CTSI Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) User Guide v1.2

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1 CTSI Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) User Guide v1.2

2 Contents Search... 3 Editing / Icon Definitions... 3 Creating a New, Blank Course... 3 Assigning a Teacher to a Course... 8 How to Set Enrolment Methods... 9 Creating a Resource Creating an Activity Feedback Obtaining Feedback Stats Additional Information Course Administration Turn Editing On/Off Edit Settings Completion Tracking Users Unenroll me from Course Grades Outcomes (Competencies) Backup Restore Import Reset Course Question Bank Resources File Folder IMS content package Label Page URL Activities Assignments Chat Choice Database P a g e

3 Feedback Forum Glossary Lesson Quiz SCORM Survey Wiki Workshop Icons P a g e

4 Search CTSI Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) User Guide Moodle To search for a course, scroll down to the bottom of the Front / Home Page. Enter the information you are searching for in the Search Courses box and click go / enter. You can search by course name, instructor, key words, day of the week, etc. Editing / Icon Definitions 1. Log in to the site as an Administrator or Course creator. 2. Turn Editing On. Course administration Turn Editing On 3. With the Editing function on, this allows you to add/remove courses, add/remove activities and resources, etc. There are some key editing tools you will see next to all items you will be able to edit. Assign Roles / View / Hide Configuration / Edit Delete Move (Allows you to adjust the position of the item in a list) Creating a New, Blank Course 1. Log in to the site as an Administrator or Course creator. 2. Select Site Administration Courses Add / Edit courses. 3. Click on the Add a new course button. 3 P a g e

5 4. The Edit course settings page is displayed. A. General Section: a b c b d f i e g h j k l a. From the drop-down list at the top of the page, select a Category for the course. You can use the drop-down list to change the category at any time. The list shows both visible and hidden categories. b. Enter a Full name and a Short name for the course. The full name of the course appears at the top of the page when viewing the course, and also in course listings. The short name appears in the breadcrumb, or trail, at the top of the page. Many search engines give a lot of weight to the title and keywords tags. Choose your course title with this in mind. c. Enter a Course ID Number The ID number that you enter into this field must match the ID number of the course in the External Database. If you're not using an external database for enrollment information, you can leave this field blank. 4 P a g e

6 d. Enter a Course Summary The Course Summary is displayed when a reader clicks on the information icon for a courser, and when the course appears in a list. If you allow visitors to see your front page without logging in, then they will probably read your course summaries before enrolling. Consider the Course Summary to be a course's resume. Your course summaries need to be informative and work as a sales tool. They should offer enough information to help your visitors decide if they want to enroll, and should describe the courses in their best light. e. Select a Format for the course. Among your choices are: Topics: The Topics format is the most intuitive format to use for a course. As it displays each part of the course as a numbered topic, this format encourages students to proceed through the course sequentially. However, by default, Moodle does not enforce this sequence, so students are free to jump ahead and behind in the course. Weekly (this is the default format for a new course) The Weekly format appears almost identical to the Topics format, except that it displays dates for each topic. Social The Social format turns the entire course into a discussion forum. Discussion topics are displayed on the course's Home Page. Replies to a topic are added and read by clicking on the Discuss this topic link. One of the settings available for forums enables you to prevent students from creating new topics, so that they can only post replies to existing topics. The Social format is very different from a traditional, sequential course. It lacks the organization and ability to add activities and resources that you find in the Topic and Weekly formats. However, because the Social format turns the entire course into a discussion forum, it offers you the chance to put a discussion forum right into the course listings. You can then have a discussion appear in the course listing on the front page of your site. SCORM The SCORM format allows you to upload a SCORM-compliant activity. This activity then becomes the course. If you want to use a SCORM package as one part of your course, then under Add an activity you can use SCORM package. If you want to use a SCORM package as your entire course, then use the SCORM format setting. f. Select the Number of weeks/topics You can change the number of weeks or topics in a course, on-the-fly. If you increase the number, then blank weeks/topics are added. If you decrease the number, then weeks/topics are deleted. Or, so it seems. One of Moodle's quirks is that when you decrease the number of sections in a course, if the topics that are dropped contain any material, they're not really deleted. They're just not displayed, even for the teacher. If you increase the number of topics so that those topics are added back to the course, they reappear with their content intact. Notice that this is different from hiding weeks/topics from students. When you hide topics or weeks from students, the teacher can still see those sections. When a section disappears because the number of weeks/topics in the course was reduced, the topics or weeks are hidden from for 5 P a g e

