Moodle for Teachers:-An Illustrated Guide (Revised) by Mark Rollins

MOODLE FOR TEACHERS:- An Illustrated Guide An Illustrated Guide (Revised Edition)

M.J Rollins

Moodle for Teachers:- An Illustrated Guide.

Moodle for Teachers.

An Illustrated Guide.

Mark J Rollins

Moodle for Teachers:- An Illustrated Guide.

Moodle for Teachers:An Illustrated Guide

First Published in Great Britain by Lulu Enterprise 2010 Copyright ©Mark J Rollins 2010 Mark Rollins assets the moral right to be identified as the author of this work. All rights reserved; No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form or binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.

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Table of Contents Table of Contents MOODLE FOR TEACHERS....................................................................................................... 2 AN ILLUSTRATED GUIDE....................................................................................................... 2 MARK J ROLLINS ...................................................................................................................... 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS.............................................................................................................. 4 TABLE OF CONTENTS.............................................................................................................. 4 INTRODUCTION........................................................................................................................ 7 GETTING STARTED.................................................................................................................. 7 THE STRUCTURE OF MOODLE............................................................................................. 9 COURSE DESIGN AND COMPONENTS- RESOURCES AND ACTIVITIES....................10 COURSE SETTINGS................................................................................................................. 11 SETTING UP COURSE AREA................................................................................................ 13 UPLOADING A FILE................................................................................................................ 14 UPLOADING A GROUP OF FILES (ZIP AND UNZIP)......................................................16 ADDING RESOURCES............................................................................................................. 19 How to Add a Text file.......................................................................................................................................19 Compose a Web Page........................................................................................................................................21 Link to a File or Web Site...................................................................................................................................22

IDEAS FOR USING MOODLE................................................................................................ 25 Blooms Revised Taxonomy................................................................................................................................25 Blooms Digital Taxonomy..................................................................................................................................26 ...........................................................................................................................................................................26 Blooms Digital Taxonomy and Moodle.............................................................................................................26

Moodle for Teachers:- An Illustrated Guide. ADDING AN ACTIVITIES ...................................................................................................... 27 Assignments.......................................................................................................................................................27 Assignment Types .............................................................................................................................................27

HOW TO CREATE A QUIZ..................................................................................................... 30 Adding a New Quiz Topic...................................................................................................................................31

ADDING A BLOG TO MOODLE............................................................................................ 40 Suggested use of blogs:-....................................................................................................................................42

WIKIS IN MOODLE................................................................................................................. 43 Adding a Wiki.....................................................................................................................................................43 Suggested uses of wikis:-...................................................................................................................................45

..................................................................................................................................................... 46 ..................................................................................................................................................... 46 .................................................................................................................................................... 46 EXAMPLE OF A FORUM. ...................................................................................................... 47 ..................................................................................................................................................... 48 Suggested uses of forums:-...............................................................................................................................48

Lessons..............................................................................................................................49 Lesson Settings.................................................................................................................49 Flow of a Lesson ..............................................................................................................51 What the student sees......................................................................................................53 How to create the question page.....................................................................................54 End Lesson........................................................................................................................55 Examples of Lesson Flow................................................................................................56

Sequential..........................................................................................................................................................56 Sequential Branch Table....................................................................................................................................56 Conditional.........................................................................................................................................................57 Conditional on grade, time taken or amount completed.................................................................................57

Summary...........................................................................................................................57 EMBEDDING TWITTER INTO MOODLE.......................................................................... 59 MAKING MOODLE LIKE WEBPAGES................................................................................. 61

Moodle for Teachers:- An Illustrated Guide. ADDING A SLIDESHARE TO MOODLE..............................................................................66 Editing and tagging presentation......................................................................................................................66 Uploading ..........................................................................................................................................................66

BIBLIOGRAPHY...................................................................................................................... 70

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MOODLE FOR TEACHERS:-AN ILLUSTRATED GUIDE. Introduction Moodle is the leading Open Source learning management system. Using Moodle, teachers can easily construct richly textured web based courses. A course can consist of a number of lessons, with each lesson including reading resource and activities such as:• • • • •

Web links Quizzes Assignments Survey Lessons

and social elements that encourage interaction and group work between students such as:• • • •

Forum Chat Wikis Glossaries

Getting Started This is a quick start guide to Setting up a Moodle Course. This part of the course documents outlines:• • •

Course Settings Uploading Files Introduction to Resources and Activities.

