moodle: an open source course management system
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Workshop on Moodle presented at Dawson College on March 30th, 2009.TRANSCRIPT
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A Free Open Source Course Management System
Rafael ScapinCoordinator of Educational Technology
Office of Instructional DevelopmentDawson College
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Theoretical Moodle
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Moodle is a free software e-learning platform (also known as a Course Management System (CMS), or Learning Management System (LMS), or Virtual Learning Environment (VLE)).
Acronym for:
Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment
What is Moodle?
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Moodle was created in 1999 by Martin Dougiamas, a WebCT administrator at Curtin University, Australia.
What is Moodle?
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Moodle is used in 208 countries in 75 languages.
Who uses Moodle?
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Moodle in Québec
Who uses Moodle?
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Who uses Moodle?
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Who uses Moodle?
August 31st, 2009: expiration of WebCT’s licence
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Moodle at Dawson
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Migration from WebCT to Moodle
WebCT 4 Course
(Created by Rajesh Malik)
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Migration from WebCT to Moodle
WebCT 4 Course migrated to Moodle
(Created by Rajesh Malik)
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Moodle can easily be used to:
• Create, deliver and manage web-based content for courses.
• Add online elements to traditional courses (to supplement current in-class instruction).
• Facilitate and deliver completely online courses asynchronously or with limited face-to-face interaction.
What is Moodle?
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Moodle can easily be used to:
• Communicate, real-time and/or asynchronous collaboration and communication tools
• Assess integrated quizzes and grade books
• Manage course/content: upload course materials (audio, video, documents like .doc, .pdf, .ppt files), link to other sites, embed files and resources
What is Moodle?
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Moodle can easily be used to:
• Attach files for students to download
• Link to resources anywhere on the internet
• Create interesting classroom environments without learning HTML
• Easily manage your course from year to year (never lose your work!)
What is Moodle?
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Moodle can easily be used to:
• Continue your class discussions online
• Chat online with students
• Engage students in discussions forums
• Help students collaborate over the internet, within their groups and within the classroom.
What is Moodle?
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• No programming experience necessary
• Engage all learning styles
• Provide multiple methods for learning the same material
• Decrease paperwork (green solution!)
• Engage digital natives where they learn best
What are the benefits?
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There are 2 ways you can start using Moodle:
1.Using it via web:
http://moodle.dawsoncollege.qc.ca
Or
2. Installing it on your computer
(this way you can use it offline too!)
http://download.moodle.org/
Windows, Linux and Mac OS
How do I start?
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Practical Moodle
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Starting with Moodle
Go to:
http://moodle.dawsoncollege.qc.ca
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Starting with Moodle
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Starting with Moodle
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Positioning blocks
Assign roles to a block
Hide blockDelete blockMove UpMove DownMove Right
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Editing an activity block
Move rightMoveUpdateDeleteHideGroup
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Editing a topic block
Show only this topic
Highlight this topic as the current topic
Hide this topic from students
Move Topic Down
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Adding a Resource into a Topic
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Adding an Activity into a Topic
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Adding Blocks
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Admin Panel
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Examples of Moodle courses
Starting with Moodle
https://moodle.polymtl.ca/course/view.php?name=soutien
https://moodle.polymtl.ca/course/view.php?id=448
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Examples of Moodle courses
Starting with Moodle
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Books on Moodle
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Books on Moodle
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Books on Moodle
Free Moodle book:
“Using Moodle”
http://docs.moodle.org/en/Using_Moodle_book
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Presentation online
This presentation can be downloaded at:
www.slideshare.net/oid