1. 190 West Ostend Street | Suite 110 | Baltimore, Maryland 21230 | P: +1 410.779.3400 | F: +1 443.817.0976 www.moodlerooms.com Welcome to Moodle Presented by Mt. SAC Online Learning Support Center and Professional and Organizational Development The CHANGE You Want E-Learning To Be.

2. 190 West Ostend Street | Suite 110 | Baltimore, Maryland 21230 | P: +1 410.779.3400 | F: +1 443.817.0976 www.moodlerooms.com Online Learning Support Center Team

3. The CHANGE You Want E-Learning To Be. 190 West Ostend Street | Suite 110 | Baltimore, Maryland 21230 | P: +1 410.779.3400 | F: +1 443.817.0976 www.moodlerooms.com Moodle & joule™ Moodle is the world's most widely used open- source Learning Management System. Moodle includes innumerable options to give instructors full flexibility to create courses that meet their teaching styles and their students' individual learning needs. joule™ is an adaptable learning management platform that combines standard Moodle tools, with enhanced services, and powerful third-party plug-ins.

4. The CHANGE You Want E-Learning To Be. 190 West Ostend Street | Suite 110 | Baltimore, Maryland 21230 | P: +1 410.779.3400 | F: +1 443.817.0976 www.moodlerooms.com Pedagogical Philosophy of Moodle Social Constructivism All of us are potential teachers as well as learners - in a true collaborative environment we are both. We learn particularly well from the act of creating or expressing something for others to see. We learn a lot by just observing the activity of our peers. By understanding the contexts of others, we can teach in a more transformational way (constructivism). A learning environment needs to be flexible and adaptable, so that it can quickly respond to the needs of the participants within it.

5. The CHANGE You Want E-Learning To Be. 190 West Ostend Street | Suite 110 | Baltimore, Maryland 21230 | P: +1 410.779.3400 | F: +1 443.817.0976 www.moodlerooms.com Learning Objectives for the Workshop Your Profile Navigating the Site and Courses Basic Functionality

6. The CHANGE You Want E-Learning To Be. 190 West Ostend Street | Suite 110 | Baltimore, Maryland 21230 | P: +1 410.779.3400 | F: +1 443.817.0976 www.moodlerooms.com Basic Features in Moodle BlocksBlocks BreadcrumbsBreadcrumbs BlocksBlocks Resources & Activities

7. The CHANGE You Want E-Learning To Be. 190 West Ostend Street | Suite 110 | Baltimore, Maryland 21230 | P: +1 410.779.3400 | F: +1 443.817.0976 www.moodlerooms.com Hands-on: Exploring a Moodle course Log in to the system. Find the sandbox course. Identify the three main areas of Moodle.

8. The CHANGE You Want E-Learning To Be. 190 West Ostend Street | Suite 110 | Baltimore, Maryland 21230 | P: +1 410.779.3400 | F: +1 443.817.0976 www.moodlerooms.com Logging in to the Training Course Accessing the Training Site http://mtsac-sandbox.mrooms.net Logging in Username: (Same as Portal login) Password: (Same as Portal login)

9. The CHANGE You Want E-Learning To Be. 190 West Ostend Street | Suite 110 | Baltimore, Maryland 21230 | P: +1 410.779.3400 | F: +1 443.817.0976 www.moodlerooms.com Setting the Format View to “Topics View” From the Settings block, Select Edit Settings From “Format” Select Topics Format

10. The CHANGE You Want E-Learning To Be. 190 West Ostend Street | Suite 110 | Baltimore, Maryland 21230 | P: +1 410.779.3400 | F: +1 443.817.0976 www.moodlerooms.com Customizing Settings

11. The CHANGE You Want E-Learning To Be. 190 West Ostend Street | Suite 110 | Baltimore, Maryland 21230 | P: +1 410.779.3400 | F: +1 443.817.0976 www.moodlerooms.com What will you find in Moodle courses? BlocksResourcesActivities

