Learn Moodle
Introduction
Basic information
| ICT Competency | Moodle is a learning management system (LMS) designed to provide educators, administrators and learners with a robust, secure and integrated system to create personalised and collaborative learning environments. |
| Educational application and relevance | Moodle provides and on-line platform for collaborative learning. It empowers teachers to set-up courses, provide learning resources and activities for the course and assess learners. Teachers and learners can share ideas and experiences using the on-line discussion forums in Moodle. |
| Version | Currently using 4.2.2 |
| Other similar applications | TalentLMS |
| The application on mobiles and tablets | It is a web based application, and can be accessed through a browser on any device supporting browsing.
There is also an app which can be installed on mobiles. The Moodle app is available in Google Play Store. |
| Development and community help | Moodle |
Install Moodle app on your phone
Moodle is a free application and it is available for smart phone, download Moodle from google play store.
- After downloading the "Application" just you need to follow the steps & install the Moodle App in your smartphone.
- When the installation is complete login to the "App" through the "Moodle ID" & "Password" provided.
Working with Moodle
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.
Moodle Interface
Logging in to Moodle course page
You can login to Moodle, through a phone Moodle app or through any web browser.
Logging in from Web browser
Make sure you have received your credentials before you try to login to your moodle account. If you have the credentials, then on top right as mentioned in the above image "Moodle interface" click on login.
Moodle login screen
It shows the "Moodle login screen". Give your credentials here and click 'Login'.
Once you login, you can access the list of enrolled courses and you will see your initials on the top right corner of the screen.
Watch this below animation to know detailed steps to login to Moodle course page
Configure your Moodle app
First you need to Install the Moodle Mobile App from the Apple App (Phone user) Store OR the Google Play Store (Android user).
- Moodle - Login to the course
Moodle App login screen
- In the first Welcome to the Moodle app! screen you need to click on I'M A LEARNER.
- You will need to enter in the Moodle website address: https://karnatakaeducation.org.in/lms/, click on "connect".
- In next screen, enter your moodle username and password (which shared from course faculty).
- Accessing the Moodle App
Steps to access the course & download
After logging in to Moodle App, we can find the home screen as shown in screenshot 1, to access the courses we're enrolled to click on the NAVIGATION button. The list if the courses enrolled will be displayed as shown in Screenshot 2, if we want to download courses to our storage. We can even download the courses from Moodle to phone storage by clicking the Settings/Options on top of the Smartphone screen.
Steps to access the course in Browser
Above screenshot shows on steps to access to BigBlueButton through Moodle App.
How to reset your Moodle ID password
When you forget your Moodle ID or Password, it can be reset by following the below steps as shown in screenshots.
- Resetting your forgotten Moodle ID or Password
Resetting from Moodle App in smartphone
Click 'lost password'
Choose either username or password
Moodle Home page
Moodle main page interface
As we can see in the above image, Moodle contains the following tabs,
- Home, Home screen of Moodle https://karnatakaeducation.org.in/lms
- Dashboard, shows the recently accessed courses, timeline and calendar
- My courses, shows the list of courses the user is enrolled for.
- Site administration, shows the options to administer the settings in moodle
Enrolled courses in thumbnail view
Site administration page
A course is a space on a Moodle site where teachers can add the content (learning materials) and activities (pedagogy) for their students. A teacher may be a faculty for more than one course, a course may include more than one teacher and more than one group of learners.
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.
Faculty view in Moodle
Editing sections
Once you have a new blank course or once you enrolled as teacher for any course, you can start work on it by turning on the edit mode button enabled on top right of your screen. Only faculty will have rights to edit the course contents, including adding resources and activities. This option is not available for students.
Deleting/hiding/moving the topic
If you click on three vertical dots in a topic it shows the following options:
- Edit topic : Allows to edit the topic
- Highlight : Highlighted topic gets attention in the number of topics
- Hide topic : A topic can be hidden from students using this option
- Move : Moves the selected topic to the selected topic
- Delete topic : Deletes the selected topic
You can embed your files, images or videos by dragging and dropping the file to the summary section. You can also adjust the size of the file.
Check "Custom" to give your custom heading for your section.
Giving the custom heading
Start adding section summary under the summary box (you can copy paste from an existing text document also). Use the top 'basic formatting' toolbar to format your text, you can bold or italicize your text and perform basic text editing functions.
Under the restrict section, you can restrict the access to the page as in the screen shot below.
Once you have completed your editing and added the text, images, videos in the section, you should click on "save changes" button to save your content under that section.
Adding Resources
A resource is an item that a teacher can use to support learning, such as a file or web link. There are two ways you can add resources to the course page.
Embedding the resource directly in the section
In the topic 'edit' mode, you will be seen variety of resources such as image, video, recording an audio, links etc that gets directly embedded to the page itself.
Web links can be provided directly in the section itself. You can give the link directly or 'embed' the link to existing text (which will show as a hyper link). You can also embed images and videos directly on the section page, by providing the URL where the image or video file is stored (using the Insert -> Media option).
