Возможности
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Moodle является активно развивающимся продуктом. Эта страница содержит всего лишь некоторые из многих возможностей, которыми он обладает:
Общий дизайн
При проектировании Moodle особое внимание уделяется следующим принципами:
- Продвижение педагогики социального конструкционизма (сотрудничество, активное обучение, критическая рефлексия и пр.).
- Поддержка различных подходов к обучению: дистанционное, смешанное, очное.
- Простой, интуитивно понятный, эффективный, кросс-платформенный интерфейс в окне браузера.
- Простая установка на большинство платформ, поддерживающих PHP.
- Совместимость с большинством широко используемых баз данных.
- Список курсов содержит описания и доступен любому пользователю.
- Курсы структурируются по категориям. По ним можно производить поиск. Один сайт может содержать тысячи курсов.
- Существенное внимание уделяется вопросам безопасности. Все формы и вводимые данные проверяются, cookies шифруются и т.п.
- Для большинства текстовых областей (ресурсы, сообщения форумов и т.п.) используется встроенный WYSIWYG HTML редактор.
Управление сайтом
- Сайт управляется администратором.
- Основные настройки сайта определяются в процессе установки, но могут быть легко изменены и в будущем.
- Для изменения настроек сайта используется удобный блок Администрирование.
- Подключаемые модули "тем" дают администратору широкие возможности по изменению внешнего вида сайта.
- С помощью дополнительных модулей можно легко расширить возможности сайта.
- Подключаемые языковые пакеты позволяют сделать перевод на любой язык. Редактирование перевода осуществляется с помощью встроенного веб-редактора. На данный момент перевод осуществлен более чем на 70 языков мира.
- Весь код написан на языке PHP под открытой лицензией GPL, что позволяет легко адаптировать систему под свои нужды.
Управление Пользователями
- Goals are to reduce admin involvement to a minimum, while retaining high security
- Supports a range of authentication mechanisms through plug-in authentication modules, allowing easy integration with existing systems.
- Standard email method: students can create their own login accounts. Email addresses are verified by confirmation.
- LDAP method: account logins can be checked against an LDAP server. Admin can specify which fields to use.
- IMAP, POP3, NNTP: account logins are checked against a mail or news server. SSL, certificates and TLS are supported.
- External database: any database containing at least two fields can be used as an external authentication source.
- Each person requires only one account for the whole server - each account can have different access
- An admin account controls the creation of courses and creates teachers by assigning users to courses
- A course creator account is only allowed to create courses and teach in them
- Teachers may have editing privileges removed so that they can't modify the course (e.g. for part-time tutors)
- Security - teachers can add an "enrolment key" to their courses to keep out non-students. They can give out this key face-to-face or via personal email etc
- Teachers can enrol students manually if desired
- Teachers can unenrol students manually if desired, otherwise they are automatically unenrolled after a certain period of inactivity (set by the admin)
- Students are encouraged to build an online profile including photos, description. Email addresses can be protected from display if required.
- Every user can specify their own timezone, and every date in Moodle is translated to that timezone (e.g. posting dates, assignment due dates etc)
- Every user can choose the language used for the Moodle interface (English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese etc)
Управление Курсами
- A full teacher has full control over all settings for a course, including restricting other teachers
- Choice of course formats such as by week, by topic or a discussion-focussed social format
- Flexible array of course activities - Forums, Quizzes, Glossaries, Resources, Choices, Surveys, Assignments, Chats, Workshops
- Recent changes to the course since the last login can be displayed on the course home page - helps give sense of community
- Most text entry areas (resources, forum postings etc) can be edited using an embedded WYSIWYG HTML editor
- All grades for Forums, Quizzes and Assignments can be viewed on one page (and downloaded as a spreadsheet file)
- Full user logging and tracking - activity reports for each student are available with graphs and details about each module (last access, number of times read) as well as a detailed "story" of each students involvement including postings etc on one page.
