termine how members will interact with each other and within various activities . Creating distinct group names is easy. Learners and teachers are assigned to a group by clicking a single button.
Learner Management Features - Calendar Keeping a calendar of events is important to both the learner and course instructor. Events can be created for different categories, including: Upcoming Events appear on the course homepage, alerting the learner across all courses they are enrolled in of different category events. Alerts are color-coded by category. <ul><li>Global events that appear in all courses (system admin). </li></ul><ul><li>Course events set by an instructor. </li></ul><ul><li>Group events set by instructor relative only to a group. </li></ul><ul><li>User events set by learner (e.g. due dates, personal etc.). </li></ul>
Learner Management Features – Admin The Administration control panel puts all important learner management functions a single click away. Teachers and Students can be manually enrolled or removed from a course. Configuration of course Backup and Restore is achieved on a single screen. Restoring an existing course or Uploading a file archive from storage is accomplished with a single mouse click. Moodle makes it easy to re-use and share courses with other teachers. Backup can include or exclude student files and course data.
Learner Management Features - Scales Instructors may define custom Scales to be used for grading Forums , Assignments and Journals . Standard scales include assigning a value from 1-100% for each submission (or no grade), and indicating whether the learner was demonstrating one of three characteristics in the activity: Custom scales allow the instructor to fine tune their grading for specific content. Easily create several types of scales, and connect them with different activities you Add to the course. <ul><li>Shows mostly CONNECTED knowing. </li></ul><ul><li>Shows mostly SEPARATE knowing. </li></ul><ul><li>Equally separate and connected. </li></ul>
Learner Management Features - Grades The Grades feature in Moodle provides a quick view of all Forum, Assignment, Journal, Quiz, Lesson and Workshop grades. The grading scale applied to a learner’s submission is shown, along with a cumulative total, on a single page. Grades can be downloaded in Excel or plain text for inclusion into an existing electronic gradebook
Learner Management Features - Grades Viewing Assignment and Journal submissions, and adding Grades and comments, are done from a single page that displays all enrolled students. Managing student submissions are done from one central screen. This cuts down on the time it takes to assess many students work.
Learner Management Features - Logs Monitor when and what course resources the learner has accessed. Moodle's Logs provide detailed learner activity. Logs pin-point where a student is within coursework. Easily locate specific course, student, date and module activity access.
Learner Management Features - Files Centrally locate all course resources within the Files area of Moodle so they are available when creating new activities. Files storage area resembles your computer, making it easy to add, move, zip and delete resources.
Learner Management Features - Help An extensive Moodle Help file is a button click away. Courses include a Teacher only forum, where colleagues can collaborate on tasks and share ideas. Moodle's built in Teacher Manual provides step-by-step instructions on all aspects of course and learner management
Learner Experience - Login Learners find it easy to navigate a Moodle course homepage in their browser; intuitive “breadcrumb” links are always present. Login occurs on a familiar screen. Initial account set up may be handled by the learner or administrator. Moodle's has its own authentication system, but will integrate with an external database, POP3, IMAP, LDAP or NNTP, allowing domain wide login. Navigation bar provides breadcrumb links from course homepage to activities
Learner Experience – Enrollment Keys Instructors can require an “enrollment key” t