Moodle Minutes #3 - Session three of our Moodle Minutes. A series of practical demonstrations on how to apply for and use the RI Moodle Delivery Platform. Session Topics include: o Adding Labels o Composing a Web page in Moodle o Composing a Text page in Moodle

1. RI Moodle
Learning Management System @ RI
"Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself," a
Chinese proverb says. The same can be said about technology
in the classroom. If used properly, technology merely opens the
door.*
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*Joe Rowe August 2005
http://www.techsoup.org/learningcenter/internet/archives/page9155.cfm

2. Moodle Minutes 2
> Course Templates
> Editing Moodle Course
> Viewing as a Student
> Types of Activities and Resources to add
> To view previous sessions – go to RI Resource Course
>

3. Editing your Moodle Course
> Turn Editing On

4. Editing your Moodle Course

5. Editing your Moodle Course
> Let’s look at it live....
> http://devlearnonline.rit.tafensw.edu.au/course/view.php?id=35

6. Adding Label
> Labels are a little different from other resources because they are text
and i
d images th t are actually embedded di tl among the other
that t ll b dd d directly th th
activity links in the course page.
– Turn Editing On

7. Adding Label

8. Adding Label

9. Editing your Moodle Course
> Let’s look at it live....
> http://devlearnonline.rit.tafensw.edu.au/course/view.php?id=35

10. Adding Web page
> HTML page
– This sort of resource makes it easy to develop a complete single
web page within Moodle, especially when you are using Moodle's
WYSIWYG HTML editor.
– The page is stored in the database, not as a file, and you have a
lot of freedom to do almost anything you like using HTML,
including Javascript
Javascript.

11. Adding Web page

12. Adding Web page

13. Adding Web page
General Settings

14. Adding Web page
Compose a Web Page

15. Adding Web page
Window Settings

16. Adding Web page
Common Module Settings

17. Help along the way....
Clicking on the Question Marks
gives you information about
particular parts of Moodle “objects”

18. Adding Text page
> Text page
– This type of resource is a simple page written using plain text.
– No formatting options – no wysiwig

19. Adding Text page
General Settings

20. Adding Text page
Compose a Text Page

21. Adding Text page
Other Settings

22. Adding Web and Text Pages
> Let’s look at it live....
> http://devlearnonline.rit.tafensw.edu.au/course/view.php?id=35

23. Next Week….Moodle Minutes 4
> Adding Files and Images to Moodle
> Course Layout – the back end!