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    Moodle

    Getting Started - Guide for Instructors

    Faculty Technology Center

    (818) 677-3443

    OV 5

    [email protected]

    www.csun.edu/at/training

    Information Technology

    MoodleUser Guide

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    Table of ContentsIntroduction ........................................................................................................................................................................ 1

    What is Moodle? ............................................................................................................................................................. 1

    Prerequisites What Do You Need Before You Start? ................................................................................................... 1

    What will be covered in this document? ............................................................................................................................ 1

    Getting Started .................................................................................................................................................................... 2

    Login to Moodle .............................................................................................................................................................. 2

    Setup Your Profile ........................................................................................................................................................... 3

    My Courses First Look ................................................................................................................................................... 7

    Course Layout Setup ....................................................................................................................................................... 7

    Customizing Settings for a class .......................................................................................................................................... 8

    Blocks .............................................................................................................................................................................. 8

    The Administration Block ................................................................................................................................................ 9

    Customizing the Weekly outline page for a Course ...................................................................................................... 14

    Communicating Information to your students ................................................................................................................. 17

    Add a Resource to the Course ....................................................................................................................................... 18

    Add an Activity .............................................................................................................................................................. 19

    Editing a course ................................................................................................................................................................. 21

    Moving Resources/Activities ......................................................................................................................................... 22

    Navigation ......................................................................................................................................................................... 22

    Tips for using Moodle ....................................................................................................................................................... 23

    Learn More about Moodle - Other Resources .................................................................................................................. 23

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    INTRODUCTION

    What is Moodle?

    Moodle is software that can be used to produce internet-based courses and web sites. It is a Learning Management

    Systems accessed by using a web browser. It is used to add web technology to instructors courses. Educators around

    the world use Moodle to deliver online courses and to supplement traditional face-to-face courses. Moodle can be usedto teach a fully online course or to enhance your teaching by taking advantage of the Internet without replacing the

    need for a teacher. You and your students can access the system from any place with an Internet connection.

    Moodle gives educators tools to create a course web site and provide access control so only enrolled students can view

    it. It offers a wide variety of tools that can make your course more effective. It provides an easy way to upload and

    share materials, hold online discussions and chats, give quizzes and surveys, gather and review assignments and record

    grades.

    Prerequisites What Do You Need Before You Start?

    To use Moodle you will need:

    A computer with Internet connection

    A computer with a web browser installed

    o To make best use of what Moodle has to offer it is recommended that you use one of the following

    browsers:

    Internet Explorer v5.5 or later,

    Firefox,

    Netscape v7 or later.

    o Note Other browsers can be used, however they may not have a WYSIWYG interface which will make

    it a bit more cumbersome to use.

    An account set up within Moodle. Visit the Academic Technology website athttp://www.csun.edu/atfor

    information on getting a Moodle account and course set-up.

    The web address (URL) of the server running the Moodle application -http://moodle.csun.edu

    Teacher access to a course on Moodle.

    WHAT WILL BE COVERED IN THIS DOCUMENT?

    The items that will be covered in this document include:

    Getting started with Moodle. Sign up for an account, review the basic interface, get used to some of the

    conventions and start a course.

    How to add content to your course.

    Course management

    Tools available in Moodle,

    Other Resources Available to learn more about Moodle including how and when to use forums, hold chat

    sessions, send messages, give quizzes, set assignments, develop shared glossaries and databases, create pathed

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    lessons, collaboratively develop web pages, create blogs, set up surveys and polls, and record student grades.

    We will cover how to add the tool to your course and the options available and some creative ideas for

    effectively using the tool in your class.

    GETTING STARTED

    Login to Moodle

    To login and get started with Moodle:

    1. Launch your web browser

    2. In the address field of the web browser type: http://moodle.csun.edu

    3. In the Login field, located on the upper left side of the screen, input your Username &Password (see figure

    below). Your Username is a mixture of numbers and letters.

    4. Click the Login button

    5. The My courses page displays. (See figure below) You will see a listing of the courses you have requested to

    be set up in Moodle under My Courses. NOTE: Students are automatically populated to your courses via

    enrollment records on SOLAR.

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    Setup Your Profile

    Why is it important to set up your profile?

    Profile Settings & Options - Within the Profile Options you will have the ability to setup a profile image, description and

    other information pertaining to yourself and your courses.

    There are default settings that are important to change to improve your Moodle experience.

    Select the Show Advanced button to reveal all profile setting options.

    Profile Image - Users in the Moodle community by default are given a black silhouette as their profile image. This

    image appears when you post to forums, submit/assign assignments, as well as on every instance of your activity

    throughout the course.

    Adding your picture to your profile helps to represent yourself and make your participation more personal and

    does the most to build community in an on.ine course site.

    Any graphic or photo can be uploaded as your profile picture, although it is recommended that you use a head

    shot.

    To update your profile:

    1.

    Upon your first login, you will be prompted to edit your profile. To return to edit your profile, click on your

    name in the top right corner next to the (Logout) link or select the Profile link in the Administration block

    in your course. See figure below.

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    2. The Profile window appears. Click on the Edit Profile tab. See figure below.

    3. Within the General settings, (see figure below) it is recommended to change:

    a. Forum auto-subscribe: to NO . . or to YES . . If you select Yes, you will receive a copy in your

    email box of every post made to all the forums in your classes you post to.

    b. Forum tracking: to YES . This will help you easily see when there are forum posts that you

    havent yet seen. A number will be highlighted next to the forum name on the course main page;

    threads will also show the number of unread posts and new posts will be highlighted.

    First Name, surname - The first two fields are quite self-explanatory. The first and last names that you supply

    should be those that you wish to be known by on the course. They will be used by other course participants

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    to identify you when grading work and responding in forums and other activities. This field name is

    automatically filled by SOLAR.

    Email address - This field name is automatically filled by SOLAR. It is your CSUN email account. This email

    address is used to receive acknowledgements and messages from the system, and is also the address that is

    displayed to all other users of the Moodle site, assuming that you have set the "Email display" option to

    allow other participants in your course to see your address, so it should be a mail address that you check

    regularly. Other email display options are to hide your mail address from all users, or to make it available to

    all users on the Moodle system, not just members of the courses you are enrolled in.

    Email display-This controls the visibility of the address to others, allowing you to show or hide your email in

    the class. There are three options: you can set it so that all users (including guests) could see your email, or

    so that only other students in the class could see your email address, or so that no one could see your email

    address at all.

    Email activated- You can either enable or disable emails being sent to your address. However, if you disable

    your email account in your profile, you won't receive announcements from the instructor in this class; you

    will miss out on important information.

    Email format- For the messages to come into your mailbox, you can choose between "Pretty HTML format"

    (which means that the messages will be formatted with different fonts and colors to make them easier to

    read) and "Plain text format" (plain text with no fancy formatting or colors).

    Email digest type - This setting allows you to choose how you want to receive any emails you get from

    forums. A digest is a compilation of all the posts to a forum for a given period. There are three possible

    choices: No digest, complete or subjects.

    Forum auto-subscribe - This setting lets you decide if you want email copies of posts that are added to

    forums. If you set this to subscribe, the system will email you copies of new posts in forums that you join.

    This setting will override your efforts to unsubscribe from individual Moodle forums.

    Forum tracking - Enabling forum tracking means highlighting the posts you have not read yet. This feature

    significantly improves time management when working with discussion forums. When editing text this canusually be left on "Use HTML editor (some browsers only)". This allows for text formatting options, with a

    WYSIWYG text editor--but requires newer browsers that can accommodate Javascript. If you find your

    browser is not letting you edit text, change this setting to "Use standard web forms". Also "Use standard

    web forms" if you want to input your course content using your own HTML. Set to "use standard web forms"

    if you use a screen reader or mobile device to read web pages.

    When editing text The setting defaults to Use HTML Editor. We recommend that you leave it at the

    default.

    AJAX and Javascript This field defaults to No. We recommend that you leave the default setting unless

    you are an advanced user.

    Screen reader- Set this to "Yes" if you use a screen reader.

    City/town; country - These fields are used to further identify you by geographical location.

    Timezone - This field is used to convert time-related messages on the system (such as assignment deadlines)

    from the server local time to the correct time in whichever zone you have selected. It is not an editable field

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    Preferred language - You are limited to languages installed with your Moodle instance. Moodle is available

    in over 78 languages. The language packs do not change the language used in the course content, but will

    modify the Moodle-specific terms used bythe software for commands and features.

    Description (*Required) - In this field you can enter some text about yourself, be it information about your

    studies, hobbies, qualifications or anything else that does not break the acceptable use policy of your

    Moodle site. This text will be visible to anyone that views your profile.

    4. Other settings (see figure below). This is where you can upload your profile picture and add other personal

    information, web page info. etc. Be sure to include a brief description of your profile picture i.e. Prof. Smith

    5. Update Profile Button When you have completed your profile edits, select the Update Profile button. If the

    window does not change it would be due to an incomplete or empty Required field. Scroll up the page to find

    the incomplete field.

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    MY COURSES FIRST LOOK

    In the center of the page as well as on the bottom right side of the My courses page, (see figure below) you will see

    the My Courses block. This includes a list of all courses you have requested to be set up as well as a CSUN Moodle

    Community which is a course site for all faculty at CSUN who use Moodle. It is a place to share resources, ask

    questions, and get answers about using Moodle in teaching and learning.

    1. Access your course by clicking on the course name. The figure above shows two courses. Both named UNIV100

    Freshman Seminar but each has a unique course number.

    2. Click on the course name to begin building the course.

    Course Layout Setup

    A new course will be mostly blank. See Figure below. The course templates have:

    Block areas on the left and right sides (example of Blocks in the figure below are labeled "People",

    Administration, "Search Forums", etc.),

    Course content sections appear under the heading: "Weekly Outline". The weekly outline format is the default

    format for a course. This can be changed to other formats. See the section on The Administration Block,

    subsection titled Settings for where to change this default setting.

    The first section just below Weekly Outline is designed for general information and activities of the whole course

    and is fixed and unnumbered for the Weekly outline format.

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    The "News Forum," appears in the top (unnumbered) section of the course example shown below: the

    "News Forum." News forums will be discussed in the next section.

    Remaining sections are set up with a weekly date format.

    The upper left corner of the course page, as show in the figure above, shows the name of your course as

    entered when the course was created.

    The Search Forums block allows you to search your course forums for particular bits of information or news.

    Much like any search function on a web page performs.

    The Administration block is where you find links to set your course options, assign roles, perform backups of the

    course, and manage student grades.

    CUSTOMIZING SETTINGS FOR A CLASS

    There are many settings that can be customized to have your online course look and feel the way you want.

    Blocks

    The view of your course homepage and ultimately the features offered to your course participants depends on which

    Blocks you choose using the Blocks drop down menu. All of the blocks can be moved around, added or deleted from

    your course homepage.

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    To add a block,

    1. Turn editing on:

    2. Choose the block you would like to add from the "Blocks" drop down menu. This menu will only be visible when

    editing is turned on, and will never be visible to your students. If you delete a block then would like it back, you

    can always re-add it. See figure below.

    3. With editing on, you can see the block editing icons next to the block's title. Using these, you can hide the entire

    block with the 'eye' tool, move the block up and down with the up/down arrows, move the block from one side

    of the course to another using the sideways arrow, or delete the block altogether using the delete tool. See

    figure below.

    The Administration Block

    The Administration Block (See figure below) has many functions, most hidden from your course participants.

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    Settings

    You will need to identify some basic fundamental course level structure, such as who has access to the course and the

    course name. In the Administration block, the Settings link is only available to you, the course creator and the system

    administrator. When you have completed the configuration of all your settings, click on the Save changes button at

    the bottom of your Settings window.

    See the figures below which display the Edit course settings window. Review the setting carefully. Below is a briefdescription of the most frequently used settings.

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    Full name -This is the complete name of the course as it appears on the course list.

    Short name - This is the abbreviated name of the course as it appears in the breadcrumb, or navigation, area of

    the course pages.

    Summary- The content of the summary area will appear to students when viewing a list of courses, so it is good

    to type a brief course summary here. Remember to keep your entry for the summary concise to minimize

    scrolling for students as they view all the courses on the list they are enrolled in.

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    Format - Below the Summary is the format choice. More detail on course formats appears on the next page.

    Course Formats The course format that you choose will decide the basic layout of your course, like a template.

    - The Weekly and Topic formats are very similar in structure. The main difference is that each box in the

    weekly format covers one week, whereas in the topic format each box can cover whatever you like.

    - The Weekly format, dates are automatically added into each section.

    - The Social format is based around just one forum and doesnt use much content.

    - A few other specialized formats are available for advanced users only. Number of weeks/topics - Simply choose the number of weeks/topics that apply for your course. If you add

    more topics Moodle will add new, blank topics below your old ones. Move topic/week blocks up or down using

    the up/down arrows in the right margin of each section's block.

    Course start date- To change the start date of your course; simply select a new start date in the "Course start

    date" menu. Selecting a date here will provide the reference point for the dates that automatically present in

    each section of a course in a "Weekly" format. NOTE: If your set your course to weekly, make sure the correct

    start date is set and you have the proper number of weeks selected.

    News items to Show - It will only have effect if you have the "Latest News" block enabled. If so, then the latest

    postings in the course Announcements page will be shown to the students.

    Show grades - If you are not grading your course and you would prefer to hide the grade book from students,choose "No."

    Show activity reports - Activity reports are available for each participant that shows their activity in the current

    course. As well as listings of their contributions, these reports include detailed access logs. These are always

    available to teachers, setting this menu to "Yes" enables students to view their own activity reports.

    Enrollment duration - Don't change the enrollment period setting unless you want to restrict access to your

    course after a particular date once the course has begun.

    Maximum File Upload Size - This setting will limit the size of files that can be uploaded within your course; but

    more restriction can be applied to various activities within the course. Currently the default setting maximum is

    500 mb.

    Meta-course - Meta-courses can be considered "parent" courses and only other [child] courses are enrolled

    not individual participants.

    Enrollment settings - Do not change any enrollment settings in your Sandbox. The discussions of automated

    enrollment options are beyond the scope of this course.

    Groups - Groups may be set up in Moodle courses.

    Availability and Password (enrollment key) - Your course has been available to students since it was set up. To

    make it unavailable, use the Availability setting. You can allow Guest access by enabling guest access and

    sending the password to your guests. Guests may see student interactions in forums and read all course content

    posted by the Teacher, but may not interact with participants. NOTE: If someone tries to access the course and

    they are not added to the Moodle course yet, they will be prompted for an enrollment key. You can set this

    enrollment key option, or wait for the automated enrollment, or manually add the student (see next section).

    Assign roles

    Students are automatically assigned to the course. Those student enrolled in the class via the SOLAR system will be

    automatically assigned to the Moodle course when the course is created. The Assign roles function can be used if you

    want to add a Guest to the course or change the role of a student. It also can be used for late enrollment, TA or dropped

    students. Below are the different roles and their descriptions.

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    Roles Description

    Non-editing teacher Non-editing teachers can teach in courses and grade students, but may not alter activities.

    Student Students generally have fewer privileges within a course.

    Guest Guests have minimal privileges and usually cannot enter text anywhere.

    Teaching Assistant Teaching Assistants have most of the permission of a teacher.

    Below is the Assign roles dialog window.

    1. To find potential users, use the search field below the list on the right.

    2. Enter a unique portion of the users name.

    3. Click the Search button to filter the potential users that meet the unique criteria.

    4. To add the participant, select the participant from the right list, click on the left pointing arrow between the

    right and left boxes. This will add the participants to the left box of existing users now enrolled in the course.

    5. To unenroll participants, select the name from the left column and click the right-pointing arrow.

    6. Note that the Role to assign box is at the top of the list. This is where you can change a participants role if

    you choose.

    Files

    The Files option allows you to upload files e.g., photos (.jpg), PDF files, Word documents, PowerPoint presentations, into

    your course, for inclusion in an activity or layout. Click on the Files link in the administration block to upload files or see

    files you have uploaded in a list arranged under four headings: file name, file size, the last time a given file was modified,

    and the action you can do with a given file (or folder).

    Below is the File dialog window before any action has been taken to make new folders or upload a file.

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    Below is the File dialog window after a few folders have been created and a file has been uploaded.

    As you can see in the figure above, folders are listed first, then files. You can create any number of folders to

    organize your files and move them from one folder to the other.

    Files & folders can be renamed by clicking the Rename link at the far right of the line.

    Some files may be edited online, you will see an edit link under the Action heading next to the file that may be

    edited online.

    Important tip: If your content resides on an internet site then you do not need to upload the files at all, you can link

    directly to them from inside the course.

    Customizing the Weekly outline page for a Course

    To begin personalizing and editing the Weekly outline page:

    1. Click the Turn editing on button located in the upper right corner of the window.

    2. Next, click the edit icon in the Header section. See figure below

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    3. The Summary window opens. In the text box, type in your course welcome, heading and any other introduction

    you would like to appear. Use the toolbar/HTML editor icons to format your text. See figure below.

    4. Click the Save changes button when finished. This will return you to the course page.

    5. You should now see the course header and introduction you typed in the top block beneath Weekly outline.

    Add your Course Syllabus

    1. From the Add a resource field use the drop down arrow and select Link to a file or website. See

    figure below.

    2. Adding a new Resource window displays. See figure below.

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    3. In the Name field type: Syllabus.

    4. In the Summary text box type: Course Syllabus. The text will appear on the aggregated Resources page,

    so it is a good idea to be descriptive.

    5. In the Link to a file or web site area, click the Choose or upload a file . . button.

    6. A new window opens, click on the Upload a File button, Choose the Browse button to locate the file to

    upload.

    7. Click the Upload this file button.

    8. You should be returned to the Adding a new Resource window. The file should appear in the

    Locations field.

    9. Scroll to the bottom of the window and click Save and return to course button.

    10.Your course Syllabus link now appears in the course Header. See figure below.

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    To Add a Resource:

    1. In the weekly outline, find the week in which you want to post/add a resource.

    2. From the Add a resource field use the drop down arrow and select Link to a file or website. See figure

    below.

    3. Adding a new Resource window displays.

    4. Fill in the Name field

    5. Fill in the text box with further information, instructions or details.

    6. In the Link to a file or web site area, click the Choose or upload a file . . button.

    7. A new window opens, click on the Upload a File button, Choose the Browse button to locate the file to upload.

    8. Click the Upload this file button.

    9. You should be returned to the Adding a new Resource window. The file appears in the file list. In the Action

    column, select Choose. The file should appear in the Locations field.

    10.Scroll to the bottom of the window and click Save and return to course button.

    11.Your course resource link now appears in the Week block.

    Add an Activity

    There are a number of robust interactive learning activity modules that you may add to your course with the Add anactivity drop down menu. You can even push some of the activities for the course to the integrated grade book. Add

    activities to each week of the course.

    1. In the weekly outline blocks, find the week in which you want to add an assignment or activity.

    2. From the Add an activity . . field use the drop down arrow to make the appropriate selection. . See figure

    below.

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    3. The Add . . . . window displays. In the figure below, the choice was made to Upload a single file.

    4. Fill in the appropriate fields. In the sample above that would be:a. Assignment namefield.

    b. Description field - The description of the assignment, which should include precise instructions for

    students regarding the subject of the assignment, the form, in which it should be submitted, the grading

    criteria etc. Use this area to describe the assignment and explain what learners are expected to do to

    complete this task.

    c. Grade Field - The grade for the assignment is specified here. Choosing a number will become the

    maximum grade for this assignment. Apart from the numbers, one of the descriptive grades which have

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    been defined for this course can also be picked. If you will not be giving a grade for the assignment,

    choose No Grade.

    d. Available from - Setting this date prevents students from submitting their assignments before this date.

    e. Due date Setting this date prevents students from submitting their assignments after this date.

    f. Prevent late submissions - Set to "No", assignments submitted after the due date will be marked as late,

    but students will still be able to submit them. Set to "Yes", assignment submission will be blocked after

    the due date.

    g. Email alerts to teachers - If enabled, then teachers are alerted with a short email whenever students add

    or update an assignment submission.

    5. Scroll to the bottom of the window and click Save and return to course button.

    6. Your course activity link now appears in the designated Week block. See figure below

    NOTE: For more detailed information on the different activity choices and how they are used, see the

    Moodle Activities documentation available through the Faculty Technology Center (FTC) or login to

    Lynda.com for an interactive tutorial experience. See reference page at back of this booklet.

    EDITING A COURSE

    One of the most appealing features of Moodle is that no knowledge of HTML or other programming is necessary to

    create and edit online instructional materials.

    1. To add or alter activities or resources a teacher must use the "Turn editing on" button on the course homepage

    near the top right corner of your window. The same button will also turn editing off. Similarly, the "Switch roleto..." menu allows the teacher to see the course page as a student or non-editing teacher would see it. To add

    items to a section, you will use the pull down boxes for activities and resources.

    2. Participants in the class do not have the "Turn editing on" button--it's only available to the Teacher, Course

    Creator or the Moodle System Administrator. When editing is on you will see the following icons next to all

    editable objects in the course:

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    Moving Resources/Activities

    There are many different editing icons that appear on your course page when editing is turned on. For example,

    resources and activities can be moved to different positions and places in the course by using the move icon or delete

    them using the cross icon. Below you will find an explanation of each of the editing icons you will see.

    The edit icon lets you alter/update whatever resource or activity it is next to by taking you to its setup page.

    The help icon will pop-up a relevant help window.

    The open-eye icon means an item is visible to students. Clicking it will make the item invisible to participants

    and change the icon to the closed eye.

    The closed-eye icon means an item is hidden from students. Clicking it will make the item visible to

    participants and change the icon to the open eye.

    The left icon is used to out dent course elements. There is also a right icon for indenting items.

    The move icon allows course elements to be moved up or down throughout the course.

    The move here icon appears when moving a course element. It appears only after you've clicked

    the move icon, and indicates the destination of the item you're moving.

    The delete icon will permanently delete something from the course after you confirm a warning on a second

    page.

    The marker icon allows you to make a section current.

    The one icon hides all other sections of the course, showing only this one.

    The all icon redisplays all sections in a course.

    NAVIGATION

    There are a couple options for you to find your way around in a Moodle course.

    1. The Activities block - Select the name of the activity type. For example, to see all Forums, select the

    Forum link and all the forums that have been created for the course will show.

    2. Breadcrumb trail Use the breadcrumb trail links to navigate to different locations within Moodle.

    Breadcrumbs are located in the upper left corner of the page. See figure below.

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    3. Jump to this navigation dropdown box allows you to select the particular section and activity youd

    like to move to in the course. It can be found near the top of your browser window when within an

    activity.

    TIPS FOR USING MOODLE

    Don't be afraid to experiment. It's hard to break anything in a Moodle course, and even if you do it's

    usually easy to fix it. So, feel free to poke around and change things.

    Add your profile and encourage all of the students to fill out their profile. Include your profile photo

    and encourage your students to do the same.

    Use the News Forum for class announcements. All posts are distributed by email automatically

    after the 30 minutes editing period expires. The messages are posted and archived by date in the

    News Forum and a notice is added to the Latest News Block.

    Use the Logs link (under Administration Block > Reports) to get access to complete, raw logs. Inthere you'll see a link to a popup window that updates every sixty seconds and shows the last hour

    of activity.

    Reports are found in the Administration block. These provide a great way to see what any

    particular person has been up to in the course.

    LEARN MORE ABOUT MOODLE - OTHER RESOURCES

    There are many FREE resources available to support you in your learning and teaching with Moodle.

    CSUN MOODLE Community

    Once you have your Moodle account, one of the courses you will see listed under the My courses section is a course

    named CSUN Moodle Community. The purpose of the course site is to be a common place for faculty to share

    resources, ask questions, etc.

    On-Line Tutorials

    1. Lynda.com On-line training tutorials available to all campus users, faculty, students etc. This is a terrific on line

    training tool to help show you how to disseminate information, create a forum and assess the progress of

    students and much more. There is a large selection of tutorials to choose from to help further your knowledge

    with Moodle. Topic specific tutorials are available as well. Some examples are: Setting up the grade book

    Sending email to the class

    Creating a live chat room

    Creating a forum

    Creating a quiz

    Posting video files

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    Linking to a web site

    Creating a web page

    And much more

    Moodle for Faculty (Lynda.com) -http://moodle.csun.edu/mod/resource/view.php?id=6338

    Moodle for Students (Lynda.com) -http://moodle.csun.edu/mod/resource/view.php?id=6339

    2. Other Moodle Tutorials -http://www.moodletutorials.org/

    3. Moodle How To Video tutorials -http://www.remc3-

    9.org/education/components/scrapbook/default.php?sectiondetailid=285&&PHPSESSID=f7762edb300fc3a126d

    1a28297fb05f8

    Documentation

    1. Moodle Teacher documentation - http://docs.moodle.org/en/Teacher_documentation

    2. Using Moodle Teaching with the Popular Course Management System -http://issuu.com/iusher/docs/usingmoodle2?mode=embed&documentId=080624142903-

    4cc5c9e016844a70b2d4b211268b5d82

    3. MoodleDocs: Guidelines for contributors -

    http://docs.moodle.org/en/MoodleDocs:Guidelines_for_contributors

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