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Firstly you | Firstly you need your Moodle administrator to set up a Moodle area for your course. Then you are ready to go. However, this assumes that your organisation has Moodle installed somewhere on a server and that you have a Moodle administrator. | ||
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===Making Documents available through your Moodle site=== | ===Making Documents available through your Moodle site=== | ||
*[[Files|Making documents available through Moodle]] | Not ready yet - for the moment [http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ah7pcbp3twv8_15gszvmq check here] | ||
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Revision as of 12:01, 25 February 2008
This set of tutorials is under construction. Other experienced Moodle users are encouraged to The purpose is to introduce teachers to the use of Moodle by bringing them through a very limited number of sample tasks.
What is Moodle?
Moodle is a tool that allows a teacher to build an interactive website for his or her own course. It allows the teacher to do easily insert items in their course website to do many different tasks. The following are examples of the most popular:
- Upload documents that your students can view or download (eg. Word, PowerPoint, PDF etc.)
- Create links to other websites of interest to your students.
- Post messages to your students (and routing to their email accounts)
- Allow students to post messages that can be viewed by you and their fellow students (useful for queries and student discussions)
- Allow students to electroniclly submit assignments.
- Allow the teacher to privately give feedback and grades for assignments.
- Create and facilitate access to online quizzes.
- Allow the teacher to view student activity and grades.
What you need to get started
Firstly you need your Moodle administrator to set up a Moodle area for your course. Then you are ready to go. However, this assumes that your organisation has Moodle installed somewhere on a server and that you have a Moodle administrator.
Structure of a course room
Login to Moodle. In 'My Courses' select the course you want to enter. On the left and the right side you see blocks. Blocks are containing additional information for the course. In the middle are the main informations about the course, ressources, discussions and activities. You can add, hide or edit/change additional material or activities at any time. Order your material based on your topics or the weeks of your course. edit this and add to it further.
Basic rules for using a Moodle course page as teacher
Login to Moodle. In 'My Courses' select the course you want to enter. Click 'Turn editing on' button Go to a Section (Topic or Week) Choose 'Add a resource' or 'Add an activity' (it might be as well to run through an example below to get an idea of how this works) Edit the settings page for the resource or activity. All settings pages have the same basic structure. Create or edit the name which will appear on the course page. Give additional content or informations about the resource or activity in the description area. Make additional changes in the settings as required Save your settings by the button at the bottom of the page.
Inserting Labels and improving the appearance of your course
Using a News forum to send post messages to students
Setting up a simple discussion forum
Using a discussion forum
Adding Resources
Creating a link to another website in a new window
Not ready yet - for the moment check here
Creating a Simple Web Page
Creating a simple web page (formatting and creating links
Making Documents available through your Moodle site
Not ready yet - for the moment check here
- Moodle Docs:Making documents available through Moodle