create an online course in moodle 2010 spring conference
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Becky Koch's notes from the Create an Online Course in Moodle breakout sessionTRANSCRIPT
Create an Online Course in MoodleExtension Spring Conference – March 31, 2010Becky Koch, 701 231-7875, [email protected]
Goals:Review current courses in PDC and campusSet up a course, including enrollmentInsert text and a photoCreate a quizCreate a book
Moodle – Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning EnvironmentPulls together information into an organized format with many optionsAllows clients to have anytime, anywhere learningOpen source so free and continually updated by the communityAvailable through and supported by eXtensionwww.moodle.org and eXtension Moodle online training at http://pdc.extension.org/course/category.php?id=36
http://pdc.extension.org – professional development courses for internal Extension audiencesmiscellaneous: Moodle 101; state specific: NDSU evaluation, self-assessments
http://campus.extension.org – external, client-focused coursesRadio Basics for First Responders, ND Master Gardener
The following courses at http://campus.extension.org are available for work. Please let Becky know if you’d like to work on one so she can give you teacher status.
Family Disaster Preparedness USDA’s Roles in the National Response Framework Ready Business Preparing Your Message for the Media
HintsUse breadcrumbs instead of back buttonMoodle saves automaticallySwitch role to student regularly to see what your course will look like to your learnersRoll over icons for descriptionsRemember to create a question bank first then create quizzes from those questions
1. Go to http://campus.extension.org/.2. Login with your eXtension ID and password or OpenID.3. Since these courses aren’t public yet, find your course shell using Search Courses.4. E-mail Becky for teacher status for the course you want to work in.5. Open a new tab in your Internet browser (Explorer or Firefox).6. Go to http://www.slideshare.net/tag/NDSUMoodle7. Click on the course you want to develop in Moodle.8. Between the title and the PPT slide, click on Download.
9. Save the PPT on your hard drive. You’ll be pulling info from it to create content for the Moodle course.
10. Save a couple photos or graphics separately on your hard drive by right clicking on each and choosing Save as Picture.
11. Copy and paste PPT notes or create similar content for Moodle information.
Settings – format the courseThink about objectives and instructional design firstLogical, short chunks of information; not more than 15 minutes per chunkMay hide sections from students until readyStudents enroll themselves, password (enrollment key) may be required
Add a resourceBook – kind of like PowerPoint, may add video and/or audio, chapters are like pages in a bookCompose a text pageLink to a file or Web page – put in Administration Files first
Add an activity – quiz, survey, certificateQuiz questions – create question bank and categories separately first, then pull questions into a quiz
Grades – see scores of all participants, may be downloaded
Games – crossword -- http://pdc.extension.org/mod/game/attempt.php?id=1780Also cryptex (word search) and hangman
Choice – similar to poll, have students vote/share opinion
To create a courseContact Becky who connects with Texas A&M for a course shellEnroll in Moodle 101 at pdc.extension.org to learn asynchronouslyLook forward to Moodle 101 as a cohort led by Becky and Bob