Presentation by Cathie Cashmere about Moodle implementation and usage at Cronulla High School. Presented on Thursday 4th May, 2009.

1. Cronulla High School
Moodle Site
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2. History
• In 2007 All My Own Work Course was
introduced for all senior students and it was
decided to do the testing through Moodle
• On the advice from Lynn Harvey of Port
Hacking High School a new Server was
purchased and Moodle Installed
• We have a maintenance contract with Sentral
for the Moodle Server
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3. • Started delivering my Senior IPT course using
Moodle at end of 2007
• First SMUG meeting was in March 2008
• Lynn Harvey at Port Hacking hosted a SMUG
meeting
• Made Cronulla High School Moodle Site
available to students at home through
Website
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4. Activities
1. Started with storing of files and links to
websites
2. Quizzes in GIFT format came next
3. Hot Potatoes Crosswords, Fillin Gaps and
Matching
4. Uploading of Assignments and online
marking, feedback and grading
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5. Activities – continued
5. Created Groups to make checking activities
have been completed and included in class
marks
6. Year 7 and 8 Computing Studies Half Yearly
and Yearly Exams done as Moodle Quizzes
7. Downloaded Teacher Tube and Youtube
Videos and uploaded to Moodle
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6. Activities – continued
8. Started to look at new modules and filters
and we are currently using or introducing the
following:
– Lightbox – Jamie will show you
– Jmol – for displaying molecules of various
formats
– Dragmath – for inserting mathematical symbols
in quizzes, text files and websites.
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7. Where to from here!
1. Encourage and assist more faculties to utilise
Moodle
2. Ensure courses are alive with images, videos
and interactivity
3. Create and Manage users more efficiently
4. Help teachers use the gradebooks for class
marks and checking students progress
5. Keep informed of new modules and filters
being developed
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8. Our Moodle Site Now
I will now show you some of the courses we are
currently delivering to students.
–Library – AMOW – Preview Quiz – Results
–Yr 7 – Files, Journals, Quizzes, Grades, prepared
–Yr 11 IPT – Teacher Tube Video, Grades
–Yr 12 IPT – Wiki student contributions
assessible, Chat Sessions planned for Stuvac
–Yr 10 CST – Computing Skills – PPTs, Quizzes
–Staff Course – Test Users, Groups and Sample
Activities
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