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Jointly prepared & compiled by: Adrian Yao Lim Chee Leong e-Learning Academy Taylor’s University, Lakeside Campus 9 May 2012 (2

nd Edition)

*The compilation is prepared for internal training & circulation only.

Moodle: The Next LMS Frontier (Basic)


FOR INTERNAL CIRCULATION ONLY of 13 © Copyright Reserved e-Learning Academy (eLA) 2012

CONTENTS

Title Page

1. Getting to know Moodle 2

1.1. Logging in to Moodle 2

1.2. Changing your Password 2

1.3. Layout & Interface 2

1.4. Changing Layout: ‘Weekly’ or ‘Topical’ 5

2. MAGIC Begins! Managing Learning Materials & Activities 7

2.1. Getting to know the ‘MAGIC’ icons 7

2.2. Getting to Know the Editing Symbols 7

2.3. Adding Course Summary 7

2.4. Upload Learning Material: Document-Related and / or Media-Related 8

2.5. Upload a Learning Material within a Learning Material 9

2.6. Embed Youtube 10

2.7. Create Learning Activities: Forum 11

3. Course Administration & Management 12

3.1. Create Groups 12

3.2. Auto-create Groups 13

At the end of this training, instructors are able to: 1. Understand basic & fundamental operational elements in Moodle 2.1; 2. Able to operate, handle & manage basic & fundamental operational elements in Moodle 2.1; 3. Manage, administrate & ‘modernize’ instructor’s respective subject(s) through Moodle 2.1.



1. Getting to Know Moodle

1.1. Logging in to Moodle

To log in to Moodle, instructors are required to:

Access Moodle through this link: http://m.taylors.edu.my/TUL.

Currently, Moodle is not integrated with the Taylor’s Online (staff portal and student portal) as it is in development stage. Instructors will have to login separately using the given URL.

However, when the Moodle is ready in production server, the system will be integrated to allow instructors & students single sign-on.

Figure 1: Accessing Moodle from link provided

1.2. Changing your Password

The first time you logon, after entering your user name and password, you will be redirected to a page where you can change your password.

Follow the relative instructions to change your password.

1.3. Layout & Interface

The layout & interface may look pretty ‘complex & scary’ but it’ll be fine once an instructor recognises the location, shortcuts etc of all the functions.

Refer to Figure 2 & Figure 3 for a snapshot of the interface.

HANDS-ON

1. Instructors logging in to Moodle via http://m.taylors.edu.my/TUL. 2. Instructors change their password access.

http://m.taylors.edu.my/TUL

http://m.taylors.edu.my/TUL



Figure 2: Main Layout Interface featuring all courses / modules instructors currently teaching

My Courses (modules instructors teach)



Figure 3: Typical Layout Interface featuring a particular course / module instructors are currently teaching

Course Content

‘Turn Editing’ icon:

MAGIC begins here!



1.4. Changing Layout of Course: ‘Weekly’ or ‘Topical’

Instructor can determine whether to use ‘weekly’ or ‘topical’ format. By default, it’ll be in weekly format.

Weekly Format

Topical Format

Figure 4: Layout can be customized according to weekly or topical

HANDS-ON

1. Instructors modify the layout of course from ‘weekly’ to ‘topical’ format. a. Click ‘Turn Editing’ on. Under Settings, click ‘Edit Settings’. b. Search ‘Format’ select ‘Topics format’. c. Under ‘Number of weeks / topics’ select ‘5’. d. Scroll down click Save changes.



2. MAGIC Begins! Managing Learning Materials & Activities

2.1. Getting to know the ‘MAGIC’ icons

‘MAGIC’ icons allow instructors to work on their learning activities.

Figure 5: Adding learning activities via two platforms

2.2. Getting to Know the Editing Symbols

Editing symbols are symbols that instructors use to edit their course content.

A series of editing symbols will always appear alongside a learning materials & activities.

Symbols

Moodle Terms

Move Move up /

down

Move right

Update Duplicate Delete Hide Groups Assign roles

Means - - Tab in Edit Copy & Paste

- Invisible Assign groups

Assign roles

2.3. Adding Course Summary

Instructors may want to insert general summary / pro-forma of course.

Figure 6: Universal editing symbol

HANDS-ON

1. Click on the 1st bar of the module. (sometimes, News Forum will appear as default). 2. Under Summary of General uncheck ‘Use default section name’. 3. Under Section Name type Course Objectives. 4. Under Summary type Students will learn how to insert a Course Objective. 5. Click ‘Save Changes’.

Instructors add various course documents &

handouts.

Instructors add various learning activities; quizzes,

LAMS, glossary etc.

Click this.



2.4. Upload Learning Material: Document-Related and / or Media-Related

Instructors upload learning material that is document-related and / or media-related in Moodle.

This is how instructors Moodle should look like after Hands-on.