Remember! Experiment, you really can’t do much damage and if you do it can be fixed….. There are some basic Navigation tools you will require:-

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(Reproduced with kind permission by D Solon (www.davesolon.com) 1. Administration / Settings – Overall setup for your site. Course Name, Front page settings,Enrollment key, Guest access, how many topics boxes. 2. Turn Editing On/Off – This is where you turn on the editing so you can add resources, links, blocks, etc. 3. Edit Topic Summary Controls– allows you to change the summary (what’s displayed at the top of the topic box.) 4. Add Resource / Activity – allows you to add resources and activities to topic boxes(weblinks, attachments, etc.) 5. Edit a Resource / Activity – each icon allows different editing of the specific resource to the left. 6. Example of a web page resource 7. Topic Box Editing Controls – allows you to rearrange the order of topic boxes, show/hide a topic box, or highlight a topic box. 8. Block Editing Controls – allows you to hide, delete, move side to side and up and down.

Moodle for Teachers:- An Illustrated Guide. The Structure of Moodle Once the course is set up, you will be presented with the Skeleton of Moodle, divided into three sections as outlined below. The far left is the Administration side of Moodle, that allows you to manage your Course content, such as Edit Course Setting, Assign Roles, look at Grades, check on Participants etc you will quickly get the hang of this. The Central section is like the Contents page of your course, where you can Add Resources, links to files, web pages and give instructions. The far right is the Social side of Moodle, here you can set up News items, information for students, a calendar of events etc. Again this is straightforward give it a try.

Administration

Course Design and Content

Most important one Allows you to Add Resources and Activities, also initially is Files general topic information

Blocks General information HTML Mashables (Twitter)

Moodle for Teachers:- An Illustrated Guide. Course Design and Components- Resources and Activities. Once you upload your files, it is time to design your course; there are two ways to use Moodle, one as a Passive source linking to Resources or as an Active mode, linking to activities.

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Course Settings This can be completed at the initial set up or edited at any time during the courses life by clicking on Settings under Administration.

Add the course name, short name and course ID (if you require one). In the summary text box add a brief, interesting outline of the course, image, web link etc.

Choose topic format, for example • weekly • topic • social (these can be modified any time). (Leave these at default for moment)

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• • • • •

You can set Start and End Dates of course, Duration, availability of course, Number of Weeks/topics Enrolment key and level of access.

Scroll down and for the rest of this page, leave at default settings; then Click Save Changes.

Moodle for Teachers:- An Illustrated Guide. Setting Up Course Area. You will have set up you course content area, so depending you will have Weekly format Topic Format Social Format. Whichever you have chosen the Setting Up course content procedure is the same.

First Click on Turn Editing On, the screen will change and editing icons will have been added. To add a Title to a Week or Topic click on:Update Icon

To add a Title to a Week or Topic click on:Update Icon (the writing hand) You can then add, text, images, links etc just like a normal word processing programme Once complete click Save Changes. Repeat this for each Unit, week, topic etc. it helps to organise content.

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Uploading a file

Under the Administration block click on Files

This is the tool bar to control up loading files.

Click here to then upload a file into your folder.

Make a new folder and name it.

Click browse to find file.

Moodle for Teachers:- An Illustrated Guide. This produces a Directory of Files, these are behind the scene an can not be accessed by Students unless you link to them via the course Design and Content area as an Add Resource or Link.

Click Browse to find a file in your directory, pen drive etc then click Upload this file.

Once you have uploaded your file you can then, move to another folder, edit, rename, delete etc by using these tools.

