Moodle Academy Webinar: Introduction to Moodle for Educators

Presenters

• Mary Cooch: Education Manager at Moodle
• Anna Krassa: Education Advisor at Moodle

Overview

• Intended for complete beginners to Moodle
• Focus: Teaching with Moodle (how to add resources, files, activities, assignments in a course)
• Audience: Educators interested in using Moodle for teaching
• Not covered: Moodle Administration (covered in another webinar available as a recording)

Key Terms

• Course: Space/page on your Moodle site for teaching materials and activities.
• Moodle Admin/Manager: Typically creates courses and adds students/teachers.
• Editing Teacher: Teachers who can add/delete materials, assign activities, teach, and grade.
• Non-Editing Teacher: Similar to a classroom assistant, can grade and moderate but cannot add/delete materials.
• Students: Learners in your course, can be renamed (e.g., learners, trainees).

Course Setup

1. Setting Up Your Course

   • Personalize with course information and images.
   • Adjust course format (e.g., Topics Format, Weekly Format).
   • Enable/disable completion tracking.
   • Rename roles (optional).

2. Course Navigation and Settings

   • Access course settings to change names, summaries, and images.
   • Course format and additional settings like completion tracking and role renaming.

3. Editing Mode

   • Enable to add/edit course content.
   • Sections: Can be renamed and populated with learning materials.
   • Block Drawer: Add extra information through blocks.

Adding Teaching Materials

• Drag and Drop Files: Easy way to add documents like PDFs directly into the course.
  • Can drag and drop both from the central area and the course index.
• Activity Chooser: Central tool for adding resources and activities.
  • Resources: Static content (e.g., Files, Pages, URLs, Folders).
  • Activities: Interactive or graded content (e.g., Forums, Quizzes, Assignments).
• Resource Example: Page
  • Create pages with text, links, images, and multimedia.
• Activity Example: Assignment
  • Can include online or file submissions, with various feedback methods (text, audio, video).
  • Key settings: submission types, feedback types, restrict access, activity completion.

4. Advanced Features
   • Restrict Access: Hide/show items based on specific criteria.
   • Activity Completion: Track student progress with manual or automatic marking.

Enrolling Students

• Site and Course Enrollment
  • Authentication: Getting users on the site (handled by admin).
  • Enrollment: Getting users into the course (handled by teacher).
• Manual Enrollment
  • Manually add students from the participants' section.
• Self-Enrollment
  • Enable for students to enroll themselves.
  • Optional settings for enrollment keys, enrollment limits, and welcome messages.
• Admin-Enrolled Methods
  • Admin can upload CSV files for bulk enrollment or use cohorts.

Additional Resources

• Moodle Documentation: Access via course question marks or help links.
• Moodle Teaching Basics Program: Courses for beginner teachers.
• Moodle Teaching Skills Program: Courses for teachers with some experience.
• Moodle Educator Certification: Advanced certification for experienced educators.
• Getting Involved: Opportunities to suggest topics, co-present, and create courses within Moodle Academy.

Q&A Highlights

• Various questions around functionality, accessing content, and using features.
• Solutions provided for specific scenarios and additional resources offered for further exploration.