Creative Uses of Moodle Modules from 2010 Presentation. Previously on Google drive.

1. Creative Uses of
Moodle Modules
•Paula Clough
•WOW 2010
•Glendale, AZ

2. Introduction
Paula Clough
Educational Technology Coordinator
Douglas Unified School District #27
Moodle.org Message Paula Clough
Email paula_teach@yahoo.com
Twitter paula_teach

3. Moodle
Sources for information on Moodle open source
software:
•Moodle.org
•Demo.moodle.org
• Coolcourses.moodle.org
•Using Moodle forums
•Moodle Exchange
•MoodleCommons.org
•NOTE: This presentation was written when Moodle
1.9 was the latest version. The links now go to the
Moodle 2.2 documentation.
link here

4. Labels and Navigation

5. Labels for Table of Contents
•Basic use: use with long course
pages to give some control.
•Click on the collapsible button in the
right upper corner of the topic box.
•Copy the URL from the address bar.
•Go to first topic box.
•Turn on editing, resources drop down,
select label.
•Type in text, highlight text and click on
the link icon.
•Copy the url in the address bar of
popup, click OK
•Save changes…try it out

6. Choice

7. Choice Features
•Only one question or Choice allowed.
•Many answers possible.
•Limits may be set on each answer.
•Can select whether to publish results to students or
not and when to publish.
•Choose whether results are anonymous or not.
•Choose whether to have a column for unanswered.
•Can allow choice to be updated.
•http://docs.moodle.org/en/Choices

8. Practical Uses of Choicefrom
Kristian Still (Moodle.org)
•A simple question to answer, to kick start - the
beginning of a lesson.
•A question left unanswered from a lesson - that
needs an answer. Now home study.
•As feedback about a lesson, as assessment for
learning.
•As they are so fast to set up - they can even be
used as a polling tool, although there are other
tools out there.

9. Simple Poll With
Images/Videos/ Sounds
•Use HTML Coding in the answers to pull in pictures/ videos /
sounds
•Video of how to by Mary Cooch:
•http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=145882#p63779
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•Choice can be used for

10. Voting Mock or Real
•Students can
participate in
elections.
•Use anonymous
publishing after
the close of the
choice.
•Automatic
results…no ballot
counting
•Can also be used
for mock elections.

11. Research Project Task List
•List the steps for a project.
•Students can update the choice. Students return to choose
the step they have just completed.
•Fast and easy monitoring for teacher and students.

12. Register for a Group/
Course
•Students choose
a group or activity.
•Teacher can
decide whether to
allow changes.
•Can limit number
who can chose
each group.
•With report,
teacher can
quickly form
groups.

13. AgreementFrom Art Lader (Moodle.org)
•User agreements,
assignment
criteria, anything
that students need
to take
responsibility for
reading and
understanding
•Choice allows
teachers to track
who have said
they read and
understand.

14. Quizzes

15. Quiz Features
•Uses a question bank that allows sharing of questions
across the course or the Moodle site.
•Allows a variety of answers: Multiple choice, checkbox,
true/false, short answer, essay, random short answer,
matching, cloze, etc.
•Easy to export/import
•Can allow multiple retakes
•Allows manual grading
•Permits question and answers to be shuffled
•Item anlysis
•http://docs.moodle.org/en/Quiz_module

16. Checklists
•Checklists for
projects,
teaching units,
program skills.
•If reuse with
new group,
need to clear
all user data
first, per Brett
Hinton,
(Moodle.org)

17. Building Speed of Knowledge
Use
•Teacher builds a quiz of knowledge
in course. (could be vocabulary,
basic skills, etc.)
•Practice test is timed with unlimited
retakes.
•Students practice the test with
teacher checking their time.
(Competing against self)
•When student gets the time where
they want, they take a final quiz
based on the practice test they have
been practicing on.

18. Random Questions
•To use random selected question, must put the
questions into the same category.
•Different question will be selected each time a student
takes the quiz.
•Will not allow the same question twice in the same
quiz.

19. Lessons

20. Lesson Features
•Very structured.
•Allows the delivery of content and questions that are
answered to show learning.
•Complicated to set up, but once finished can be very
helpful as the content and questions go together.
•http://docs.moodle.org/en/Lessons

21. Audio/Podcasts/Videos
•Adding audio
or video to the
lesson allows
multimedia
content
delivery.

22. Glossaries

23. Glossary Features
•Two main types: Main and Secondary
•Can be teacher only or students
•Upload of files or pictures allowed—only
Encyclopedia format shows pictures in the entry.
•Searchable in several ways
•Linking is available
•May restrict duplicate entries
•Comments may be allowed
•Easily shareable with import/export feature
•http://docs.moodle.org/en/Glossaries

24. Glossary Formats
•Continuous Without Author
•Encyclopedia
•Entry List
•FAQ
•Full Without Author
•Full With Author
•Simple, dictionary style

25. Database Features
•Very flexible as the fields have to be added.
•Many different types of fields. (date, text, checkbox,
dropdown boxes, pictures, files, URL, etc.)
•Set up Templates
•HTML can make the lists look special
•Searchable
•Comments may be allowed
•Presets and entries can be shared
•Can use groups
•http://docs.moodle.org/en/Database_module