7 everyone, even the teacher. The only way to bring them back is to increase the number of weeks/topics. g. Set the Course Start Date For a Weekly course, this field sets the starting date that is shown for the course. It has no effect on the display of Topic or Social courses. Students can enter a course as soon as you display it; the course start date does not shut off or hide a course until that date. This field's only other effect is that logs for course activity begin on this date. h. Select how the course will display Hidden Sections The setting Number of weeks/topics determines how many weeks or topics your course has. Each week or topic is a section. You can hide or reveal any individual section at will, except for Topic 0, which is always displayed. To hide or reveal a section, turn on course editing, and click on the open or closed eye icon next to the section, as appropriate. If you select Hidden sections are shown in collapsed form under Hidden Sections, then the titles or dates of sections that you have hidden will appear grayed out. The user cannot enter that section of the course, but can see that it is there. This is most useful if you plan to make sections of a course available in sequence, instead of making them available all at once. If you select Hidden sections are completely invisible, then hidden sections are invisible to students. Course creators and teachers can still see those sections, and can access the resources and activities in them. If you choose to make hidden sections completely invisible to students, then there is no real disadvantage of having more sections than you're using. You can keep the section that you're working on hidden, and then reveal it when you're finished. If you want to modify an existing section, you can create a hidden duplicate of the section, work on it, and then, with a few clicks in a few seconds, hide the old section and reveal the new one. i. Specify how many News Items to Show in the Latest news block. For Weekly and Topics course formats, a News forum automatically appears on the course's Home Page. If you want to delete this forum, set the News Items to Show to zero, and then delete the forum. The News forum is like any other forum, except that its postings appear in the Latest news block. Like other forums, the course creator and editor can enable or disable the ability of students to create new topics, or to reply to existing topics. The Latest news block automatically disappears if you have News items to show set to zero, or if there are no news items (no topics in the forum). Also, the Latest news block can be manually hidden, regardless of this setting or how many news items are posted. The maximum number of news item that the block will show is 10. j. If Show gradebook to students is set to Yes, then a student can view a list of all of their grades for the course by clicking on the Grades link in the Course administration block. If the course allows Guest access, the Guests will not be able to earn grades. So if your site has a free sample course, and you want people to see how Moodle displays their grades, you might want to make people register for that free sample course. k. Under your profile, you can see a report of your activity in each course that you take. Note that your personal activity report is in your profile, not in the courses. The setting for Show activity reports determines if a student's activity for this course will be kept in that student's profile. l. The setting for Maximum upload file size limits the size of a file that a student can upload into this course. There is also a site-wide limit set under Site Administration Security Site policies. The smaller of the two settings site-wide or course-wide takes precedence here. 6 P a g e

8 B. Guest Access Section: a. Under Guest access, choose whether to allow guests to take the course. You can also set a guest Password. This password applies only to guests, and not to enrolled students. C. Group Mode Section: a. Select the Group mode. Group mode applies to activities in the course. Each course can have either no groups or several groups. When set to No, all students assigned to the course are considered to be in one big group. When set to Separate, all of the students in the same group can see each other's work. However, students in different groups, even though they are taking the same course, cannot see work from another group. That is, the work done by different groups is kept separate. When set to Visible, students are divided into groups but can still see the other groups. Even though the other groups are visible to each other, the work done by one group's students is not visible to the other group's students. You can change this setting for individual activities. For example, suppose you want to run groups through a course separately. However, you have one project for which you want all students, in all groups, to be able to see each other's work. You can choose Separate for the course, and then for that one project, override the course setting by using Visible for the project. Then, only for that one project, each group can see the other groups' work. Normally, the course's group mode can be overridden for each activity. When the course creator adds an activity, the teacher can choose a different group mode than the default group mode set for the course. However, when Force group mode is set to Yes, all activities are forced to have the same group mode as the course. The Default grouping for the course determines how groups are filtered in the gradebook. This setting has no effect unless you are using groupings. D. Availability Section: a. While you're working on a course, you may want to set Availability to This course is not available to students. This will completely hide your course from students' view. Teachers and administrators can still see the course, so you can collaborate on the course content with them. E. Language Section: a. Select a setting for Force language. Selecting Do not force enables a student to select any language on the pull-down list of languages. 7 P a g e

