroom learning with
online activities:
• Forums
• Embedded video
• Web 2.0 interactivity
3. Monitor students’ online work and to hold students
accountable to the teacher/facilitator/lecturer
4. Get students to increase their Student Learning Time
(SLT) by spending time learning online

3. Why use Moodle?
Every educator worth his or her salt should give Moodle
a try for these reasons:
1. Moodle allows you to extend your classtime to after-
school-hours
• Homework can be given and monitored by the
lecturer
• Homework, whether done or not done can be
monitored
2. The Web is the natural environment for Generation
Y & Z (the Facebook generation of youth) and is the
environment of choice to engage students in
3. With Moodle you can get feedback from students
and you can interact with them through comments
and opinions.

4. How to use Moodle?
The following slides will cover the following topics:
Logging in
Editing your account profile
Setup a basic course
Editing a Course
Adding Content
Inserting Titles and Summaries
Inserting Content
Add a Resource
Insert a label
Compose a Text Page
Compose a Web Page
Link to a File or Website
Display a Directory
Add an Activity
Assignments
Forums
Editing Content

5. How to use Moodle?
The following slides will cover the
following topics:
•Logging into your pre-setup account
•Editing your account profile
•Setup a basic course

6. (a) Logging in to http://scm.moodurian.com
Key in your
username and
password

7. (b) Editing your account profile
To EDIT your
account
details, click on
your username

8. (b) Editing your account profile
To EDIT your
account
details, click on
Edit profile
To change your
PASSWORD, cli
ck on Change
Password

9. (b) Editing your account profile
1. Enter your
new password
2. To see your password
text, check this box
3. Enter your email
address
(Yahoo, Gmail, hotm
ail, stamford.edu.my
)
5. To save
your profile
information,
click 4. You may upload a
Update picture of yourself as
profile your icon

10. (c) Setup a basic course
1. Click on this icon to
go to the FrontPage
3. Add
a new
course.
4. Select the
2. Click on this link to category of
Add a course your course
5. Type in your Course name and Course ID

11. (c) Setup a basic course
1. Select a Format 1b. Try Collapsed Weeks, you
can also change the number
of weeks (duration) of the
course and the Start and End
date of the course
2. Enter an Enrolment
key
(password), e.g., 123
Students must use this
key to enrol in your
course.
3. Save your changes

12. (c) Setup a basic course
1. Click on Living Skills to
enter your Course
2. You can now see your
course.
Congrats for coming this
far so far.

13. The End For Now
• More to come in Part2.