This presentation was created for ISTE 2011

1. Moodle Basics
Karen Vitek
Computer Studies Teacher

2. What is Moodle?
Open source online learning management system
Extend learning beyond the school day
Offer online courses to students
Offer online professional development

3. Profiles
When you edit your profile
carefully consider the
options.

4. Blocks
Administration
Course/Site
Description

5. BLOCKS
Calendar and Upcoming Events
Activities

6. Blocks
Latest News
Remote RSS Feeds

7. BLOCKS
HTML
Participants

8. RESOURCES
Labels: Useful for adding notes to the course home page.
Compose a text page: Simple way of adding information to a separate page

9. Resources
Compose a Web Page
Link to a file or website

10. Activities

11. Upload a single file
Advanced uploading of files
*Online Text
Offline Activity

12. Choice
An easy way to take a poll
within the course

13. Forums
News Forum
(Announcements)
Standard forum for general
use
Single simple discussion
Q and A forum

14. LeSSon
Branch tables
Question pages
Multiple choice
True/False
Matching
Essay

15. QuiZ
Multiple choice
True/False
Essay
Matching
Numerical
Calculated

16. GradeBook
With careful planning a useful tool!

17. USer REPORT
What the individual student sees

18. Gradebook options
Assign Grades to Categories
Choose an aggregation method
Add a manual grade
Create custom scales
Export grades to a spreadsheet (Excel or Open document)

19. Moodle Tips
Create simulated students to test out new pages, activities
and grading options.
If your students use email accounts make sure they add
them to the profile.
Don’t add too many blocks to your course home page.
Keep your calendar up-to-date.
Start simple! Don’t get overwhelmed with all the options.

20. Contact me:
Karen Vitek
Todd Middle School
Spackenkill School District
Poughkeepsie, NY
karen.vitek@spackenkillschools.org