9 Remember that the languages on the pull-down list are limited by the setting you chose under Site Administration Language Language Settings Display language menu and Languages on menu. Also, remember that you must have the language pack for any language that you want to use installed. Also remember that only Moodle's standard menus and messages are automatically translated when a student selects a different language. Course material is not translated unless the course creator entered material in another language and used the Multi-language Content filter. F. Role Renaming Section: a. If you want to use different terms for the roles in your course, you can use Role Renaming. Moodle inserts your term for teacher or student into Moodle's standard messages. For Teacher, you can substitute any term such as Instructor, Leader, and Facilitator. For Student, you could use terms such as Participant or Member. 5. At the bottom of the page, click on the Save Changes button. Assigning a Teacher to a Course In order to assign a teacher to a course, the teacher first needs an account on your site. 1. Enter the course as a teacher or administrator. 2. From within the course, select Settings Users Enrolled users. 3. In the upper-right corner of the page, click on the Enroll users button. 8 P a g e

10 4. To find a user, enter any part of the user's name into the Search field and then press Enter or Return on your keyboard: a. From the Assign roles drop-down list, select Teacher. b. Next to the user's name, click on the Enroll button. The display of that user's name will change to indicate that (s)he is enrolled. c. When you finish enrolling users, click on the close box for this window. You will return to the Enrolled user's page, and see the user added to the list of enrolled users. How to Set Enrolment Methods 1. Enter the Course as a Site Administrator or Teacher. 2. Select Course administration Users Enrolment methods. The Enrolment methods page displays all of the enrolment methods that are enabled for the site. 3. To enable or disable an enrolment method for this course, click on the eye icon. When the eye is open that enrolment method can be used for this course. When the eye is closed, that enrolment method is not available for this course. 4. Place the enrolment methods in the order that you want this course to use them. Do this by clicking on the up and down arrows next to each enrolment method, to move each method into the required position in the list. a. Many enrolment methods have a separate page for settings, where you configure that method 9 P a g e

11 b. If you enable an enrollment method, you should at least look at the Settings page for that method and determine if you need to change any of the settings. Creating a Resource Professors have the ability to post resources in each week, topic, etc. in multiple formats. These resources include webcasts, lecture notes / PowerPoint s, etc. 1. Enter the Course as a Site Administrator or Teacher. 2. Turn Editing On. Course administration Turn Editing On 3. From the Add a resource menu, select whichever item best suits the resource you wish to upload. Creating an Activity Professors have the ability to create activities in each week, topic, etc. 1. Enter the Course as a Site Administrator or Teacher. 2. Turn Editing On. Course administration Turn Editing On 10 P a g e

12 3. From the Add an activity menu, select whichever activity best suits your needs. Feedback This feature allows professors to request feedback on both the course and individual weeks, topics, etc. 1. Enter the Course as a Site Administrator or Teacher. 2. Turn Editing On. Course administration Turn Editing On 3. From the Add an activity menu, select Feedback. 11 P a g e

13 4. Moodle displays the settings page for the activity. 5. In the Name field, enter a name for the Feedback activity. Your students will see this on the course home page. 6. Text and graphics that enter into the Description field, is displayed to students before they begin the activity. Use this information to explain the activity. Remember, this is a full-featured HTML editor, so you can put text, graphics, and media into the Description. 12 P a g e

