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Exploring some features of moodle
1. Exploring Some
Features of Moodle
* Powerpoint screenshot and AIT moodle screen may be
not match perfectly .
2. What is Moodle? Advantages?
• Open-source
• Free to use and distribute
• Powerful features
• Advanced features – code can be downloaded and modified
3. What is in Moodle for us?
• Creation of course year-wise and branch-wise
– FE, SE (Comp), TE (E&TC), BE (Mech), etc
• Upload of teaching material
– Word, Excel PPTs, PDFs, Images, Videos
• Initiate a topic for discussion
– Forum, Blog, Chat, etc
• Contribution from student
– Student can upload and share study material
• Conduction of on-line examination
– MCQs, True-False, Match-Pairs, Short-answer, Text
• Review of results of on-line examination
– Detailed review and analysis of results
4. Prerequisite
• Install Moodle at any one of PC (as server). This PC should
have at STATIC IP address.
• Ensure that latest version of any web browser and Java
runtime environment is installed on all computers
• Start Moodle Server (Apache)
• Ensure that LAN is working
• One faculty member will work as Administrator
• Administrator will create accounts for Faculty members and
Students
7. Login to Moodle
• Ensure that your PC is
installed with latest
web browser and JAVA
runtime environment
• Open web browser and
type the IP address of
Moodle server
• On the front page
option of login
• Done !!
8. Addition Files or Folders to Subjects (Labels)
• In a course different Topic Label will work as name of subject
• Adding Resource
– A file or folder can be uploaded directly under the label
10. Addition of Activities: Assignments
• Options for Assignments
– Student can see assignment online and can submit manually or online
– Duration of dates can be set (e.g. a week)
– Grading system can be set
– After gradation (by teacher), if not satisfactory, student can resubmit
the assignment
11. Addition of Activities: Chat
• Options for Chat
– A teacher can initiate a
chat or discussion with
students
– All the students enrolled
to the course can
participate in the chat
and can reply to it
– All students can have a
chat with each other or
with teacher
– Useful in case we can
post a question and ask
students to give reply
over it (interactive chat)
12. Addition of Activities: Database
• This is the area where
students can add and share
resources
• Any student can upload
image, text, file, web page
link, etc
• Helpful if we ask students to
gather a material over a
certain topic
• This will encourage students
to search the contents and
share their own material
13. Addition of Activities: Forum
• A forum is open space where students can share their views
about certain topics
• Choices for forum
– Single question
– one post each person
– question and answer
– blog type
14. Addition of Activities: Lesson
• The lesson module enables the
teacher to create an adaptive
learning experience consisting of a
series of pages containing
questions
• Focus: Import Questions
– MCQs, True/False, match pairs, etc
– Aim is different than regular MCQs
– To test the understanding (not exam)
– Correct option and feedback to each
question can be provided
– Format GIFT (an Excel file is available
on Moodle website to convert Excel
directly to GIFT format)
15. Addition of Activities: Workshop
• Workshop enables students to evaluate their own work or the
work of each other and can grade each other’s work
• Useful only for students “serious” about studies
16. Addition of Activities: Quiz
• The quiz module enables the teacher to design and set quizzes consisting of
multiple choice, true-false, matching, short answer, etc
• Each attempt is automatically marked, and the teacher can choose whether to give
feedback and/or show correct answers
• Quiz can be set over a Topic / Unit / Chapter
• The responses can be evaluated in the form of summary
• Teacher can collect the data of Quiz (as database), even can download the
summary in the form of excel sheet
• This option can also be used for collecting feedback by students online
• Options for review by students
17. Exploring Quiz Option
• Name of Quiz – Topic / Unit (Feedback
Name of Teacher)
• Attempts Setting – 1 to 10 or Unlimited
times
• Grading Method – Highest, Average, First
or Last
– (response of specific grading will be
counted in the evaluation)
• Order of Questions – Sequential /
random / shuffle
• Order of Choices – Shuffle or sequential
