Mini Moodle Summit - October 10, 2014

Design Options

  • One topic format puts tabs across the top.
  • Course homepage with no need to scroll
  • Another format is the grid format.
  • Activities block is a great way for students to access the tools and assignments.
  • Getting kids into the course - gave supervisors ability to self-enroll.  Auto generates an email from the teacher and they email back.
  • Calendars in the courses to keep them organized.
  • People Widget - shows you when they log in and how long they have been on a tool or a page.
  • Columns - 3 columns max.  Mimick F pattern.  Use Docking so that students can choose to block or unblock.  Left hand side is the blocks and admin.  
  • Basic course structure looks the same.  So that you can make a quick start guide for the students.  Audience is parents and students.
  • One non-editing teacher that we can see in every course so that you can look at any of the courses as a student. 
  • Replace taps with Topic 1 - Digital Tools,  Put topic number with description.  
  • Links at the bottom to help navigate to other pages.
  • Create an assignment that says we are here this week in red that you can move down each week.
  • Icons in book can be placed on the assignments.
  •  Feedback Friday using survey's in Moodle.
  • Complete the assignments then take the survey using conditional activities.

Templates

  • Shell for a course so that you have some good design to start off with.  Teacher can modify to make their own.

Understanding by Design (UbD)

Plan out your lessons before you start designing.  See edcamp website - http://hub.rockyview.ab.ca.  

Community of Practice

  • Engaging Studentsi n Distributed Learning Environments
  • Teachers, Admin
  • Learning Coordinatora

Templates for New Teachers

  • Home
  • Info
  • Units
  • Activity completion

Screencast with Recording Tools

  • Wiz IQ - Online 
  • Google Hangouts

Video Capture Tools

  • Video capture - showme.com  You can use your ipad. 
  • Educreations
  • doodlecastpro- you can go back and edit. 

Books Module

  • Grid with a topic - Picture on each topic. Day 1, Day 2
  • Turn on editing and add resource. - books.  Name it and return to course.  A book is great for the pages and organization.   
  • Video that allows students to remix the video - popcorn maker is online and  free (google it).   Show me where the fingerprints would be in the movie.  This sinks and goes right back into the assignments. Allows you to cut the movie and edit it.  

Quiz Module

  • You can incorporate video into your Quizzes.  Create the video with iphone and edit in imovie.  Take chunks of video and change the volume of the person talking.
  • Survey tools that you can add to your lessons.

Hand on Tasks in an Online setting

  • Examples:  Athletic course - learning how to tape.


Shared Pre-made Courses 

  • Check out https://moodle.rockyview.ab.ca
  • -see free moodle apps on moodle.rockyview

HIghlights of Moodle


Powerschool and Moodle
  • Year (2014) Digital Technology
  • Assignments, Quizzes, grades and  can be pushed into Powerschool.
Poodle
- record a video in Moodle. 
- screenshare
- French course - oral assignments
- Submission type Poodle
- Rubrics in grading rubrics so that when you mark. 
- Assignment (where it says simple grading- choose rubric)Feedback  comments can be changed as well to a rubric.

Home Page has these top areas on the site page:
  • Badges to digital backpack.  
  • Locker access for students (video etc.. uploaded from mobile devices show up in their locker.)
  • Calendar - links to course assignments (calendar in Moodle)
  • Messages

Big Blue Button

- You can control the room before students get in. 
- text chat
- give admin rights
- whiteboard
- tools
- upload pdf, word document, images
- Online room recordings
- webcam of people talking.
- ability to type and edit text
- desktop sharing

Text Editor

  • Text editor can be chosen for each individual. 
  • ATTO Editor
  • Equation editor for math is in ATTO editor

Moodle Chat - MSN messenger

  • Synchronous chatting
  • Records everything.  
  • Can have it open as a class with backchannel conversation. 

People Tool

Great for being able to see how much work the student has completed. Click on the student, Admin Tab, Reports, Logs

Grade Book

  • Admin- grades - categories and items
  • Think about summative and formative assignments.
  • Grade book pulls in assignments so you have to figure out the weighting.
  • Default is usually defaulted at the simple mean.  Based on Weighting.  No control if you want to weight something zero.  So it is recommended that you go to weighted mean of grades.  
  • You need categories - add category at the bottom. (Ex. Quizzes and Tests)  Categories are like big folders.  Weighting to the upper level
  • You can also weight differently inside the folder .  
  • Click on "Aggregate" only non-empty grades (only an assessment on what they have been completed).
  • Grade type - Value  (Make sure that it doesn't say none)
  • Select category - put items in the folder, 
  • Course work -> quizzes and exams ->
  • Final exam -> 

Build a course

Open Education Resources

Ted Green - Principal Presentation (Northern Lights - Saskatchewan)

Go to edcentre.nlsd113.org/  Log in as jstudent - jstudent to see some courses.
Good use of Weekly activities menu.  Unit highlights in green when it is all done.  Tabs menu and then click on gear.  
Nice grading system - you can see who has completed everything in one view. 
 

Lessons Module

Offer a Calm course - What does a book look like, a lessons?  Etc. Do you know Moodle?
Lessons allows you to create your own story - go here for this, - go here for more help etc.....
Lesson tracks the time that the students spend on the assignment.
Great for incorporating a pre-test so students don't have to do everything if they already know. 

i Frame

Capture something on a website (still navigable with radio buttons etc...) then place in Moodle.  Caution. Once they answer questions it takes them out of Moodle.

Basic Moodle Tools