Ethernotes

Presenter

• Miriam Taylor, www.t-3consulting.com, @t-3consulting.com
• 10 years teaching.
• Began online teaching with second child.
• Now consults on using Moodle.

Moodle

• Used widely by millions around the world.
• Not so much in U.S. because affluence allows paying for Blackboard.
• Open source, so it is free
• Covering all basics
• A lot of work to setup, but content stays and tweaking later takes a lot less time.

Goals of tonight

1. Organizing your course site.
2. Add your own content.
3. Add Moodle tools to it.
4. Administrative things (can’t do with an empty site).
   1. Backup & Reset
   2. Gradebook
   3. Groups.

Notes

• moodle.muskegonisd.org is on version 1.9 (latest version)
• Must call Diane to create a new course. For instance if you start with “English-9″ and next year want to add “English-10″ you must call Diane.
• Moodle screen laid out in “blocks”.
• Participants block = members of the class
• Search forum
  • Useful if you have a lot of discussions.
  • Often turned off.
• Recent Activity
  • Extremely useful for the teacher.
  • very handy for a quick glance at what they did.
  • hyperlinked to the activity.

  Turn editing on allows you to configure the site.

  • eyeball hides content from students. Useful, but only one of several ways to hide content.
  • “blocks” can be deleted and added back later. Once “content” is deleted it is gone.
  • Moodle blogs are available to everyone on the MAISD site. Not very impressive.
  • Moodle wiki is as powerful as wikispaces. Very impressive.
  • arrows move blocks around.
  • Administration|Settings: Lets you make global settings.

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