1. ELISA Presentation of the e-learning platform Elisa Serbian Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11-14/7/2006 Giannikopoulou Vasiliki GRNET

2. 2 ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11-14/7/2006 Outline 1.The e-learning platform interface 2.Moodle Basics 3.Presentation of the available courses 4.Elisa Platform Tools – General Information, Possible Applications and How to's a. Books b.Quizzes c.Calendar d.Choice e.Backup f.Restore

3. 3 ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11-14/7/2006 The e-learning platform interface -When you first visit the Elisa e-learning platform, you will see the main screen with a short description of the project in the middle of the screen. On the left- hand side of the screen, you can see the main menu block and the block with the courses you are teaching or taking. -Blocks are useful for holding all kinds of tools and content

4. 4 ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11-14/7/2006 Moodle Basics -Languages: On the upper right, you ‘ll see a dropdown menu with language options. This refers to the system labels. Any user-generated content remains in the language in which it was entered. -Moodle’s Help System: Throughout the platform, you will see a question mark in a yellow circle. This is a link to Moodle’s extensive help system. When you click the question mark icon, a new window pops up with the help entry for the item you are asking about. After you read the help entry, you can close the window with the “Close this window” or look at other help files by clicking on the “Index of all help files” link. You can then select any help item from anywhere in the help system. -Edit your user profile: Once you are logged in, if you click on your username, you will see your profile summary. Then click the Edit Profile button on the upper right hand side of the screen. You’ll see your username and a blank for your password. If you want to change it, do it here. Here you can share information about yourself with other people.

5. 5 ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11-14/7/2006 Login to the Elisa e-Learning Platform -To access the e-learning platform of the ELISA project visit http://www.elisa- project.net/elearningplatformhttp://www.elisa- project.net/elearningplatform -To login to the platform click on the icon shown below:

6. 6 ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11-14/7/2006 Login to the Elisa e-Learning Platform -Type your account details (username, password) and enter the e-learning platform.

7. 7 ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11-14/7/2006

8. 8 E-business training content for SMEs in English

9. 9 ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11-14/7/2006 E-business training content for SMEs in English -The content (and therefore the topics of the course) is divided in three sections: -Section 1: Basic IT knowledge for businesses -Section 2: Introduction to e-business -Section 3: Entrepreneurship on the Internet -Each section is divided in a number of units according to their thematic content -Each unit contains several books -After each book there is a quiz so that SMEs can test their gained knowledge on the corresponding book -Later, we will analyze and discuss thoroughly books and quizzes

10. 10 ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11-14/7/2006 Tutors’ course in English -The first time you will try to enter this course an enrolment key will be asked by the platform (enrolment key : tutor)

11. 11 ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11-14/7/2006 Tutors’ course in English -The structure of this course reflects the structure of the “e-business Training content for SMEs in English” -The course includes practical instructions on how to deliver the corresponding books to the SMEs. -This is all tutors’ (from every country) private area, where you can get to know each other, discuss issues that is of your concern, share thoughts and reflections regarding your experience with the SMEs, etc.

12. 12 ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11-14/7/2006 ELISA platform – Books General Information

13. 13 ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11-14/7/2006 ELISA platform – Books General Information -The BOOK module is an easy way to create multi-page recourses with a book- like format -In the left-hand side of the screen there is the Table of Contents from where we can be directed anywhere inside the book -In addition to the links in the table of contents, you may move through the book using the arrows located to the top-left and bottom-left of the content. -Finally, you have the option to print either the whole book or the current chapter.