14 7. Under Timing, you can enter a time to open and close the activity. If you don't enter a time to open the activity, it is available immediately. If you don't enter a time to close the activity, it will remain open indefinitely. 8. The option to Record User Names affects only what the teacher sees. Students do not see each other s' responses. If Record User Names is set to Users' Names Will Be Logged and Shown With Answers, then the teacher will be able to see a list of users who completed the Feedback, along with their answers. 9. If Show analysis page after submit is set to Yes, a summary of their results so is shown to the user after they submit their feedback. 10. If Send -notifications is set to Yes, then course administrators are ed whenever someone submits this feedback. This includes Teachers and Course Managers. 11. If Multiple submissions is set to Yes, then users can submit their feedback multiple times. When Record User Names is set to Anonymous, this setting is enabled and an unlimited number of anonymous users can submit feedback an unlimited number of times. When you track user names, this option allows each loggedin user to submit feedback an unlimited number of times. 12. If you want Moodle to number the questions in your Feedback activity, select Yes for Automated numbers. 13. The page that you compose under Page after submit is displayed immediately after the user submits their answers. You can use this page to explain what happens after the activity. If you leave this blank, Moodle displays a simple message telling the user that their answers have been saved. At the bottom of this page, Moodle displays a Continue button. 14. The URL for continue field specifies the Web address of a page that you want the user to see after they view the Page after submit. If you leave this blank, the Continue button will take the user back to the course home page. 15. Click on the Save and display button to save the settings. Moodle then displays the Questions tab for this Feedback activity. It is then time to start adding questions 16. To add Questions to a Feedback activity, follow the steps shown below: 13 P a g e

15 a. Select the Feedback activity. b. To Add/Edit Questions, there are two options when inside the Feedback Activity: 1. From the left-hand menu, select Settings Feedback administration Questions Edit Questions. 2. Select the Edit questions tab. c. From the drop-down list that is labeled Add question to activity, select the type of question that you want to add. d. If you mark a question as Required, the user must answer it in order to submit the feedback. The question will have a red asterisk next to it. e. The Question field contains the text of the question. Unlike a quiz question, a feedback question can consist of only text. f. The Label field contains a label that only Teachers will see, when viewing the results of the feedback. The most important reason for the Label field is that if export the results of the feedback to an Excel worksheet, then the Label is exported with the results. This allows you to match the feedback results with a short label in your database. g. The Position field determines the order of the question, when you first add it to the feedback page. After the question has been added, you can override this number and move the question to any position on the page. h. Depend item and Depend value can be used to make the appearance of a question dependent upon the answer to a previous question. For example, you might first ask someone, "Do you have a Twitter account?" If they answer Yes, you might display a question like, "How often do you tweet?" If they answer No, you would hide that subsequent question. 14 P a g e

16 i. From the Depend item drop-down list, select the question whose answer will determine if this question appears. Then, in the Depend value field, enter the answer that is needed to make this question appear. j. Save the question. Obtaining Feedback Stats This feature allows professors to examine the Feedback Activity: 1. Enter the Course as a Site Administrator or Teacher. 2. Turn Editing On. Course administration Turn Editing On 3. Select the Feedback Activity 4. Select the Analysis tab 5. You will be able to examine the results in two formats 15 P a g e

