Getting Started with MOODLE Setting up your class. You see this menu, the students do not. Here you can choose the backgrounds for your class, enroll and unenroll students, create groups, upload files, etc. Turn editing on. (Usually in upper right and corner)
Click on Settings. From here you can set your class to different formats. It can be a weekly format or a topics format. Weekly would require students to log in weekly to do assignments for that week. Topics allows them to move around picking and choosing. You can also choose the background theme of your page. Go back to your main page. With editing on you ll see several symbols for each week or topic. The box indicated an assignment or activity. Clicking it collapses the view. The eye allows students to see the week or topic. Clicking on it closes the eye and renders that week or topic invisible. The arrows allow you to move the week or topic up or down.
With editing on, you may add a resource or activity to each week or topic. Adding an activity or assignment. There are two columns to choose from. The first column allows you to add a resource. The second an Activity. What activities are available will vary according to what your network administrator has enabled. Looking at each week or topic you have editing tools for each assignment/activity The first are up and down arrows, allowing you to rearrange the order of the assignments/activities. The second is a hand with stylus. This is the editor that allows you to edit the assignment. The third is an X that deletes the assignment. The fourth is an eye that allows students to see the assignment. By clicking on it and closing the eye, that hides the assignment form students.
Assignments may be turned in by uploading to Moodle. They will be time-stamped. You can allow assignments to be turned in late or not. Wikis: To start a wiki, turn editing off. Then choose the edit tab from the first page of the wiki. Insert the work you want to wiki between two square brackets: [photovoltaic] When you save the page will refresh with the word followed by a question mark. photovoltaic? Clicking on the question mark brings you to a new page. Enter the information there and save. You can link to any wiki page by putting the name of that page inside square brackets from your page. Once you save the link will become active.
If you do podcasting, you can enable RSS feeds.
You can also enable a blog. What you can enable under blocks will vary according to what your network administrator has enabled. File manager creates a my folder and a shared folder where students can store or share documents. The limit may or may not be set by the nietwrok administstrator. Our limit is 20 MB.
Quizzes. You can create quizzes using fill in, multiple choice and true false questions. If you enable fill in questions on the quiz, answers must be exact spelling and capitalization. Moodle will grade them for you.
Enrolling students involves selecting students and moving them to your class. If the list is too long, you ll need to search for them. The methods are set up by the network administrator of Moodle. You may be able to enroll your own students or the network administrator may enroll them for you. Students may also be able to enroll themselves using a password key. Whether students can register themselves into the system or not will depend on how the network administrator has configured the system. For my TeacherTech class the network administrator enrolls students into a master list and I enroll them in my class. For my SDUSD Moodle class students are enrolled on the master list and also enrolled in my class. I can also enroll them if I can find them on the master list.
You can track you students participation by clicking on participation or students, depending on where your network administrator has put it.