Adding the link inside the 'topic'
By selecting the words highlighted in the above screenshot & clicking the ‘LINK’ symbol, one more ‘pop – window’ will appear where you can paste the website link for quick access while reading a particular paragraph, for the students. Above is the screenshot on how to add the “hyperlink” to particular section of “text” by adding the Moodle LMS hyperlink.
Inserting the media to the topic
'File picker' window
In addition to this, you can also embed other multimedia resources such as image, audio, video etc. To embed any content first it should be uploaded to the moodle. To do that, click on the element to be added, it shows a page where there will be an option named "Browse repositories". Click that. It further shows another window to 'upload a file', click browse. Choose the file in your local system. Click 'upload this file' option.
Adding resource to the section
The resources can also be added within the topics. To add a resources like files, folder, URLs or to create a book, assignment submission, choose the section in your course homepage where you'd like it to appear and click on the "Add an activity or resource" available in that section and then select the type of resources you are going to add, from the list. This can be any file you have, which you will upload to Moodle and provide as a resource in this section.
Adding an activity or resource
Activity and resources list
Click on the type of resource you want to add to the page, it will be redirected to the corresponding resource page.
Adding Activities
Moodle supports a range of different activities that allow you to insert to any section. You can add interactive exercises for your students.
To add a activities like quiz, discussion forum, attendances, forms and surveys turn on your editing. Choose the section in your course homepage where you'd like it to appear and click on the "Add an activity or resource" then select the type of activities you are going to add into section from the list (for example: Quiz).
Quiz
Adding 'Quiz' as an activity
Settings in 'quiz' activity
Once you click on any activity, you will be redirected to the settings of that activity as shown in the above screenshot.
- General
- Name : Type the name for your activity link, it will create a link which students will click on to view the file. It will be helpful to give it a name that suggests its purpose / contents.
- Description : Add a description of your activity if required.
- Display description on the course page : If this box is ticked, the description will appear on the course page just below the name of the activity.
- Timing
- Open the quiz and Close the quiz : Students can only start their attempt(s) after the open time and they must complete their attempts before the close time.
- Time limit : If enabled, the time limit is stated on the initial quiz page and a countdown timer is displayed in the quiz navigation block.
Once the all the settings have been filled out as required and saved, the activity will appear at the bottom of the section.
You can move any activity around in the course with the move buttons while in 'edit' mode. In the 'Question behaviour', you can shuffle the questions. You will also find variety of options in 'Review options' to customize the quiz according to your choice.
Moodle supports a range of different activities that allow you to insert to any section. You can add interactive questions for the other students in the course.
Once done, you can click on 'Save and return to course'. You can 'Add question', in the 'Quiz' option. In the new page, 'Add a new question'. You can select the question type. Click 'Add'.
- Moodle - Creating Question
How to create a new Question
For the example we are framing ‘Multiple Choice Questions’ type.
You can add the choices for the
Questions framed in the above screenshot.
Assignment
Assignment helps course creators to give assignments to course participants. The participants can submit assignments in the form of text by typing in text editor or by they can upload their digitally created content. Creators can download the submissions.
Assignment can be made available till a particular date by using the section 'Availability' section in the settings. Faculty can set due date, cut off date, reminder etc.
'Submission type' specifies what kind of submission the faculty is expecting. It could be either online text where student might enter some descriptive answer or share the public link of their assignment or may be it is the submission of file or document.
- Moodle - How to add an activity or resource
By enabling the ‘Turn editing ON’ we can add ‘activity or resource’ in the units
- Configuring Assignment
Select assignment module from activities list
Participants can upload their files here
Forum
Forum module helps course creators to allow participants discuss about course content, resources etc and share their collective knowledge. After a participant is enrolled for a course, he/she can take part in these forums.
Once faculty clicks on 'Add discussion topic', you can type the 'Subject', 'Message' regarding the topic. Click 'Post of forum'. In the 'Forum' option you can find your topic, students will click on that topic, to initiate the discussion. In the 'Replies' option, faculty can see the number of replies.
- Configuring Forum
Select Forum module from activities list
Edit these menu options to suit course needs
Also there is a control menu which enables users to participate in the forums with word count and attachment size. This will help maintain the course with optimum sized files.
Questionnaire
Questionnaire module will help course creators to give quizzes, data collection etc.
To add a questionnaire, click on Add an activity/resource and select Questionnaire
- Configuring Questionnaire
Select Questionnaire module from activities list
Edit these menu options to suit course needs
You can control response actions and also activity completion which gives more control to the creator/moderators.
- Configuring Questionnaire
Helps to design responses better
Deadlines also can be set from these menu
After you finish configuring your questionnaire, click on save and display to show the questionnaire or click on save and return to the course.
Tracking attendance
The Attendance module is designed for teachers to be able take attendance during class, and for students to be able to view their own attendance record.
