ACCEPT Education Collaborative's Online Professional ...

ACCEPT Education Collaborative’s Online Professional Development:

MoodleRooms User Guide

Revised September, 2016

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Table of Contents

Introduction to MoodleRooms……………………………...…………….. 3

Enrolling In Your Course……...……….………………………………….. 4

Navigating Your Course.………………………...………………………... 9

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Introduction To MoodleRooms:

ACCEPT Education Collaborative is proud to offer our innovative online professional development courses to our school districts. Our courses utilize the MoodleRooms online learning platform via Blackboard, one of the most widely used online course sites in higher education institutions. The ease of use and interactive features of MoodleRooms make this tool an invaluable resource to provide state of the art professional development opportunities to public school employees. Participants are required to set up their free MoodleRooms account prior to being granted access to the ACCEPT courses that their employing school district has purchased. You will receive a welcome email from ACCEPT, which will have an instructional video and a guide to signing in and changing your temporary password. You will also receive an automated email from Moodlerooms with your username and temporary password. Technology Specifications: Before beginning your course, please make sure that you have internet connection and that any security features, such as restricted access to external sites including YouTube, are disabled. You will also need a printer connection as many of the courses include handouts and activities that require printing. Lastly, district administrators should be sure to check with their technology departments in advance to ensure that enough bandwidth is available for the number of participants that will be accessing the course, as this may affect the website speed.

If you have any difficulty logging into your course, please contact Jen Treacy at [email protected]

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Enrolling In Your Course: Each participant will receive an email sent by the course administrator directly from Moodlerooms with a confirmation of your new account. The sender address will appear as “[email protected]”. Your new account Username and Temporary Password will be included in this email. To login, you will need to click on the blue link which will bring you to the ACCEPT Moodlerooms site:

Once you click on the http://accept.mrooms.net/login/ link you will need to enter your username and password provided in the email:

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Once you log-in you will be prompted to change your password. Your new password must be at least 8 characters, at least 1 digit(s), at least 1 lowercase(s), and at least 1 uppercase(s):

Once you have changed your password hit ‘Save changes’, and your Password has been changed. Click ‘Continue’:

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You will then be brought into your Account. Click on ‘My Courses’ in the Top Right Corner of your screen to begin your course:

After your first login, you can access the site directly for all future visits by typing in the web address: http://accept.mrooms.net

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During future visits to the site after you log in, you will return to the course’s main homepage. The “Log In” button at the top right of your screen now says “My Courses”:

Click on the “My Courses” button to access a list of courses in which you are enrolled:

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Then click on the course that you wish to enter. Please note that the course title and content will differ depending on which ACCEPT professional development course you are accessing:

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Navigating Your Course: Your course’s homepage will appear like this (Note: The course’s homepage will look different depending on which professional development course you are accessing). The “Topic Box” on the top of the screen under the course title will always remain the same no matter which parts of the course you access. The bottom of your screen under the Topic Box will change depending on which parts of the course you are accessing:

Click on the different sections located in the Topic Box to begin accessing course content. Course content may contain video learning segments, handouts, and other activities. All activities are listed in order within each topic as you scroll down the page.

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After you complete each activity, click on the yellow “check” mark under the activity to turn it Green. This indicates that you have completed that activity:

As you complete each activity and mark them as “checked”, the progress bar underneath each topic section will change in the Topic Box. You may need to “refresh” the webpage to keep the progress bar up-to-date in real time:

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Some course modules also include a quiz at the end (scroll down to the bottom of each topic section). Be sure to read instructions carefully for each quiz to make sure you receive credit for completing the required section.

We hope you enjoy ACCEPT Education Collaborative’s online professional development courses! For a full listing of all our professional development

offerings, please visit our website: www.accept.org.

If you have any questions or assistance with online courses, please contact Jen Treacy at [email protected].