some moodle activities the road less travelled

Choosing Moodle Activities

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Looking at some less used activities in Moodle

» Book

» External Tool

» Glossary

Other lesser used (but not today)

» Workshop

» Lesson

Book is to Pages

as

Folder is to Files

» Create a resource of related web pages

» Chapter and sub chapter titles formatting

» Use Editor to configure content

» Embed videos, images

» Linked content pages together

» HTML Editor (online)

» Browser access (for tablets/mobile)

» No Plugins needed

» Can print chapter or whole book

» Auto-Linking filters

» Support Manual …

» Interactive Course Content

» A library of resources (embedded videos?)

» Student Showcase

» Public facing content pages

» Demo creating Book

Linking

Learning Tools

to Moodle

» Use Moodle as a launch pad for other Learning Technology

» Easy integration with no plugin

» Single Sign on

“Allow the seamless connection of web-based, externally hosted applications and content, or Tools to platforms that present them to users”

MOODLE

1. WP Admin Gives Teacher Configuration

Details

3. Student Clicks Link

2. Teachers Adds

External Tool

4. Wordpress creates student

account Logs student in

5. Student Writes blog posts

MOODLE

1. Admin Gives

Teacher Details

3. Student Clicks Link

2. Teachers Adds

External Tool

4. creates account Logs student in

Gives access to course

Central Exam Moodle

6 Sends Back

Grade

5. Student Does Exam

7 Grade added to Gradebook

» SpACE .5

» WebPA 1.0.0.3

» Campus Pack v4.2

» Noteflight 2.1

» CourseSmart ServiceHub 2

» Mediasite v6.0.2

» WebAssign API v1.0

» Ucompass Octane

» Tegrity BLTI

» Barnes & Noble NOOK Study

» PebblePad

» ChemVantage

» SCORM Cloud BLTI

» Piazza

» BadgeStack

» Bigbluebutton

» Moodle

» Tandem

» Mediawiki

» LangBlog

» Elgg

» Mahara

» Joomla!

» Question2Answer

» Status.net

» Vanilla2

» Videochat

» Google Apps

» LTI Plugin for Wordpress...

» Demonstration

“a list of terms in a specific subject area with accompanying

definitions”

» Teacher or Student Creation

» Teacher or Student rating (grades)

» Teacher or student comments

» Entries grouped in Categories

» Entries searchable

» Auto-link filter!

Before:

» Teacher has glossary in word document or pdf

» Teacher uploads the PDF into the course for students

After

» Teacher creates the entries in the glossary activity

» Students can now browse/search it online

Before:

» Teacher creates the entries in the glossary activity

» Students can now browse/search it online

After

» Teacher adds the random glossary block to the course page

» Students now see random definitions on the page while viewing the content

Before:

» Teacher creates the entries in the glossary activity

» Students can now browse/search it online

» Random Block enabled

After

» Teacher enables auto-linking filter so that phrases in glossary are linked within course content text.

» Demonstration

Lets turn it on its head

OLD WAY NEW WAY

» Teacher did all the work

» Teacher created entries in glossary

» Students viewed them

» Students do most of work

» Students create entries in glossary

» Teacher approves them

» Students co-create the glossary

Some ideas More Ideas

» Book Reviews

» Biographies

» Quote Collection

» Article Clippings

» Interesting Resources

» Quiz Questions

» Recipes

» Student Showcase

» Image gallery

» Video Archive

» Demonstration of Student creation, commenting and rating

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