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What is available with public access?

The platform can be used by user with different access right – authorized or non-authorized. There are a lot of opportunities which are available for non-authorized user – for user with public access.

All first level links at the top and bottom menu are available for public access. User can read a description of courses, a review of discussions. It is available search. Let's review a search function in the user interface.

 Search for news, help and other info resources
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 Search a member of VATL-community
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 Sample Syllabus & Calendar

I've embedded a Google calendar for my Project Management course in a page (see Oct.Dec. dates for events). I had to make the calendar public in order for students to view it without having to be logged into their Google accounts. I also added an infographic providing a visual representation of my syllabus.

How to create a community member?
 Video guide "Registration at the VATL-portal"
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Resources


 Leadership Communication Development Plan


The chat module allows participants to have a real-time synchronous discussion via the web.

 An open chat
 A repeating chat
 Chat module documentation
Communication
 Connection
 Connection (text decription)

How can we communicate?

 Send Messages
 Send messages (text decription)

Here a teacher asks a question and specifies a choice of multiple responses.

 A choice with anonymous results
 A choice with non-anonymous results
 Choice module documentation

All of these activities are standard in Moodle.

NOTE: Numbering each of the items below makes it easier for course participants to track where they are and where they are going. It also makes it easier to identify an item they need to know more about—which makes it easier for you to answer their questions!


1.0 Forums


 1.1 Project Management at the Movies!

Woody & Buzz"Project Management at the Movies" is one of my favorite discussion forums—my students get really creative with their responses!


 1.2 Forum Ideas

This is an example of linking a dynamic Google doc to a web site to engage course participants. When I am using a shared doc synchronously in a training session, I add a table with rows like this to make it easier for people to know where to write. Otherwise, it's really chaotic!


 1.3 More on Forums

Ideas for different kinds of forums to engage your students and how to balance involvement in forums.


 1.4 About Forum "Locking"

This thread is closedMany instructors would like to set open and close dates for discussions, but there isn't a good way to do that yet (as far as I know!). We had hopes for discussion "locking," but it doesn't work the way we thought it would. See this page if you'd like to learn more.


2.0 Assignments


Assignments enable teachers to grade and give comments on uploaded files and assignments created on and off line.

 Offline activity
 Online text
 Advanced uploading of files
 Upload a single file
 About Assignments
 Enable Students to Share Their Work

NewWe often get requests from instructors for help with enabling their students to share work with their classmates. Depending on your needs, creating a forum or adjusting the permissions for a folder might do the trick.


 2.2 Check-In #1
 2.3 Check-In #10
 Grading Text Submissions

Check out what it looks like when you go to grade submissions!

 2.4 Offline Activity

Vacuuming & dustingI also love Moodle's offline activity assignment capacity. It took me a long time to get my head around the idea of creating a link for a non-digital assignment, but then I figured out how incredibly helpful it could be and I've never looked back! Open this link to read more.......

 Tip: Due Date Verification

Here's an easy way to make sure that due dates are correct for all your assignments (and other activities).

3.0 Groups


 3.1 Group Sign-Up

"Choices" are great for facilitating group sign-ups—no more passing around a sheet of paper and having students write their names down for the project they want to work on!

GroupYou can limit a group to a particular number and group size can vary. Once a group fills, it still appears in the list, but can no longer be selected. As of Moodle 2.8, students may choose more than one option if you wish to give them that opportunity. With version 3.2, instructors can now assign a choice to a student.

 3.2 Group Choice Plug-in

Tired of circulating group sign-up sheets — how would you like to have Moodle enroll students in a group based on their choosing the topic? With the "Group Choice" plug-in, you can!

Discussion
 Participate discussions
 Participate discussions (text decription)

The database module enables participants to create, maintain and search a bank of record entries.

 Image gallery
 A database of web links
 Database module documentation
Courses

The course environment provides various settings for access to educational materials, structuring elements by topic or time. It is possible to create content elements for interaction with material (activity) and for passive perception (resources).

 Course environment
 Course environment (text decription)
 Create courses
 Create courses (text decription)

Forums provide the opportunity for asynchronous discussions.

 A standard forum for general use
 Each person posts one discussion
 A single discussion
 Forum module documentation
 Labels as Signposts

Labels are great for organizing materials in your course!


 Completion Tracking

CheckCompletion tracking not only helps students keep track of what they've done and what they need to do, it also helps you track what they are doing.


 One Section Per Page Format

Knight slaying a dragonNo one wants to create the dread Moodle Death Scroll! Here's a simple and elegant solution to try.

Also, check out the description of Collapsed Topics in the More Plugins! book below.


 Stealth Activities

One of the new features as of Moodle 3.3, here's an explanation of how you might take advantage of an activity that is hidden, but available.

This explanation starts with a fix for how to undo this setting if you got there by mistake.....


 Plug-Ins You Might Love

PluginStandard Moodle is great, Moodle with these plug-ins is even better!

 Checklist Plugin
 More Plugins!


 My Favorite Blocks


 Course Banner

Including a course banner at the top of your main course page adds interest and helps participants know what course they're in. Open this page for another way to help course participants keep track of where they are and learn how to add an image to your course name in the dashboard.

 Is Your Banner Image Too Wide?

NewSometimes, the image you insert for your course banner is wider than the viewing space, resulting in the insertion of a horizontal scroll bar. Find out here how you can avoid that (and take advantage of this technique in other text fields, as well!).

This explanation arose in Learn Moodle 3.7 (this one's for you, Twahir!).


 Add a Banner for the Dashboard

Customize the image shown in the "card" view of courses listed in the dashboard


 View Activity Logs

Sometimes it's useful to see how your learners are interacting with course materials. Activity logs can reveal all!


 Using the Gradebook

Cartoon image: Grade all the things!Moodle's gradebook is a bit daunting at first, but once you "get" it, it's really useful both as a course management tool and as a means of communication with students.


 Badges

Team badgeWondering how to create a badge? Here's a quick description for you, based on what I've learned along the way. One of the big things I just learned was to check the settings of the items you're going to use as the basis for awarding a badge — be sure that you'll be rewarding the behavior that you want to reward!


 Record a Comment

Add a personal touch to your course with the record feature in the Atto editor.

 Tips for Your Learn Moodle Practice Course

Practice course infographic thumbnailRecommendations for managing your practice course including instructions for customizing your course welcome message and changing role names.

Lessons

Lesson activities can deliver content in interesting and flexible ways. It consists of a number of pages. Each page generally ends with a question and a number of possible answers, and leads to another page based on the student's choice.

 Lesson 1 - Basic parts
 Lesson 2 - Question types
 Lesson module documentation
 4.2 Sample Lesson: Monitoring and Control

Lessons are definitely advanced activities! A lesson is similar to a book with information provided in pages, but you can add quiz questions between pages to allow learners to check their understanding. If you really want to get fancy, you can create a lesson that has "branches"—the next page that is displayed depends on the response made by the learner.

Two things to know about navigating this lesson: 1) You can avoid the quiz questions by using the page titles in the table of contents on the right to move through the pages, and 2) If you do take the quiz and enter an incorrect answer, be aware that the questions will be displayed in a different order the next time they appear.

We haven't created any documentation for the Lesson activity, but it looks like what's available at moodle.org is pretty good!

 Integrated Course Design

Integrated Course Design Banner

We've been doing a lot of work in redesigning courses with our faculty. I hope you find this interesting.

SCORM packages

SCORM is a collection of specifications that enable interoperability, accessibility and reusability of web-based learning content.

 eXe SCORM package
 SCORM module documentation
Surveys

Teachers can use surveys to gather data from their students that will help them learn about their class and reflect on their own teaching.

 Critical Incidents survey
 Constructivist On-line Learning Environment Survey (COLLES)
 Attitudes to Thinking and Learning Survey (ATTLS)
 Survey module documentation
Wikis

A wiki is a collection of web pages that anyone can add to or edit.

 Course summary wiki
 Wiki module documentation
Feedback
 Anonymous Course evaluation feedback
 Course evaluation feedback
 Course Evaluation
 Questionnaires
The Questionnaire plug-in allows you to survey your learners inside Moodle.
Backup
 Copy (Import) a Prior Course

NewOne of the most convenient aspects of Moodle is being able to copy an entire course or parts of a course from a prior edition into a new course shell.

 Read about copying a course for a new set of learners

Posted in the Course Management area

 Recycle Your Practice Course!

If you are considering participating in a future edition of Learn Moodle, you may want to start your practice course where you're leaving off in the current edition. See how easy it is here.

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