MoodleDocs - User contributions [en]

User:Isabel R.

2008-12-15T19:26:48Z

Lluna:

''Helpdesk'' de Moodle en Helpdesk de Moodle en CV&A Consult¡ng ([http://cvaconsulting.com/ +info]).

''Otras experiencias Moodle'': Formar parte del Equip Campus dando soporte al [http://campusvirtual.ub.edu/ Campus Virtual] de la [http://www.ub.edu/ Universitat de Barcelona]. [http://cvformacio.ub.edu/ Formadora en Moodle] del profesorado de la [http://www.ub.edu/ Universitat de Barcelona]. Traducción de Moodle Docs. Colaboración en la organización de la [http://www.moodlemoot.net/ MoodleM08t Barcelona].

''Idiomas'': catalán, español, y inglés

''I enjoy tea'' wink ;-)

User:Isabel R.

2008-12-15T19:23:41Z

Lluna:

''Helpdesk'' de Moodle en Helpdesk de Moodle en CV&A Consult¡ng ([+info http://cvaconsulting.com/]).

''Otras experiencias Moodle'': Formar parte del Equip Campus dando soporte al [Campus Virtual http://campusvirtual.ub.edu/] de la [Universitat de Barcelona http://www.ub.edu/]. [Formadora en Moodle http://campusvirtual.ub.edu] del profesorado de la [Universitat de Barcelona http://www.ub.edu/]. Traducción de Moodle Docs. Colaboración en la organización de la [MoodleM08t Barcelona http://www.moodlemoot.net/].

''Idiomas'': catalán, español, y inglés

''I enjoy tea'' wink ;-)

User:Isabel R.

2008-12-15T19:21:52Z

Lluna:

''Helpdesk'' de Moodle en [CV&A Consult¡ng http://cvaconsulting.com/]).

''Otras experiencias Moodle'': Formar parte del Equip Campus dando soporte al [Campus Virtual http://campusvirtual.ub.edu/] de la [Universitat de Barcelona http://www.ub.edu/]. [Formadora en Moodle http://campusvirtual.ub.edu] del profesorado de la [Universitat de Barcelona http://www.ub.edu/]. Traducción de Moodle Docs. Colaboración en la organización de la [MoodleM08t Barcelona http://www.moodlemoot.net/].

''Idiomas'': catalán, español, y inglés

''I enjoy tea'' wink ;-)

User:Isabel R.

2008-12-15T19:21:24Z

Lluna: New page: ''Helpdesk'' de Moodle en [CV&A Consult¡ng http://cvaconsulting.com/). ''Otras experiencias Moodle'': Formar parte del Equip Campus dando soporte al [Campus Virtual http://campusvirtual....

''Helpdesk'' de Moodle en [CV&A Consult¡ng http://cvaconsulting.com/).

''Otras experiencias Moodle'': Formar parte del Equip Campus dando soporte al [Campus Virtual http://campusvirtual.ub.edu/] de la [Universitat de Barcelona http://www.ub.edu/]. [Formadora en Moodle http://campusvirtual.ub.edu] del profesorado de la [Universitat de Barcelona http://www.ub.edu/]. Traducción de Moodle Docs. Colaboración en la organización de la [MoodleM08t Barcelona http://www.moodlemoot.net/].

''Idiomas'': catalán, español, y inglés

''I enjoy tea'' wink ;-)

Edit profile

2008-12-12T12:00:09Z

Lluna:

{{Course admin}}
Students are usually asked to edit their profile in Moodle. It is also possible for the administrator to edit users' profiles. These instructions reflect the 1.9 format of the user's page for the site administrator. A student has a shorter list.

==Table of Contents==
__TOC__

==Standard settings==
===General===
====User name====
This may be changed. Can only contain alphabetical letters or numbers (underscore character is not permitted; however, a period is permissible).

====New Password====
Has an unmask setting to reveal the actual password. Password is validated to ensure that password complexity requirements as enforced. See [[Site_policies#Password_policy|Password policy]] for more information.

====Force password change====
An initial password can be set by the administrator or bulk uploading, but this will force the user to create a new password.

====First name, surname====
The first two fields are quite self-explanatory. The first and last names should be those that the student is to be known by in the course. They will identify the student everywhere in the course.