17 a. Results in Moodle: b. Export Results to Excel: 16 P a g e

18 Additional Information Includes: Course Administration Settings Resources Activities Icons 17 P a g e

19 Turn Editing On/Off Course Administration Function: Allows users with course creator privileges to add, remove and change items with the course. How? Click Turn Editing On Edit Settings Function: Allows users with course creator privileges to edit the settings for courses, assignments, etc. How? o Enter the course, activity, assignment, etc that you are trying to edit and click Edit Settings in the Settings tool bar. Items of note in Course Settings: o Guest Access: This setting determines whether a user can access the course as a guest, without being required to enroll. You can require a password. o Groups: Group mode: This setting has 3 options: No groups There are no sub groups, everyone is part of one big community Separate groups Each group member can only see their own group, others are invisible Visible groups Each group member works in their own group, but can also see other groups The group mode defined at course level is the default mode for all activities within the course. Each activity that supports groups can also define its own group mode, though if the group mode is forced at course level, the group mode setting for each activity is ignored. Force group mode: If group mode is forced, then the course group mode is applied to every activity in the course. Group mode settings in each activity are then ignored. o Role renaming: This setting allows the displayed names for roles used in the course to be changed. Only the displayed name is changed role permissions are not affected. New role names will appear on the course participants page and elsewhere within the course. If the renamed role is one that the administrator has selected as a course manager role, then the new role name will also appear as part of the course listings. Completion Tracking Settings > Course administration > Completion tracking: o Overall criteria type aggregation: Choose here how you wish to mark the course complete -whether you want Any or All of the requirements that follow to count towards completion. All means just that, every condition that has been checked. The most restrictive setting. Any means any one of those conditions that have been specified. o Course prerequisites: This setting allows you to have another course as a prerequisite for completing the course you are currently working in. NOTE: Course prerequisite is a "recommendation". The student can enter the course and will NOT be blocked because they have failed to meet the recommended prerequisites. A student must complete the prerequisites for a course AND complete the other requirements for that course, before that course will be marked complete. If completion tracking has not been set for any other courses yet then this link will show the following message: 18 P a g e

20 o o o o o o o Manual self-completion: If you check the box in this link, then students can mark the course as complete themselves. Manual completion by This setting allows different Roles to mark the course as complete. If used, put a check mark next to the role that can mark the course as complete. Select the Aggregation method "All" when every role that is marked here must put a check mark in the course completion report in order for the student's course to be marked complete. Select the Aggregation method "Any" when one or more of the roles that are marked here have put a check mark in the course completion report in order for the student's course to be marked complete. Activities completed This setting will show a list of activities which have Activity completion setting defined. Put a check next to the ones which should count towards course completion. The "All" aggregation method means that each of the checked activities must meet their Activity completion settings. The "Any" aggregation method means that at least one of the checked activities must meet their Activity completion settings. Date If you check the Enable box you can then set a date, after which the course will be declared complete. Duration after enrolment If you check the Enable box you can then choose a number of days after enrolment upon which the course will be marked complete. Grade If you check the Enable box you can set a passing grade for the course. Unenrolment If you check the box Completion on unenrolment then the student's course will be complete once they have unenrolled. Users Enrolled Users: Allows you to manually enroll users, see currently enrolled users, assign roles, and see last access. o To Manually Enroll Users: Settings Course Administration Users Enrolled users Click on Enroll Users Select the role you wish to assign from the drop down list (student, teacher, non-editing teacher, manager, none) Select the individual you wish to enroll and click the Enroll button next to their name Enrollment Methods: Allows you to designate the enrollment methods of the course o Settings Course Administration Users Enrollment Methods Manual Enrollments: Course administrators or teachers must manually enroll each student. Guest access: Your Moodle site has a special user called "Guest". This user can be used to grant access to courses, without requiring the user to be enrolled. Essentially, you are allowing anonymous users to access your site and/or course. You can require a password for guest users. Enabling guest access for a course o Settings Course administration Users Enrolled users Enrolment methods. o If the Guest access enrolment method is not listed on this page, use the Add method drop-down list to add it. o To activate the Guest Access Enrollment Method click on the eye icon to open the eye. o Second, enable this method under the course settings, by following the steps shown below: Select Settings Course administration Edit settings. The Course settings page is displayed. From the Allow guest access drop-down list, select Yes. If you require a password for guest access, enter this password into the Password field. At the bottom of the page, click on the Save Changes button. Self-enrolment: The Self enrolment method allows users to enroll themselves in courses. As with guest access, you must enable this method under Site administration for your entire site, and also activate it for the specific course. Enabling Self-Enrolment for a course o Settings Course administration Users Enrolled users Enrolment methods. o If the Self-Enrollment method is not listed on this page, use the Add method drop-down list to add it. o To activate the Self-Enrollment Method click on the eye icon to open the eye. o On the Settings page for Self enrolment, you can choose to require an enrolment key: 19 P a g e

