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| ==Moodle Features tour==
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| <p class="note"> This page presents some ideas for a Moodle features tour. If you have any ideas for improvement please add them to the talk page by clicking on [[Talk:Features tour| page comments]] </p>
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| Moodle is a free, online Learning Management system enabling educators to create their own private website filled with dynamic courses that extend learning, anytime, anywhere. Whether you're a teacher, student or administrator, Moodle can meet your needs. Come and take a look!
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| ===Are you a teacher?===
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| ''In Moodle you can...''
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| *Drag your favourite teaching resources straight onto the page:
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| ** No complex uploading processes; just select your [[File resource|file]], [[Folder resource|folder]] or other learning resource and place it exactly where you want in your course.
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| *Search for and embed [[Working with media|multimedia]] at the click of a button:
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| **Moodle's easy to use [[Text editor|text editor]] makes formatting your courses a pleasure,with customisable edit icons and built-in image, sound and video embedding.
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| | [[File:dragandropresources.png|thumb|Drag and drop]]
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| | [[File:Embedmedia.png|thumb|Embed media]]
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| *Get your students working and learning together:
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| **From [[Forum|forums]] to collaborative [[Wiki|wikis]] and [[Glossary|glossaries]], from [[Comments|comment boxes]] to [[Messages|private messaging]], Moodle offers your students a number of ways to make their voice heard.
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| *Assess and feedback with self-grading [[Quiz|quizzes]]:
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| **A wide range of standard and contributed question types make for a powerful tool for both formative and summative assessment.
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| *Set them individual, group or anonymously graded [[Assignment module|assignments]]:
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| **Students can submit anything from a short text-based task to a team project with multiple files, and you can grade with a single precentage or a complex, customised [[Advanced grading methods|rubric.]]
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| *Provide opportunities for them to peer and self assess:
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| **[[Workshop|Workshops]] challenge your class to evalulate their own and others' submissions according to criteria decided by you.
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| *Direct their learning path:
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| **Let students meander freely around your course or [[Conditional activities|restrict their access]] dependent on criteria met, time or profile fields; it's your choice!
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| [[Managing a Moodle course|''Find out more...'']]
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| ===Are you a student?===
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| ''In Moodle you can...''
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| *Manage your files however and wherever you like:
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| **Store your files in your [[Private files|personal files area]] or access them from [[Repositories|Google, Dropbox, Flickr, Youtube, Skydrive...]]
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| *[[Tracking progress|Track your progress]] on each log in:
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| **Checkboxes against every task remind you how far you've come
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| *create your own personal dashboard:
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| **The customisable [[My home|My Home]] page gives quick access to courses, work owing, online users or other items you choose to add.
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| | [[File:PrivateFilesF.png|thumb|Manage your files]]
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| | [[File:studentprogresstracking.png|thumb|Check your progress]]
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| | [[File:myhomebg.png|thumb|Customise your space]]
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| [[Moodle site - basic structure| ''Find out more'']]
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| ===Are you an administrator?===
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| ''In Moodle you can...''
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| *Authenticate and enrol your users in a variety of ways:
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| **Moodle's 50+ combined standard and contributed [[Authentication|authentication]] and [[Enrolment|enrolment]] solutions give you vast scope for getting everyone online!
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| *Create an attractive, mobile-friendly learning environment which can integrate with your website:
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| **Choose [[Themes|themes]] for different devices; add your own CSS, custom HTML and logo, all from within the admin interface
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| *Enhance your Moodle with contributed plugins that you can update from inside your site:
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| **Over 460 [https://moodle.org/plugins/index.php| community generated extensions] ranging from video conferencing to plagiarism detection are freely available. And if you can't find it, request it!
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| *Sign up to Community Hubs sharing free courses:
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| **Every Moodle site can link to [http://hub.moodle.org/| MOOCH], allowing teachers to download, adapt or offer enrolment in free courses shared worldwide. Why not help your locality with a [[Community hubs|hub]] of its own too?
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| [[Managing a Moodle site|''Find out more...'']]
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