key questions to ponder do you feel your students could work with the lms (learning management...
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Key Questions to Ponder
• Do you feel your students could work with the LMS (Learning Management System like Moodle)?
• Do you feel your teachers could manage a course that has already been compiled with a LMS ?
• Do your feel your teachers could and would assemble and create content for their LMS courses?
An Introduction to MoodleAn Introduction to Moodle
A Student’s View
The First DayThe First Day
Login to shs.trilliumtrail.net
Your username is your first initial last nameWith no space in between.
Example: John Sarandrea >>jsarandreaInitial password: new
To change your password and/or edit your profile click on:
OR
Click on Home to get back to the site’s Home page
Enrolling in a Course - Courses should be set upwith an enrollment key. The enrollment key for Introduction to Moodle is: cffcoach1
Click on to Enroll
Enrollment Key: cffcoach1
Enrollment key is only used only the first time youenter a course
Resources - information going out
Activities - information going in and out
IMS or IMS like content packages webpagesand multimedia content into a package thatcan be uploaded to LMS sites.
Information going in twodirections - A great wayto manage student work.
Offline Assignment: Assignment givenOnline, but graded offline.
A quick online essay assignment. Click on the
Edit my submission button above. We will look at everyone’s short essay as a teacher would view them in a few minutes.
Browse for the file on your computer.
Click Open
Then Upload this file
Then Continue
And your course name to get back home
Try taking the quiz.we will look at the results as a teacher alittle later.
Take the 5 question quiz. We will look At the results later from a teachers view
Please answer the 5 questions. Good Luck!
And submit your results
Review and then click Finish review
Back to the Home page for IntroMoodle
Click on the GlossaryActivity
Enter name of your favoriteWeb 2.0 activity
Describe the activity here
Save changes and return tohomepage of course.
Click on the Forum Activity
Participate in this discussion while I spend 10 minutes giving everyone teacher rights so you can see how entries look from a teacher’s perspective.
An Introduction to MoodleAn Introduction to Moodle
A Teacher’s View
The initial screen looks similar. If you click on eachof the resources to the leftyou will find out they arethe same.
Click on each of the Activitiesto the left. Notice how theyare quite different.
Offline Assignmentevaluated offlinescore, comments canbe recorded online
Click here to see completedassignments or to recordresults
Back to the homepage
Uploading an Assignment
Home page
Quiz Results
Home page
Glossary Activity
Home page
Forums
Home page
Some outside web 2.0 programs may be betterthan activities that are part of Moodle. I like CoverItLiveFor surveys, chats.
Editing Resources and Editing Resources and AssignmentsAssignments
A Teacher’s View
Home page
Click on Turn editing oncontrol
Icons To Work With Specific Entries
Deletes item
Icons To Work With Specific Entries
Deletes item
Icons To Work With Specific Entries
Moves item to new vertical position
Icons To Work With Specific Entries
Opens up editor page for item
Editing pages for each resourceand activity have some similar, and many different options.Default settings are acceptable for most choices.
Some Resources & Activities are quick and easy to set up.
Some like Quizzes aremore complexed.
Key Questions in Review
• Do you feel your students could work with the LMS?
• Do you feel your teachers could manage a course that has already been compiled with a LMS?
• Do your feel your teachers could and would assemble and create content for their LMS courses?
If so --
• A school should support an instructional technology coach or specialist to assist with its implementation.
• A school should support the technology by administrating the LMS.