12. The CHANGE You Want E-Learning To Be. 190 West Ostend Street | Suite 110 | Baltimore, Maryland 21230 | P: +1 410.779.3400 | F: +1 443.817.0976 www.moodlerooms.com Resources Resources are links to files, URLs, repository items or constructed web pages. Labels help separate sections within your course topics. Label Allows you to input rich formatted text that is housed off the main page of the course. Page Direct link to a URL. URL Direct link to download files. File Gives access to files in a folder created by the instructor. Folder

13. The CHANGE You Want E-Learning To Be. 190 West Ostend Street | Suite 110 | Baltimore, Maryland 21230 | P: +1 410.779.3400 | F: +1 443.817.0976 www.moodlerooms.com Use the HTML Editor to its Full Potential Moodle’s Tiny MC HTML editor is very similar to a word processor. Customize fonts and backgrounds Create links and anchors Insert tables Display pictures and emoticons Clean up messy word HTML formatting. Embed rich media by toggling to HTML source

14. The CHANGE You Want E-Learning To Be. 190 West Ostend Street | Suite 110 | Baltimore, Maryland 21230 | P: +1 410.779.3400 | F: +1 443.817.0976 www.moodlerooms.com Create a Resource in your course Create a Label Create a Page Add a URL Upload a file Create a folder Practice duplicating, moving and removing your newly created resources.

15. The CHANGE You Want E-Learning To Be. 190 West Ostend Street | Suite 110 | Baltimore, Maryland 21230 | P: +1 410.779.3400 | F: +1 443.817.0976 www.moodlerooms.com Activities Activities are interactive components of the course that are typically graded upon completion. ForumGlossaryQuizAssignmentsChat ChoiceDatabaseWikiFeedbackLesson

16. The CHANGE You Want E-Learning To Be. 190 West Ostend Street | Suite 110 | Baltimore, Maryland 21230 | P: +1 410.779.3400 | F: +1 443.817.0976 www.moodlerooms.com Interacting with Course Activities Moodle includes a wide range of activity modules that can be used in a course, including: Users exchange discussion posts Asynchronous communication Announcements Forums Collect work from students, review it and provide feedback 4 standard assignment types Assignments Powerful delivery control Multiple question types Question banks Auto-grading Quizzes Vocabulary list Users can create their own glossary terms Auto-linking to terms in content Glossary

17. The CHANGE You Want E-Learning To Be. 190 West Ostend Street | Suite 110 | Baltimore, Maryland 21230 | P: +1 410.779.3400 | F: +1 443.817.0976 www.moodlerooms.com The Forum Activity Select a forum type that matches your goals. Encourages individual thinking (have to respond before viewing). Make sure you post the question in the forum itself, not the general forum introductions. Be aware of the 30 minute default window for editing. Q & A forums Can help control participants who tend to dominate conversations. Each person posts one discussion For one continuous threaded conversation. Allows students to see the entire perspective of the class without additional clicking (or by only reading certain participants) – not a good way to communicate vital info, however. Single simple discussion Good all purpose forum that allows for multiple postings by each participant. Great format for a help desk forum. Standard forum for general use

18. The CHANGE You Want E-Learning To Be. 190 West Ostend Street | Suite 110 | Baltimore, Maryland 21230 | P: +1 410.779.3400 | F: +1 443.817.0976 www.moodlerooms.com The Assignment Activity Assignments allow instructors to collect work from students, review it and provide feedback/grades. Moodle Core includes 4 assignment types: Upload a single file A student can upload a single file. Advanced uploading of files Multiple file submission, allowing students to type a message alongside their submission. Online text Students type directly into Moodle Offline Activity Teachers provide a description and due date for an assignment outside of Moodle.