====Email address====
The email address should be the address at which the student receives acknowledgements and messages from the system, and is also the address that is displayed to the instructor and other users of the Moodle site, assuming that they have set the "Email display" option to allow other participants in the course to see their address, so it should be a mail address that they check regularly. Other email display options are to hide your mail address from all users (it will still be visible to admins and instructors), or to make it available to everyone who visits the course, not just those that are enrolled.

====Email display====
This controls the visibility of the address to others, allowing you to show or hide your email in the class. There are three options: you can set it so that all users (including guests) could see your email, or so that only other enrollees in the course can see the email address, or so that no one could see your email address at all.

====Email activated====
One can either enable or disable emails being sent to an address. Note that if this is disabled, students will not receive any mail whatsoever from the site.

====City/town; country====
These fields are used to further identify you by geographical location.

====Timezone====
This field is used to convert time-related messages on the system (such as assignment deadlines) from the default Moodle timezone to the correct time in whichever zone you have selected.

====Preferred language ====
A Moodle site might have multiple languages installed from language packs. This sets the user's prefered language using a drop down menu.

====Description====
In this field you can enter some text about yourself, be it information about your studies, hobbies, qualifications or anything else that does not break the acceptable use policy of this site. This text will be visible to anyone that views your profile.

===Picture of===
The user's picture (also known as an Avatar) can be changed in this section. The default, Moodle picture is automatically used when a new user is created. Moodle creates two sizes of a user's picture. The two images files are called "f1" and 'f2". The site administrator can change the default images. Here is the standard default "f1" image.
[[Image:F1 user default image.jpg|center]]
====Current picture====
This shows the picture associated with a profile. Sometimes the refresh button on your browser will update the current image view.

:''TIP:'' The site administrator can view all uploaded user pictures via the URL <moodle url>/userpix/. For example <nowiki>http://demo.moodle.org/userpix/</nowiki>.

====Delete====
Checking this box and using the update button will delete the current picture and restore the Moodle site default user picture.

====New picture====
This field has a Browse button to allow the user to find and then upload a new picture for the profile. Uploaded image types supported include gif, jpg, and png. The file upload size shown is determined by the maxbytes variable on the configuration page. User pictures are 100px by 100px for the larger view and 35px by 35px for the smaller view. Both of these small images are created by Moodle in the upload process, which also reduces the file size to around 4K. The pictures are stored in each Users sub-folder of the Moodle data folder as "f1" and "f2".

====Picture Description====
This text appears when the mouse rolls over the picture as a description.

===Interests===
====List of interests====
Use a comma between different interests.

==Advanced==
Clicking on the Show Advanced button will reveal additonal fields.
===General===
====Choose an authentication method====
The administrator can select a particular [[Authentication]] method for the user. This is also the place to turn on the "[[No login]]" setting.

====Email format====
There are two "Pretty HTML format" (which means that the messages will be formatted with different fonts and colours to make them easier to read) and "Plain text format" (plain text with no fancy formatting or colours).

====Email digest type====
This setting determines how one receives any posts from forums to which one is subscribed. There are three possible choices:
* No digest (one receives individual emails),
* Complete (a single digest daily) or
* Subjects (a single digest daily with only the post topics included).

[[Image:Forum_subscription_options.gif|frame|right|users may choose how they receive email from forums]]
 

====Forum auto-subscribe====
This setting lets one decide if one wants email copies of posts that are added to forums. If you set this to subscribe, the system will automatically email one copies of new posts in forums that one posts in, unless they manually override it when posting.

====Forum tracking====
Enabling forum tracking means highlighting the posts you have not read yet, which should improve your forum navigation.

====When editing text====
This can usually be left on "Use HTML editor (some browsers only)". This allows for text formatting options, but requires newer browsers. If you find your browser is not letting you edit text, change this setting to "Use standard web forms".

====AJAX and Javascript ====
No: use basic web features

====Screen reader====

===Options===
The site administrator may have [[User profile fields|added more fields]] to the user profile. The following are standard with Moodle and are revealed by the "Show Advanced" button:

*Web page
*ICQ number
*Skype ID
*AIM ID
*Yahoo ID
*MSN ID
*ID number
*Institution
*Department
*Phone
*Mobile Phone
*Address

==Older version notes==
*In 1.6, on the home page in the administration block select '''users''', and then '''edit user accounts'''. Find the student and click on the edit link. This brings you to their profile page, which has tabs for Edit Profile, Forum Posts, Blogs, and activity reports.

