Moodle: An Open Source Course Management System
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A Free Open Source Course Management System Rafael Scapin Coordinator of Educational Technology Office of Instructional Development Dawson College
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Workshop on Moodle presented at Dawson College on March 30th, 2009.
Transcript of Moodle: An Open Source Course Management System
A Free Open Source Course Management System
Rafael ScapinCoordinator of Educational Technology
Office of Instructional DevelopmentDawson College
Theoretical Moodle
Moodle is a free software e-learning platform (also known as a Course Management System (CMS), or Learning Management System (LMS), or Virtual Learning Environment (VLE)).
Acronym for:
Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment
What is Moodle?
Moodle was created in 1999 by Martin Dougiamas, a WebCT administrator at Curtin University, Australia.
What is Moodle?
Moodle is used in 208 countries in 75 languages.
Who uses Moodle?
Moodle in Québec
Who uses Moodle?
Who uses Moodle?
Who uses Moodle?
August 31st, 2009: expiration of WebCT’s licence
Moodle at Dawson
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Migration from WebCT to Moodle
WebCT 4 Course
(Created by Rajesh Malik)
Migration from WebCT to Moodle
WebCT 4 Course migrated to Moodle
(Created by Rajesh Malik)
Moodle can easily be used to:
• Create, deliver and manage web-based content for courses.
• Add online elements to traditional courses (to supplement current in-class instruction).
• Facilitate and deliver completely online courses asynchronously or with limited face-to-face interaction.
What is Moodle?
Moodle can easily be used to:
• Communicate, real-time and/or asynchronous collaboration and communication tools
• Assess integrated quizzes and grade books
• Manage course/content: upload course materials (audio, video, documents like .doc, .pdf, .ppt files), link to other sites, embed files and resources
What is Moodle?
Moodle can easily be used to:
• Attach files for students to download
• Link to resources anywhere on the internet
• Create interesting classroom environments without learning HTML
• Easily manage your course from year to year (never lose your work!)
What is Moodle?
Moodle can easily be used to:
• Continue your class discussions online
• Chat online with students
• Engage students in discussions forums
• Help students collaborate over the internet, within their groups and within the classroom.
What is Moodle?
• No programming experience necessary
• Engage all learning styles
• Provide multiple methods for learning the same material
• Decrease paperwork (green solution!)
• Engage digital natives where they learn best
What are the benefits?
There are 2 ways you can start using Moodle:
1.Using it via web:
http://moodle.dawsoncollege.qc.ca
Or
2. Installing it on your computer
(this way you can use it offline too!)
http://download.moodle.org/
Windows, Linux and Mac OS
How do I start?
Practical Moodle
Starting with Moodle
Go to:
http://moodle.dawsoncollege.qc.ca
Starting with Moodle
Starting with Moodle
Starting with Moodle
Positioning blocks
Assign roles to a block
Hide blockDelete blockMove UpMove DownMove Right
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Editing an activity block
Move rightMoveUpdateDeleteHideGroup
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Editing a topic block
Show only this topic
Highlight this topic as the current topic
Hide this topic from students
Move Topic Down
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Adding a Resource into a Topic
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Adding an Activity into a Topic
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Adding Blocks
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Admin Panel
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Examples of Moodle courses
Starting with Moodle
https://moodle.polymtl.ca/course/view.php?name=soutien
https://moodle.polymtl.ca/course/view.php?id=448
Examples of Moodle courses
Starting with Moodle
Books on Moodle
Books on Moodle
Books on Moodle
Free Moodle book:
“Using Moodle”
http://docs.moodle.org/en/Using_Moodle_book
Presentation online
This presentation can be downloaded at:
www.slideshare.net/oid
