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Workshop III: Moodle Bootcamp

with Valerie Taylor

Tue, 06/01/2010 - 9:00am - Thu, 06/03/2010 - 4:00pm (Pacific Time)

Description

The Moodle Bootcamp combines the best of our Introductory and Intermediate Moodle online courses to make you a seasoned Moodler in no time at all!

In this course, you'll learn how to enter a Moodle course shell and organize and present content—including graphics—all without needing to know HTML! You'll discover handy tools for site, course, and student management functions, as well as tools for creating quizzes, assignments with due dates, grades, and interactive forums. However, there is much more to this flexible open source program! This is a hands-on course where students learn more about Moodle’s capabilities in a highly interactive environment.

Audience

This workshop is open to anyone with the recommended skills who is interested in learning more about the Moodle Course Management system and is designed for those who want to further their knowledge and instructors who would like to apply these skills directly to their on-line or face-to-face classroom environments.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

Adjust Moodle course settings to create a customized online learning environment
Identify basic features in Moodle
Experience Moodle as a student, to see the result of deployment of various Moodle features
Add content to a new Moodle course by incorporating Moodle activities and resources
Implement Moodle's basic communication and assessment tools
Set up separate “Groups”
Try out chat, wiki, database, and glossary activities
Increase functionality to an online course with additional blocks
Create Web pages directly in Moodle
Identify ways to improve visual appeal
Experiment with more advanced capabilities of Moodle’s text editor
View customizations available for Moodle installations
Explore support resources in the world-wide Moodle community

Recommended Skills and Prerequisites

Basic computer skills (use of word processor, e-mail, file management)
Basic Internet skills (use of browser, searches, uploading and downloading files)
Familiarity with discussion boards