How to use Moodle 2.7

How to use Moodle 2.7

Jaswinder Singh
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Table of Contents

How to use Moodle 2.7

  • Preface
    • What is Moodle
    • Who Is This Book For?
    • Prerequisites—What Do You Need Before You Start?
    • How to Use This Book
    • Happy Moodling!!!
    • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter 1: Introduction
    • What is a Learning Management System?
    • Why Should You Use a LMS?
    • What Makes Moodle Special?
    • Summary
  • Chapter 2: How can I use Moodle
    • What is a Learning Environment?
    • Course Design Patterns
    • Introductory Survey Course
    • Skills Development Course
    • Theory/Discussion Course
    • Capstone Course
    • Summary
  • Chapter 3: Moodle Basics
    • Getting Started
    • The Moodle Interface
    • Languages
    • Moodle’s Help System and Documentation
    • Creating an Account
    • Editing Your User Profile
    • A First Look at a Course
    • Course Formats
    • Course Settings
    • Enrolling Students in the course
    • Editing Mode (“Turn Editing On” Button)
    • Adding content to the course:
    • Summary
  • Chapter 4: Managing Content in Moodle
    • Adding Content to Moodle
    • Adding a Label
    • Composing a Page
    • Adding URL to the course
    • Creating a folder resource
    • Creating a file resource
    • Adding an IMS content package
    • Adding a book resource
    • To add Multilanguage content
    • Adding Media files to your course
    • Managing and updating your content
    • Creating an alias/shortcut
    • Tracking Versions
    • Effective Content Practices
    • File Formats
    • Reducing file sizes
    • Strategy 1: Save your PowerPoint presentations as PDF
    • Strategy 2: Scan articles as text, not images
    • Strategy 3: Reduce your image size and use compression
    • Creative Content
    • Uploading lecture notes
    • External web sites
    • Summary
  • Chapter 5: Managing Your Class
    • Understanding and Using Roles:
    • Moodle’s Default roles description
    • Assigning Roles in Your Course:
    • Removing Students
    • Temporarily Suspending a User Account
    • Managing Enrollment Methods for your course
    • Capabilities and Permissions
    • Override Permissions
    • Locations for overriding permissions
    • Overriding permission in activity
    • Student Groups
    • Group levels
    • Why use groups?
    • Creating a group
    • Auto-create groups
    • Backup and Restore
    • Backing up a course
    • Automated course backup
    • Restore a course
    • Creative uses
    • Reports
    • Summary
  • Chapter 6: Using Moodle Text Editors
    • Moodle Text Editors
    • Atto HTML editor
    • Equation editor
    • Plugins for Atto
    • TinyMCE Editor
    • Plugins for TinyMCE
    • File Picker
    • Getting files from the file picker
    • Viewing your files in the file picker
    • File Repositories
    • Standard repositories:
    • Summary
  • Chapter 7: Chat, Messaging and forums
    • Chat
    • Why use chat?
    • Why NOT use chat?
    • Creating Chat
    • Using Chats
    • Chat Reports
    • Effective Chat Practices
    • Creative Chat Practices
    • Online office hours
    • Group chats
    • Last-minute exam preparation
    • Messaging
    • Instant messaging
    • Sending messages
    • To send a message to selected course participants
    • Managing contacts
    • Message history
    • Effective Messaging Practices
    • Creative Messaging Practices
    • Tutorial support
    • Encouraging participation
    • Forums
    • Creating a Forum
    • Using Forums
    • Searching Forums
    • Managing Forums
    • Managing expectations
    • Behavior issues
    • Archiving forums
    • Quarantining a forum post
    • Forum Capabilities
    • Effective Forum Practices
    • Starting the discussion
    • Encouraging participation
    • Grading forums
    • Creative Forum Uses
    • Peer assessment
    • Q & A forums for problem solving
    • Interviews
    • Debates
    • Role-playing and storytelling
    • Frequently asked questions
    • Reading study groups
    • Social forum
    • Summary
  • Chapter 8: Quizzes and Question Bank
    • Quiz Uses
    • Standard Question Types
    • Creative Quiz Strategies
