How to use Moodle Spring 2012 PowerPoint Created by Erin Pence & Mike Seeley Any questions, us at

GETTING STARTED

What is Moodle? Moodle is a website that enables us to use various types of technology in one place on the Internet. – Such as… wikis, blogs, weekly calendars, quizzes, surveys, glossaries, etc.

How to get started: Go to: or use the link on our website under “Teacher Links.” (I suggest you make this a favorite on your computer!)

Logging In Your username and password are the same as the ones you use to log into your computer

Once in Moodle, Click on the “Turn editing on” button.

Setting Up a Class First, click on “Add/edit courses” on the left side of the screen. Then click on “add new course” at the bottom of the screen.

Fill in the form… Create a Full Name for your course (ex. Honors Chemistry ) Create a Short Name for your course (ex. HChem) Everything on this page is up to you. You can always change what you choose by selecting settings on your Moodle page.

Sample Setting Page - (Honors Chemistry) This is what has worked for me… And I did not rename any roles – so I left the last section blank

Assigning Roles You can choose to assign roles, or not. It is not necessary.

Starting Your Class You do not need to add students names one at a time. On the first day you use this in class, have students click on your class title (mine is Honors Chemistry), and click yes to be enrolled into your class.

THE CALENDAR

Your Moodle Page The Calendar To adjust anything on this page, make sure to clck “Turn editing on”

Once you have editing turned on, you can add resources or activities to your page by choosing the appropriate pull down menu for each week.

You can add the wiki, blog, or other activity each week. I chose to put all of mine at the top of the page so that students can reference them from week to week. (The blue links are available to students. The gray ones are not. You can change that by clicking on the eyeball icon to the right of each link.) To see what a student would see, choose student from this menu.

This is what the student sees when they look at my Moodle page. They cannot see anything that was in gray on the previous slide.

To hide part of your page, or make it visible, click on the eyeball icon. If the eyeball is closed, it is hidden. Visible Hidden

Copying OnCourse Lessons into Moodle If you don’t want to rewrite your lessons into Moodle, you can copy and paste them directly from OnCourse. 1. Open your lessons in OnCourse 2. Choose Print Preview

3. Check off Homework 4. Click Word (this will export it to a Word document)

5. Select the part you want to copy. Right click on the region and select copy.

6. In Moodle, click icon the pencil and paper icon on the week you wish to copy these lessons to.

7. Right click and choose “paste”. 8. Click “save changes”.

Your lesson plans will be put into Moodle! You can do it this way if it is easy for you. You can also click on the pencil and paper icon and type in whatever you want the kids to see.

If you want to link files or websites to your calendar highlight the information you want to link, then click on the chain icon.

If you want to link to a website, type the URL address here. Or if you want to link a document, click browse. To find a file on your computer, click browse

Choose the file you want from your computer, the same way you would open that file.

The file name will appear next to the browse button. Click upload Then choose the file you just uploaded from your list of files.

Click OK The text you highlighted in your calendar will now be blue and underlined. When you click on it you will see the file or website you uploaded.

BLOGS AND WIKIS AND QUIZZES… OH MY

Creating interactive technology – Wiki 1. Make sure editing is still on 2. Click on the activity menu for whichever week you want. 3. Choose wiki

4. Name your Wiki 5. Write directions to your students in the summary 6. Click Save and display at the bottom of the screen.

Kids can add to or edit this page by clicking on the edit tab.

Creating interactive technology – Blog 1. Make sure editing is still on 2. Click on the activity menu for whichever week you want. 3. Choose forum

4. Give general directions in the introduction. You will be able to add discussions (blogs) to this general introduction.

5. To add a topic, click add a new discussion topic.

6. Choose a subject for this discussion, and add any pertinent information for the students. I strongly suggest you choose not to get an every time a student posts to the forum

An example of one of my discussions…

Other Activities and Features Moodle offers an array of activities that you can use. There is a quiz feature, glossary, surveys and more. You can set up the activities in the same way we have set up the wiki and blog. Try some of them out, and enjoy!

My Links Feature On the right hand side of the screen there is al link titled “My links”. This is a folder for the student. You, as the teacher, cannot see what they have in there. It is a good resource for moving files from school to home. A student saves a file here and is able to access it anywhere they can get to the internet!