If you require to Upload a large number of files it is best to first Create a Folder, then Zip the files you require (for example use Winzip). These can be uploaded as a Zip file and then Unzipped within Moodle, the procedure is outlined in the next section.

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Uploading a Group of Files (Zip and Unzip)

Goto to files directory/folder/individual files you wish to zip(compress) then:Right click mouse. Choose Add to zip

You should get a screen showing Files and Archives

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Go back to Moodle Files then Click on Upload a file

Click on Browse then Choose Zip file

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Choose Zip File Click Upload file Once in the Moodle Files Click Unzip

Moodle for Teachers:- An Illustrated Guide. Adding resources How to Add a Text file

First you need click on Turn Editing On

Click on Add a resource

Click on Compose a text page

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You must type a Name for the text page. This is what your students will click on, so have it make some sense.

Add a summary (optional). The summary is displayed on the Resources index page

Type your text in the Full text box. You can paste text from MS Word or any other location. A number of formatting options are available to help turn your plain text into nice-looking web pages.

Choose whether you want this resource to open in the same window or a new one. If you choose New Window, you can choose what attributes the new window will have. Make sure you allow the window to be resized and scrolled, otherwise your students might not be able to read the bottom of the page!

Once you've made your choices, click on the "Save Changes" button. You will be see a preview of what your new resource looks like.

Moodle for Teachers:- An Illustrated Guide. Compose a Web Page.

From the main page, click “ Add a resource….click Compose a Web page

Type a name for the Web page (make identifiable for students)

Add a summary (optional). The summary is displayed on the Resources index page.

Type your text in the Full text box. You can paste text from MS Word or any other location. A number of formatting options are available to help turn your plain text into nicelooking web pages. You can also add links and images as per a normal web page.

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Once you've made your choices, click on the "Save Changes" button. You will be see a preview of what your new resource looks like.

Link to a File or Web Site

From the main page, click “ Add a resource….click Link to a File or web Site

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Type a name for the File/Web Page (make identifiable for students)

Add a summary (optional). The summary is displayed on the Resources index page.

Click on “Choose or upload a file” or “search for a web page” if you are not sure of site.

Tag file then click choose

If you know the web address you can both type it in or copy and paste web address from the site address bar.

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Once you've made your choices, click on the "Save Changes" button. You will be see a preview of what your new resource looks like.

Moodle for Teachers:- An Illustrated Guide. Ideas for Using Moodle Pedagogic One definition of pedagogy in Wiktionary says  The profession of teaching  The activities of educating, teaching or instructing Wikipedia “At one point it said Pedagogy is the art or science of being a teacher, generally refers to strategies of instruction, or a style of instruction. “ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedagogy Blooms Revised Taxonomy

Moodle for Teachers:- An Illustrated Guide. Blooms Digital Taxonomy

Blooms Digital Taxonomy and Moodle.

Moodle for Teachers:- An Illustrated Guide. Adding an activities Assignments Click on

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The assignment activity module allows teachers to collect work from students, review it and provide feedback including grades. Students can submit any digital content (files), including, for example, word-processed documents, spreadsheets, images, audio and video clips. Assignments don't necessarily have to consist of file uploads. Alternatively, teachers can ask students to type directly into Moodle using an online text assignment. There is also an offline activity assignment which can be used to remind students of 'real-world' assignments they need to complete and to record grades in Moodle for activities that don't have an online component. Assignment Types

There are 4 types of assignments: Upload a single file This could be a Word document, spreadsheet or anything in digital format. Multiple files may be zipped and then submitted. After students upload their files, the teacher will be able to open the submission and use the Moodle interface to assign a grade and offer comments as feedback. A student may submit a file as many times as they like up until the deadline. Only the latest file is retained, and this is the one the lecturer marks. Advanced uploading of files - options include: multiple file submission, allowing students to type a message alongside their submission & returning a file as feedback. Online text - students type directly into Moodle, teachers can provide inline feedback.

Moodle for Teachers:- An Illustrated Guide. Offline Activity - teachers provide a description and due date for an assignment outside of Moodle. A grade & feedback can be recorded. Example of “Upload Single File”

Type in (printable format), instructions, can include images, and hypertext links to documents or webpages.