==See also==

*The capabilities [[Capabilities/moodle/user:editprofile|moodle/user:editprofile]], [[Capabilities/moodle/user:editownprofile|moodle/user:editownprofile]] and [[Capabilities/moodle/user:update|moodle/user:update]]

[[ca:Editar Perfil]]
[[es:Editar Información personal]]
[[fr:Modifier mon profil]]
[[ja:プロフィールの編集]]
[[de:Nutzerprofil bearbeiten]]

Course backup

2007-08-28T08:51:45Z

Lluna: add languages (Spanish and Catalan)

{{Course admin}}

Generally, you will not have to worry about '''course backups''', as the primary Moodle administrator will have set a schedule of site wide backups. However, as a teacher with editing privileges, it is good practice to download a recent backup to your own computer for additional protection.

==Backups Moodle 1.6 onward==
{{Moodle 1.6}}
Moodle 1.6 supports granularized backup, in addition to the previous versions features. For example, individual activities may be selected for backup, with an option to include student data for each activity. See [[Backup_restore|"backup restore" for 1.6]], for a more detailed description of these features.

==Older versions==

Generally, you will not have to worry about '''course backups''', as the primary Moodle administrator will have set a schedule of site wide backups. However, it is good practice to perform a course backup at regular intervals, and to store this backup locally on your computer.

After clicking the Backup link you will see options for specific activities you wish to backup. If you want to back up all the course activities you should choose 'All' above the activities listed. Similarly, if you want to include User Data with each backed-up activity, choose 'All' on the right-hand side of the field.

Below the list of activities you will find five other fields to define:

* Metacourse - If you are backing up the content of a [[Metacourses|metacourse]], you may enable this option so that that relations between the courses will be exported and the restore process will try to rebuild them in the destination server.
* Users - Whether you want to backup the content concerning all the registered students in your site, only course students or no students at all.
* Logs
* User files - If you enable this option, it will export, for now, user photos (as they are all the files related to one user currently).
* Course files

After choosing what you want to backup, click on Continue. You will receive a notice with the backup details showing the total number of items within each category/module to be backed up. Scrolling to the bottom and clicking Continue, you will back up your course materials. You should see, again, the backup details followed by a message "Backup completed successfully." Clicking on Continue, you will receive a list of all the backup files in your course.

==Creative uses==
The backup and restore processes can offer the teacher and administrators many creative solutions.
*Duplicating courses or specific activities in one course to another course
*Updating a production Moodle site course, with material from a localhost site course
*In earlier versions of Moodle, a way of rolling a course forward without past student activity

==See also==
*[[Backup restore]]
*[[Restore]]
*[[Backup FAQ]]
*[[Roll courses forward]]
*Using Moodle [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=59581 Location of Backup Files] forum discussion

[[Category:Teacher]]
[[Category:Backup]]

[[fr:Sauvegarde de cours]]
[[es:backup/backup]]
[[ca:backup/backup]]
[[ja:コースバックアップ]]

Reset course

2007-08-28T08:32:01Z

Lluna:

{{Course admin}}
{{Moodle 1.6}}

This allows you to empty a course of user data, while retaining the activities and other settings. Please be warned when choosing items you will delete your chosen user data from this course forever!

You can delete the following in any combination:

* Students
* Teachers
* Course Events
* Logs
* Groups

You can remove all posts from selected forum types:

* The news forum
* Teacher forum
* A single simple discussion
* Each person posts one discussion
* Standard forum for general use

{{Moodle 1.8}}You can remove all attempts from all quizzes.

You can also specify a new course start date.

==See also==

* Using Moodle [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=50298 New School Year - old classes] forum discussion
*[[Roll courses forward]]
*Tracker issue [http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-7028 MDL-7028] - Course Reset fixing - meta
*[[Development:Implementing_Reset_course_functionality_in_a_module|How to implement Reset course functionality in your module]] (for developers).
[[Category:Backup]]

[[fr:Réinitialisation]]
[[es:Reiniciar curso]]
[[ca:Reiniciar curs]]
[[ja:コースのリセット]]

Dfwiki module

2007-06-26T07:02:46Z

Lluna:

'''DFWiki''' is an alternative [[wiki]] module to the current (1.7.X) Moodle [[Wiki module]] (ErfurtWiki or [[ewiki]]).

