This document discusses tools for engaging online students. It provides an overview of various Moodle activities and resources that can be used, including forums, quizzies, assignments, wikis and groups. It also discusses what engages all students, such as clear instruction, multiple ways into content, personal connections, timely feedback and authentic learning tasks. Finally, it provides a more in-depth look at using groups and groupings in Moodle and how they can be utilized.

1. KerryJ
Online Education Designer, TIU
Tools of Engagement
http://people.unisa.edu.au/Kerry.Johnson
KerryJ, Online Education Designer

2. Acknowledgement of country
Aboriginal family walking (PD) WA Cawthorne

3. Relationships – Courses, Programs, External
Program Learning
Outcomes
Professional
Accreditation
Australian Quality
Framework
Course
Learning
Outcomes
Adapted from CQU CD and LD Alignment
Course
Learning
Outcomes
Course
Learning
Outcomes
Course
Learning
Outcomes
Course
Learning
Outcomes
Course
Learning
Outcomes

4. Vertical and horizontal alignment
Program
Learning
Outcomes
Professional Accreditation
Australian Quality Framework
Course
Learning
Outcomes
Assessments
Learning
Activities
Content
Adapted from CQU CD and LD Alignment

5. Aims/Outcomes and Objectives
Program Learning Outcomes = Broad goals
Activity Learning Objectives =
How Topic and Course Goals reached
Graduate Qualities = Broad generic goals
Course Learning Outcomes = Narrower Goals
Topic Learning Outcomes = Very Narrow Goals

6. What engages ALL students?
Clear instruction
Multiple ways into content
Personal connections
Timely feedback
Authentic learning tasks
Right challenge levels

7. Online students
(Lewis and AbdulHamid, 2006; Ortiz-Rodriguez,
et al., 2005; Russo and Campbell, 2004; Song
and Singleton, Dixson, M. D. Journal of the
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Vol. 10,
No. 2, June 2010. www.iupui.edu/~josotl 8 2004)

8. UniSA tech and tools
• Moodle
• Mahara ePorfolio
• Adobe Connect – Virtual Classroom
• Microsoft Office 365 + One Drive
• iSpring
• EndNote

9. Moodle Activities Resources

10. What NOT to do about
engagement

11. Moodle
Most commonly used
features
Document upload (File/Folder)
Forums
Quizzes
Assignments
Have you heard of?
Labels
Conditional activities
Polls/Choice
Live text chat
Wikis
Glossary
Book
Groups and Groupings
https://lo.unisa.edu.au/course/view.php?id=3518

15. All about Moodle
Moodle.org website
Documentation, videos + community
https://docs.moodle.org/31/en/Managing_a_Moodle_course
LearnOnline Moodle Help

17. Moodle
What would you like to explore?
Chat
Choice
Feedback
Forum types
Glossary
Quiz
Wiki
Groups and
Groupings
Book
Labels
Pages
Embedding videos
Blocks
Conditional Activities
https://lo.unisa.edu.au/course/view.php?id=3518

18. KerryJ
Online Education Designer, TIU
Tools of Engagement
http://people.unisa.edu.au/Kerry.Johnson
KerryJ, Online Education Designer

19. Using Groups and Groupings: An overview

20. Groups

21. Course
Forum Readings

22. Course
Groups
This is
Fred.

23. Course
Groups

24. Course
Groups

25. Visible groups
Course

26. Separate groups
Course

27. • Groupings
Course

28. This is
Fred’s blue
group.
Blue group
belongs to
purple
GROUPING
Course
Groups/groupings relationship

29. Groupings
Course

30. Can Fred see the forum?

31. KerryJ
Online Education Designer, TIU
Using Groups and Groupings
For some reason I want
to go bowling. And I want
a chocolate chip
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