Moodle

1. Moodle Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment

2. Content • Introduction • What is Moodle? • Top ten Items for Moodle • Moodle Activities • Activity-Based Model • Getting Started

3. What is Moodle? • Moodle is a course management system (CMS) software package designed to help educators create effective online learning communities, that is, produce internet-based courses and web sites. • The design and development of Moodle is guided by a "social constructionist pedagogy". • It is a world-wide, ongoing development project designed to support a social constructionist framework of education.

4. Top Ten Key Items for Moodle • Social constructionist pedagogy • WYSIWYG HTML editor • Activity Report • Course Activity • Custom Scales • Mail Integration • Course Format • Management • Moodle Module • SCORM and AICC

5. Social constructionist pedagogy • It is the philosophy of learning that focuses on collaboration, activities and critical reflection. • This “socio-constructivist” approach involves a strong “community oflearning” orientation rather than simply “putting courses and exercises online”.

6. WYSIWYG HTML editor • It is the embedded tool in Moodle for users to edit text entry areas like resources, forum postings and journal entries.

7. Activity Report • It is the full logging and tracking report for each student with graphs and module details (Access/Number of time read) as well as details of each student involvement like postings and journal entries.

8. Course Activity • The course activity in Moodle includes Forums, Journals, Quizzes, Resources, Choices, Surveys, Assignments and more.

9. Custom Scales • Teachers can define their own scales to be used for grading forums, assignments and journals.

10. Mail Integration • Copies of forum posts, teacher feedback etc can be mailed in HTML or plain text.

11. Course Format • Teachers has various choice for course formats such as by week, by topic or a discussion-focused social format.

12. Management • There are site management, user management and course management for different users with different access.

13. Moodle Module • Each functional feature of Moodle can be regarded as a module. In general, there is Assignment Module, Chat Module, Choice Module, Forum Module, Journal Module, Quiz Module, Resource Module, Survey Module and Workshop Module.

14. SCORM and AICC • SCORM stands for Sharable Courseware Object Reference Model (SCORM), which is a set of specifications that, when applied to course content, produces small, reusable e-Learning objects. • AICC standards apply to the development, delivery, and evaluation of training courses that are delivered via technology. AICC stands for the Aviation Industry CBT [Computer-Based Training] Committee (AICC), which is an international association of technology-based training professionals that develops training guidelines for the aviation industry. • Moodle has the SCORM/AICC Module which enables teachers and students to upload any SCORM/AICC package to include into the course.

15. Moodle Activities • The heart of Moodle is courses that contain activities and resources. There are several different types of activities available, each of which can be customized. Activities included are: • Blogs – allowsstudents, teachers and administrators to have a public web log. • Chats – allows participants to have a real-time synchronous discussion via the web. • Glossaries – allows participants to create and maintain a list of definitions, like a dictionary. • Workshop – is a peer assessment activity with a huge array of options. • Database– allows the teacher and/or students to build, display and search a bank of record entries about any conceivable topic. • Quizzes – allows the teacher to design and set quiz tests, consisting of multiple choice, true-false, and short answer questions.

16. Moodle Activities cont. • Choices– can be useful as a quick poll to stimulate thinking about a topic; to allow the class to vote on a direction for the course; or to gather research consent. • Forums– can be structured in different ways, and can include peer rating of each posting. It is here that most discussion takes place. • Journals– is a very important reflective activity. Students to reflect on a particular topic, and the student can edit and refine their answer, which is private, over time. • Labels– is a "dummy" activity that allows you to insert text and graphics among the other activities on the course page. • Lesson– delivers content in an interesting and flexible way. Navigation through the lesson can be straight forward or complex, depending largely on the structure of the material being presented.

17. More Activities • Assignments – allow the teacher to specify a task that requires students to prepare digital content (any format) and submit it by uploading it to the server. • SCORM packages– is a bundle of web content packaged in a way that follows the SCORM standard for learning objects. • Surveys– provides a number of verified survey instruments that have been found useful in assessing and stimulating learning in online environments. • Wikis– enables documents to be authored collectively in a simple markup language using a web browser. It enables participants to work together on web pages to add, expand and change the content.

18. Activity-Based Model • The main power of this activity-based model comes in combining the activities into sequences and groups, which can help you guide participants through learning paths. Thus, each activity can build on the outcomes of previous ones.

19. Getting Started Click to add course

20. Adding a course

22. References • Learning and Training Space, Learning Using Moodle. http://wondershare.blogspot.com/2007/01/learning-using-moodle.html, Thursday, January 18, 2007. • Moodle Activities. http://moodle.cornellcollege.edu/0809/file.php/1/moodleactivities.pdf • Moodle. http://moodle.org/ • Moodle, Pedagogy. http://docs.moodle.org/en/Pedagogy, 1 September 2008.