19. The CHANGE You Want E-Learning To Be. 190 West Ostend Street | Suite 110 | Baltimore, Maryland 21230 | P: +1 410.779.3400 | F: +1 443.817.0976 www.moodlerooms.com The Quiz Activity Moodle’s quiz module is a powerful assessment tool with numerous options. Different question types Randomly generated quizzes from banks of questions Allow repeated attempts Moodle scores it all Automated feedbackTiming limitsJavaScript securityResults report

20. The CHANGE You Want E-Learning To Be. 190 West Ostend Street | Suite 110 | Baltimore, Maryland 21230 | P: +1 410.779.3400 | F: +1 443.817.0976 www.moodlerooms.com More Hands on Activities: Creating Assignments Task 1: Create an Online Text assignment Add an Online Text assignment activity. Name activity as Topic 1 journal and add a fictitious prompt. Task 2: Add a Forum discussion Add a Standard forum for general use (or one of the other types). Add your prompt and Save changes. From the front page, click on the Forum activity. Add an example post.

21. The CHANGE You Want E-Learning To Be. 190 West Ostend Street | Suite 110 | Baltimore, Maryland 21230 | P: +1 410.779.3400 | F: +1 443.817.0976 www.moodlerooms.com Switch role to… An instructor has the ability to “switch roles” – allowing him/her to view the course through the lens of another role. It’s easy to do this: 1.Turn editing on 2.From the Settings block, select a role from the Switch role to…options

22. The CHANGE You Want E-Learning To Be. 190 West Ostend Street | Suite 110 | Baltimore, Maryland 21230 | P: +1 410.779.3400 | F: +1 443.817.0976 www.moodlerooms.com Setting the Format View to “Folder View” From the Settings block, Select Edit Settings From “Format” Select Folder Format

23. The CHANGE You Want E-Learning To Be. 190 West Ostend Street | Suite 110 | Baltimore, Maryland 21230 | P: +1 410.779.3400 | F: +1 443.817.0976 www.moodlerooms.com Blocks Features that are similar to an app, widget or gadget. Some blocks are Moodle core and available to all clients; some are joule only. Add blocks from the drop- down menu while editing is turned on for the course. If a block isn’t available in the Blocks drop-down, it may need to be enabled by an admin for the site. blocks

24. The CHANGE You Want E-Learning To Be. 190 West Ostend Street | Suite 110 | Baltimore, Maryland 21230 | P: +1 410.779.3400 | F: +1 443.817.0976 www.moodlerooms.com Block Docking Docked blocks Dock icon Un-dock icon

25. The CHANGE You Want E-Learning To Be. 190 West Ostend Street | Suite 110 | Baltimore, Maryland 21230 | P: +1 410.779.3400 | F: +1 443.817.0976 www.moodlerooms.com Hands-on: Exploring a Moodle course Log in to the system. Identify the Navigation and Settings blocks. Dock the Navigation block and browse through the options. Dock the Settings block and browse through options. Dock another course block and then undock it. Find the course FallPilot2011-Your Name Use breadcrumbs to return to the course main page.

26. The CHANGE You Want E-Learning To Be. 190 West Ostend Street | Suite 110 | Baltimore, Maryland 21230 | P: +1 410.779.3400 | F: +1 443.817.0976 www.moodlerooms.com Navigation Block Displays navigable linksLinks can be expanded/collapsed Includes links to both Home (the front page) and My home (the new My Moodle page) Easy way to find your courses

27. The CHANGE You Want E-Learning To Be. 190 West Ostend Street | Suite 110 | Baltimore, Maryland 21230 | P: +1 410.779.3400 | F: +1 443.817.0976 www.moodlerooms.com Settings Block Course Administration Comprises links to sub menus, activated by a click Includes the following important features: Turn editing on/off Edit settings (for pages, resources, activities, etc.) Switch role to… Login as (when viewing a user’s full profile)

28. The CHANGE You Want E-Learning To Be. 190 West Ostend Street | Suite 110 | Baltimore, Maryland 21230 | P: +1 410.779.3400 | F: +1 443.817.0976 www.moodlerooms.com User profile The user profile page gathers together all known information about a particular user. You can do the following from your Profile page: Edit personal details Upload your picture Modify your site preferences Track forum participation Blog Enter and view notes View reports