21 o An enrolment key is a code that the user must enter when enrolling in a course. After the user is enrolled, the enrolment key is no longer needed. Groups: Allows you to create groups and assign members o To Create Groups: First you must enable groups in the Course Settings page: Settings Course administration Edit settings Groups See Groups under Edit Settings above for a description of group options. To Manually Create Groups: Settings Course administration Users Groups Create Group Add/Remove Users To Auto Create Groups: Settings Course administration Users Groups Auto-Create Groups Specify whether you want it to create groups by Number of groups or Members of groups Designate Group /Member Count Permissions: Allows you to designate which roles can access different information, manage users, create assignments, etc. Other Users: These users are not enrolled in this course but do have roles, inherited or assigned within it. Unenroll me from Course Allows users to unenroll themselves from the course Grades Settings Course administration Grades: This will take you to the Grade Administration page which has the following options: Grader Report: The grader report allows the instructor review grades, change grades and manually enter grades o Grade an activity / assignment: Course Administration Grade Grader Report Page Turn Editing On Outcome Report: The outcome report breaks grades down by the outcomes assigned to the course o Grade an activity / assignment: Course Administration Grade Grader Report Page Outcomes Report Overview Report: This report shows a user s grades for all courses in Moodle. User Report: This report shows a summary of the user s grades. Import: Allows you to import grades from a CSV and XML file Export: Allows you to export grades in a OpenDocument spreadsheet, Plain text file, Excel spreadsheet, and an XML file. Course Grade Settings o General Settings: Aggregation position: This setting determines whether the category and course total columns are displayed first or last in the gradebook reports. o Grade Item Settings: Grade display type: This setting determines how grades are displayed in the grader and user reports. Real - Actual grades Percentage Letter - Letters or words are used to represent a range of grades Overall decimal points: This setting determines the number of decimal points to display for each grade. It has no effect on grade calculations, which are made with an accuracy of 5 decimal places. o Overview Report: Show rank: Show the position of the student in relation to the rest of the class for each grade item? Hide totals if they contain hidden items: This setting specifies whether totals which contain hidden grade items are shown to students or replaced with a hyphen (-). If shown, the total may be calculated either excluding or including hidden items. If hidden items are excluded, the total will be different to the total seen by the teacher in the grader report, since the teacher always sees totals calculated from all items, hidden or unhidden. If hidden items are included, students may be able to calculate the hidden items. o User Report: Show rank: Show the position of the student in relation to the rest of the class for each grade item? Show percentage: Show the percentage value of each grade item? Show grades 20 P a g e