26. Searchable
Linkable
Teache
r and /
or
Student
Format
is
flexible
Comments
Must set
Templates
Restrict
duplicate
entries
Shareable
Glossary
Secondary
can feed into
Main
Collaborative Uses
Database
Must set
Fields
Several
Formats
No
Groups
Authorization can be
required
Groups

27. New Resource for
dictionary/glossaries
•New website which allows words to be listed.
•Pick the definitions already uploaded or add own.
•Download lists in several versions…including Moodle
•http://dictionary.k12opened.com/
•Thanks Karen Fasimpaur and K12opened.com

28. Types of Glossary/Database
Uses
Language and Vocabulary
Sharing with Others
Communication
Classroom Management
Assignments
Study Resources
Resources

29. Language/Vocabulary
•Audio
•Pictures
•Super Glossary SchoolNet Multimedia

30. SchoolNet

31. Sharing With Others
•Annotated Book Reports
•Sharing Relevant Internet Links
•Sharing Reports
•Mini Research Project
•Biographies

32. Communication
•Teacher’s Blog
•Classroom Blog
•Collaborative Work
•FAQ Glossary
•Tip of the Day

33. Teacher Blog
•Continuous
without author
format.
•Put date first to
have in order
through the
school year.
•Allow comments
or not.

34. Collaborative Work
Set up the Glossary.
Click on the “Locally Assign Roles” at the top of the
set up screen.
Assign students the teacher role so they can go in and
edit the entries.
Use Encyclopedia format if you want students to be
able to upload a picture and show it in the entry.
Make sure the edit always is set to yes.
When the project is completed, you can reset the
glossary settings to edit always: no and take the
students out of the locally assigned roles as teachers.

35. Classroom Management
•Classroom Portfolio
•Participant Introductions
•Student of the Week

36. Classroom Portfolio
Students have a place
to keep work.
Set to authorize
entries and then don’t.
It will remain private
between teacher and
student.

37. Student of the Week
•Encyclopedia
format
•Enter photo with
or without text.
(Text would be
included)
•Use Random
Glossary Entry
Block

38. Assignments
•Ratable Recipe Archive
•Poetry Collection
•What Happened in the Year….?
•Overview of Topic
•Community Directory

39. Poetry Collection
•Students add poetry
they have either found
in their research or
what they have written
themselves.
•With Encyclopedia
glossary, uploaded
pictures will show.

40. What Happened in the
Year…?
•Students pick a
year and enter
important events
in history for that
year.
•No duplicate
entries are
allowed.
•May enter events
forgotten by
another student
with comments.

41. Study Resources
•Quiz Questions from Student Mini Research
•Concepts from Chapter 1,2,3
•Course Notes Glossary

42. Resources
•All About Citations: Our Class Bibliography Rules
•Database of Articles
•Job Tips and Tricks
•Moodle Tips Glossary

43. All About Citations: Our
Class Bibliography Rules
•Give the
description of the
parts of a
bibliography
entry for each
type of resource.
•Give an
example in the
same entry for
reference.

44. Databases

45. Journal & Daily
Assignments
•A little fancy HTML to
get the look.
•Shows on Interactive
Whiteboard at
beginning of class.
•Has Journal prompt
and the work of the
day.
•Students who miss
class can easily see
what was done.

46. Individual Student File
Repository
•Allows students to upload
files they are working on.
•Can have one or several
files for each entry.
•Turn on the teacher
approval and don’t approve
to keep private.
•OR set up separate groups
with each student in a
separate group.

47. Database for Collecting
Quiz/Test Questions
•Students make
questions for the
quiz or test.
•Objectives/
Standards PO’s
listed with check
boxes to link to
the question.

48. National Science Database
•Resources to go
with specific
curriculum
performance
objectives.
•Can be shared
with other
teachers/sites
easily with import
and export
features.

49. Research Results Database
•Database can
allow groups to
separate while
they work.
•Can become a
teaching/presenta
tion tool.
•Could be a
research tool for
this or other
classes.

50. Book Reviews

51. Maryel’s Database Presets
•Sharing all kinds
of info and
resources.
•Sharing the
presets for
databases.
•Some creative
HTML for
columns and
colors.

52. Characterization Database

53. Student Behavior
Records/Referrals
•Fields are editable
•Can set it to look
like a form already in
use.
•Easily searchable to
see how many
referrals a student
has.
•Could be made
available to all
teachers/
adminstrators

54. Mechanics

55. General
How to set up a glossary
Using Moodle: Glossary Forum
How to set up a database
Database FAQ’s on Moodle.org
How to set up a choice
How to set up a quiz
Please note these links now go to Moodle 2.2
documentation.

56. Specific Useful Tasks
How to set up Random Glossary entry
Database presets
Database category listings in Moodle.org
How to import glossary entries

57. Thanks to:
•Moodle.org--- all of them– especially Helen, Mary and
Maryel
•Javier Baca– without him there would be no Moodle
at DUSD
•Leanne Bowley (my boss) for encouraging me to work
on this presentation
•Moodlerooms for the training and moral support (Gina
and Sheila and others)
•Larry for all your patience while I moodle