2. The context
This presentation is about my experiences using Moodle 2.2 in Computer
Engineering Career at ESIME Culhuacan, this college belongs to National
Polytechnic in Mexico
Since many years ago, we were using Moodle as Virtual Environment to
compliment our face to face classes.
All my students gather in Moodle every single night (as young people,
they are connected to internet all nights). It is amazing to discover their
quality feedbacks in forums, they are better students and learn more in a
digital environment .
I encouraged myself to update to Moodle 2.1 since it was released and
said bye bye to my old 1.9 version
Now we have VLE Moodle 2.2
3. Case study
Level: Bachelor
Language: Spanish
Course Length: 3 Units. Each unit takes about 2 months
Participants: 4 groups from Computer Engineering Career
Mode: B - Learning
URL: http://humanidades.mmendiola.net
4. Customizing Moodle
Please keep in mind:
There is no single correct way to use Moodle
The creativity of teachers and course creators,
makes each course a unique one
In this case study, I have 3 different roles: Admin,
Teacher and Course creator as well.
Hope this case study could be useful to encourage
those who are still using 1.9 version to upload to 2.x
5. Case study
In our Moodle room there are participants of four college
groups: 4CV1, 4CV2, 4CV3, 4CV3.
Each group holds 20 students more or less. They set their
‘academic group’ ID in ‘City’ field in their profiles.
This let me manage the messages I have to sent to a
specific group.
6. Why do we use field ‘City’ to set their group?
First of all, we have face to
face classes twice a week and
we all live in the same City
Furthermore, we use ‘Groups’
feature in many ways and for
different purpose. a Moodle
group in our course is mixed
with students of any ‘college
groups’ (in forward pages you can
find the way we use Moodle groups)
7. The course has 3 assessment periods
Our course is objective based and each Unit objectives
takes 2 months of time to complete. That’s why we use
Topics format course.
In topic 0 is the link to our
Syllabus using Page resource with
embedding googledoc
Embed code for googledocs:
<div align="center"><iframe src="URLgoogledoc/
edit ?pli=1&embedded=true" frameborder="0"
height="600 px" width="100%"></iframe></div>
8. New Moodle 2.x blocks
The new blocks we use the most are:
✓ Setting Block
✓ Navigation Block
✓ Comments Block
✓ Course completion status Block
✓ Logged in user Block
✓ Blog Menu Block (new version)
As first step, students are required to use
dock with Navigation and Settings
Blocks.
This will let them an easy navigation in
the whole site and get more expertise
like Moodle users
9. ✓ Comments Block
This block is the most liked by students.
They find that some HTML tags are allowed for their
comments.
We use this block in front page course and within some
activities.
10. ✓ Course completion status Block (teachers view)
The course completion status block Teacher view
shows what students have been done
towards completing the course.
Teachers can see the status for each
student in the course
course report content
11. ✓Course completion status Block (students view)
Students can see their progress in the course when
they click on "More details" link.
Sometimes students must mark an activity as
completed on homepage course.
student view details
12. ✓ Logged in user block
According to students,This block is very
helpful because it allows to know our IP
among other information, which can set
by the teacher
13. ✓ Blog menu Block (new presentation)
Blog menu 2.x
This block is not new, just has
new context-sensitive links for
adding an entry about the
course or a particular activity
Blog menu 1.9
14. Exclusive Blocks
Moodle 2.x has some exclusive blocks that can only be
added to a certain spaces
✓ Youtube Block
✓ Flickr Block
Can only be added to a Tags page
✓ Course overview block
This block is only visible in 'My
home' page and shows a list of all
courses in which a user is enrolled.
15. Resources 2.x
6 Resources
Moodle 2.2
In Moodle 2.2 the duplicate icon
x2 lets you make a copy of that
resource or activity.
16. The most used recourse is 'Page', because it is
powerful and versatile. We create pages with content
and multimedia, iframes with googledocs or even a
URL. We manage content with this resource as a tiny
web site
Another awesome feature in Moodle 2.2 is the editor
menu. I've created 5 videos showing how does it works
but they are in Spanish. I'm sure your could be
interesting in visit HRDNZ youtube channel with English
videos.