22 Shoe feedback Show weightings Show average: Show the average column? Students may be able to estimate other student's grades if the average is calculated from a small number of grades. For performance reasons the average is approximate if it is dependent on any hidden items. Show letter grades Show ranges Range decimal points Show hidden items: Whether hidden grade items are hidden entirely or if the names of hidden grade items are visible to students. Show hidden - Hidden grade item names are shown but student grades are hidden Only hidden until - Grade items with a "hide until" date set are hidden completely until the set date, after which the whole item is shown Do not show - Hidden grade items are completely hidden Hide totals if they contain hidden items: This setting specifies whether totals which contain hidden grade items are shown to students or replaced with a hyphen (-). If shown, the total may be calculated either excluding or including hidden items. If hidden items are excluded, the total will be different to the total seen by the teacher in the grader report, since the teacher always sees totals calculated from all items, hidden or unhidden. If hidden items are included, students may be able to calculate the hidden items. My report preferences o Grader report Show/hide toggles Show calculations: If enabled, when editing is turned on, a calculator icon is shown for each grade item and category, with tool tips over calculated items and a visual indicator that a column is calculated. Show show/hide icons: If enabled, when editing is turned on, a show/hide icon is shown for each grade for controlling its visibility to the student. Show column averages: If enabled, the grader report will contain an additional row displaying the average (mean) for each category and grade item. Show locks: If enabled, when editing is turned on, a lock/unlock icon is shown for each grade for controlling whether the grade can be automatically updated by the related activity. Show user profile images Show user ID numbers: If enabled, user ID numbers are shown in an additional column. Show activity icons: If enabled, activity icons are shown next to activity names. Show ranges: If enabled, the grader report will contain an additional row displaying the range for each category and grade item. Special rows Grades selected for column averages: This setting determines whether cells with no grade should be included when calculating the average (mean) for each category or grade item. Show number of grades in averages: If enabled, the number of grades used when calculating the average (mean) is displayed in brackets after each average. General Quick grading: If enabled, when editing is turned on, a text input box appears for each grade, allowing many grades to be edited at the same time. Changes are saved and highlighted when the update button is clicked. Note that when a grade is edited in the grader report, an overridden flag is set, meaning that the grade can no longer be changed from within the related activity. Show quick feedback: If enabled, when editing is turned on, a feedback text input box with a dotted border appears for each grade, allowing the feedback for many grades to be edited at the same time. Changes are saved and highlighted when the update button is clicked. Note that when feedback is edited in the grader report, an overridden flag is set, meaning that the feedback can no longer be changed from within the related activity. Students per page: This setting determines the number of students displayed per page in the grader report. Enable AJAX: Adds a layer of AJAX functionality to the grader report, simplifying and speeding up common operations. Depends on Javascript being switched on at the user's browser level. Letters: Allows you to edit the ranges for letter grades Outcomes: Allows you to Add/Remove Outcomes from the course. Scales: Allows you to Add/Remove/Edit Scales 21 P a g e

23 Categories and Item: Categorizing the graded activities in a course enables you to quickly see how your students are doing with various kinds of activities. If you do not assign an activity to a category, by default it belongs to the category Uncategorized. o To create a grade category, follow the steps shown below: Select Settings Grade administration Categories and items. From there, you can select Simple view or Full view. At the bottom of the page, click on the Add category button. The Edit category page is displayed. Complete the required fields the page, and save your changes. o To assign an item to a grade category, follow the steps shown below: Select Settings Grade administration Categories and items Simple view. Select the item(s) that you want to assign to the category. At the bottom of the page, from the drop-down list, select the category into which you want to move the item(s). Click on the Save changes button. Outcomes (Competencies) Allows you to Add/Remove Outcomes from the course. Backup These settings enable you to choose the type of data that gets backed up. Restore Allows you to restore backup files Import Allows you to import files from other courses Reset Course This page allows you to empty a course of user data, while retaining the activities and other settings. Please be warned that by choosing items below and submitting this page you will delete your chosen user data from this course forever! Question Bank The Question Bank is the collection of quiz questions for the Moodle site. You have access to different questions in the Bank, depending upon where you are in your site. 22 P a g e

24 Resources A resource is an item that a teacher can use to support learning, such as a file or link. You can add resources in edit mode (Settings Course administration Turn Editing On) via the drop down menu. Resources Available: File You can upload a picture, a pdf document, a spreadsheet, a sound file, a video file. Folder Folders help organize files and one folder may contain other folders. IMS content package Add static material from other sources in the standard IMS format Label Can be a few displayed words or an image used to separate resources and activities in a topic section, or can be a lengthy. This resource is good for making announcements. Page The student sees a single, scrollable screen that a teacher creates with the robust HTML editor. URL You can send the student to any place they can reach on their web browser. 23 P a g e

