Creative Use of Moodle
Creative Use of Moodle
Introduction
Paula Clough Ed Tech Coordinator Douglas Unified Schools
Choice Features
Only one question or Choice allowed. Many answers possible. Limits may be set on each answer. Can select whether to publish results to students or not and when to publish. Choose whether results are anonymous or not. Choose whether to have a column for unanswered. Can allow choice to be updated. http://docs.moodle.org/en/Choices
A simple question to answer, to kick start - the beginning of a lesson. A question left unanswered from a lesson - that needs an answer. Now home study. As feedback about a lesson, as assessment for learning. As they are so fast to set up - they can even be used as a polling tool, although there are other tools out there.
Agreement
From Art Lader (Moodle.org)
User agreements, assignment criteria, anything that students need to take responsibility for reading and understanding Choice allows teachers to track who have said they
Quiz Features
Uses a question bank that allows sharing of questions across the course or the Moodle site. Allows a variety of answers: Multiple choice, checkbox, true/false, short answer, essay, random short answer, matching, cloze, etc. Easy to export/import Can allow multiple retakes Allows manual grading Permits question and answers to be shuffled Item anlysis http://docs.moodle.org/en/Quiz_module
Checklists
Checklists for projects, teaching units, program skills. If reuse with new group, need to clear all user data first, per Brett
Random Questions
To use random selected question, must put the questions into the same category. Different question will be selected each time a student takes the quiz. Will not allow the same question twice in the same quiz.
Lesson Features
Very structured. Allows the delivery of content and questions that are answered to show learning. Complicated to set up, but once finished can be very helpful as the content and questions go together. http://docs.moodle.org/en/Lessons
Audio/Podcasts/Videos
Adding audio or video to the lesson allows multimedia content delivery.
Glossary Features
Two main types: Main and Secondary Can be teacher only or students Upload of files or pictures allowedonly Encyclopedia format shows pictures in the entry. Searchable in several ways Linking is available May restrict duplicate entries Comments may be allowed Easily shareable with import/export feature http://docs.moodle.org/en/Glossaries
Glossary Formats
Continuous Without Author Encyclopedia Entry List FAQ Full Without Author Full With Author Simple, dictionary style
Database Features
Very flexible as the fields have to be added. Many different types of fields. (date, text, checkbox, dropdown boxes, pictures, files, URL, etc.) Set up Templates
HTML can make the lists look special
Searchable Comments may be allowed Presets and entries can be shared Can use groups http://docs.moodle.org/en/Database_module
Format is flexible
Comments
Glossary
Secondary can feed into Main
Collaborative Uses
Database
Must set Fields
Groups
Language/Vocabulary
Audio Pictures Super Glossary SchoolNet Multimedia
http://moodle.schoolnet.cl/mod/glossary/view.php? id=2&mode=&hook=ALL&sortkey=&sortorder=&fulls earch=0&page=1http://moodle.schoolnet. cl/mod/glossary/view.php? id=2&mode=&hook=ALL&sortkey=&sortorder=&fulls earch=0&page=1
SchoolNet
Communication
Teachers Blog Classroom Blog Collaborative Work FAQ Glossary Tip of the Day
Teacher Blog
Continuous without author format. Put date first to have in order through the school year. Allow comments or not.
Collaborative Work
Set up the Glossary. Click on the Locally Assign Roles at the top of the set up screen. Assign students the teacher role so they can go in and edit the entries. Use Encyclopedia format if you want students to be able to upload a picture and show it in the entry. Make sure the edit always is set to yes. When the project is completed, you can reset the glossary settings to edit always: no and take the students out of the locally assigned roles as teachers.
Classroom Management
Classroom Portfolio Participant Introductions Student of the Week
Classroom Portfolio
Students have a place to keep work. Set to authorize entries and then dont. It will remain private between teacher and student.
Assignments
Ratable Recipe Archive Poetry Collection What Happened in the Year.? Overview of Topic Community Directory
Poetry Collection
Study Resources
Quiz Questions from Student Mini Research Concepts from Chapter 1,2,3 Course Notes Glossary
Resources
All About Citations: Our Class Bibliography Rules Database of Articles Job Tips and Tricks Moodle Tips Glossary
Book Reviews
Characterization Database
Moodle
Open Source moodle.org Demo.moodle.org Using Moodle forums Moodle Exchange MoodleCommons.org Message me through Moodle.org
Thanks to:
Moodle.org--- all of them especially Helen, Mary and Maryel Javier Baca without him there would be no Moodle at DUSD Leanne Bowley (my boss) for encouraging me to work on this presentation Moodlerooms for the training and moral support (Gina and Sheila and others) Larry for all your patience while I moodle