Best of Moodle2 - basic tutor guide

This handout will show tutors some basic features of Moodle2 and how to do them. It includes the following:

• How to enter Moodle at Coventry University
• Moodle 2 home page
• Add an item to the news forum
• Editing a module/course
• Change the topic title and add a summary
• Changing the number of topics
• Adding a link to a web site (URL resource)
• Using blocks
• Adding a file using drag and drop
• Adding a file - using upload

Technology for Teaching at the Learning and Development Conference

July 2013 Schedule

Demonstrations and workshops about Moodle and Mahara in July.

July 2013 Schedule

Holiday Reading

• Want to learn more about technologies for teaching?
• Can’t get to the July workshops?
• Then Holiday Reading may be the answer for you.
• It’s about the basics of Moodle 2 plus hints and tips about using Moodle and Mahara in your teaching.
• It’s online so you can use it anywhere in the world!
•  Access the course here (Coventry University Staff only; email Anne for the enrolment key). 

Communicating with your students using Moodle

This is aimed for tutors or TAs who may have not used Moodle 2 before.

This demonstration and discussion session will show how you can use Moodle’s realtime quiz, forums for different purposes and how you can give feedback to your students
The demonstration includes:
Realtime quiz
A comparison between the Standard forum, QA forum and the News forum
Offline assignment
Mahara assignment
The discussion will be about best practice and use of a communications strategy with students

Best of Moodle 2

First presented today to the Engineers.  Decided to present as a Mahara page, plus a Moodle bit for the Realtime quiz and for the demo parts. The PowerPoint was a set of images.  The images' text didn't come out as expected (they were exported as GIF, I exported them again, this time to JPG and they're fine now).


Getting into putting a TinyURL for the page and a QR code for reference too. Paper-free resources!

The presentation plus resources. 

Mahara at London Campus with the new LT

I showed examples and gave an introduction to Mahara and we did the following:

• Looked at examples, including embedding audio and image gallery
• Added Content
• Added items to a Journal
• Created a Page and Shared it with a URL
• As a Moodle tutor, set up a Mahara assignment and marked a submission
• As a student, created a Mahara page and submitted it to a Mahara assignment within Moodle
• Created a template page for people to copy (and be aware of the option to retain view of the copy).
• Created and invited colleagues to a Mahara group.
• Used embed.ly to embed external media.

(As a Moodle Admin person, created a Moodle sandpit Course and  a student ID and added his own ID to the Course)

 Lunchtime... took in the local culture... brightening up a cold late spring time at Spitalfields Market.

Alternative Presentation Technology

And yet another one... updated a little, too. PechaKucha very useful so kept in, but there are a couple of new entries...

Presented on 28th May and 26th June.

Marks from Moodle to the student database

Successfully delivered a demo to members of one School/Faculty.

All receiving the demo needed to have proper access to the student database and needed to be module leaders. I needed a registrar there to answer questions too. 

Anyone from CU can access the online guide (still in the pilot stage) by contacting me.

Summary

Assessment components

What components are needed by the student database? Refer to your MID for the required components for a module (eg coursework, practical, written exam).
Only those will need to be exported from Moodle to it.

Columns

Each component needs a column in the gradebook.

Assignments that are set up in Moodle, such as Turnitin, where students are required to upload items to Moodle automatically have a column in the gradebook.  You need to mark these online.

Other assignments, for example, written examinations, need to have a column adding before adding marks. There's a video to show you how.

Transfer your marks from Moodle to the student database

There's a video that shows you how. To do this step, you need to have proper access to the student database.
For each module, you will be exporting one component at a time and receiving a confirmation email. 
Email the confirmation spreadsheet to your School/Faculty registrar.
Problems? Contact your School/Faculty registrar.