14. 14 ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11-14/7/2006 ELISA platform – Books – How to… ….create a new book? 1.Switch to editing mode 2.Select Book from the activity menu in the Topic or Schedule section where you would like to add the book. 3.On the resulting page, give your book a descriptive name (have in mind that the name you give your book will become the text for the link on your main course page – this stands for all the activities you create)

15. 15 ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11-14/7/2006 ELISA platform – Books – How to… 4.Indicate how you want your chapters to be numbered (none, numbers, bullets, indented) 5.Enable or disable printing 6.Allow or disallow custom titles

16. 16 ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11-14/7/2006 ELISA platform – Books – How to… ….add a chapter in my book? Click on the red cross icon at the end of each chapter title within ToC depending after which chapter you want to enter the new one ….edit a chapter in my book? Click on the hand icon that is at the end of the chapter you want to edit ….delete a chapter in my book? Click on the X icon at the end of the chapter you want to delete ….hide a chapter in my book? Click on the eye icon at the end of the chapter you want to be invisible to your students

17. 17 ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11-14/7/2006 ELISA platform – Books – How to… …. add a subchapter in my book? Click in the red cross icon in the Table of Contents to add a chapter and at the Editing Chapter Page check the subchapter box.

18. 18 ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11-14/7/2006 Elisa platform – Books – Practice 1.Create a book with the title “ e-Learning Techniques” 2.Add a chapter in your book 3.Add a subchapter in your book 4.Make the numbering of your chapters indented. 5.Add an image in your subchapter

19. 19 ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11-14/7/2006 ELISA platform Quizzes – General information -Feedback on performance is a critical part of a learning environment and assessment is one of the most important activities in education -The Quiz module allows the teacher to design and set quizzes consisting of a large variety of Question types : - Multiple choice - True/False - Short answer - Numerical - Calculated - Matching - Description - Random short-answer matching - Embedded answers

20. 20 ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11-14/7/2006 ELISA platform Quizzes – General information -Clicking on a given quiz, you will see the quiz Info tab with the quiz name and description, its availability date and the information concerning the number of students who have attempted the quiz -You can modify the quiz by clicking Update the quiz (the top right side). Enabling block editing allows teachers the option of adding HTML and/or quiz results blocks.

21. 21 ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11-14/7/2006 ELISA platform Quizzes – General information -Quizzes have two major components: -the quiz body and -the question pools. Think of the quiz bodies as a container for various types of questions pulled from the question pools. The body is what students see when they take the assessment. It also defines how the students interact with the quiz. The questions in a quiz body can be of any type, chosen manually or at random, and displayed in a set order or a random order. The question pools can contain questions arranged in a manner that makes sense to you. For example, we have created pools based on the contents of the books.

22. 22 ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11-14/7/2006 ELISA platform Quizzes – How to… ….create the quiz body? 1.Turn editing on 2.Select Quiz from the add menu in the content section where you want to place the link to a quiz. 3.In the Quiz editing page, give the quiz a descriptive name. 4.Write an introduction for the quiz. 5.Choose opening and closing dates for the quiz. 6.Choose the options you want to use for your quiz 7.Click the Save Changes button. Then you will be directed to the second editing screen where you will write and select questions to include in the quiz body. It will look like this:

23. 23 ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11-14/7/2006 ELISA platform Quizzes – How to…

24. 24 ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11-14/7/2006 ELISA platform Quizzes – How to… ….create questions for a quiz? 1.From the “Editing Quiz” page, select the question type you want to create from the “Create new question” option. 2.Fill in the form for the question type you are creating. 3.Click Save Changes at the bottom of the form. Notice: Each question type has its own form and options.

25. 25 ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11-14/7/2006 ELISA platform Quizzes – How to… ….add questions to a quiz? Once you’ve created your questions, you’ll need to add them to the quiz. The buttons shown before each question are used to add questions to the quiz. You can select individual questions using the checkboxes on the left of the question list. Select the individual questions and click the “Add to quiz” button at the bottom of the list.

26. 26 ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11-14/7/2006 ELISA platform Quizzes – Reports -The quiz Reports tab includes three sub tabs, one for each report: -Overview (list of quiz attempts ) -Re-grade attempts (recalculate the quiz grades ) -Item analysis (processed quiz data in a way suitable for analyzing and judging the performance of each question for the function of assessment).