There are two versions of DFwiki.
* DFwiki-- Alternative module that works for moodle 1.5.x
* [http://morfeo.upc.es/crom/course/view.php?id=4 NWiki] (New Wiki) - A replacement for the Moodle wiki module (that we hope that will be official on 1.9 ... let's cross fingers guys !) NWiki has several distributions, one for each for Moodle 1.6 released after moodle 1.6

DFwiki and NWiki can be found [http://morfeo.upc.es/crom/course/view.php?id=4 in dfwiki home page], and in the Moodle [[CVS]]. Give [http://appserv.lsi.upc.es/palangana/moodle/mod/dfwiki/view.php?id=178 dfwiki] a try and report your experience in the wiki forum.

== Features ==
Key features of DFwiki are:
* Multiple editors. You can choose the kind of editor and format you wish to use when you create the page.
The dfwiki current editors/formats are:
** ewiki compatible format ( to preserve backward wiki compatibility )
** Moodle HTMLEditor.
** dfwiki markup. Right now this is a subset of mediawiki format. But we are already working to meet 100% compatybility with mediawiki markup.
* HTML-Export. If you wish to share your wiki beyond moodle you can export the wiki content to a bunch of static html pages.
* Helpful blocks. Each dfwiki activity can be enriched by using blocks with helpful information.
** Page List. Glossary-like tree containing an alphabetically ordered list of pages.
** Index and Index from current. Represents the tree of wiki pages that descends from the current and main wiki page.
** Orphaned pages.
** Wanted pages.
** User page contrib list.
** Recent updates.
** Search engine.
** Admin block.
** Navigation. Displays pages that link to current page and pages linked from current page. Actually is disabled due to efficiency issues.

And a lot of wishes.
* mediawiki import
* rss feed
* [[Wiki requirements]] List of wiki requirements (almost) met by dfwiki.
* Place your wish here [[dfwiki requests]].

==See also ==
*[http://moodle.tiddlyspot.com Tiddlywiki - NWiki Integration]
*[http://appserv.lsi.upc.es/palangana/moodle16/mod/wiki/view.php?id=10&page=view/DFWiki+Install&gid=0&uid=0 DFWiki installation instructions]
*[[NWiki roadmap]]
*[http://playpen.monte.nsw.edu.au/newsletter/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=22&Itemid=26 Lions Tigers and wikis oh my! article in Moodle Newsletter 2]

== DFWiki team ==

DFwiki team are a group of developers leaded by [http://www.lsi.upc.edu/~malier/index_en.html Ludo (Marc Alier)] a teacher of the [http://www.upc.edu UPC] who likes to turn degree projects into something usefull for the [moodle community].

[[category:Modules (non-standard)]][[category:Developer]]

Lesson module

2007-05-10T17:10:16Z

Lluna: missing space

{{Lessons}}

A '''lesson''' delivers content in interesting and flexible ways. It consists of a number of pages. Each page leads to another page. Students are given content and choices which determine the next page they see. The question page is the most common type. It has content which ends with a question and the page shows a number of possible answers. The student's answer choice determines the next page they see. Branch tables are another type of page where students see content and can choose to move to different parts of the lesson by labeled buttons. Navigation through the lesson can be straight forward or complex and depends upon the structure of the material being presented

== General information about the lesson and its methodology ==

A lesson is used when it is necessary to tell the students some information about the topic being taught. The topic is broken into small chunks and shown to the student bit by bit. Within the lesson these chunks are called Pages. The length of each page is arbitrary but normally it should not be more than the amount that comfortably fits on a screen.

The lesson can create a series of pages which can be presented in a linear fashion, like a slide show, or in a non-linear, branching manner, or a combination of the two. A student's choice will send them to any page that the teacher selects. For example, a particular answer might send the student back in the lesson for a review, while another answer will advance the student to a new page. The lesson can be graded with the use of questions, or ungraded and used simply as a resource of pages or a combination of both.

There are two basic modes: presentation and flash card. Most of the descriptions of a lesson in this document are about the presentation mode and the use of questions. The Flash Card section describes how to make lesson pages appear randomly.

== Presentation Lesson ==
The Lesson activity includes many features to make the content more interesting through radomizing a series questions or pages, and a rich HTML editor. It also can keep students from straying from the lesson plan by password protection, various time limits and dependency on a previous lesson's activity.

By mixing content with questions, a lesson enables the teacher to implement the Practice Principle of eLearning (see Clark and Mayer, 2004), where practice is integrated with instructional material.

