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- The
alternative
- to commercial LMS software
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- Introduction
- Why open source?
- What’s moodle?
- Survey of moodle features
- Questions
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- Teacher in Burnaby
- Course designer / developer
- Ph.D. candidate at SFU
- Design of Collaborative Learning Environments for Distributed Settings
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- Freedom from vendor lock-in
- Customizable
- World-wide support
- Continual development
- Platform independent
- It’s
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- LINUX – Operating System
- Apache – Web server
- Perl, PHP – Scripting languages
- MySQL – Database system
- OpenOffice – MS Office compatible Productivity Suite
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- Moodle started out as a hobby for Martin and evolved into the topic of
his Ph.D. thesis:
- “The use of Open Source software to support a social constructionist
epistomology of teaching and learning within Internet-based communities
of reflective inquiry.”
- As of March 24/’04 there were 1,014 sites from 74 countries registered
as moodle users.
- Currently available in 39 interface languages & dialects.
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- Social constructivists view learning as a social process. It does not
take place only internally, nor is it a passive development of behaviors
that are shaped by external forces.
Meaningful learning occurs when individuals are engaged in social
activities.
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- Modular,
- Object-Oriented,
- Dynamic
- Learning
- Environment
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- A course management system for developing and delivering Internet-based
courses
- Based on social constructionist learning theory
- Available in 39 languages & dialects
- A free alternative to commercial software such as WebCT or Blackboard
- Written in PHP
- Runs on Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, and Netware 6
- Used by a growing number of universities, schools, and corporations.
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- Moodle can be…
- A complete online learning environment
- A focal point for online collaboration
- A repository of self-study courses and materials
- Moodle can contain…
- Collaborative, synchronous courses
- Independent, self-paced courses
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- A teacher administrator has full control over all settings for a course,
including restricting other teachers
- Choice of course formats such as by week, by topic or a
discussion-focused social format
- Flexible array of course activities:
Forums, Journals, Quizzes, Resources, Choices, Surveys,
Assignments, Chats, Workshops
- Display recent changes to the course since the last login can be
displayed on the course home page
- Easy editing of text for
resources, forum postings, journal entries using an embedded WYSIWYG
HTML editor
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- Grades for Forums, Journals,
Quizzes and Assignments can be viewed on one page (and downloaded as a
spreadsheet file)
- User logging and tracking – full
activity reports for each student are available with graphs and details
about each module. Also a
detailed review of each student’s involvement including postings,
journal entries etc
- Mail integration – copies of
forum posts, teacher feedback etc can be mailed in HTML or plain text.
- Custom scales – teachers can define their own scales to be used for
grading forums, assignments and journals
- Courses can be packaged – as a single zip file using the Backup
function. These can be restored on any Moodle server.
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- Weekly format
Each week consists of activities.
Some might have deadlines,
others might be open.
- Topics format
Presented and organised into topics.
A topic is not restricted to any time limit.
- Social format
All activities are presented and organised into a single forum.
Could also be used as noticeboards
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- Can be specified with a due date and a maximum grade.
- Students can upload assignments
They are date-stamped. Different file formats are allowed
- Late assignments are allowed
The amount of lateness is shown clearly to the teacher
- Whole-class assessment
Grades and comments provided for each assignment, on one page in
one form. Viewable by assigned
teachers
- Teacher feedback
This is appended to the
assignment page for each student.
Notification is sent by
e-mail
- Resubmission of assignments
This can be allowed by teachers after grading (for re-grading)
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- Different types of forums are available,
teacher-only,
course news,
open-to-all,
one-thread-per-user.
- All postings have the authors photo attached.
- Discussions can be viewed
as nested, flat, threaded, oldest or newest first
- Every registered user can join,
or the teacher can force subscription for all
- The teacher can choose not to allow replies
- Discussion threads can be easily moved between forums
- Attached images are shown inline
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- Journals are private between student and teacher.
- Each journal entry can be directed by an open question.
- The whole class can be assessed on one page in one form
- Teacher feedback is appended to the journal entry page, and notification
is mailed out.
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- Teachers can define a database of questions for re-use in different
quizzes
- Questions can be stored in categories for easy access, and these
categories can be "published" to make them accessible from any
course on the site.
- Quizzes are automatically graded, and can be re-graded if questions are
modified
- Quizzes can have a limited time window outside of which they are not
available
- At the teacher's option, quizzes can be attempted multiple times, and
can show feedback and/or correct answers
- Quiz questions and quiz answers can be shuffled (randomised) to reduce
cheating
- Questions allow HTML and images
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- Multiple-choice questions:
single or multiple answers
- Short Answer questions:
words or phrases
- True-False questions
- Matching questions
- Random questions
- Numerical questions (with allowable ranges)
- Embedded-answer questions (cloze style)
- Embedded descriptive text and graphics
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- Assignments can be viewed online, or downloaded
- Teacher can attach feedback comments
- Notification is sent out by e-mail
- Resubmission can be granted for assignments, for re-grading
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- Assignments can be specified with a due date and a maximum grade.
- Students can upload their assignments (any file format) to the server
- they are date-stamped.
- Late assignments are allowed, but the amount of lateness is shown
clearly to the teacher
- For each particular assignment, the whole class can be assessed (grade
and comment) on one page in one form.
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- Content for this presentation was adapted from the following
presentations:
- North Chadderton School (http://www.mywebschool.org)
- http://www.mywebschool.org/postnuke/
- ROI Learning Services (http://roi-learning.com/)
- http://partnersconference.org/presentations.htm
- Remote-Learner.net (http://remote-Learner.net)
- http://moodle.org/file.php/29/presentations/Moodle_Pres_OT.ppt
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- For more information regarding the moodle environment, click the moodle
logo at the bottom of this page.
- If you would like a moodle course instance setup to experiment with on
your own, contact David Le Blanc:
- leblanc@mysandbox.net
- http://mysandbox.net/
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