25 Activities An activity is a general name for a group of features in a Moodle course. Usually an activity is something that a student will do that interacts with other students and or the teacher. You can add activities in edit mode (Settings Course administration Turn Editing On) via the drop down menu. Activities Available: Assignments Chat The assignment module allows teachers to collect work from students, review it and provide feedback including grades. o Advanced uploading of files: Options include multiple file submission, allowing students to type a message alongside their submission & returning a file as feedback. o Online Text: This assignment type asks users to compose and edit text, using the normal editing tools. The online text assignment can be set up to allow learners to compose, revise and edit over time or such that the learner only has one opportunity to enter his or her response. Furthermore, with the online assignment, instructors can grade the work online and even edit and/or provide comments within the learner s work. o Upload a single file: A student can upload a single file, such as a Word document, spreadsheet, etc. After students upload their files, the instructor will be able to open the submission, assign a grade and offer comments as feedback. o Offline activity: This is useful when the assignment is performed outside of Moodle. Students can see a description of the assignment, but can't upload files. Grading works normally, and students will get notification of their grades. Specifically, an instructor in a hybrid or blended environment (combination of face-to-face and online instruction) may use the offline activity type of assignment to assign a project that the learner will physically present to the instructor at a face-to-face session. This arrangement allows the instructor to communicate the project expectations online while creating an entry for the project in the Moodle gradebook. Allows participants to have a real-time synchronous discussion. This is a useful way to get a different understanding of each other and the topic being discussed the mode of using a chat room is quite different from the asynchronous forums. Choice A teacher asks a question and specifies a choice of multiple responses. Consider it a polling tool. Database The database activity module allows the teacher and/or students to build, display and search a bank of record entries about any conceivable topic. The format and structure of these entries can be almost unlimited, including images, files, URLs, numbers and text amongst other things. Feedback For creating and conducting surveys to collect feedback. See Feedback Section on page 10 for further instructions. Forum Allows participants to have asynchronous discussions. The forum module is an activity where students and teachers can exchange ideas by posting comments. There are four basic forum types. Forum posts can be graded by the teacher or other students. Glossary Enables participants to create and maintain a list of definitions, like a dictionary. 24 P a g e

26 Lesson Quiz For delivering content in flexible ways. The lesson module presents a series of HTML pages to the student who is usually asked to make some sort of choice underneath the content area. The choice will send them to a specific page in the Lesson. In a Lesson page's simplest form, the student can select a continue button at the bottom of the page, which will send them to the next page in the Lesson. Allows the teacher to design and set quiz tests, which may be automatically marked and feedback and/or to correct answers shown. The Quiz activity module allows the teacher to design and build quizzes consisting of a large variety of Question types, including multiple choice, true-false, and short answer questions. These questions are kept in the Question bank and can be reused in different quizzes. SCORM Enables SCORM packages to be included as course content Survey Wiki For gathering data from students to help teachers learn about their class and reflect on their own teaching. There are 5 surveys to choose from already populated with questions. You cannot create your own survey. To create your own survey, use the Feedback activity. A wiki is a collection of collaboratively authored web documents. Basically, a wiki page is a web page everyone in your class can create together, right in the browser, without needing to know HTML. A wiki starts with one front page. Each author can add other pages to the wiki by simply creating a link to a page that doesn't exist yet. Workshop Workshop is a peer assessment activity with many options. Students submit their work via an on line text tool and attachments. There are two grades for a student: their own work and their peer assessments of other students' work. 25 P a g e

27 Indents / removes indents on the display Icons Move Icon: Allows you to move the item to a different location on the page. Edit Icon: Clicking the Edit icon allows you to edit whatever that icon follows. Delete Icon: Clicking on the Delete icon deletes the item that the icon follows. Duplication Icon: Allows you to duplicate the item. The Hidden/Shown icons: These are called the Hidden/Shown icons / instead of Hide/Show because the icons indicate the current state of an item, instead of indicating what will happen when you click on them. The Hidden Icon indicates that the course, assignment, etc is hidden from view. The Shown Icon indicates that the course, assignment, etc can be viewed by students. Groups Icon: Allows you to organize the group function for the item that the icon follows. Assign Roles Icon: Allows you to assign rolls for the item that the icon follows. Help Icon: By hovering over / clicking this icon, more information regarding the activity will be displayed. Import Icon: Allows you to import information / documents Export Icon: Allows you to export information / documents Profile Icon Messages Icon Notes Icon Feedback Icon News Icon Choice Icon Grades Icon Outcomes Icon Publish Icon Reset Icon Folder Icon Quiz Icon Assignments Icon 26 P a g e