December 28, 2004

Basic Moodle workshop

Who is this for?

Moodle workshop for newcomers to Moodle and faculty who’d like to review basic material. You will set up, configure and add content to your own Moodle course so come prepared with a course syllabus. There will be time where faculty can share their experiences of using Moodle with a class and offer advice and tips.

When & Where?

Thursday January 6th, 9:00 am to 4:00 pm with an hour for lunch.
PC Lab in the Bolling Centre. Refreshments and lunch in the Richmond room

Preparation

  1. Bring the syllabus of the course you want to host on Moodle as a Word document (or html page). You can either put it on your home network drive (H:) or on a floppy. You will use the syllabus to create the ‘home page’ for your Moodle course.
  2. Email me (markp) the name and id (eg Advanced Modern Dance, AWPE331) of the course you want to put onto Moodle so that I can create the course ahead of time for you to work on in class. You can easily change this during the workshop.
  3. Log in to the Moodle site moodle.earlham.edu (exit immediately after you log in) so that you are registered with the Moodle system and I will then be able to make you the teacher of the course I create for you.

Topics

The order of these can be changed to suit circumstances. If we don’t have time to cover creating Acrobat (pdf) files we’ll do this in the next day’s session.

Getting Started
  • What is Course Management. Why Moodle?
  • Setting up a course:
    • weekly type
    • topics type
    • other course settings
  • How students enroll (enrollment key)
  • View mode / Edit mode
Adding Content
  • Setting out the syllabus on the main page
    • using Label activity to add syllabus pieces with HTMLArea
    • uploading and including graphics in the syllabus display
    • using tab feature of Firefox to streamline working on the course home page
  • Adding Resources
    • uploading files into the Moodle file system
    • choosing a file as a Resource
    • moving Resources around on the home page
    • referencing Resources from syllabus or assignment activities.
  • Overview of other Moodle activities
    • assignment and journals
Moodle and your students
  • Customizing the Moodle display that students see.
    • hiding and revealing course components.
    • how students see the course - two ways to mimic what students can see (View Mode / Login as student).
  • Navigating around Moodle
    • display single week, jump directly to section or resource.
Other associated topics
  • Creating Acrobat resources
    • scanning tips for low file sizes
    • print to pdf.
  • Moodle & Powerpoint. Some issues, tips and solutions.
Faculty experiences
  • Ask questions and discuss techniques with faculty who have used Moodle already with a class

Attendees

Annie Bandy
Barb Jurasek
Brent Smith
Corinne Diebel
Dave Leeper
Fonsie Guilaran
Kari Kalve
Kathy Taylor
Kevin Miles
Lori Watson
Mark Van Buskirk
Matthew Price
Neal Baker
Peter Blair
Sandra Mendes
Stephanie Crumley-Effinger
Yukiko Kuramoto
Wes Miller

Posted by markp at December 28, 2004 03:40 PM