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| === Working with Moodle === | | === Working with Moodle === |
− | A course is a space on a Moodle site where teachers can add learning materials and activities for their students. A teacher may have more than one course and a course may include more than one teacher and more than one group of learners. | + | Moodle is a free and open Learning Management System (LMS). You can configure any number of courses on Moodle. You can categorise courses as required. |
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| + | A course is a space on a Moodle site where teachers can add content (learning materials) and activities (pedagogy) for their students. A teacher may have be a faculty for more than one course, a course may include more than one teacher and more than one group of learners. |
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| Both teachers and students have to be 'registered' for a course (as 'teacher' or as 'student'), this role configuration is done by the Moodle administrator. | | Both teachers and students have to be 'registered' for a course (as 'teacher' or as 'student'), this role configuration is done by the Moodle administrator. |
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| ==== Editing sections ==== | | ==== Editing sections ==== |
− | Once you have a new blank course, you can start work on it by '<nowiki/>'<nowiki/>''Turning on'''the editing, by clicking the''<nowiki/>'Turn editing on''<nowiki/>' button on the top of the screen. Only faculty will have rights to edit the course contents, including adding resources and activities. This is not available for students. | + | Once you have a new blank course, you can start work on it by '<nowiki/>'<nowiki/>''Turning on''' the editing, by clicking the ''<nowiki/>'Turn editing on''<nowiki/>' button on the top of the screen. Only faculty will have rights to edit the course contents, including adding resources and activities. This is not available for students. |
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| When the 'editing' option is turned 'on', each item on your course homepage and each section/block will display 'edit' option, which will enable you to perform different functions such as edit/move/copy/delete/hide. '''Note:''' In ''your theme the'' icons ''may be ''different''. However the functionality is the same for different themes of Moodle.'' | | When the 'editing' option is turned 'on', each item on your course homepage and each section/block will display 'edit' option, which will enable you to perform different functions such as edit/move/copy/delete/hide. '''Note:''' In ''your theme the'' icons ''may be ''different''. However the functionality is the same for different themes of Moodle.'' |
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| ==== Advanced activities ==== | | ==== Advanced activities ==== |
− | Chat | + | # Check list |
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− | Lesson | + | # Lesson |
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− | Workshop | |
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| ==== Multi-lingual offering of courses ==== | | ==== Multi-lingual offering of courses ==== |
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| # Tracking assessments | | # Tracking assessments |
| # Quizzes | | # Quizzes |
− | # Check-lists of activities
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| === Reference === | | === Reference === |