Moodle in the Classroom

Exploring Hybrid Learning

By Michael Tanczos

Overview of Moodle

•What is Moodle?

•Why would you want to use it in the classroom?

Using Moodle• How can Moodle improve the

quality of my existing courses?

• Levels of usage:

•Informational

•Interactive between student and teacher

3.Interactive between students

Moodle Tutorials Coursehttp://learn.eastonsd.org/course/view.php?

id=942

Getting Started

•How to log in and view your courses

•Overview of the interface and types of resources/activities

•Adding a student to your class

Resources• Creating a Web Page Resource for your

Syllabus

• Activity: Create a single web page

• Linking to a file or external web page

• Activity: Create two “Link to a file or web page” resources. The first will be a simple link to a web page of your choosing. The second will be to upload and link to a Microsoft Word document or a PDF document.

Assignments•Posting an assignment

•Activity: Create an assignment that requires students to submit “Online Text” to the teacher based on a teacher prompt.

•Activity: Create an assignment that requires students to submit a document to the teacher based on the assignment

Forums

•Forums

•Creating a basic discussion forum

•Activity: Create a simple discussion that will allow students to respond to a teacher prompt

Tips and Tricks

•Fostering effective discussion

•Utilizing a wiki to allow for collaboration

•Blogging to improve writing skills

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