===Pages, questions, answers and responses===
A [[Lesson_Pages|lesson is made up of pages]]. There are two basic types of Lesson pages: choice and navigation. The choice pages, [[Lesson_Pages#Branch_.28Branch_Table.29-_Choice_Pages|"Branch Tables"]] or [[Lesson_Pages#Questions_-_Choice_Pages|Question pages]] are the most common. Branch tables are for delivering content and can provide links to one or more other pages in the lesson. Each question page can do the same but also give an individual response and an individual score for each choice (the student's answer). The teacher decides upon the page type and how to best use its flexibility to achieve educational goals.

For example, the default lesson question is multiple choice page. The teacher might place content on the page and ask a question about it. The teacher can provide 1 to 20 answers, where each answer is scored differently and takes the student to a different part of the lesson. On some answers the teacher may decide to provide some explaination before sending the student along. Unlike a piece of paper, the answers are going to re arrange themselves ever time the student enters the question page.

Of course the teacher can decide a more simple approach in constructing a page. For example, they don't need to provide any choices, Lesson will add a continue button for their students to link to the next page. Or Lesson can provide a standard response for correct and wrong answers, when the teacher doesn't provide one. Or Lesson can determine a score automatically by where the teacher sends the student.

===Logical order and navigation order===

The order of the pages of a lesson is usually determined by the material. Mostly the teacher will want to present the material in a way which is easily understood and which builds in a logical and progressive way. In the Lesson module, this order is called the Logical Order and this is is how the pages are usually shown to the teacher. The teacher sees all the pages on one long screen with the first page at the top.

Once a lesson contains two or more pages the teacher can move existing pages around and add pages to any position within the set. This logical ordering of pages is also the default Navigation Order. The navigation order is the order in which the students see the pages. In the default navigation order, correct answers show the next page (in the Logical order) and incorrect answers show the same page again, that is the student is asked the same question again. This default navigation order may serve the needs of many lessons. However, it is possible to change the [[Jumps |"Jump"]] associated with any answer so that a more complicated path through the lesson can be created for the student.

These [[Jumps]] can be divided into two types - Relative Jumps and Absolute Jumps. The default navigation using the relative jumps Next Page and Same Page, the destination of the Next Page jump is the next page in the logical order of the lesson. Absolute jumps specify the actual page to show next by specifying of the page's Title. Thus a lesson can have "branches", loops and a non-linear structure.

The teacher can see how a lesson's navigation "works" by using Check Question button at the end of each page or by using the Check Navigation link at the very end of the lesson, or Student view button in Moodle 1.6. The Check button "launches" the lesson at that page. The Check Navigation links starts the lesson at the first page, the way a student would see the lesson initially.

One use of jumps which don't follow the standard pattern is allowing a question to have more than one correct answer. More of that below.

===Answers===

Typically each question within a lesson will have one correct answer and several wrong answers, the familiar multiple choice question. Each answer can receive an individual response from the teacher before sending the student (with a jump setting) to view the same or another page.

As will be seen later, there are two ways to grade a lesson. In one method, the direction students are sent in the logical order of pages determines if the answer was correct or wrong for grading purposes. Usually a correct answer advances the student in the logical order and wrong answers send the students back to the question page or back in the logical order. The other method uses an answer's score to calculate the grade. Usually a correct answer receives a score of 1, any wrong answer receive a score 0. It is possible to give a negative score or partial credit for any answer.

When a question page is added, the jumps have a default setting. The jump for the first answer is the Next Page and it is a good practice to keep this as a right answer. The jumps for the subsequent answers are set to Same Page. The score for the first answer is 1 and for the rest 0. These settings can be changed by editing the question. Remember the order of the answers is going to be random each time a student enters the question page.

When Custom Scoring is turned On in the Lesson settings, then each answer has a point value associated with it. Next we will discuss grading a student's lesson.

===Grading===

Above we introduced the concept of correct answers and wrong answers. This lends itself to the giving students a grade when they have completed a lesson. In order to keep the method of grading reasonably transparent a relatively simple formula is used. It is the number of correct answers divided by the number of question pages seen. This number is then simply scaled by the grade parameter of the lesson.

When Custom Scoring is turned On in the Lesson settings, then the grading algorithm changes. Instead of the above, the grade is based on earned points by the user, which is divided by the total points possible. The teacher can assign a score for each response, this can be a negative or 0 (zero) or a positive number. Usually the score is 0 for a wrong answer and 1 for a correct answer. The point values associated with each of the user's answers are added up. That is then divided by the total of the maximum points that the user could have earned for each page answered. This number is then scaled by the grade parameter of the lesson.