- Mail integration - copies of forum posts, teacher feedback etc can be mailed in HTML or plain text.
- Custom scales - teachers can define their own scales to be used for grading forums and assignments
- Courses can be packaged as a single zip file using the Backup function. These can be restored on any Moodle server.
Модуль Задание
- Assignments can be specified with a due date and a maximum grade.
- Students can upload their assignments (any file format) to the server - they are date-stamped.
- Late assignments are allowed, but the amount of lateness is shown clearly to the teacher
- For each particular assignment, the whole class can be assessed (grade and comment) on one page in one form.
- Teacher feedback is appended to the assignment page for each student, and notification is mailed out.
- The teacher can choose to allow resubmission of assignments after grading (for regrading)
Модуль Чат
- Allows smooth, synchronous text interaction
- Includes profile pictures in the chat window
- Supports URLs, smilies, embedded HTML, images etc
- All sessions are logged for later viewing, and these can also be made available to students
Модуль Опрос
- Также как и голосования, может быть использован как голосование за что то, или для обратной связи с каждым студентом (eg research consent)
- Учитель видит кто, что выбрал, в табличном виде
- Студентам можно позволить увидеть последнюю диаграмму результатов
Модуль Форум
- Different types of forums are available, such as teacher-only, course news, open-to-all, and one-thread-per-user.
- All postings have the authors photo attached.
- Discussions can be viewed nested, flat or threaded, oldest or newest first.
- Individual forums can be subscribed to by each person so that copies are forwarded via email, or the teacher can force subscription for all
- The teacher can choose not to allow replies (eg for an announcements-only forum)
- Discussion threads can be easily moved between forums by the teacher
- Attached images are shown inline
- If forum ratings are being used, these can be restricted to a range of dates
Модуль Тест
- Учителя могут создать базу данных вопросов для повторного пользования их в других тестах.
- Вопросы можно хранить в категориях для легкого доступа, и эти категории можно «опубликовать» для того чтобы сделать их доступными из любого курса на сайте.
- Тесты автоматически оцениваються, и могут быть переоценены если вопросы изменились.
- Тесты могут иметь лимитированное по времени окно outside of which they are not available
- At the teacher's option, quizzes can be attempted multiple times, and can show feedback and/or correct answers
- Quiz questions and quiz answers can be shuffled (randomised) to reduce cheating
- Questions allow HTML and images
- Questions can be imported from external text files
- Quizzes can be attempted multiple times, if desired
- Attempts can be cumulative, if desired, and finished over several sessions
- Multiple-choice questions supporting single or multiple answers
- Short Answer questions (words or phrases)
- True-False questions
- Matching questions
- Random questions
- Numerical questions (with allowable ranges)
- Embedded-answer questions (cloze style) with answers within passages of text
- Embedded descriptive text and graphics
Модуль Ресурс
- Supports display of any electronic content, Word, Powerpoint, Flash, Video, Sounds etc. that are stored locally, or remotely
- Files can be uploaded and managed (zipped, unzipped, renamed, moved, etc..) on the server
- Folders can be created and managed on the server and linked to
- Internal web pages (html formatted) can be created with WYSIWYG editor and linked to
- Internal text pages (no formatting) can be created and linked to
- External content on the web can be linked to or seamlessly included within the course interface.
- External web applications can be linked to with data passed to them
- Linked MP3 audio files will display with elegant flash player
Модуль Анкета
- Built-in surveys (COLLES, ATTLS) have been proven as instruments for analysing online classes
- Online survey reports always available, including many graphs. Data is downloadable as an Excel spreadsheet or CSV text file.
- Survey interface prevents partly-finished surveys.
- Feedback is provided to the student of their results compared to the class averages
Workshop Module
- Allows peer assessement of documents, and the teacher can manage and grade the assessment.
- Supports a wide range of possible grading scales
- Teacher can provide sample documents for students to practice grading
- Very flexible with many options.