27. 27 ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11-14/7/2006 ELISA platform Quizzes – Reports Item Analysis: -Facility Index (% Correct) This is a measure of how easy or difficult is a question for quiz-takers. This parameter coincides with the percentage of users that answer the question correctly. -Standard Deviation (SD) -This parameter measures the spread of answers in the response population. If all users answers the same, then SD=0. SD is calculated as the statistical stadard deviation for the sample of fractional scores (achieved/maximum) at each particular question. -Discrimination Index (DI) -This provides a rough indicator of the performance of each item to separate proficient vs. less-proficient users. This parameter is calculated by first dividing learners into thirds based on the overall score in the quiz. Then the average score at the analyzed item is calculated for the groups of top and bottom performers, and the average scored substracted. -Discrimination Coefficient (DC) -This is another measure of the separating power of the item to distinguish proficient from weak learners. The discrimination coefficient is a correlation coefficient between scores at the item and at the whole quiz. Again, this parameter can take values between +1 and - 1. Positive values indicate items that do discriminate proficient learners, whereas negative indices mark items that are answered best by those with lowest grades. -For further information, please visit: http://docs.moodle.org/en/Quiz_reports#Regradehttp://docs.moodle.org/en/Quiz_reports#Regrade

28. 28 ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11-14/7/2006 ELISA platform Quizzes – How to… ….attempt quizzes? Click on the quiz you want to attempt. In the resulting page click “Attempt the quiz now”. You will be directed inside the quiz where you can: a. Select your answer by clicking in the circle next to it b. Click Next to answer the next question

29. 29 ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11-14/7/2006 ELISA platform Quizzes – How to… c. Once you have answered all of the questions, you can: i. Click on “Save without submitting” which saves the answers without submitting them ii. Click on “Submit page” to submit only a given quiz page iii. Click on “Submit all and finish” to close this quiz. This means that you will no longer be able to change your answers. If you choose that you will be directed to a page with the review of your attempt. It will look like this:

30. 30 ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11-14/7/2006 ELISA platform Quizzes – How to…

31. 31 ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11-14/7/2006 ELISA platform Quizzes – Practice 1.Create a quiz “My first quiz” 2.Create a category named “1 st quiz” 3.Add 2 questions (multiple choice and true/false) inside this category 4.Add these questions to your quiz

32. 32 ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11-14/7/2006 Elisa platform Calendar – General information -The Calendar block displays the following events: -Site (event viewable in all courses - created by admin users) -Course (event viewable only to course members - created by teachers) -Groups (event viewable only by members of a group - created by teachers) -User (viewable only by the user - personal event a student user can create)

33. 33 ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11-14/7/2006 Elisa platform Calendar – How to… ….add a new event? -Click month on Calendar to get an expanded month view -In Calendar view click the New Event button -On a New Event page select the type of event -Set the event properties - -Click Save changes

34. 34 ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11-14/7/2006 Elisa platform Choice -You can use choices as small web polls, to get feedback from your students about any topic you wish. -To create a choice: -Turn editing on -Select choice from the activity menu -Give your question a name, set the options you want and -click “Save changes”

35. 35 ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11-14/7/2006 Backup -In the courses that you are teachers (and therefore have authorization to modify them), it is important to keep backups before any major changes and especially when deleting files (or even in regular basis). -To make a backup: -Click backup on the administration block of your course -Select what you want to save (normally everything) and -Click continue at the bottom of the page -On the resulting page you will see your backup details and the name of the backup file (.zip) -Click continue at the bottom of the page -The next screen will report the results of the backup. Also, you will receive a message that your backup complete successfully (or not…  ) -Click continue and you will be directed to the folder where all backups are saved.

36. 36 ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11-14/7/2006 Restore -You can use a backup to restore a course or to create a copy of it. -To restore a backup: -If the backup zip file is not in the files area for your course, upload the archive file from your desktop. -Click the Restore option next to the file you want to back up. -Click Yes under “Do you want to continue?” -The next screen will detail everything in the backup you have selected. Click Continue. -On the next screen, first select whether you want to delete the data in the target course before you copy the backup or simply add the data in the backup to the target. -Select if you want to restore the backup in a new or an existing course -Click “Restore this course now!”

37. 37 ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11-14/7/2006 Practice Outline -Edit your course -General information and Practice on: -Activity modules (forums, chat, quiz, glossary) -Resources (text or web pages, labels, directories) -Blocks (add, delete, hide) -Upload files, create folders -Create groups -Make a backup of your course and then -Restore

38. 38 ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11-14/7/2006 Editing a course: To add or edit activities or resources you need to Turn Editing On. You can do that by : -pressing the button at the top right of the course homepage or -following the turn editing on link in the administration block. You can turn editing off again by pressing the button or the admin block link again (now renamed turn editing off)

39. 39 ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11-14/7/2006 When editing is on you will see the following icons:

40. 40 ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11-14/7/2006 Activity modules There are a number of interactive learning activity modules that you may add to your course:add to your course -Communication and collaboration may take place using Chats and Forums for conversational activities and Choices to gain group feedback. Adding Wikis to your courses is an excellent way to allow students to work together on a single piece.ChatsForumsChoices Wikis -Work can be submitted by students and marked by teachers using Assignments or Workshops. Automatic marking can be achieved by using Quizzes. AssignmentsWorkshops Quizzes -Content may be delivered and supported using Lessons activities. Key words can be added to Glossaries by yourself or, if you allow it, your students.LessonsGlossaries If all of that isn't enough for you then you can also select other modules that are not part of the platform and ask administrator to include them…select other modules

41. 41 ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11-14/7/2006 Activity Modules - Practice 1.Create a discussion forum with the title: “Previous experiences with e- Learning” and make a first statement. 2.Create a chat and integrate in your course. 3.Add a quiz with two questions. 4.Make an announcement (news forum), where you welcome your training participants. 5.Add a glossary to your course and make a first entry.

42. 42 ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11-14/7/2006 Glossary This activity allows you to create and maintain a list of definitions, like a dictionary. From the “Add an activity” menu, select Glossary. On the resulting page, give your glossary a name (e.g. e-business glossary) and set the settings you want. Click Save changes and then Click on the “Add a new entry” to create the requested term.

43. 43 ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11-14/7/2006 Resources You can use a wide range of different resource types that allow you to include almost any kind of digital content into your courses. These can be added by using the add a resource dropdown box when editing is turned on.resource typesadd a resource -A Text page is a simple page written using plain text. Text pages aren't pretty, but they're a good place to put some information or instructions. If you are after more options for your new page then you should be thinking about adding a Web page and making use of the WYSIWYG editor.Text pageWeb page -Of course the resource may already exist in electronic form so you may want to link to an uploaded file or external website or simply display the complete contents of a directory in your course files and let your users pick the file themselves.link to an uploaded file or external websitedirectory -Use a label to embed instructions or information in the course section.label We will see in detail how you can add these resourses.

44. 44 ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11-14/7/2006 Resources - Practice -Compose a text page (write two sentences about the potentials of e- Learning for training the SME’s) and add it within your individual course (topic outline) -Compose a short web page about your experiences with IT and add it within your course. -Create a link to the ELISA homepage and add it to your course. -Create a link to a local file and add it to your course. -Insert a label to your course presenting your self

45. 45 ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11-14/7/2006 Compose a text page To add a text page, select it from the “Add a resource” menu: -Give your resource a descriptive name, write a summary and the full text. Select your settings and click “Save changes”. It will look like this:

46. 46 ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11-14/7/2006 Compose a text page

47. 47 ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11-14/7/2006 Compose a web page This resource is very similar to the text page except it supports full formatting in the main “Full text” box. From the add a resource menu, select compose a web page In the resulting page, give your resource a descriptive name, description and select the settings you want and then “Save changes” Notice: you have the freedom to do almost anything you like using HTML, including Javascript!!

48. 48 ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11-14/7/2006 Insert a link to a file or a web page -This resource type allows you to link to any web page or other file on the public web. It also allows you to link to any web page or other file that you have uploaded into your course files area from your own desktop computer. -Normal web pages are simply displayed as they are, while multimedia files are dealt more intelligently and may be embedded within a web page. For example, MP3 files will be displayed using a built-in streaming player, as will movie files, flash animations and so on. -There are many options for displaying your content in popup windows, framed windows and so on.

49. 49 ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11-14/7/2006 Insert a link to a file or a web page From the add a resource menu, select insert a link to a file or a web page. In the resulting page, give a descriptive name and description. “Location” is the actual path to the file or website you want to post: -If you are uploading a file, choose or click on the upload a file button -If you want to add a web address, you can simply type it, or you can click on “Search for a web page.” This opens up a new window for you to search for the web page you want.

50. 50 ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11-14/7/2006 Insert a label This feature allows you to insert text, images, and other things directly into the topic box. To add a label, click “Insert a label” in the “Add a resource” menu. This will take you to the label editing page, where you can add the content you want. Finally, click on “Save changes”.

51. 51 ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11-14/7/2006 Blocks -Each course homepage generally contains blocks on the left and right with the centre column containing the course content. Blocks may be added, hidden, deleted, and moved up, down and left/right when editing is turned on. -A wide range of blocks exist that provide additional information or functionality to the learner or teacher. These are included with the Elisa platform but a range of Non-standard blocks exist which you can ask the administrator to add.wide range of blocksNon-standard blocks

52. 52 ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11-14/7/2006 Blocks - Practice 1.Add a new event on the calendar about the first training would take place in Sofia from the … till … (This will be shown on the block: upcoming events) 2.Add at least the blocks : a.“Quickmail”, b.“Who’s on Skype” c.and “Online Users” to your course.

53. 53 ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11-14/7/2006 Files -This option - in the adminstration block -allows teachers to upload files such as PDFs, Multimedia, Word documents, PowerPoint presentations etc. In fact it allows you to upload any digital content for inclusion in an activity, resource, course section or a direct download. -Following the Files link in the administration block lets you see a list of uploaded course files arranged under four headings: file name, file size, the last time a given file was modified, and the action you can do with a given file (or folder). Using the box on the left below the file list, you can move the files you choose (by ticking a box on the left to the file name) to another folder, delete them completely or create a zip archive. There are two more actions you can undertake: 'Make a folder' and 'Upload a file' - both are posited on the right-hand side of the screen under the list. -Whilst uploading is restricted to one file at a time you can upload a zip containing many files. Once uploaded the platform will recognize the file as a zip and show on unzip link. You can then follow the unzip link which will extract the file(s) within. -You can also create a directory and display the whole contents of that directory using the setting in the add resource drop down in a course section.

54. 54 ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11-14/7/2006 Files -To add a file to your course, click on “Upload a file.” -You can browse for a file on your computer by clicking on the “Browse” button. When you have located the file, click on “Upload this file” to load the file into your course.

55. 55 ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11-14/7/2006 Files -To create a folder, click on “Make a folder” -Give your folder a descriptive name and then click “create”. -Afterwards, you can either create subfolders (with the same procedure) or upload files.

56. 56 ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11-14/7/2006 Files - Practice 1.Create two file folders: -General Information -Working Material 2.Add the following course documents within the two file folders: -a ppt file -a word document -a picture

57. 57 ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11-14/7/2006 Groups -At your course’s start page, the next option under “Administration” is “Groups.” “Groups” lets you define groups of students within your course. If you click on “Groups,” you should see a screen like this:

58. 58 ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11-14/7/2006 -To add a group, type the name of the group in the box next to “Add new group,” and then click on “Add new group.” -To add a user, click on the user’s name and click on “Add selected to group.” To add multiple users to a group at the same time, hold down the “Shift” key on your keyboard while clicking on each name. Groups

59. 59 ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11-14/7/2006 Groups - Practice 1.Add a group to your course. 2.Add users to your group

60. 60 ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11-14/7/2006 Practice 1.Adjust the order of the elements of your topic outline to your needs. 2.Create a summary for at least one topic of your topic outline. 3.Create a backup of your course. 4.Restore this backup to your course

61. 61 THANK YOU For questions please contact vasilg@grnet.gr Elisa Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Sofia 13/11/2006