A teacher can mark the attendance status of a student as "Present", "Absent", "Late", or "Excused". These status descriptions are configurable, and more can be added. The teacher adds Attendance as an activity of a course, and then sets up the sessions whose attendance is to be tracked. To create course attendance go to any section and click an "Add an activity or resource".
- Adding Attendance for the course
Select attendance option from the list
Configuring group
In the general section, enter all the common details like name of the attendance and description about the attendance (if you have).
Discussion forum activity
The discussion forum activity allows students and teachers to exchange ideas by having discussions on any topic. Any teacher or student registered for the course can initiate a new topic, can post comments or respond to available discussions on any topic. The discussions for a topic are automatically shown as as part of a 'thread' by Moodle.
There are several forum types to choose from, such as a standard forum where anyone can start a new discussion at any time; a forum where each student can post exactly one discussion; or a question and answer forum where students must first post before being able to view other students' posts. A teacher can allow files to be attached to forum posts. Any images attached in the forum post are displayed.
Discussion forums have many uses, such as
- A social space for students to get to know each other
- For course announcements (using a news forum with forced subscription, where only faculty can post)
- For discussing course content or reading materials
- For continuing on-line an issue raised previously in a face-to-face session
To add discussion topic click on the add "an activity or resource" option and select forum option from the activities list.
Enter the discussion topic and summary
Restricting attachment size and text length
Under the "general" section type your discussion topic and under the "attachments and word count" you can limit the size of the attachment and word counts and number of attachments etc.
After you complete the editing, click on "Save and display" to display third discussion thread under your selected section.
Students can start replying to a topic / discussion by simply clicking on the 'reply' option.
Advanced Activities
1.Lesson
2.Workshop
Multi-lingual offering of courses
The multi-language content filter enables resources to be created in multiple languages. Moodle by default will be in English and for running any local languages, language packages need to install in your server (This will be done by your web admin).
Login to your course and on the top right side of the screen you can select the language which you want see your course.
Adding content in the course page
For adding other language content into any section, after you enable the editing option and select click on edit -> edit topic.
Once the section open with edit option, for adding Kannada text in to the section just add {mlang kn} ('kn' means Kannada, replace this with your language) before your text began and at the end of your text just add {mlang}. follow the same steps for any other language which is already installed in your Moodle server.
How to add a new course
If a faculty wants to add/create a ‘New course’ to the Moodle page below are the steps.
1. Teacher’s Dashboard ►Site administration ►Courses ►Manage courses & categories►Create a new course.
- Moodle - How to add a new course
Steps on how to add a new course
Student view in Moodle
This page will help you to navigate around your course as student. Once the faculty enrols you to a course, you can browse all the course content from the Moodle site.
Student/User information
- Moodle - Student login page
Home page of student account
Most courses will allow the student to see profile of the login user from the top right side. This block will allow the student to see information about themselves in the course.
In the main page, you can see the two columns: Navigation, Course contents with course sections and news, and upcoming events. You need to click on each tab to see more information.
Once you click on the course, The course will open and from the left side course navigation option, directly you can go to any section in the course.
Click here to see the tutorial on how access course content from Moodle mobile app.
Participating in activities
Under every section of the course, faculty will give some activities to be completed by students. Activities may be quizzes, assignments, checklists and also discussion topics. Click on the activity to participate in it.
Participating in discussion forum
Under the first general section you have to click on the "General discussion forum for faculty and students" link to see all the discussion topics. To reply to any topic, click on the topic and type your reply by clicking on the reply link under others replies. Under every reply text input box, also it will allow you to upload your files if needed.
- Participate in the discussion topics
In addition to responding to the existing topic, you can create new discussion topic by clicking on "Add a new discussion topic".
Also, click here to see the video tutorial on how to participate in discussion forum in mobile app.
Participating in assignments activity
If the activity is assignments, you have click on the title of the activity to read the full assignment and click on "add submission" it will open "online text section" and "file submission" sections, under online text section directly you can give text input of your assignment. In file submission section you can upload any files like images, text files, audio’s etc.
- Moodle – Uploading the assignment
This is how you can upload assignment through Moodle App
- Participating in assignments activity
Participate in assignment activity
Online text input section
File submission section
In these courses you can upload files up to 500 KB size as assignment. If you want to upload files which are more than 500KB, you can use google drive to upload your files and give the link here under online text input section. Once you finish your inputs click on "Save changes" to submit your assignment.
Note : - If you want submit any of the video you have created, use YouTube to upload it and give the video link under online text input section.
Click here to see video about assignment submission on Moodle mobile app.
Accessing the resources
The students can access the resources which are posted by the teacher & given permission for downloading to the students.
- Moodle – Accessing the resource
In the above screenshot we are trying to download a file which is uploaded by the teacher for the student.
Here in the above screenshot, we can download a whole folder which is uploaded & given access to download for the students.
Advanced features
- Tracking activities of students
- Tracking assessments and grading assessments
- Quizzes for ongoing assessment
- Event tracking using calendar