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Moodle User Guide (Teacher's Role)


Getting started (Demo)

     After your site administrator has set up Moodle and assign you to a new, blank course with teacher privileges, you can start constructing your course.

     You will need to be logged into the course as a user who has been assigned a role as a teacher (with editing rights) on that course to use most of the features

     You will find the course homepage is broken down into course sections. A course is created by , including using HTML in Moodle. There are different ways to enroll Students and assign them to one or more Groups in a course.

     The example below shows a new course set up with topic sections, edit is on. There are a few of Moodle's many blocks on the right and left sides of the topics, such as "Latest News" or "Administration". The teacher is already to add resources and activities or a few new blocks to their brand new course.

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Editing course section (Demo)
 
     To add or alter activities or resources a teacher will need to turn editing on and off with a button on the up right corner on the course homepage. 
     The "switch role to..." option on the top right corner of the page allows the teacher to switch to different roles to get a general idea of people with different role will see, for example, what the students will see.
     The turn editing option toggles between on and off, and when on, shows a variety of editing icons next to all editable objects in the course. Here are some common editing icons.
     
Icon Effect Icon Effect Icon Effect Icon Effect
Image:Edit.gif Edit item Image:Open.gif* Close/Hide item Image:Delete.gif* Delete/Remove Image:Move.gif Move (up/down)
Image:All.gif See all weeks/topics Image:Closed.gif* Open/Show Item Image:Right.gif Indent/shift right Image:Movehere.gif Move here
Image:One.gif See one week/topic Image:Help.gif Help        Image:Marker.gif Make Current (highlight) week/topic


       (Note that the open eye indicates that the resource is visible, while clicking it changes it to be invisible (to students), and vice versa with the closed eye. Note that the X deletes resources and activities (with a warning) whereas it only removes blocks (which can be added at any time later)

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Activities
       There are a number of robust interactive learning activity modules that you may add to you course. They can be added by using the add an activity dropdown box when editing is tured on.
  • Chats: communication and collaboration. (Tutorial)
  • Forums: communication, collaboration, and post rating. (Tutorial)
  • Choices: group feedback, poll, and vote. (Tutorial)
  • Wikis: allow students to work collaboratively on authoring web documents. (Tutorial)
  • Assignments: allow students to submit any digital content for grading and allow teachers to record grades for both online and offline activities. (Tutorial)
  • Quizzes: allow teachers to design quizzes with multiple questions types, re-used options, and feedback. (Tutorial)

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Resources

       Moodle supports a range of different resource types that allow you to include almost any kind of digital content into your courses. These  can be added by using the add a resource dropdown box when editing is tured on.

  • Text pages: plain text pages to put up information or instructions. (Tutorial)
  • Web pages: web pages that can include formatted text, tables, pictures, links, etc. (Tutorial)
  • link to an uploaded file or external website: link to resource that may already exist in electronic form.  (Tutorial)

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Blocks (Demo)

        Each course homepage generally contains blocks on the left and right with the centre column containing the course content. Blocks may be added, hidden, deleted, and moved up, down and left/right when editing is turned on.

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Grades (Demo)

        Teachers can see and update student activities grades by using the grade feature in their administration block.

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