Creating Blended Moodle Courses

Topic outline

• General
  

  General

  
  

  
  

  This four week course is for teachers who want to create a Moodle site to supplement their face to face classroom instruction. Read the overview below.
  
  
  

  • