Moodle training August 15, 2016 Bas Bakker

About OpenEdu OpenEdu makes online learning accessible to companies and educational institutions. OpenEdu reduces the IT workload for companies and offer an entirely cloud-based product package according to the Software as a Service (SaaS) principle. Create, share and learn in learning management system Moodle, enriched with an e- portfolio, virtual classroom and complete Google Apps integration.

About me Current E-learning specialist, eStudio Trainer, OpenEdu Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences - School of Health Professionals - School of Business and Economics - School of Education SURF Background and specialties Bussiness Administration (Erasmus University Rotterdam), e-learning, e-portfolio, instructional design, training, coaching, workplace learning, professional development

Getting started with Moodle August 15, 2016

Agenda – 11.00Setting up a course in Moodle Finding your way around | Dashboard | What is a course | Course Layout | Editing course sections | Adding and editing text | Dragging and dropping files – 12.00How to add and use blocks in Moodle What are blocks? | Navigation block | Blocks for events | Blocks for contact | HTML block | Administration block | More useful blocks > Exercise 1: Add blocks and edit sections in your own practice course – 13.00Activities and resources in Moodle Activity chooser | Forum | Quiz| Wiki | Assignment | Feedback | Lesson| Book | Page | Label | Badges > Exercise 2: Adding activitities and resources – 14.00Lunch – 16.00Site administration Administration block | Courses & Categories | Course backup/restore | Enrollment learners > Exercise 3: Course and site administration – 17.00Questions and discussion

Part 1: Setting up a course in Moodle

Finding your way around 132 Learn more: Navigation block Administration block Dashboard

Dashboard – your personal page 312 Learn more: Dashboard

What is a course? A Moodle 'course' is a space on a Moodle site into which you can add resources or activities for your learners. Learn more: Courses Course settings

What are blocks? 132 Learn more: Blocks Navigation block Administration block

How to lay-out a course 132 Learn more: Course settings Course formats

Adding and editing text Learn more: Atto editor Text editor FAQ Atto Row 1 1 = Expand 2 = Style 3 = Bold 4 = Italic 5 = Bulleted list 6 = Numbered lis 7 = Add link 8 = Unlink 9 = Add image 10 = Add media 11 = Manage embedded files Atto Row 2 12 = Underline 13 = Strikethrough 14 = Subscript 15 = Superscript 16 = Align left 17 = Align centre 18 = Align right 19 = Increase indent 20 = Decrease indent 21 = Equation editor 22 = Special character 23 = Table 24 = Clear formatting 25 = Undo/redo 26 = Undo/redo 27 = Accessibility checker 28 = Screenreader helper 29 = HTML/code view The default text editor in Moodle is the Atto editor, built specifically for Moodle. There is also a version of the TinyMCE editor and a plain text editor.TinyMCE editor Text editors can be enabled, disabled or a different one set to default from Administration > Site administration > Plugins > Text editors > Manage editors. The order of priority may also be specified here. The text editor (sometimes referred to as the 'HTML editor') has many icons to assist the user in entering content. Many of these icons and functions should be familiar to anyone who uses a word processor. Some examples of where you will see the text editor include: Course summary, editing Section headings, description of an activity, writing an answer to a quiz question or editing the content of many blocks.

Understanding editing icons Learn more: Course homepage

Adding documents by drag and drop Learn more: Course homepage

Part 2: How to add and use blocks in Moodle

What are side blocks for? Learn more: Blocks Block settings

Navigation block Learn more: Navigation block

Blocks for events Learn more: Calendar block Upcoming events block Latest news block

HTML block Learn more: HTML block

Administration block Learn more: Administration block Context Admin view from Front page (expanded) Student view in a course (collapsed) Teacher view in a course (expanded) The Administration block provides context-sensitive links to settings pages. See the screencast: The Administration blockThe Administration block What appears in the Administration block depends upon the Context (Page being shown and user's permissions). For example, a site administrator on the front page will have Front page settings while a teacher in a course will have more options in Course administration than a student. Context

More blocks Learn more: Comments block Tags block Random glossary block Activity results block

EXERCISE 1 1.Go to your practice course 2.Add at least two blocks to the side of your course and change at least two section names. 3.Feel free look/play around in your practice course

Part 3: Activities and resources in Moodle

Activity chooster The Activity chooser pane appears when you have the editing turned on and you click the link 'Add an activity or resource' in the section you wish to add your learning content. If you don't see the 'Add an activity or resource' link, then check in your Administration block that the Activity chooser is 'on'. If you still don't see the link (and instead you see two drop down menus) check with your Moodle administrator. Perhaps you have an older Moodle version or the feature has been turned off. Learners interact with an activity; whereas they simply view a resource.resource Moodle 2 Activity Tool Guide for Instructors Moodle 2 Activity Tool Guide for Instructors Compare the functionality and pedagogical advantages of Moodle Activity tools (Add an activity). Moodle 2 Resource Tool Guide for Instructors Moodle 2 Resource Tool Guide for Instructors Allows instructors to compare the functionality and pedagogical advantages of standard Moodle Resource tools (Add a resource). The Moodle tool guide The Moodle tool guide A large poster highlighting the uses of different Moodle modules for teachers in the style of Bloom's taxonomy Learn more: Activity chooser Managing activities Resources Resources FAQ

Activities AssignmentsAssignments Enable teachers to grade and give comments on uploaded files and assignments created on and off line ChatChat Allows participants to have a real-time synchronous discussion ChoiceChoice A teacher asks a question and specifies a choice of multiple responses DatabaseDatabase Enables participants to create, maintain and search a bank of record entries FeedbackFeedback For creating and conducting surveys to collect feedback. (The administrator needs to enable this.) ForumForum Allows participants to have asynchronous discussions GlossaryGlossary Enables participants to create and maintain a list of definitions, like a dictionary LessonLesson For delivering content in flexible ways LTI LTI Allows participants to interact with LTI compliant learning resources and activities on other web sites. QuizQuiz Allows the teacher to design and set quiz tests, which may be automatically marked and feedback and/or to correct answers shown SCORMSCORM Enables SCORM packages to be included as course content SurveySurvey For gathering data from students to help teachers learn about their class and reflect on their own teaching WikiWiki A collection of web pages that anyone can add to or edit WorkshopWorkshop Enables peer assessment Additional plugins from the Moodle plugins directory may also be installed on your siteMoodle plugins directory BigBlueButtonBigBlueButton BigBlueButton enables universities and organizations to deliver a high-quality learning experience to remote students and learners. Learn more: Activity chooser Managing activities

Resources A resource is an item that a teacher can use to support learning, such as a file or link. Moodle supports a range of resource types which teachers can add to their courses. In edit mode, a teacher can add resources via the 'Add an activity or resource' link. Resources appear as a single link with an icon in front of it that represents the type of resource. Administrators can decide whether or not to force teachers to add descriptions for each resource by enabling or disabling a site-wide setting in Administration > Plugins > Activity modules > Common settings. Book - Multi-page resources with a book-like format. Teachers can export their Books as IMS CP (admin must allow teacher role to export IMS) Book File - A picture, a pdf document, a spreadsheet, a sound file, a video file File Folder - For helping organize files and one folder may contain other folders Folder IMS content package - Add static material from other sources in the standard IMS content package format IMS content package Label - Can be a few displayed words or an image used to separate resources and activities in a topic section, or can be a lengthy description or instructions Label Page - The student sees a single, scrollable screen that a teacher creates with the robust HTML editor Page URL - You can send the student to any place they can reach on their web browser, for example Wikipedia URL Learn more: Resources Resources FAQ

Managing content Moodle is not primarily a content management system but it does offer a range of ways to import, export and manage digital content of any kind to enable and support learning. The following links will provide more information: Working with files - how to upload files and folders to Moodle. Working with files Repositories - how to import content into Moodle from external storage sites like Flickr, Youtube, Google docs etc. RepositoriesFlickrYoutubeGoogle docs Portfolios - how to export content from Moodle into external portfolios like Mahara. PortfoliosMahara Working with media - how best to upload and display images, sound, video and embedded content. Working with media Filters - how to display links,media players, Maths symbols, emoticons and more. Filters Licences - how to display and choose an appropriate licence for your files. Licences Plagiarism prevention - how to check students' submitted work is not copied. Plagiarism prevention

Lesson activity The lesson module presents a series of HTML pages to the student who is usually asked to make some sort of choice underneath the content area. The choice will send them to a specific page in the Lesson. In a Lesson page's simplest form, the student can select a continue button at the bottom of the page, which will send them to the next page in the Lesson. Learn more: Lesson settings Building Lesson Using Lesson

Survey activity The Survey module is a course activity that provides a number of verified survey instruments, including COLLES (Constructivist On- Line Learning Environment Survey) and ATTLS (Attitudes to Thinking and Learning Survey), which have been found useful in assessing and stimulating learning in online environments. Teachers can use these to gather data from their students that will help them learn about their class and reflect on their own teaching. Learn more: Survey settings Using Survey Survey FAQ

Feedback activity The Feedback activity allows you to create and conduct surveys to collect feedback. Unlike the Survey tool it allows you to write your own questions, rather than choose from a list of pre-written questions and unlike the Quiz tool, you can create non-graded questions. The Feedback activity is ideal for the likes of course or teacher evaluations.SurveyQuiz Learn more: Feedback settings Building Feedback Using Feedback Feedback FAQ

Quiz activity The Quiz activity module allows the teacher to design and build quizzes consisting of a large variety of Question types, including multiple choice, true-false, short answer and drag and drop images and text. These questions are kept in the Question bank and can be re-used in different quizzes.Question typesQuestion bank Learn more: Quiz settings Building Quiz Using Quiz Quiz FAQQuiz FAQ.

Assignment activity The assignment activity provides a space into which students can submit work for teachers to grade and give feedback on. This saves on paper and is more efficient than . It can also be used to remind students of 'real-world' assignments they need to complete offline, such as art work, and thus not require any digital content. Student submissions are together on one screen of your course. You can require them to submit one or several files and/or to type text essays. It is possible to have them submit work as a group and you can also choose as a teacher to grade their work 'blind' in other words not to see the identities of those who have submitted assignments. Assignments can have deadlines and cut off dates - which you can also extend if necessary. To add an assignment you should turn on the editing and select it from the Activity chooser. Learn more: Assignment settings Using Assignment Assignment FAQ

Adding resources: Page and Book Learn more: Page Book The Book module makes it easy to create multi-page resources with a book-like format. A page resource creates a link to a screen that displays the content created by the teacher.

EXERCISE 2 1.Go to your practice course 2.Add at least three activities to your course and at least two resources. 3.Feel free look/play around in your practice course

Part 4: Site administration

Managing a Moodle site A user with the role of Administrator is typically in charge of a Moodle site once it has been installed, although some tasks may be delegated to others by assigning them a role such as Manager.AdministratorManager The links below provide more information about how to manage your Moodle site. Users and Courses Authentication - different methods of adding new users to your Moodle Authentication Managing accounts - how to search for, edit, delete or perform bulk actions on users Managing accounts Roles and permissions - how to add or remove permissions from students, teachers and other users on your Moodle Roles and permissions Enrolments - different methods of adding users to courses Enrolments Server and Security Backup - how to backup your site and courses Backup Site-wide settings Language - how to add new languages and alter the default terms used Location - how to set time zones for the site and users, and default city and country Logging - Manage log stores Server settings - registration, maintenance and default settings Site-wide reports - a list of useful reports for administrators Site appearance - ways to change the display and navigation of your site Language Location Logging Server settings Site-wide reports Site appearance More More featuresMore features, Badges, Blocks, Blogs, Calendar, Comments, Messaging, Notes, RSS feeds, TagsBadgesBlocksBlogsCalendarCommentsMessagingNotesRSS feedsTags New to the role of site admin? See the Guide for new administratorsGuide for new administrators Setting up the front (home) page Changing the look of your site Adding courses Adding users Step 1: Authentication Step 2: Enrolment File management Important default site settings Admin tips and tricks

Customise the appearance There are many ways to customise the appearance of your Moodle site so that it blends in with, for example, your public website or your company's corporate brand. The links below provide more information on personalising the appearance of Moodle: Front page how best to display the entry page. Decide how to display announcements and courses (if you want to) and how to add attractive images and descriptive text. Front page Theme settings - how to add custom dropdown menus and (if you wish) personalise the user menu top right. Theme settings Header and footer - how to display useful information at the top and bottom of your course and link to Google Analytics. Header and footer Themes - general information on changing the "skin" of your Moodle for the whole site or just sections. Themes Dashboard - a personalised page for each user. Find out how to set the default dashboard and how to allow users to select their own home page. Dashboard User profiles Navigation - control how users find their way around Moodle Navigation Course list - control who appears in the list of courses Course list

Reports for administrators In addition to reports available at both site and course level, the following site-wide reports are available for administrators: Comments - See all comments created on the site. Comments Backups - displays a list of all course backups made, the time taken to create them, their status, and the next scheduled automated backup execution time Backups Config changes report - Shows changes made by an administrator to the site configuration Config changes report Logs - Activity reports for course or site Logs Live Logs - Live logs from the past hour as a table Live Logs Performance overview - overview of settings that may impact site performance such as Theme Designer Mode or Debugging Performance overview Question instances - Reports where particular question types are used on the site Question instances Security overview - overview of security related settings such as Allowing EMBED and OBJECT tags or No Authentication. Security overview Spam cleaner - helpful tool for rooting out spam users if you do not have Captcha required as part of authentication. Spam cleanerCaptcha

EXERCISE 3 1.Go to site administration block 2.Look at the activity reports for a course and the Kenes Education site. 3.Change the format of your practice course

Part 5: Taking it further, questions and discussion

Mobile app Learn more: New for mobile Moodle Mobile features Moodle Mobile FAQ Moodle Mobile is the official mobile app for Moodle. Browse the content of your courses, even when offline Receive instant notifications of messages and other events Quickly find and contact other people in your courses Upload images, audio, videos and other files from your mobile device View your course grades … and more! See the Moodle Mobile documentation and Moodle Mobile release notes for all the latest information.Moodle Mobile documentation

Open badges Get recognition for skills you learn anywhere. Earn: Earn badges for skills you learn online & off Issue: Give recognition for things you teach Display: Show your badges on the places that matter In 2011, Mozilla launched the Open Badges project as a way to "make it easy to issue and share digital learning badges across the web". Mozilla have developed an open specification and API for badge creation and sharing and are looking for developers to implement infrastructure that makes use of the badges.launchedopen specification Links Mozilla Open Badges website MozillaWiki on Open Badges How to learn more about Open Badges Badges Moodle forum - Post announcing the project Badges Moodle forumPost announcing the project Preliminary user documentation Open badges in Moodle and Mahara

E-Portfolio and open badges for CPD Open Badges are an answer for showing recognition of skills and competencies online with the help of an open framework. J OB TRAINING O NLINE L EARNING V OLUNTEER P ROGRAM L EARNER P ERSONAL N ETWERKS, S ITES & M ORE J OB O PPORTUNITIES L IFELONG L EARNING U NLOCK N EW P OSSIBILITIES Learn more: openbadges.org backpack.openbadges.org openbadgepassport.com

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