29. The CHANGE You Want E-Learning To Be. 190 West Ostend Street | Suite 110 | Baltimore, Maryland 21230 | P: +1 410.779.3400 | F: +1 443.817.0976 www.moodlerooms.com Profile – Where to Access Upper right hand corner Or anywhere it appears in the course Clicking on your name Navigation Settings Blocks People block Access other participants’ profiles

30. The CHANGE You Want E-Learning To Be. 190 West Ostend Street | Suite 110 | Baltimore, Maryland 21230 | P: +1 410.779.3400 | F: +1 443.817.0976 www.moodlerooms.com Commonly Used Blocks CalendarPeopleMessagesActivities Latest newsHTMLMy private files

31. The CHANGE You Want E-Learning To Be. 190 West Ostend Street | Suite 110 | Baltimore, Maryland 21230 | P: +1 410.779.3400 | F: +1 443.817.0976 www.moodlerooms.com Calendar block Calendar enables users to manage personal and assigned events. 4 event types: Site Course Groups User Calendar automatically populates: Chat sessions Opening of activities Due dates Cool features: Edit events Change preferences (time, first day, etc) Export events

32. The CHANGE You Want E-Learning To Be. 190 West Ostend Street | Suite 110 | Baltimore, Maryland 21230 | P: +1 410.779.3400 | F: +1 443.817.0976 www.moodlerooms.com Hands-on: Calendar Create a calendar event. Click on the month you want to add an event. Click on the New Event button. Add an event ( e.g. your birthday, homework reminder).

33. The CHANGE You Want E-Learning To Be. 190 West Ostend Street | Suite 110 | Baltimore, Maryland 21230 | P: +1 410.779.3400 | F: +1 443.817.0976 www.moodlerooms.com Messages Block Communicating with Students Messages block People block joule Reports Messaging can be done either from: Similar to ICQ, Gchat, Yahoo Messenger. Used for private communication between student/teacher or student/student. Teachers who have multiple courses can view messages from any of their students in any course section. Messages are not course specific.

34. The CHANGE You Want E-Learning To Be. 190 West Ostend Street | Suite 110 | Baltimore, Maryland 21230 | P: +1 410.779.3400 | F: +1 443.817.0976 www.moodlerooms.com Messaging Enables private communication Messages can be sent to multiple users If a recipient is offline, the message can be emailed to him/her by default

35. The CHANGE You Want E-Learning To Be. 190 West Ostend Street | Suite 110 | Baltimore, Maryland 21230 | P: +1 410.779.3400 | F: +1 443.817.0976 www.moodlerooms.com How does Messaging work? Screen Layout Left : List of people to message. Right : Your message or history with a user. My contacts drop-down menu allows you to contact course participants and view previous conversation and notifications.

36. The CHANGE You Want E-Learning To Be. 190 West Ostend Street | Suite 110 | Baltimore, Maryland 21230 | P: +1 410.779.3400 | F: +1 443.817.0976 www.moodlerooms.com Hands on: Messaging Task 1: Send messages to course participants Go to Navigation > My courses. Select one of the courses. Click on the Participants link. Send a message to all course participants. Task 2: Messaging Preferences Go to Settings > My profile settings > Messaging to opt to be notified when you receive a new message.

37. The CHANGE You Want E-Learning To Be. 190 West Ostend Street | Suite 110 | Baltimore, Maryland 21230 | P: +1 410.779.3400 | F: +1 443.817.0976 www.moodlerooms.com Where to find help! Moodle Docs http://docs.moodle.org Moodlerooms Manuals http://manuals.moodlerooms.com Moodlerooms Tutorials (“Clickables”) http://www.moodlerooms.com/resources/tutorials/ Footer of any Moodlerooms site

38. The CHANGE You Want E-Learning To Be. 190 West Ostend Street | Suite 110 | Baltimore, Maryland 21230 | P: +1 410.779.3400 | F: +1 443.817.0976 www.moodlerooms.com For more information, visit: the OLSC Website: olsc.mtsac.edu

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