Here you use numerical grade or scale already produced, set time available from and until. Set prevention of late submission and option for allowing resubmitting, alert to teachers via email and file size.

Online Text. The set up is the same, however what the student see is:-

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Instructions

They click on edit my submission and a HTML editor box appears in which the students can type in text, insert images, hypertext links, tables etc.

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How to create a Quiz

First turn editing on

Find the unit or topic area you wish to enter a quiz in and then click on Add an Activity. Click on Quiz

Adding a New Quiz Topic Click on Quiz a new window will open. Here add the name of the quiz and any instruction the students will require.

You can also modify the start time and end time the quiz is available. Number of question per page Number of attempts and grading criteria.

In addition you can set the availability students may review the answers. An a useful tool is overall feedback, in which you can set boundaries with automatic feedback e.g. 90% Very good or grade A

Once you have done the above, click save changes and the next page will open. Here you create a question Category and question bank. Click here to create and edit a new category

Now give your category a Name and Info and if you want them to be active click Publish to yes..

After you have created a Category you can return to Question bank and click on Create a new question. You will be offered a drop down form of question types.

For this demo I will chose a Multiple Choice question. Give it a name. Type the question and add an image. (Click on insert image icon)

To upload an image, either link to an image already uploaded to your files or click browse and upload an image from an external source.

Once you have found your image, click on the image and then click open.

Click on upload and you should see the file appear in the File browser. Double click on the file, its URL will appear in the address bar. Give it a name.

You image is now in the body of the edit frame, you can move it around, centre it, reduce it in size etc.

An alternative way to include an image is by identifying an Image to display and linking to a file again

Add general feedback, ie you could give an explanation which will be shown once the questions are answered.

For a correct answer give the grade you wish to give for that correct answer e.g. 100%……

Once you have a bank of questions you can select by ticking those you would like to include in the quiz. This is editable and you can add and remove question at will.

The questions you add are moved over to Questions in this quiz, with a summary of marks and layout.

Adding a Blog to Moodle First turn editing on In Moodle 1.9 Blog can only be added as a Block facility so Click on Add, and on drop down menu Blog Menu (note you can only have one Blog Menu per course)

Give Moodle a few seconds to create the Blog, then you should have the following options:-

Click on Add new entry and begin to create your first blog.

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This is a simple test Blog to show the functions available within Moodle Blog. notice you have full HTML editing functions, so you can, format

text, add images,

add links, table etc You can opt to add an Attachment, for example a news letter, publish to options so if you are creating a blog you may want to save it as a draft first so choose Yourself (draft) or Publish to anyone on this site. By adding Tags, this makes the Blog more specific to searches and easier for someone to find a particular theme.

Once you are happy click save changes. Once your Blog as been created you then have the option to edit it or delete or create a permalink. Adding a permalink allows you to send this link to someone else via email.

Moodle for Teachers:- An Illustrated Guide. Suggested use of blogs:Class Blog -Each week a student is the class blogger and posts to review what happened in the day/week. A class blog can provide the opportunity for students to discuss topics out of the classroom environment. With a blog, every person has an equal opportunity to share their thoughts and opinions Curriculum based Blog-for example the results of a field visit, ask students to collaborate and upload images of the field trip, collate data and formulate hypothesis. Quick response-effective feedback, give students chance to give and get effective feedback, for example:What was the least clear point of the lesson? What was the most important point? How useful was the lesson?

Moodle for Teachers:- An Illustrated Guide. Wikis in Moodle In Moodle, wikis can be a powerful tool for collaborative work. The entire class can edit a document together, creating a class product, or each student can have their own wiki and work on it with you and their classmates. Adding a Wiki. Turn edit on by clicking “Turn Editing on” Select Wiki from the "Add an activity" dropdown menu in the course section where you would like to add the wiki.

Add a new wiki page.

Give the wiki a descriptive name. In the summary field, describe the purpose of the wiki and what you expect students to contribute. .

Moodle for Teachers:- An Illustrated Guide. Select the wiki type groups, student or teacher.

Click the "Show Advanced" button to display additional options. Select the common module settings Click the "Save changes" button. Adding a wiki page, first you need to go to and click on the wiki, you will then be given the option, view, edit, links and history.

This is the easiest way to add a page. Teachers or students can create a new page by editing an existing Wiki page and adding a Wiki link that points to the page they want to create. A Wiki link is simply any character string enclosed in square brackets. The string is converted to a link by the following process:

Click the Edit tab on the front page of the Wiki. In the edit box type the title of the new page that you want to create. Enclose the title text in square brackets. Like this: [e-Learning Page 1] Click Save.

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Click on the "?" and you will be taken to an edit screen for a new page called:- "Elearning Page 1"

Edit this new page with text as you will, and then click Save. You just created a new wiki linkable page.

Suggested uses of wikis:Group project -Set students a collaborative group project, for example geography students studying “Hazards”, by creating a page for each Hazard eg [Volcanic], [Earthquake], and so on, each group could be asked to collaborate to their allocated hazard and contribute to produce a group wiki on Hazards. The teacher may create a submission date on which to turn off editing capabilities for students so that he or she can grade the final projects by giving credit for contributions by looking at edit history. Group lecture notes- creating a group wiki after a lecture, gives students chance to collaborate notes-groups can decide what is critical. Brainstorming- Create online version of brainstorming, students can add ideas and link to other pages for elaboration. 45

Moodle for Teachers:- An Illustrated Guide. Adding Forums to Moodle Forums can be structured in different ways, and can include peer rating of each posting. The postings can be viewed in a variety for formats, and can include attachments. By subscribing to a forum, participants will receive copies of each new posting in their email.

Click “Turn editing on”

Under the Add an activity drop down and chose Forum

Give the forum a title, and then you have a drop down choice of forum type. A description of the forum and use can be given in fully editable text HTML window.

Moodle for Teachers:- An Illustrated Guide. A single simple discussion - is just a single topic, all on one page. Useful for short, focused discussions. Standard forum for general use - is an open forum where any one can start a new topic at any time. This is the best general-purpose forum. Each person posts one discussion - Each person can post exactly one new discussion topic (everyone can reply to them though). This is useful when you want each student to start a discussion about, say, their reflections on the week's topic, and everyone else responds to these. Q And A Forum - The Q & A forum requires students to post their perspectives before viewing other students' postings. After the initial posting, students can view and respond to others' postings. This feature allows equal initial posting opportunity among all students, thus encouraging original and independent thinking. Additional setting include, giving a time period to postings, allow grading of postings and group modes.

Don’t forget to click save, then return to main page, Example of a Forum.

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Suggested uses of forums:Peer Forum- working in pairs, review learning topic for a week, a peer review adds to this possibly starting a new discussion. Q and A- allows single question post that students must answer before seeing response of the other students. Could use answers to lead into doing a quiz. Debates -assign students into groups to debate different sides of an issue, for example evidence for and against global warming to support arguments (could be graded).

Moodle for Teachers:- An Illustrated Guide. Lessons “The significant difference between a Lesson and other activity tools available in Moodle comes from its adaptive ability.” http://docs.moodle.org/en/Lessons The lesson facility in Moodle falls under the umbrella of Add an Activity. I believe that the Lessons module is one of the most powerful tools in the armament of Moodle. The basic principle is that the lesson is a series of HTML WebPages within Moodle, which can facilitate the following learning/assessment scenarios:•

Sequential learning ie one page links to the next page and visa versa

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Self-directed learning

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Self-directed assessment

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Simple Conditional This value determines the maximum number of answers branches the teacher can use. The default value is 4 eg True, False, next page, end.

Lesson Settings

Practice lesson, determines if the students progress will be recorded as a grade; set to practice if you don’t want results in gradebook.

Custom scoring and Maximum grade, settings allow you to give numerical grade for each question and the maximum points for this particular lesson respectively.

Moodle for Teachers:- An Illustrated Guide. These allow students to a) go back and change answers, b) gives a review button after incorrect answer.

This is the action after a correct answer, this usually means jump to next page, and you can however set it to go to an unseen page or unanswered page. Minimum number of questions, gives the student an indication of how many question they need to do in this lesson.

Lesson formatting; pages can be formatted to a particular size, background colour etc. Slide show enables you to display the lesson as a slide show, ie one page after another with a fixed width, height, and custom background colour.

These options allow you to include a contents list ie side bar, from which students can jump to next topic, but if you make display only available after a certain progress this forces the students to follow a particular path.

These allow you to set condition by which the student can proceed, e.g. a minimum amount of time, 10% completed, or grade better than 50%. This encourages students to take time required and assess their own progress.

With this option you can link to an activity external to the lesson, for example a quiz, assignment, link to a resource or Webpage.

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Common module setting, are self-explanatory. To allow grades from the lesson to be included in the gradebook you would need to categorise it under a category e.g. Volcanic

Flow of a Lesson Basically a lesson consists of a series of WebPages, there are six basic components •

A page (sometime referred to as a jump) can be link to a next page.

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A question Is a page with a question type at the end from which a response controls next jump.

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A Branch Table Is a series of pages on a specific topic

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Cluster Usually series of questions sandwiched between Start cluster and End Cluster

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End of Cluster Denotes the end of a series of pages/questions on a specific topic

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End of Branch Denotes the end of a Branch series (controls direction student can proceed)

By combining these particular pages you can design the flow of your lesson and I would suggest that you plan and set out your lesson before creating the lessons within Moodle.

This diagram shows the flow of a lesson, on the left using Pages, page jumps, questions, whilst on the right this lesson flow uses Branch Tables linking to pages, which could be sequential or jump from one part of the branch to another part of the branch.

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With editor turned on, this is the page editor ie the jumps description is what name is given to the “button” that links the student to that page, in this case Volcano Types

Page Title

Instructions, fully editable HTML page content, you can format; add images, links and even videos.

This is the branch table where you create descriptions, that when clicked act to take the student to a new “Page” i.e. a jump.

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What the student sees. This what a student sees in terms of the initial instruction page. This first page is a Branch Table with three options where the student can “jump” to.

So let’s look at the next stage; what the student would see for the next page which in this case includes a question.

Here I have inserted an image and included a brief question within the page, ie a “question page”

This example shows a multi-choice question.

The student needs to answer the multi-choice question, and depending on the response, after clicking the “please check one answer button” the student will “jump” to a “response page” and depending on whether the answer is correct or incorrect is given “feedback” and could be directed to a remedial page to go back over learning before being able to attempt the question again. If you had just wanted the student to go to the next page, then you would create a question page but leave questions out, Moodle in this case creates a default “continue” button, which links to the next page in your lesson flow.

Moodle for Teachers:- An Illustrated Guide. How to create the question page.

This is the set up for a Question Page.

Give your page a title and decide on the question type. Add instructions or question, images, links, videos.

Below the instructions, you input Answers to questions and response (feedback given to student after answering the question.)

The score of 1 here indicates the correct answer, and the Jump 1 will, in this case take the student to the next stage of the lesson. If the answer was incorrect you could a have a jump to a remedial page or back to instruction page.

Moodle for Teachers:- An Illustrated Guide. End Lesson

The End Lesson in this case is an essay and once the student as typed in their answer they click on enter answer box to submit the essay.

This is the page the student sees after submission and to end the lesson they then click on “continue”

This the final page of the lesson, indicating to the student, that the“ end of lesson reached “and an option to review grades or return to main course area.

Moodle for Teachers:- An Illustrated Guide. Examples of Lesson Flow Sequential

Sequential Branch Table

Moodle for Teachers:- An Illustrated Guide. Conditional

Conditional on grade, time taken or amount completed

Summary At first lesson creation seems a rather daunting task, but my advice is that a) remember you are just working with WebPages with links created within the Lesson flow control;

Moodle for Teachers:- An Illustrated Guide. b) it is worthwhile “sketching” out your lesson before hand then seeing which parts link, where and when you would like to insert an assessment or quiz (basically the way you would plan a face to face lesson). c) What type of lesson you are hoping to create for example, self-directed learning lesson, self-directed assessment etc....but remember to have a Pedagogic outcome?

If you look at Blooms Taxonomy and Moodle look how useful the lesson module can be.

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Embedding Twitter into Moodle Open Moodle course area. Then click Turn editing on

In the block area, select HTML In the new HTML block select configuration

Give the block an appropriate name. You then need to copy and paste HTML coding into the block Goto the following webpage http://twitter.com/widgets/which_flash Then choose “get widget”

Click on my website Customize your widget, setting, appearance and dimensions

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Finally Finish and Grab Code

One you have the code copied return to Moodle and paste code into HTML block. To finish click and save

Moodle for Teachers:- An Illustrated Guide. Making Moodle like Webpages Best way to achieve a webpage like look, use I use icons and link each Icon to a Unit within the course. To avoid copyright problems, access a free icon provider such as http://www.iconarchive.com/

Turn editing on In the blocks section Add And add section Link

This will allow you to link to a Unit area, but also show the url for this, and by copying this URL you can then create a link. Keep a list the URL in a word document, so you can paste them back in later.

In the topic outline, click on the little hand icon, to edit. To space your Icons, create a table (Insert Table)

Moodle for Teachers:- An Illustrated Guide. Once you have created your table, click in the first cell. Then click on the Insert Image

To upload a file click on browse, this will give you access to your files on your computer, pen drive etc.

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Double click on the file you wish to upload, and this will now appear in the browse window.

Moodle for Teachers:- An Illustrated Guide. Now click upload. You should now see the file in the list of files. To choose the file, click on the file name once, a picture of the image and the images URL will appear in the Preview and Image URL window respectively. Give the image an “alternative text”.

Click OK and the Edit Topic window will appear and you should be able to see your image.

Now you have your image, click on it and then click on the Insert Web Link

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You are then presented with the following window, paste your URL in the URL: window, and give it a Title

Click Ok and Save Changes. If you have already uploaded your file, you can link to this by opening the file, choosing image and giving it a name.

Moodle for Teachers:- An Illustrated Guide. Adding a Slideshare to Moodle First create an account with Slideshare, this is entirely free and only takes a few minutes.Once account is created is is straight forward to upload your Powerpoint presentations into Slideshare.

Create a Powerpoint presentation as normal Editing and tagging presentation.

Uploading On the main screen of myslidespace, scroll down until you find Documents and a box with ”Upload your first slideshow”. Click on this then you will be presented with a browse for files option. Click on this and find the file that you wish to upload. The supported formats are outlined.

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You can then enter details and tags for your slideshow, for example if you want it to be public, private, adding tags and a description of the slideshow.

Once you are happy, click publish and the message slide being converted appears, this may take several minutes depending on size of file. 67

Moodle for Teachers:- An Illustrated Guide. Once the presentation is uploaded, click on the slideshow you wish to use and embed in to Moodle, you will see on the right-hand side a small window with the embedding code, copy this by left clicking in the window(it should turn blue) then right click your mouse and copy.

Once you have copied the code, return to your Moodle Site. Turn editing on and then.. Add a resource drop down window “compose a web page”

Moodle for Teachers:- An Illustrated Guide.

Once you have opened the webpage, toggle to the HTML editor and simple paste the Embedding Code

Below is the Slideshare as seen in the Moodle window.

Moodle for Teachers:- An Illustrated Guide.

Bibliography Rice W.H. Moodle. E-learning Course Development (2006) Rice W.H Moodle Teaching Techniques (2008) Cole J and Foster H. Using Moodle (2007) 2nd Edition Educational Origami:- Blooms Digital Taxonomy http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/Bloom%27s+Digital+Taxonomy Solon D (2008) “Moodle Cheat Sheet”.