Professional Learning Workshops
Moodle Create
Participant’s Guide
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Moodle
Topic 1
Topic 2
Topic 3
Topic 4
Topic 5
Topic 6
Moodle
Head Quarters ................................................................................ 3
– Accessing Sector Capability’s Moodle site ................................... 4
– The Moodle course homepage ..................................................... 5
– Navigating in your course ........................................................... 6
– Setting up and customising a Moodle course ............................... 7
– Adding resources and activities to your course ........................... 9
Lessons ........................................................................................ 11
Create – Lesson Activities ............................................................ 25
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Moodle Head Quarters
For detailed information and support in using Moodle go to: http://www.moodle.org
For detailed information on a wide range of Moodle topics, go to:
http://docs.moodle.org/en/Category:FAQ
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Topic 1 – Accessing Sector Capability’s Moodle site
To commence today’s activities go to: http://elss.dtwd.wa.gov.au
Login using the
details given by
your presenter
Login using the
Username and
Password provided
by your presenter
Teachers Tip: When you first log in, click your name to update your ‘profile’ so your students can
get your contact information and just as importantly see what you look like.
Click the ‘Edit profile’ link in your settings block.
Make sure your email address and other details are correct, change your password, upload your
picture etc.
Note: Always ensure your students do this when they first log in to their Moodle course, as they are
initially assigned a default generic password when their account is created.
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Topic 2 – The Moodle course homepage
When you first log into a Moodle 2 course you will notice that there are a few differences to how
your course displayed in the previous version of Moodle. Turn on “Cutomise this Page” to edit page
settings.
Blocks: These can be minimised and maximised and moved about the page to suit your
preference
Courses: These are not always shown in every site in the middle of the page but can be
accessed through the navigation block
Navigation Block: Navigate around the site
Administration Block: Edit settings
Add a block: Add any extra blocks required
Breadcrumbs: Navigate around the site
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Topic 3 – Navigating in your course
A blank course will look similar to this. Please note that there are breadcrumbs that you can use to
navigate through the site.
Breadcrumbs
To get back to your course page, use the breadcrumbs in the top left corner of your page and click
on the short name for your course.
Navigation block
With Moodle 2 you also now have the Navigation block that can also
assist you in moving back to the front page of your course. Simply click
on the Short name of your course and you will move back to the front
page of your course.
You will be returned to your course front page, click on the ‘Turn editing
on’ button in the top right hand corner.
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Topic 4 – Setting up and customising a Moodle course
A generic blank course
When you first enter a new
Moodle course, it will
appear like this. It has no
content or activities and no
participants.
Blocks: Each course homepage generally contains blocks on the left and the
right, with the centre column containing the main course content. Blocks may
be added, hidden, deleted, and moved up, down and left/right when editing is
turned on.
Over 25 different block types are available to the ‘teacher’ (the lecturer’s
Moodle role) to enable them to provide additional information or functionality
to their learners.
Administration: A teacher with editing rights will also have a course
administration block. This is an important tool for the teacher. It has
sub menus for course: backup, restore, users, grades and question
bank.
A student's course administration block typically only has the Grades
and Profile options available.
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Turn Edit on!
Sounds simple but this will be the one things when you are starting out that you will habitually
forget to do. Your screen will change to editing mode and you are now ready to add resources and
activities as directed by your presenter.
Edit Profile!
You can edit your user profile by clicking on your profile name and then selecting “edit profile” from
the administration black.
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Topic 5 – Adding resources and activities to your course
Click the ‘Turn editing on’ button in the top right hand corner of the page.
Note: You have to be a Teacher of the Moodle course in order to turn editing on and off. Students
and Non-editing teachers will not be able to do this.
Your screen will change to editing mode as shown below and you are now ready to add resources
and activities to your course. Hover your mouse over the bottom of each section to see the add and
activity or resource function.
Quick icon reference
Icon
Effect
Icon
Close/Hide
Edit item
Groups
Duplicate
Effect
item
*
Icon
Effect
Delete/Remove
Open/Show
Indent/shift
Edit Title
Assign roles
Item
right
Icon
Effect
Move (up/down)
Move here
Make Current (highlight)
week/topic
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Add a resource: 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
turned on.