A lesson is graded when the student reaches the End of Lesson. This point is usually reached by answering the question on the last (logical) page correctly.

The student does not have to go through all of the lesson in one "sitting". If a student goes through some pages and then breaks off, the next time they view the lesson they are asked whether they want to start at the beginning of the lesson or at the point where they left off. The latter point is actually the page they reached with their last correct answer. The previous "attempts" are recorded and the grade for "broken" sessions will include pages seen and questions answered in other sessions.

In a way giving a grade to a lesson is both a blessing and a curse. The main focus of a lesson should be the transfer of knowledge in a reasonably interesting way. Giving a grade may well turn the lesson into a kind of quiz where giving the answers correct is the sole goal. On the other hand, students like to get a perfect "score" and giving grades may well be the carrot needed to get the student to repeat the lesson until they get the magic 100%.

Although lessons do have grades, they should not be considered as assignments which lead to meaningful "marks". They are most useful as Formative Assignments where the grades, although some measure of activity, are not generally counted in the final mark for the course. If lessons are used in a formal way then it is probably best to use their grades in thresholds. For example "You must get an average of at least 80% overall in the eight lessons in this course before you can take the XYZ assignment." Lessons are mainly used to get across chunks of knowledge. Testing that knowledge is something else.

With that in mind, a lesson has a Retake option. That is the subject of the next part.

===Re-takes===

As mentioned earlier a lesson can be used as a formative assignment, imparting some knowledge while at the same time making some demands on the students. It seems natural that students should be allowed to re-visit lessons and because they are given a grade many will want to achieve a good grade. This promotes re-takes.

By default lessons allow re-takes. Each attempt at a lesson is normally recorded and the student can see a record of their performance (by viewing their complete activity page). The teacher when creating a lesson has the option of showing the "final" grade as either the mean of all the attempts or the best of all the attempts. This "final" grade is the one shown on the Grades page and the "Lessons" page. By default the mean of the grades is used.

Once a student has achieved the maximum possible grade in a lesson further attempts are allowed (although there is no benefit to their grade if the best grade is being used). They may well be exploring the various "wrong" paths in the lesson and may well come up with improvements.

In exceptional circumstances the teacher may not wish the students to have more than one attempt at a lesson. A particular lesson may be being used in an exam-like situation. Here the Lesson parameter for re-take is set to No. Once completed the lesson will then not allow students to re-take the lesson. If, however, the lesson is not completed in one "sitting", students are still allowed to restart the lesson at the beginning or at the point where they left off.

===Building lessons===

When creating a lesson the teacher is required to enter content into the first page. Once the first page is in place the teacher has the option of adding more pages in front or after that page. Once a question or branch page have been created, they can be edited by the teacher at any time. When the lesson contains more than one page the teacher also has the option of moving pages, that is, changing the order of the pages. Thus once the lesson is under construction the teacher can add pages, edit pages, remove pages and move pages.

A lesson will normally cover a limited amount of material. A topic or week might contain many lessons. Lessons are shown to the student in the home page for the course within "weeks" or "topics", and/or in the activity block when it is part of the course home page.

As with any lesson, it is a good idea to have a plan before starting the presentation. Simple lessons that basically go from the start to the end in a straight line path, one page after the other, can be created from an outline. More complicated lessons require more planning. The good news is that a teacher can create a simple lesson and then based upon feedback and performance, can add refinements or complexity.

[[Adding_a_question_page]]- more help on adding question pages 
[[Adding_a_branch_table]] - more help on adding branch pages

== Types of questions available within a lesson ==
{{Moodle 1.6}} [[Image:Question_type_tabs.GIF]]
===Multiple choice ===
In a multiple choice question, the student is given a question and a list of answers. Moodle can shuffle the answer list every time the question is view by a student. In a multiple choice question, the student selects one answer.

Questions can use pictures. Indeed, pictures can be used as answers when the HTML editor is turned on and the page reloaded. Each answer in a multichoice question can be scored seperately. It is possible to give a negative score for an answer, or partial credit for a wrong answer. The teacher can give a responce based upon the answer selected by the student.
====With multianswer box checked====
With the multianswer box checked by the teacher, a multiple choice question has less flexibility for the teacher. In this type of question, the student selects 1 or more answers from the list.

An example of a multianswer question is:
::'''Which of the following are mammals'''?
::- A dog
::- A cow
::- A fly
::- A buttercup

To ensure the multianswer feature works, all correct answers should receive the same score, response and jump to the same page. The same should be true for every wrong answer.

