This course gives you a brief description of the steps you need to do to begin creating your first moodle course. Print the first page of this course and then open your course shell to get started.
- Teacher: Graves Mr W
Dear Teachers and School Administrators:
This workshop is intended to show how moodle may be useful in helping students to learn a subject. It starts with a very revealing short video that makes teachers think. In this workshop, you are not being asked to agree with the use of moodle in schools but only to see how others have turned moodle into a story of success. This moodle workshop is arranged as an easy-to-understand self-guided tour. Students who are disorganized and behind in their work may benefit most from moodle if it is well organized and self-quiding.
Workshop Author: William Graves
Credits for videos go to other authors.
- Teacher: Graves Mr W
Dear Teacher and/or School Administrator,
This outstanding open-source Moodle Training PD is a great resource for teaching yourself many of the complicated capabilities of moodle. However, it is important that you ask for a course shell with which you can begin to experiment and into which you can create your own things and import activities from open-source courses that others have already created. Students love using moodle but only if the course is well organized and contains the specific things that your students need to meet state standards. Moodle by itself is useless. You must create a course that makes sense and is well organized. In other words, it must be designed as a true teaching tool that supports good pedagogical strategies in your subject area. Most teachers use a hybrid model, (i.e. a blend of traditional and moodle) and grow their moodle courses as they become more experienced in its use.
Commentary by William Graves
- Teacher: Donatella Barbara