A Text page is a simple page written using plain text from a
link in the course. Text pages aren't pretty, but they're a
good place to put some information or instructions. If you
are after more options for your new page then you should be
thinking about adding a Web page and making use of
Moodle's WYSIWYG editor.
Note: If you want to copy existing text from sources such as
a Microsoft Office Word® document or a PowerPoint®
presentation into the Moodle WYSIWYG editor, it is best to
first paste your text into Notepad, which will strip out any
existing formatting, and then paste the text from Notepad
into Moodle. Reformat your text using the text editor tools in
Moodle.
Of course the resource may already exist in electronic form
so you may want to link to an uploaded file or external website or simply display the complete
contents of a directory in your course files and let your students pick the file themselves. If you
have an IMS content package then this can be easily added to your course.
Labels allow you to add more information between activity and resource links in your course or even
to add a video in a thumbnail format.
Add an activity: There are a number of robust interactive
learning activity modules that you may add to your course
with the ‘Add an activity’ drop down menu. If you wish, some
or all of these activities can push information to a course
grade book.
Communication and collaboration may take place using live
Chats or asynchronous discussion Forums for conversational
activities. You can also use Choices to gain group feedback.
Adding Wikis to your courses is an excellent way to allow
students to work together on a collaboratively-authored
project.
Work can be uploaded and submitted by students and scored
by teachers using Assignments or Workshops. These modules
have several assessment options, including instructorassessment, self-assessment, and even peer-assessment.
Online Quizzes offer several options for automatic and
manual scoring. With the use of a mash-up you can also ass
a YouTube link into a quiz to add further dimension and
interest to your quiz content.
Lessons and SCORM activities deliver content and offer ways of individualizing your presentation
based upon a student's choices. Glossaries of keywords can be set up by the instructor, and can be
configured to allow students to edit, add, or rate entries.
Surveys and Lessons are also very powerful additions to any course.
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Topic 6 Lessons
The lesson activity module enables a teacher to deliver content and/or practice activities in interesting
and flexible ways. A teacher can use the lesson to create a linear set of content pages or instructional
activities that offer a variety of paths or options for the learner. In either case, teachers can choose to
increase engagement and ensure understanding by including a variety of questions, such as multiple
choice, matching and short answer. Depending on the student's choice of answer and how the teacher
develops the lesson, students may progress to the next page, be taken back to a previous page or
redirected down a different path entirely.
A lesson may be graded, with the grade recorded in the grade book.
Lessons may be used
• For self-directed learning of a new topic
• For scenarios or simulations/decision-making exercises
• For differentiated revision, with different sets of revision questions depending upon answers
given to initial questions
Setting up lessons
Step 1: Add the lesson to your course site (part 1)
Turn edit on
Click on add an
Activity or Resource
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Step 2: Add the lesson to your course site (part 2)
Click on lesson
and add
Step 3: Setting up the basic lesson parameters
Setup the lesson as per the following 3 screen grabs
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3
Save and
Display
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Step 4: The edit area of the lesson
What the teacher sees
A teacher clicking on a lesson will see tabs at the top offering them the chance to preview, edit, view reports or
grade essays in the lesson:
A quick explanation of the tabs
Preview
The lesson opens up in preview mode for the teacher. However, it will not show the score unless the
teacher switches their role to a student.
Edit
The Edit tab allows teachers to alter the lesson once it has been set up. There are two views Collapsed and Expanded.
Reports
The reports tab shows the performance of students taking the lesson. There is a general "Overview"
and a "Detailed Statistics" tab.
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Step 5: Add a content page
Click add a
content page
Adding content to the content page
Add title and
content, can be
multimedia links
Set your navigation
up, remember to add
the jump.
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Adding content to the content page (continued)
Set your navigation
up, remember to add
the jump.
Save page
Step 6: Success new content page
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Step 7: Add a cluster under the content page
Click on drop
down and select
‘Add a cluster’.