See also [[Multiple_Choice_question_type]] which is a quiz question and works differently.

===Short answer===
In a short answer question the student is expected to answer with one word or a few words. [[Short-Answer question type]] gives more information about this kind of question
{{Moodle 1.6}}
Starting with Moodle 1.6, there are two different ''student answer'' analysis systems available for the Short Answer type of question in the Lesson Module: the '''simple system ''' and the new '''regular expressions system'''. The simple system is the default and is the same used by the Quiz Module. There is a "Use Regular Expressions" option box on the Edit Question Page screen in the Lesson Module.

We suggest first reading about the [[Short-Answer question type|Short answer question page]] with the examples of the "simple analysis", and then read the [[Short answer analysis]] page that gives more information about "Regular Expression analysis".

===True / false===

The [[True/False question type|True/False question]] is a special case of the multiple choice question.The student is prompted to choose which is the correct option.

===Matching questions===

Matching questions consist of a list of names or statements which must be correctly matched against another list of names or statements. For example "Match the Capital with the Country" with the two lists "Canada, Italy, Japan" and "Ottawa, Rome, Tokyo".

Unlike the ''Multichoice question'' where the choices are shown in a random order, the first list of items in a ''Matching question'' is not shuffled but shown in the same order as entered. Each match contributes to the question score. There is no feedback on this type of question.

See [[Matching question type]] for more information.

===Numerical Question===
This type of question requires a number as the answer. In it's simplest form it requires just one answer to be specified. For example "What is 2 plus 2?", where 4 is the correct answer. A numerical question will also accept a number in a range as being correct. The answers are similar to short answer, where the order that the teacher lists the answers is important.

See [[Numerical question type]] for more information.

Unfortunately the lesson numberical question differs from the numerical quiz question and the numerical embedded question (Cloze) in a couple of ways it evaluates answers.

===Essay Questions===
Short essay questions were introduced in Moodle version 1.5. These are meant for short, paragraph or two type of essays one often finds on exams. Thus we did not use the html editor, preferring a simple text field. For longer essays, the assignment module is a better choice.

The student simply enters their essay in the box provided. The teacher sees ungraded essay questions when opening the lesson. After grading, the teacher can email their responses to the student.

[[Essay question type]] page has more information.

== Branches and branch tables ==
If your lesson delivers quite a lot of information, you can divide it into sections that are called [[Lesson_Pages#Branch_.28Branch_Table.29-_Choice_Pages|branches]] in Moodle. One way of moving between these branches is by [[Adding_a_branch_table |adding a Branch Table page]].

Branch tables are simply pages which have a set of links to other pages in the lesson. They look similar to question pages. They have a title, [[Page content|content]] section, student choices (called descriptions) and [[Jumps|jumps]] that the student selects. There is no score for a student's choice, so branch tables are grade neutral. Branch tables also can be put to special uses by a teacher. To help understand these concepts we are going to call one use a "ordered branch" and the other a "classic branch".

===Ordered branches===
A table of contents is an example of a use of ordered branches. Typically a lesson may start with a [[Lesson_Pages#Branch_.28Branch_Table.29-_Choice_Pages|branch table]] with the title "Table of Contents". The student selects a Description button and jumps to a page in the logical order that starts a series of pages about that subject. At the end of an ordered branch, the student is given several opitions by a question or branch page, such as, go to the next page, the start of the series again, the end of the lesson or return to the Table of Contents.

===Classic branches===
*A classic branch introduces random movement within a series of pages that the student nor teacher controls. A classic branch needs a Branch Table at the start and a special navigation page called "End of Branch" at the end of the series. The default jump in an "End of Branch" page is the preceding branch table page as an absolute jump. This makes it easy to add branch pages later in between the start and end and not have to reset the End of Branch jump. After a classic branch has been created, the teacher will see 3 new relative jump options: "Unseen question within a branch", "Random question within a branch" and "Random branch page". The classic branch with its "end of branch" navigation page is similar to a [[Clusters|cluster]].

===Tips when using branches===
*The number of links shown when setting up or editing a branch table or a question is set by the lesson setting "[[Adding/editing_a_lesson#The_Maximum_Number_of_Answers_.2F_Branches_in_a_Lesson|Number of Answers/Branches]]". This parameter can be changed on the fly by simply clicking on the "Update this Lesson" button at the top of the teacher's page and changing the value.