Spanish videos English videos
http://www.youtube.com/user/MariaMoodle/videos http://www.youtube.com/user/HRDNZMoodlePartner
17. Reusing resources and activities
It is a dream come true!
Now in Moodle is possible to make a copy or backup of individual
activities or resource in a course and then re use these activities
anywhere you want: in other Moodle site or in other course on your
Moodle.
If you’d like to use a lesson, you can backup it and then restore it
in the course you want to re-use your lesson, just an individual
backup!!!!
To make this kind of individual copy:
‣ you need editing rights of course
‣ click on the activity/resource you want backup
‣ use in the setting block the link ‘backup’
‣ follow the 5 steps
18. IMS Content Package
You can create IMS CP this way:
Using module ‘Book’.
Meanwhile Book is a non standard module I use it
only in local (This is to avoid complications when we
update our Moodle site with a new version).
When the book is ready, we can Generate
IMS CP from settings block and reuse it
i n a n y c o u r s e . Yo u c a n r e a d i n
docs.moodle.org: "The IMS Content
Packaging specification makes it possible
to store chunks of material in a standard
format which can be re-used in different
systems, without having to convert the
material into new formats."
19. Activities Moodle 2.2
14 activities
Moodle 2.2
New activities:
✓ External tool
✓ Feedback
✓ Standard forum displayed in a blog-like format
✓ Workshop (renovated)
✓ Wiki (improved)
20. An activities mind map shows
how do we could see all
Moodle activities in our mind,
which are allowed to be
graded, which are not graded,
and the way they can be
madden. In moodlebites we
have tested this collective
exercise with Stuart Mealor.
This last version is customized
to my point of view. It shows
how I see activities and how I
use them in my course
planning
¿How do you see your activities mind-map when
planning your course?
21. The most used activity: DataBase
Database activity is versatile, powerful and flexible. It holds a
bank of record entries about any conceivable topic
Is the most used activity in our course, We use database for:
✓Graphic design gallery
✓PDF bank and document discussion (allowing comments)
✓Show videos about an specific topic
✓Gather participants URL Blog
✓co evaluation
✓etc
I love to customize DB templates and use
to export them as presets.
You can find several presets at Moodle
exchange
Database presets for
Please take a look to my tutorial Moodle 2.0
http://www.slideshare.net/mariamoodle/
database-presets-for-moodle-20
22. Managing Course
Using Groups in our course.
As we said before, they set their ‘academic group’ ID in ‘City’ field in
their profiles.
We use groups to show their grades they gain in each assessment
period (3) and they are grouping by Period
Golden @ = 10
Silver @ = 9
Cooper @ = 8
7 and 6 have other icons, the ‘epic fail’ and red number icon.
And this is good, because this strategy allows improve student
learning, which is reflected in their most active and creative
participation in activities. They like to approach and get a better @
each period.
25. The reward of using this tool is:
Students feel good about participating in forums or in
the list of participants, showing their groups icons.
This encourage them to achieve the longed golden @
or some special mention, and meaning better
participation and better learning
26. Last but not least, regarding e-portfolio, we have a
Mahara site in the same domain, to complement our
Moodle VLE
One more thing . . .
27. My Top 10 Moodle 2.x Features
Dock
Navigation Block
Comments Block
Resource/activity backup
Private files
Course completion Block
Purge all caches
Rubrics
Conditional Activities
Which are yours?
Device type Themes
28. Making a wish
...” si me dijeran, pide un deseo
preferiría un rabo de nube . . .”
Silvio Rodriguez
Wish #1: Wake up someday and have news about
‘Book’ is already a standard module (yay!)
Wish #2: Someone has created another Moodle plugin
that works just like ‘Hang out’ in google+
Wish #3: A workshop update that allows everyone
could grade everyone, allow them to watch all works
and allow any kind of file to upload and be graded. With
an interface like DB . . . sort of
29. Time to be Grateful
Thanks Moodle HQ: without your effort and
dedication Moodle wouldn't be so awesome!
Thanks Martin Dougiamas: Moodle exists because of
you