Moodle for LinguisticsAutumn 2013

Overview – What is Moodle?Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning

Environment LMS (Learning Management System)Open Source / PHPHosted by the Language Learning Center

Version 2.4+ (WEFLI4), 2.5+ (WEFLI8)Tech support: rlhugo@uw.edu

How do we use Moodle?Ling 100 & 200, all assessment is done on

Moodle. You can create customized quizzes/homework

utilizing predeveloped content.

Accessing the systemDirect the students to the LLC website for

logging in. This way, when server migrations occur the move is seamless for students.

How do students create accounts?They click the NetID login button and it

automatically creates an account for them. They enroll in the course with an “enrollment

key” (i.e., password) that is provided in each section syllabus. (This is a one time process.)Each class section may be given a unique

enrollment key that enrolls them into the correct group into the course.

Afterwards, they only need to click the NetID login and select the course.

Tour of Ling 100http://wefli4.lang.washington.edu/moodle2/co

urse/view.php?id=348

Overview of the course EditingAdding resources and activitiesCreating quizzes/homeworks & questions

Previewing questionsAdding media

Creating Materials

What does a Quiz look like in Moodle:

Quiz

Question bank

category

Question bank folder

Question bank folder

Benefit of the quiz structure:Random questionsShuffling questions and within questionsDescriptions/Instructions

Common question typesTrue/FalseMatchingMultiple ChoiceCloze / Embedded (Hot Potatoes)

http://wefli4.lang.washington.edu/moodle2/question/question.php?returnurl=%2Fquestion%2Fedit.php%3Fcourseid%3D348%26cat%3D12917%252C25684&courseid=348&id=119153

Drag and DropEssay (Manually graded)Short Answer (Complicated auto-grading)Random Short-Answer MatchingAudio recording (Assignment)

Questions with multiple answers and distracters.For questions with multiple answers there is

a grade percentage box at the bottom. However many answers you want to be correct,

they have to TOTAL 100%. For example, two questions are worth 50%

each.Distracter answers need to have a negative

percentage and must equal -100%.These percentage scales go from -100% to

none to +100%.

Cheating PreventionMonitoring student progress and activity

GradingNearly all Quizzes and Homework for

linguistics are autograded. To be taken care of when you create the quiz

and questions. This is why we use Multiple choice, true/false, etc.

Manually check the gradebook to make sure that everyone has completed and submitted their homework.

At the end of the course, the grades are exported to Excel and then imported into Catalyst.