Figure 7: Uploading a learning material

HANDS-ON

1. Click on the bar with 1. The 1 represents as week 1. 2. Under Summary of Topic 1 uncheck ‘Use default section name’. 3. Under Section Name type Chapter 1: ABC. 4. Under Summary type Students will learn how to insert a Course Objective. 5. Click ‘Save Changes’.

6. Under , check File. 7. Under General:

a. Under Name type Chapter 1: ABC. b. Under Description type Chapter 1: ABC.

8. Under Content: a. Click Add. A grey box will appear. Click ‘Upload a File’. b. Click Choose File to select Chapter 1 - ABC. You may ignore the rest of preference. c. Click Upload this file.

9. Under Options: maintain original settings. 10. Under Common Module Settings:

a. Show learning materials visible. b. Hide learning materials invisible.

11. Click Save and return to course.

If instructor has completed uploading Chapter 1: ABC, repeat the same process above for Chapter 2: DEF and Chapter 3: GHJ.

Click this.



2.5. Upload a Learning Material within a Learning Material

Instructors upload learning material within a learning material in Moodle.

It can be a document related or media related file.

HANDS-ON

1. Click on the bar with Chapter 2: DEF. 2. Under Updating File in Chapter 2: DEF, proceed to Description*. 3. Select the following icon: Moodle Media.

4. Under General:

a. Under Name type Sample Audio. b. Under Description type Sample Audio.

5. Under Content: c. Click Add. A grey box will appear. Click ‘Upload a File’. d. Click Choose File to select Sample Audio. You may ignore the rest of preference. e. Click Upload this file.

6. Under Options: maintain original settings. 7. Under Common Module Settings: maintain original settings. 8. Click Save and return to course.

If instructor has completed uploading Sample Audio, repeat the same process above for Sample Video.



2.6. Embed Youtube

Instructors can embed Youtube in a learning material.

Begin your embedding by deciding the week or topics you would like to embed like shown below:

HANDS-ON 1. Decide on which learning resource. Under Add a resource, select Page. 2. A Adding a new page to … will pop-up.

a. Under Name*, type Sample Youtube. b. Under Description*, type Sample Youtube.

3. Proceed to Youtube.com. Search the video an instructor would want to embed. Every Youtube link should have this.

4. Click on Share. Upon clicking, another bar shall appear like this:

5. Click Embed. There will be a highlighted link appear (as shown above). Copy the highlighted link. 6. Revert back to Moodle. Under Content in Page Content*, click the HTML icon.

7. A HTML Source Editor will pop-up. Paste the Youtube highlighted link inside the pop-up. Click Update.

8. Click Save and display.



2.7. Create Learning Activities: Forum

Discussion boards are forums. Forums can be customized in different ways; including peer rating of each rating.

It can also be viewed in various formats, including attachments as well.

When subscribing to a forum, an instructor can impose subscription to everyone.

Figure 8: Adding a forum

HANDS-ON 1. Decide on which learning activity. Under Add an activity, select Forum. 2. A new page will appear as ‘Adding a new Forum to …’. 3. Type the following:

a. Under Forum Name: Sample Forum ABC. b. Under Forum introduction: This is sample forum ABC.

4. There are some default settings already set in the forum.

5. To grade a forum, under Ratings, select the following: a. Under Aggregrate Type, select Maximum rating b. Under Scale, select the appropriate grading scale. Maximum = 100, minimum = 1.



3. Course Administration & Management

3.1. Create Groups

Instructors are able to assign groups within the course & within particular activities; such as separate or visible groups in an assignment, drop-box etc.

Separate groups mean only students in same group can see and participate in discussions within a particular forum.

Figure 9: Creating a group

HANDS-ON 1. Under Settings (left bar), click Users. Create group. 2. Type the following:

a. Group name: Sample Group 1. 3. Click Save changes. Your new group has appeared. 4. To add users into the group, click Add/remove users. 5. You’ll be directed to a new page. The list of students enrolled to your course will appear. Select

the students you would like to assign in that group. 6. Click the Add to ‘transfer’ the students. Click Remove if you would want to remove. 7. Click Back to groups once instructor has completed.



3.2. Auto-create Groups

Auto-create groups are useful when instructors would want generic names for each group (i.e. Group 1, 2, 3 or A, B, C…) and to create large number of groups.

This is to avoid repetitive steps as in creating a group.

HANDS-ON 1. Under Settings (left bar), click Users Auto-create groups. 2. A new page will appear. Assuming instructor wants to create 5 groups. Type the following:

a. Under Group/member count: 5. b. Decide your grouping naming. Under Naming scheme:

i. Type Group @ for A, B, C etc. ii. Type Group # for 1, 2, 3 etc.

3. Click Submit.

In actual situation, the number of groups created will be based on the number of students. Otherwise, Moodle will prompt the following:

Insufficient users to populate this number of groups - there are only X users in the selected role.

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