1. Alberto Minetti – University of Genoa ITALY
Saturday, February 19, 2013
Savona GE, Italy

2. What is Moodle?
Moodle is an e-learning software.
 Modular
 Object
 Oriented
 Dynamic
 Learning
 Environment
During this workshop, I will demonstrate
various applications of Moodle

3. What is Moodle?
 Created by Martin Dougiamas
 Philosophy:
 Learners can contribute to the educational
experience
 57,256 registered sites and more…
 Over 29 million users enrolled
 Useful for
 Traditional room class
 Full online courses

4. Example Moodle page
 Open your browser to
https://130.251.121.80:12443
 Accept the certificate
 Clicking the option near the RED SHIELD
 Login with your own account or this one:
 Username: user1
 Password: user1-PASSWORD
 Username: user2
 Password: user2-PASSWORD

5. Features of Moodle
Easy creation of courses from existing
resources
Course content which can be re-used
Learner involvement
Enrollment and learner authentication
Online learner and teacher management
Support community to help solve problems and
generate new ideas
Affordability

6. This tutorial will discuss
 Adding content to your course such as
 Images, PDF files, hyperlinks and Folders
 Adding activities such as:
 Discussion Forums and Chats
 Assignments and Homeworks
 Calendar, Events, Surveys
 Choices, Quizzes and Grading System
 Brief practice usage
 Where to find more help and information

7. A new Course
Information about Course
Other Blocks
Navigation Block
In the middle there are
the materials you loaded
for each Week or Topic

8. Resources on the Course
First Week or First Topic
Custom Text
Navigation Block
Recent activity
Custom image
Files of Course

9. Editing Mode
EDITING MODE is ON

10. Resources and Activities
Assignment Used to assign online or offline tasks;
learners can submit tasks in any file format (e.g. MS
Office, PDF, image, a/v etc.)
Chat Allows real-time communication by learners.
Choice Instructors create a question and a number of
choices for learners; results are posted
for learners to view. Use this module to do quick surveys
on subject matter
Forum Allows for asynchronous message
Quiz for tests
Glossary of terms used in a course. Has
display format options including entry list,
encyclopedia, FAQ, dictionary style and more
Wiki Learners reflect, record and revise ideas
File or folders that students can download
Label Add descriptions with images in any area
of the course homepage
Page Add a page for additional info

11. Threaded discussion boards for asynchronous
Forum group exchange on shared subject matter.
Participation in forums can be an integral part of
the learning experience, helping students define
and evolve their understanding of subject matter.

12. Forum Permissions

13. Rate a Forum post
 Studentscan Rate a forum post, based
on Scales set up by the course creator

14. Quiz
Create all the familiar forms of assessment
including true-false, multiple choice, short
answer, matching question, random
questions, numerical questions, embedded
answer questions with descriptive text and
graphics.

15. Quiz

16. Quiz
Instructors have granular control in defining
course assessments, and can import quiz
questions from popular formats like
Blackboard, IMS QTI and WebCT. Moodle
also supports embedding audio into a quiz.

17. Survey
This module aids an instructor in making
online classes more effective by offering a
variety of surveys (COLLES, ATTLS),
including critical incident sampling.

18. HTML input
 allowinsert complex math expressions
 LaTeX similar style

19. Glossary
Glossary terms
appear in
highlight within
all activity
resources.
Moodle includes
its own site
search engine.

20. Participants info
 Access to information about learners in a
course.
 Ability to segment participants into groups.
 Site, course and user calendar event
scheduling.
 And so much more…e.g. applying scales to
different learner activities, managing grades,
tracking user access logs and uploading
external files for use within the course etc.

21. Participants info
 One click and you can view activity from all
participants enrolled in the course
 Learners create a personal profile that can
include a picture,
 helping connect students socially in the
online learning community.

22. Participants info
 Assigning learners to a group is a common
practice in education and business.
 Moodle allows the course instructor to easily
create group categories, and determine how
members will interact with each other and
within various activities.

23. Calendar and Events
 Keeping a calendar of events is important to
both the learner and course instructor.
 Global events that appear in all courses
(admin)
 Course events set by an instructor
 Group events set by instructor relative only to
a group
 User events set by learner (e.g. due dates,
personal etc.).

24. Calendar and Events
 Upcoming Events appear on the course
homepage, alerting the learner across all
courses they are enrolled in of different
category events.
 Alerts are color-coded by category.

