ar in highlight within all activity resources. Moodle includes its own site search engine.
Course Management Features - Activities Quiz Create all the familiar forms of assessment including true-false, multiple choice, short answer, matching question, random questions, numerical questions, embedded answer questions with descriptive text and graphics. Instructors have granular control in defining course assessments, and can import quiz questions from popular formats like Blackboard, IMS QTI and WebCT. Moodle also supports embedding audio into a quiz.
Course Management Features - Activities RSS – Really Simple Syndication RSS allows certain web browsers and specialized programs to automatically check for updates to a page. <ul><li>Forums </li></ul><ul><li>Glossary </li></ul><ul><li>RSS Feeds </li></ul>
Course Management Features - Activities Wiki A Wiki enables documents to be authored collectively in a simple markup language using a web browser.
Course Management Features - Resources <ul><li>Resources are the primary tool for bringing content into a course; </li></ul><ul><li>Add plain text page </li></ul><ul><li>Add webpage </li></ul><ul><li>Uploaded files </li></ul><ul><li>Links to the websites </li></ul><ul><li>Display contents of directory </li></ul><ul><li>Deploy IMS Package </li></ul><ul><li>Insert a label </li></ul>Moodle supports adding math expressions to a Resource activity, using the built-in HTML editor
Learner Management Features – Participants One click and you can view activity from all participants enrolled in the course. Learners create a personal profile that can include a picture, helping connect students socially in the online learning community. Learners complete a personal profile page that helps build the online learning community. Adding a picture and details to the profile creates a social connection.
Learner Management Features - Groups Assigning learners to a group is a common practice in education and business. Moodle allows the course instructor to easily create group categories, and determine 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>
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