New cluster should appear like the screen grab below
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Step 8: Add a new question under the cluster
Click ‘Add a
question’.
The page title can be the same
as the page contents, but try to
keep the cluster number in
there to keep this area under
control.
Setup the jump. In this case we are
going to an unseen question in the
cluster. This adds variance to your
lesson and tests participants
understanding of content rather than
their, short term memory recall
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Step 9: The question
In this example
choose True/False
A quick explanation of the question types
Essay
Students can write a longer answer as part of the lesson and this can be graded manually by the
teacher. If the main purpose of your lesson is for students to write an essay, consider the
Assignment module instead.
Matching
This allows you to set up lists which must be matched against other lists, for instance, words,
pictures, numbers etc. The student must match all correctly to receive the score.
Multiple choice
The student is given a question and a list of answers. The answer list will be shuffled every time the
question is view by a student. By default they choose one answer but you can check the box
‘multiple answer’ to allow them to choose more than one answer.
Numerical
This requires a number as an answer. A number within a range may also be accepted as correct.
The range separator to be used is the colon: For example, to accept as correct any number between
10 and 12 (10, 11 and 12) you would type 10:12 in the Answer box.
Short answer
A student must provide a single word or short phrase answer. The teacher must anticipate the
possible answers and enter them in the Jump dropdown boxes, using ** wild cards if appropriate.
True/False
The student is given a sentence and must decide if it is true or false.
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Step 9: The question (continued)
The page title can be the same
as the page contents, but try to
keep the question number in
the page title to keep this area
under control within the cluster.
Add the response
information, for both
the correct and
incorrect responses
Save page
Repeat Steps 8 & 9 as many times as you see necessary.
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Step 10: the Final question!
The page title can be the same
as the page contents, but try to
keep the cluster number in
there to keep this area under
control.
Setup the jump. This time unlike the
rest of your questions send this
jump to the end of the lesson.
Step 11: Different views of your lesson
Currently you are viewing your lesson in a ‘Collapsed view’. However to get more information and to
check your navigation easier get used to using the ‘Expanded view’.
Click on
expanded
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Expanded view back to Collapsed view
Once you have checked that you are happy with everything get into the habit of always going back
to the collapsed view as it gives you a shorter page to work with.
Step 12: Preview
Like everything in Moodle it is always a good idea to check that your new activity or resource works.
Moodle of course has its inbuilt ‘switch role’ option in your settings block (see below). Switch to
student view and work through your lesson to quality assure your work.
Switch to your
student view
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What the student sees
A student clicking on a Lesson will see an introductory page with one or more buttons which they
choose from to select the path they wish to take.
The display may vary according to how the teacher has set up the lesson in Lesson settings. For
example; there may or may not be a list of pages down the side; there may or may not be an
ongoing score.
Students progress through the lesson with either content pages (of information, which is not
graded) or various types of question pages (which may be graded) when a question page is used;
the following page gives the answer and feedback if offered:
Student view of the lesson
Navigation setup for the
student to go to
question or to leave the
session.
How a question displays for students
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How answers display for students
How end of questions bank displays for students
Navigation for students to either
return to course or view report
The lesson is ended when the student has met the criteria set by the teacher. This could be
answering a certain number of questions correctly, accessing a certain number of pages with content
(text, audio or video) or following a certain navigational path. A final page appears where the
student can check their score, if applicable, and return to the main course page.
Student report example
How the course site icon displays for the example we have created in a blank course site.
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Moodle Create –Activities
Follow your presenter’s instructions to complete the following Activities. The presenter will direct
you to some files on your desktop, eg. Word document, PowerPoint file, for you to use in today’s
activities.
Activity 1
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Write an introduction to your course
Insert a picture
Change the look of your course
Modify the role titles
Activity 2
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Add some resources
 Word document
 PDF
 Weblink
 Label
Activity 3
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Add some activities
 Forum
 Chat
 Glossary
Activity 4
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Embed external media via label and html settings:
 Youtube
 Teachertube
 Slideshare
Activity 5
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Lesson module (time permitting)
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