25. Scales
 Default scale is [1..100]
 You can set your own scales:
 Pass, Not Pass
 Bad, Good, Superb

26. Grades
The Grades feature in Moodle provides a quick
view of all Forum, Assignment, Wiki and Quiz
grades.
The grading scale applied to a learner’s
submission is shown, along with a cumulative
total, on a single page.
Grades can be downloaded in Excel or plain text for
inclusion into an existing electronic gradebook

27. Grades
 Single page to grades and view all
student enrolled
 Choose a Grade Category for:
 Assignments, Homeworks, Projects
 Rating in Forums
 Literally Grades

28. Logs and Reports
 Track all activity of each Student
 Check IP
 Check how many Student get a resource or
an activity

29. Files and Navigation
 Private Files
 All Course Files
 Navigation Breadcrumb
 Login page and Accounting (that
can be integrated with existent
databases)

30. Enrollment keys and Locale
 Create a key/password for a course
 Set your own Language
 Set your own TimeZone
 Each student can select the
language

31. E-mail Notifications
 When learners “subscribe” to
forums they are notified by e-mail of
new postings.
 Additionally, instructors can set e-
mail notification for private
Dialogues.

32. Part II

33. Practice: login
 Open your browser to
https://130.251.121.80:12443
 Accept the certificate
 Click the option near the RED SHIELD
 Login with your own account or this one:
 Username: user1
 Password: user1-PASSWORD

34. Practice: create a new Course
 Students Enrollment
 Manual
 Automatic
 Teachers Enrollment
 Manual
 Password to join? Guest can join?
 Turn editing on

35. Practice: the User Profile
 Choose your own photo
 “Social”
 Send message to others
 Change settings
 Language, personal email, time zone, etc.

36. Practice: create a new Forum
 Default Forum: the News Forum
 Only Teachers can post
 Learners can view and they are auto-subscribed
 Add a new Forum: the Discussion Forum
 Everyone can post and view
 Other useful forum:
 The Teachers’ Forum: only for Teachers

37. Practice: add a simple Resource
 Adding content to your course such as
 Page
 Label
 Hide and Show each Resource or Activity
 Labels can be placed everywhere!
 And can have images inside
 HTML powerful content!

38. Practice: add a Resource file
 Adding content to your course such as
 Images
 PDF files
 Hyperlinks
 Folders
 Make your own private folder
 The Fastest way to add resource!

39. Practice: add a Glossary
 Add the Glossary Activity
 Useful for Acronyms
 Main Glossary contains all Secondary ones
 Insert some entries…

40. Practice: add a Block
 Add the Glossary Block
 Modify it
 Add the Calendar Block
 Set up a future event like an exam
 Others:
 HTML, Quiz Results, Recent Activity
 And much more…

41. Practice: add a Scale
 Choose significant words
Practice: add a Grade Category
 Using a different Grade Category for each
activity makes easy the grading system
 Aggregate on the Category
 Then Aggregate over ALL (weights?)
 Calculation of Grade

42. Practice: add a Chat
 Useful for synchronous question and answer
 Set a start time for a Chat
 You see the start time in the Calendar
 Censorship and Bad Words Filter

43. Practice: add a Choice
 Simple
 Multi-choice answer
Practice: send a Message
 Direct asynchronous message to anyone

44. Practice: add a Wiki
 Collaborative Wiki
 Using an appropriate index
 Individual Wiki
 Group Wiki

45. Practice: create a Group
 A Group can contains users
 Use different Groupings if you have different
Activities that require different Groups

46. Practice: add an Assignment
 Use it for offline Homeworks
 Set the start and the end time

47. Practice: add a Survey
 Choose the type
 Check global results
 Check results of a single Student

48. Practice: add a Quiz
 Many Options, Useful Feedbacks, Attempts
and Tries, Weighted Questions
 Several kind of questions
 Multiple choice, Text entry, T/F, Description
 Calculation (Automatically generation of numbers)
 And more…
 Then results are automatically calculated by
the Grade calculator and shown to Students

49. Practice: view the Participants
 Access to the info about the Participants
 How many Learners is in this Course?
 Track their activity
 Detailed Logs and Reports

50. Useful Links
 http://moodle.org/
 http://www.moodletutorials.org/
 Using Moodle:
 http://moodle.org/course/category.php?id=1
 Teachers Playground Demo:
 http://moodle.org/course/category.php?id=2
 … and all the Web
 Bibliography: Bryan C. Williams & Moodle docs