    • How to Create a Quiz
    • Creating the Quiz Body
    • Building Quiz
    • Question Bank
    • Select a category
    • To add a category
    • Adding questions
    • Creating a new question
    • Calculated Questions
    • Adding/deleting your own values:
    • Calculated Multichoice
    • Calculated Simple
    • Description
    • Embedded Answers (Cloze)
    • Essay
    • Matching
    • Multiple Choice
    • Single Answer Questions-
    • Multiple Answer Questions-
    • Numerical
    • Random short-answer matching
    • Short Answer
    • True/False Question
    • Importing Questions
    • Exporting Questions
    • Adding Questions to a Quiz
    • Random questions
    • Managing Quizzes
    • Grades report
    • Responses report
    • Statistics report
    • Manual grading report
    • Quiz Capabilities
    • Effective Quiz Practices
    • Creative Quiz Uses
    • Chapter checks
    • Test Practice
    • Data gathering
    • Progressive testing
    • Quiz Security and Cheating
    • Printing and sharing questions
    • Using the textbook
    • Working with friends
    • Have someone else take the test
    • Summary
  • Chapter 9: Assignments
    • Assignment Types:
    • Adding an Assignment activity
    • Assignment capabilities
    • Managing Assignment Submissions
    • Grading Assignment Submissions
    • Filtering submissions
    • Quick grading
    • Effective assignment practices
    • Creative Assignment Practices
    • Summary
  • Chapter 10: Workshop
    • Workshop phases
    • Setup phase
    • Submission phase
    • Assessment phase
    • Grading evaluation phase
    • Closed
    • Adding a new workshop activity
    • Using Workshop Activity
    • Setup Phase
    • Submission phase
    • Assessment phase
    • Grading evaluation phase
    • Comparison of assessments
    • Workshop toolbox
    • Closed Phase
    • Grading a Workshop Activity
    • Grade for submission:
    • Grade for assessment:
    • Workshop Capabilities
    • Summary
  • Chapter 11: Glossaries
    • Creative Glossary Uses
    • Creating Glossaries
    • Using Glossary
    • Adding Entries
    • Search options
    • Glossary Categories
    • Autolinking
    • Importing and Exporting
    • Commenting on Entries
    • Printing a glossary
    • Glossary Capabilities
    • Effective Glossary Practices
    • Glossary Basics
    • Creative Glossary Strategies
    • Collaborative glossaries
    • Mini-projects
    • Collaborative quiz questions
    • Credit for word use
    • Summary
  • Chapter 12: Lesson
    • Creating a Lesson Activity
    • Building Lesson
    • Planning your lesson
    • Adding content and questions to your lesson
    • Import questions
    • Add a content page
    • Title
    • Page contents
    • Content
    • Format
    • Number of options available
    • The Jump
    • Add a cluster
    • Add a question page
    • Question types:
    • Multichoice
    • Essay
    • Matching
    • Numerical
    • Short answer
    • True/false
    • Moving your lesson forward
    • Ending your lesson
    • Managing Lessons
    • Lesson capabilities
    • Effective Lesson Practices
    • Branching Quizzes
    • Flash Cards
    • Creative Lesson uses
    • Self-directed learning of a new topic
    • Allow for different learning styles
    • Role play simulations/Decision-making exercises
    • Interactive fiction
    • Differentiated revision guides
    • Summary
  • Chapter 13: Wikis
    • Creating Wikis
    • Creating first page of your wiki
    • Editing Wiki activity
    • Wiki capabilities
    • Effective Wiki practices
    • Wiki basics
    • Creative wiki practices
    • Group lecture notes
    • Group Project management
    • Idea Generation
    • Contribute to other wikis
    • Collaborative story-telling
    • Summary
  • Chapter 14: Blogs
    • Using Blogs
    • Adding a blog entry
    • Viewing Blog Entries
    • Blog visibility
    • Blog preferences
    • Blog Tags
    • Blog Tags block
    • Blog Capabilities
    • Effective Blog Practices
    • Blogging etiquette’s for students:
    • Creative Blog Practices
    • Group work with tags
    • One-minute responses
    • Summary
  • Chapter 15: Database
    • Creating Database
    • Adding a database
    • Building Database
    • Creating Fields
    • Editing Templates
    • Add template
    • Single template
    • List template
    • RSS template
    • CSS template
    • JavaScript template
    • Managing Databases
    • Quality Data
    • Rating
    • Database Presets
    • Creating a new preset
    • Importing a preset
    • Exporting a preset
    • Using an Existing Preset
    • Database activity capabilities
    • Effective database practice
    • Creative Database Practices
    • Summary
  • Chapter 16: Surveys, Choices and Feedback
    • Surveys
    • Creating Surveys:
    • Administering Surveys
    • Survey Capabilities
    • Choice Activity
    • Creating Choices
    • Administering Choices
    • Choice Capabilities
    • Feedback
    • Why use Feedback
    • Sign up!
    • Anti-bullying surveys
    • Making choices
    • IT Skills audit
    • Use of Moodle!
    • Creating Feedback
    • Building Feedback
    • Position
    • Required
    • Question Types
    • Dependence item and Dependence value
    • Managing Feedback:
    • Edit questions
    • Template
    • Analysis
    • Show responses
    • Show non-respondents
    • Feedback Templates:
    • Use a template
    • Save these questions as a new template
    • Delete Template
    • Export Questions
    • Import Questions
    • Feedback Capabilities:
    • Summary
  • Chapter 17: SCORM & External Tool (LTI)
    • SCORM Packages
    • Adding SCORM Activity
    • Using SCORM Activity
    • SCORM Capabilities
    • External Tools (LTI)
    • Adding a new external tool
    • Why use an external tool?
    • External Tool Capabilities:
    • List of LTI Apps
    • Summary
  • Chapter 18: Grades and Scales
    • Grades Interface
    • Editing
    • Highlighting rows and columns
    • Sorting by columns
    • Highlighting scores that are either adequate or unacceptable in red and green
    • Horizontal scrollbar
    • Mouse-over tooltips
    • Hiding columns or individual grades
    • To hide/show columns or individual grades just click
    • Altering the grades
    • Set Preferences
    • Grade Categories
    • Adding a grade category
    • Grade calculations
    • Setting a grade calculation
    • Assigning ID numbers
    • Calculation functions
    • Grade letters
    • To set your grade letter scale
    • Displaying letter grades
    • Student Grade View
    • Export Grades (Backing up your gradebook)
    • Import Grades
    • Scales
    • Creating a new scale
    • Using scales
    • Creative Grade Uses
    • Scale Practices
    • Summary
  • Chapter 19: Moodle Administration
    • Notifications
    • Registrations
    • Advanced Features
    • Users
    • Accounts
    • Permissions
    • Courses
    • Grades
    • Badges
    • Location
    • Language
    • Plugins
    • Install Plugin
    • Plugins Overview
    • Activity Modules
    • Admin Tools
    • Authentication
    • Blocks
    • Remote RSS feeds
    • Course Formats
    • Enrolments
    • Filters
    • Licences
    • Local Plugins
    • Logging
    • Message Outputs
    • Question Behaviors
    • Question Type
    • Reports
    • Repositories
    • Text Editors
    • Web Services
    • Security
    • Appearance
    • Front Page:
    • Server
    • Reports
    • Development
    • Assignment Upgrade Helper
    • Summary
  • Moodle Support
  • About the author
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How to use Moodle 2.7 is a book created for teachers to help them learn Moodle and start teaching with the most popular open source LMS system in the world.

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  1. Preface

  2. Chapter 1: Introduction

  3. Chapter 2: How can I use Moodle

  4. Chapter 3: Moodle Basics

  5. Chapter 4: Managing Content in Moodle

  6. Chapter 5: Managing Your Class

  7. Chapter 6: Using Moodle Text Editors

  8. Chapter 7: Chat, Messaging and forums

  9. Chapter 8: Quizzes and Question Bank

  10. Chapter 9: Assignments

  11. Chapter 10: Workshop

  12. Chapter 11: Glossaries

  13. Chapter 12: Lesson

  14. Chapter 13: Wikis

  15. Chapter 14: Blogs

  16. Chapter 15: Database

  17. Chapter 16: Surveys, Choices and Feedback

  18. Chapter 17: SCORM & External Tool (LTI)

  19. Chapter 18: Grades and Scales

  20. Chapter 19: Moodle Administration

  21. Moodle Support

  22. About the author