Key Questions to Ponder Do you feel your students could work with the LMS (Learning Management System like Moodle)? Do you feel your teachers could manage.

Key Questions to Ponder

• Do you feel your students could work with the LMS (Learning Management System like Moodle)?

• Do you feel your teachers could manage a course that has already been compiled with a LMS ?

• Do your feel your teachers could and would assemble and create content for their LMS courses?

An Introduction to MoodleAn Introduction to Moodle

A Student’s View

The First DayThe First Day

Login to shs.trilliumtrail.net

Your username is your first initial last nameWith no space in between.

Example: John Sarandrea >>jsarandreaInitial password: new

To change your password and/or edit your profile click on:

OR

Click on Home to get back to the site’s Home page

Enrolling in a Course - Courses should be set upwith an enrollment key. The enrollment key for Introduction to Moodle is: cffcoach1

Click on to Enroll

Enrollment Key: cffcoach1

Enrollment key is only used only the first time youenter a course

Resources - information going out

Activities - information going in and out

IMS or IMS like content packages webpagesand multimedia content into a package thatcan be uploaded to LMS sites.

Information going in twodirections - A great wayto manage student work.

Offline Assignment: Assignment givenOnline, but graded offline.

A quick online essay assignment. Click on the

Edit my submission button above. We will look at everyone’s short essay as a teacher would view them in a few minutes.

Browse for the file on your computer.

Click Open

Then Upload this file

Then Continue

And your course name to get back home

Try taking the quiz.we will look at the results as a teacher alittle later.

Take the 5 question quiz. We will look At the results later from a teachers view

Please answer the 5 questions. Good Luck!

And submit your results

Review and then click Finish review

Back to the Home page for IntroMoodle

Click on the GlossaryActivity

Enter name of your favoriteWeb 2.0 activity

Describe the activity here

Save changes and return tohomepage of course.

Click on the Forum Activity

Participate in this discussion while I spend 10 minutes giving everyone teacher rights so you can see how entries look from a teacher’s perspective.

An Introduction to MoodleAn Introduction to Moodle

A Teacher’s View

The initial screen looks similar. If you click on eachof the resources to the leftyou will find out they arethe same.

Click on each of the Activitiesto the left. Notice how theyare quite different.

Offline Assignmentevaluated offlinescore, comments canbe recorded online

Click here to see completedassignments or to recordresults

Back to the homepage

Uploading an Assignment

Home page

Quiz Results

Home page

Glossary Activity

Home page

Forums

Home page

Some outside web 2.0 programs may be betterthan activities that are part of Moodle. I like CoverItLiveFor surveys, chats.

Editing Resources and Editing Resources and AssignmentsAssignments

A Teacher’s View

Home page

Click on Turn editing oncontrol

Icons To Work With Specific Entries

Deletes item

Icons To Work With Specific Entries

Deletes item

Icons To Work With Specific Entries

Moves item to new vertical position

Icons To Work With Specific Entries

Opens up editor page for item

Editing pages for each resourceand activity have some similar, and many different options.Default settings are acceptable for most choices.

Some Resources & Activities are quick and easy to set up.

Some like Quizzes aremore complexed.

Key Questions in Review

• Do you feel your students could work with the LMS?

• Do you feel your teachers could manage a course that has already been compiled with a LMS?

• Do your feel your teachers could and would assemble and create content for their LMS courses?

If so --

• A school should support an instructional technology coach or specialist to assist with its implementation.

• A school should support the technology by administrating the LMS.