Activities: Difference between revisions

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An activity is a general name for a group of features in a Moodle course. Usually an activity is something that a student will do that interacts with other students and or the teacher.

There are 14 different types of activities in the standard Moodle that can be found when the editing is turned on and the link 'Add an activity or resource' is clicked.

New in 2.9: Administrators can decide whether or not to force teachers to add descriptions for each activity by enabling or disabling a site-wide setting in Administration > Plugins > Activity modules > Common settings.

Assignments: Enable teachers to grade and give comments on uploaded files and assignments created on and off line
Chat: Allows participants to have a real-time synchronous discussion
Choice: A teacher asks a question and specifies a choice of multiple responses
Database: Enables participants to create, maintain and search a bank of record entries
External tool: Allows participants to interact with LTI compliant learning resources and activities on other web sites.
Feedback: For creating and conducting surveys to collect feedback
Forum: Allows participants to have asynchronous discussions
Glossary: Enables participants to create and maintain a list of definitions, like a dictionary
Lesson: For delivering content in flexible ways
Quiz: Allows the teacher to design and set quiz tests, which may be automatically marked and feedback and/or to correct answers shown
SCORM: Enables SCORM packages to be included as course content
Survey: For gathering data from students to help teachers learn about their class and reflect on their own teaching
Wiki: A collection of web pages that anyone can add to or edit
Workshop: Enables peer assessment

Additional plugins from the Moodle plugins directory may also be installed on your site.

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 An activity is a general name for a group of features in a Moodle course.  Usually an activity is something that a student will do that interacts with other students and or the teacher.
-The teacher can add an activity, when editing is turned on by using the "Add an activity" in a course (see [[Getting started for teachers]]  or [[Adding resources and activities]]for more help). There are other ways to add an activity.
+There are 14 different types of activities in the standard Moodle that can be found when the editing is turned on and the link 'Add an activity or resource' is clicked.
-In Moodle 2.0 there are 13 different types of activities in the standard Moodle that can be found on the "add an activity" pull down menu.
+'''New in 2.9''':  Administrators can decide whether or not to force teachers to add descriptions for each activity by enabling or disabling a site-wide setting in ''Administration > Plugins > Activity modules > Common settings''.
-*[[Assignment module|Assignments]]
-*[[Chat module|Chat]]
-*[[Choice module|Choice]]
-*[[Database activity module|Database]]
-*[[Feedback module|Feedback]]
-*[[Forum module|Forum]]
-*[[Glossary module|Glossary]]
-*[[Lesson module|Lesson]]
-*[[SCORM module|SCORM]]
-*[[Survey module|Survey]]
-*[[Quiz module|Quiz]]
-*[[Wiki module|Wiki]]
-*[[Workshop module|Workshop]]
-There are also other interactive [[:Category:Modules|modules]], such as [[Blogs]]. A a site may add other activities which have been developed as [[:Category:Contributed code|contributed code]] and found in Moodle.org's [http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?id=6009 Modules and Plugins] database for adding to a site.
+;[[Assignment activity|Assignments]]: Enable teachers to grade and give comments on uploaded files and assignments created on and off line
+;[[Chat activity|Chat]]: Allows participants to have a real-time synchronous discussion
+;[[Choice activity|Choice]]: A teacher asks a question and specifies a choice of multiple responses
+;[[Database activity|Database]]: Enables participants to create, maintain and search a bank of record entries
+;[[External tool|External tool]]:Allows participants to interact with LTI compliant learning resources and activities on other web sites.
+;[[Feedback activity|Feedback]]: For creating and conducting surveys to collect feedback
+;[[Forum activity|Forum]]: Allows participants to have asynchronous discussions
+;[[Glossary activity|Glossary]]: Enables participants to create and maintain a list of definitions, like a dictionary
+;[[Lesson activity|Lesson]]: For delivering content in flexible ways
+;[[Quiz activity|Quiz]]: Allows the teacher to design and set quiz tests, which may be automatically marked and feedback and/or to correct answers shown
+;[[SCORM activity|SCORM]]: Enables SCORM packages to be included as course content
+;[[Survey activity|Survey]]: For gathering data from students to help teachers learn about their class and reflect on their own teaching
+;[[Wiki activity|Wiki]]: A collection of web pages that anyone can add to or edit
+;[[Workshop activity|Workshop]]: Enables peer assessment
+Additional plugins from the [http://moodle.org/plugins Moodle plugins directory] may also be installed on your site.
 ==See also==
-[[Activities block]] - lists all the activities in a course
-[[Recent Activity block]]
-[[Activity By 'ID Number']]- a standard advance setting used in activities
+* [[Managing activities]] - for administrators
-[[Activity modules administration]] - for administrators
+[[de:Aktivitäten]]
+[[es:Actividades]]
+[[fr:Activités]]

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