Build a LMS Page Student Project

M. Catherine Chauvin

GTCC

CIS-110-Introduction to Computers

Build a LMS PageStudent Project

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Introduction to Computers

LMS course restored from department

resource course

“Canned” – all text, no images

Having built a few web pages, I wanted

more

My first teaching experience with a LMS

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Added a themeDid my students notice? NO!

Uploaded a few images.Did my students notice? NO!

I continued making changes, blobs of text … gone, online assignments, inserted images into

quizzes, etc …Did my students notice? NO!



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Then I did something interesting.Actually, I didn’t do it, eLearning retired the

theme I was using which was replaced with “no theme.”

Did my students notice?



YES!

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“Are there any questions about this week’s assignment?”“Hey, Ms. Chauvin, why did you change the

color of our webpage?”`“Yeah, I noticed that too.” “ What, the green is gone?” “Oh, man, it don’t look so good now?”



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I was inspired to build a better Moodle course-room for my students.

I began weekly meetings with our Instructional Designer, Tonya Riney.



Traditional or in-seat courses

Moodle pages are generally used a

repository for resources and quizzes

Instructors often do not realize the benefits

of an interactive LMS course-room

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Do our students actually look at their course LMS page?


Grow A Moodle, Tomaz Lasic

http://human.edublogs.org/2009/06/09/grow-a-moodle/



http://www.flickr.com/photos/jhirsch/3424013299/

… gigabytes of info on ‘growing gap between

the teachers and students in using

technology’.

We (instructors) use “experts”

… the biggest pool of experts sits right in

front of our nose – out students!



“What is the viability of

students teaching

teachers about Moodle?”



“You have just been given full editing rights in a course in Moodle called Teach a Teacher. Your job is to upload two files and then create a folder with these two files in them. There are a couple of clips called 2 Minute Moodle's to help you work it out.

Go and see who gets it done!”



12 students

none had ever had a teacher role

4 didn’t watch the videos and finished in 5 minutes

6 watched the videos and finished in 10-15 minutes

2 finished in about 20 minutes



Outcome

“They were all pretty pleased with themselves!”



Instigated a new program:

“Teach a Teacher”



Presenting the idea from student to teacher requires finesse

Consider the following:‘Miss, do you want me to show you

how Moodle Assignment activity works?”,



Another approach:

“Miss, lots of people in our class lose or get late with assignments. Would you like me to show you how we could submit our assignments from home to save us forgetting to bring stuff from home?”



“Would you like me/us to show you how you can…” store all kinds of files in a place we can

all easily access them anytime we want or need to (files & folders)

allow us to talk like equals without the loud kids always having the say (forum)

show you how to use quick messages to each other, not emails (messaging)



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What is the benefit in all of this for the students?

Aren’t we wasting their school time to learn this stuff?Preparing for and learning how to teach someone a

skill, communicate appropriately and implement the training, evaluate and improve,learn how to use WYSIWYG/HTML,learn how to develop assessments



Assignment:

Group project to build a Moodle page based

on your assigned chapter

As a group, present your Moodle page to the

class

Teach your assigned chapter


Build a LMS Page

Requirements:Add a theme Add a home page summary Reduced sections to have no empty sections Section/Block Zero is your chapter information,

clearly state your chapter number Display blocks only on the right side Assessment Images Study Guide


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Building the student groups:

Grades/ability

Attendance

Class participation

Gender

Age


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Outcome:

The computer “gurus” got their voice

Younger students helping older students

Students began making suggestions to their

other instructors

Had fun!!


Build a LMS Page

Student Moodle Pages …

Main course page

Grow A Moodle, Tomaz Lasic http://human.edublogs.org/2009/06/09/grow-a-mo

odle

/

Or Google “grow a moodle”


Build a LMS Page

http://online.gtcc.edu/course/view.php?id=2979




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