*When a lesson includes one or more ordered or classic branches, teachers need to decide if their students must visit every branch. By adding a question or two in each branch, the teacher can set the "[[Adding/editing_a_lesson#The_Minimum_Number_of_Questions_in_a_Lesson|Minimum number of Questions]]" parameter to some reasonable number of questions that must be answered. Without this parameter a student might visit a single branch in the lesson, answer all its questions correctly and leave the lesson with the maximum grade based upon their attempts, not the total number of available questions.

*Remember that using branches may encourage a student to revisit a question page more than once. This can impact scoring. Since scores can not be displayed for a teacher, it is a good practice for a new Moodling Teacher to log in as a student to check how the score is kept in their Lesson.

*[[Lesson_Pages#Branch_.28Branch_Table.29-_Choice_Pages|Choice pages gives]] detailed help about editing a branch . [[Adding_a_branch_table|Adding a branch table]] reviews process.

== The Flash card lesson ==

The Lesson module can be used as a type of Flash Card assignment by changing the [[Adding/editing_a_lesson|lesson settings]]. In this kind of lesson, the student is shown pages (cards) in random order. Usually these are question pages. There is no set beginning and no set end. Just a series of cards shown one after another in no particular order.

There are two very similar variants of Flash Card behavior. A Flow Control option, "After a correct answer" set to [[Adding/editing_a_lesson#Action_after_a_Correct_Answer |"Show an unseen page"]] never shows the same page twice (even if the student did not answer the question associated with the Card/Page correctly). The other option is "Show an unanswered page" which shows the student pages that may have appeared before but only if they answered the associated question wrongly.

When using either of these Flash Card lessons the teacher can decide to use either all the Cards/Pages in the lesson or just a (random) sub-set. This is done through the [[Adding/editing_a_lesson#Number_of_Pages_.28Cards.29_to_Show|"Number of Pages (Cards) to show"]] parameter also found in the Flow Control settings. Make sure the number is less than the total number of available pages.

When using the Flash Card mode of presentation, setting the jumps is important. A correct answer jump should point to the Next Page, a wrong answer should stay on the same page.

The Lesson Flash Card mode is very similar to a random ordered Quiz, the difference is that the questions are shown one page at a time. And, extra text can be included with each question in the Flash Card.

There is also a [[Flashcard_module]] that can be added to a Moodle site. It is also possible to create lesson segment that is a mini flashcard lesson with the use of special jumps and navigational pages called [[Clusters]].

== Linking and Dependencies ==
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===Dependency===

This setting allows this current lesson to be dependent upon a student's performance in one specific lesson that is in the same course. If the conditions(s) is not met, then the student will not be able to access this lesson.

Conditions for the dependency include:

* Time Spent: the number of minutes the student must spend in the required lesson.
* Completed: the student must finish the required lesson.
* Grade better than: the minimum [[Lesson_score#How_overall_scores_are_determined|overall score]] as a percentage, a student must earn in the required lesson.

Any combination of the above can be used if needed.

===Link to an Activity===
The drop-down menu contains all of the activities for this course. If one is selected, then a link to that activity will appear at the end of the Lesson along with links to score and course menu.

===Other unusual ways to link===
More advanced Moodlers can figure out how to place HTML links on a lesson page. Thus it is possible to create a link to another lesson/activity, a lesson/activity in another course, or even to a specific page in a lesson. While this method can be useful, the student may not be able to find their way back to the page with the link. In general, the links can be created by copying the location of the desired link from the browser's addressbar, then pasting it as a link.

== See also ==

*[http://download.moodle.org/docs/using_moodle/ch10_lessons.pdf Using Moodle Chapter 10: Lessons]

[http://moodle.tokem.fi Http://moodle.tokem.fi] Go to teacher's manual and select lesson. For versions 1.5.4 and 1.6.4, a good supplement or alternative to MoodleDocs. Very hands on for specific type of teacher.

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Wiki permissions

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Roles and capabilities in Moodle 1.7 onwards enable possibilities such as students being given permission to manage wikis. The following capabilities are related to wikis:

*[[Capabilities/mod/wiki:participate|mod/wiki:participate]]
*[[Capabilities/mod/wiki:manage|mod/wiki:manage]]
*[[Capabilities/mod/wiki:overridelock|mod/wiki:overridelock]]

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Wiki permissions

2007-04-20T08:56:46Z

Lluna: