1. Presented at Denham Town High School
4/22/2017
Presented at Denham Town High School
Kingston, Jamaica
July 16, 2013
Moodle Training – Use of Online Learning Community/e-Learning Technologies (The Japan Disposition Workshop: Knowledge Transfer Seminar)
KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER WORKSHOP FOR e-Learning Educators of the 21st Century
Theme: “The e-Learning Teacher - enriching classroom deliver!”.
This presentation is being made as a requirement for participants in the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) IT Engineering for Public Institutions participants for Training being provided in Sapporo Japan in Hokkaido. Date of Presentation is Nov. 27, Presenter, Andrew Samuels, an IT Specialist Trainer attached to Mona High School in Kingston Jamaica, working for Ministry of Education, Government of Jamaica.
Andrew C. Samuels,
Information Technology Specialist Trainer
c/o Ministry of Education, Jamaica
Mona High School
Anderw Samuels

2. Overview Moodle – “As a Student” & “As a Teacher”
4/22/2017
Overview
Moodle – “As a Student” & “As a Teacher”
Use of PowerPoint in Learning
Use of Eclipse (Puzzle Maker)
Incorporating Web Video in Lessons (YouTube)
Introducing e-Video Lesson Notes (Camtasia)
Creating Online Fillable Exams/Activities (with MS Word)
Equipment Handling – use of A/V Tools for learning
Use of Video Conferencing in Classroom
As a government high school, Mona High School is located in the Capital City of Kingston, and has 1200 students, 52 teachers and was established in The school boasts modern facilities of two e-Learning Computer Labs with 25 computers each and audio visual equipment along with modern networking connecting using fiber optic cables and wireless access across the almost 70% of the school compound. School starts at 7:45 a.m. Monday to Friday with Devotion and classes starts at 8:10 a.m. – 11 a.m. Lunch for 1 hour then class from 12:10 p.m. – 2:35 p.m. Extra Curricula activities such as Clubs and Organized groups are held inside the school time table which is compulsory, and has sport training after school until 5:30 p.m. in Soccer (Football), Cricket, Athletics, Basketball, etc. along with Voice and Performing Arts Training.
Anderw Samuels

3. What is Moodle?
Moodle is an Open Source Course Management System (CMS)
Learning Management System (LMS) or a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE).
It has become very popular among educators around the world as a tool for creating online dynamic web sites for their students.
To work, it needs to be installed on a web server somewhere, either on one of your own computers or one at a web hosting company.

4. Focus of Moodle
The focus of the Moodle project is always on giving educators the best
tools to manage and promote learning, but there are many ways to
use Moodle:
Moodle has features that allow it to scale to very large deployments and hundreds of thousands of students, yet it can also be used for a primary school or an education hobbyist.
Many institutions use it as their platform to conduct fully online courses, while some use it simply to augment face-to-face courses (known as blended learning).
Many of our users love to use the activity modules (such as forums, databases and wikis) to build richly collaborative communities of learning around their subject matter (in the social constructionist tradition), while others prefer to use Moodle assess learning using assignments or quizzes.

5. Doing moodle as a student
Let’s Get Started
Doing moodle
as a student

7. A Online Course is given a Title/Course Name
Here is a Course in CXC Geography.
Topic: Rivers
In this segment, we will review and discuss the use of tools on Moodle to do a lesson and have you participate as a student.
Please take this activity seriously as you will be required to design a short course in the follow-up activity of this learning exercise.
URL:
LOGIN: first initial last name (asamuels)
PASSWORD: denham123
You may also log on as a GUEST for this exercise

8. Course Main Page
Some courses, you will later find out can be created with Guest Access and allows persons to view content, who are not students in class who were enrolled!
Once you have logged into Moodle, you will see the courses that were set up for you to participate in.

9. Effective use of Office Productivity Tools
PowerPoint files can be loaded to Moodle for students. Similarly, any file created in Microsoft Office can be added.
Let us review PowerPoint and Activity Sheet on Rivers
Chat rooms – a great way to get students to interact by sharing content and stimulating discussion. We know, social chat is the biggest thing since yo-yo!
Let us try chatting.

10. Effective use of Chat Rooms
The term chat room is primarily used to describe any form of synchronous conferencing, occasionally even asynchronous conferencing. The term can thus mean any technology ranging from real-time online chat and virtual interaction with strangers over instant messaging and online forums to fully immersive graphical social environments. Source: Wikipedia
In a chat room, the teacher can set the questions and encourage students to discuss content. Can be done in small group or large group.

11. Glossary – Useful for building key concepts
A glossary, also known as a vocabulary, or clavis, is an alphabetical list of terms in a particular domain of knowledge with the definitions for those terms.
Are there any drawbacks to using Glossary?
How else can Glossary be used positively in a Constructivist Classroom?
When used, Glossary allow students to build vocabulary and reinforce key points in definitions.

12. LET’S
TALK
Student
Centered
Learning

13. Web Content In The Classroom
Web content is the textual, visual or aural content that is encountered as part of the user experience on websites. It may include, among other things: text, images, sounds, videos and animations.
Web Links you find on the Internet maybe posted and shared so others can benefit from the information.

14. Online Testing
Online Testing is a tool used to assess a student’s competence using real time computing skills. (Samuels 2013)
Password: test123

15. Doing moodle as a TEACHER
Part II
Doing moodle
as a TEACHER

16. A B C Course Creation – First Step What do you do?
As a Teacher, the primary role of Moodle is used to create courses for your students to take part in online. Let us go through in how to create a course!
Follow and create your own Subject based course, in which you will use three of the activities to design the course.
What do you do?
Course Creation
Create the Course online
Add the content to the Course
Add Activities to the Course
Enrolment
Create log in for students (done once) using
Name and address.
Enrol them in course
Monitor Students in Course
Mark Assignments and Give feedback along
with grades. A B C

17. Course Creator Moodle Is Managed From Here
Users: This option allows you to create the persons who are to take your course and assign their roles.
Courses: This option allows you to create a new course for student to take. Inside the course, your course activities are placed.
Grades: Allow you to adjust grading scheme to match your school’s system.

18. Course Creation Choose Courses Select ADD / EDIT Course
You may select ADD A NEW COURSE
OR A NEW CATEGORY WITHIN AN EXISTING COURSE
Choose Denham Town and add course there

19. Information Technology
Course Tree
Course:
Information Technology
Sub Category: These maybe the classes /groups taught
Grade 8 D
Grade 8 E
Grade 10 Option A
Grade 11 Option A
Choose Add a New Sub Category

20. Creating a course Choose create a course Provide Course Information:
Course Full Name
Course Short Name
Course ID Number
Course Summary
Format of Course
Num. of Weeks/Topics
Course Start Date
Hide Sections
News Item to Show
Show Grade book to student
Show activity report
Maximum Upload size
Guest Access

21. Course created
Following the creation of a course, the task of adding content is dependent on the teacher. You must determine what Resources and Activities are best to be used to achieve your objectives.

22. Adding Course Resources
File: When you wish to share with your students a simple file such as a Word-processed document or slideshow (e.g. created in MS Word, PowerPoint, or Open Office) you use the file resource type. It allows you to upload and display a variety of resources on your course. How your students access them depends on your choices in File resource settings. Note also that they will only be able to open your files if they have the appropriate software on their own computers.
Folder: A folder allows a teacher to display several course resources together. The resources may be of different types and they may be uploaded in one go, as a zipped folder which is then unzipped, or they may be added one at a time to an empty folder on the course page.
Label: A label serves as a spacer on a Moodle course page. It can be used to add text, images, multimedia or code in between other resources in the different sections. It is a very versatile resource and can help to improve the appearance of a course if used thoughtfully. Banners or descriptions may be added to labels to distinguish between and highlight different areas.
Page: A page resource creates a link to a screen that displays the content created by the teacher. The robust Text editor allows the page to display many different kinds of content such as plain text, images, audio, video, embedded code or a combination of all these.
URL: A URL (Uniform or Universal Resource Locator) is a link on the internet to a website or online file. Teachers can use the URL resource to provide their students with web links for research, saving the student time and effort in manually typing out the address. The URLS can be displayed in various ways - see the URL resource settings for example, opening in a new window so a student can access and use the URL, close it and return easily to their original Moodle course page.

23. An activity is a general name for a group of features in a Moodle course. Usually an activity is something that a student will do that interacts with other students and or the teacher.
There are 14 different types of activities in the standard Moodle that can be found on the "add an activity" drop down menu.
Assignments Enable teachers to grade and give comments on uploaded files and assignments created on and off line
Chat Allows participants to have a real-time synchronous discussion
Choice A teacher asks a question and specifies a choice of multiple responses
Database Enables participants to create, maintain and search a bank of record entries
External tool Allows participants to interact with LTI compliant learning resources and activities on other web sites.
Forum Allows participants to have asynchronous discussions
Activities

24. Activities
Glossary Enables participants to create and maintain a list of definitions, like a dictionary
Lesson For delivering content in flexible ways
Quiz Allows the teacher to design and set quiz tests, which may be automatically marked and feedback and/or to correct answers shown
SCORM Enables SCORM packages to be included as course content
Survey For gathering data from students to help teachers learn about their class and reflect on their own teaching
Wiki A collection of web pages that anyone can add to or edit
Workshop Enables peer assessment

25. Let’s create User Accounts
Users: The user is a person who makes use of the Online Learning Management System. There are a variety of ways a person use Moodle.
Roles: A role is a collection of permissions defined for the whole system that you can assign to specific users in specific context/

26. You can determine the rights Users have by specifying their roles in the Allow Role Assignment settings.
Role Assignment
To edit a role:
Go to Administration > Site administration > Users > Permissions > Define roles.
Click the edit icon opposite the role you want to edit. For example "student".
On the editing role page, change permissions as required for each capability.
Scroll to the bottom of the page and click the "Save changes" button.

27. How to add users? Adding New Users for your course: Select Users
Choose Add A New User
Important changes are in RED
Supply the information and select Create User

28. Enrollment
This is the process of assigning students to take a course being taught.
1. Open the Course
Select Users
Choose Enrolled Users
2. Choose Enrol Users
From the list of users in the system, choose the persons you wish to enrol and enrol them.
Also, use the Plus Sign to assign additional roles if needs be.
3. Enrol users
4. Add additional role only if the needs require that the Student must be a Teacher, Manager, etc.

29. Assignment Marking Demonstration will be done in the interest of time.
Video will be developed and posted for teachers to benefit from using.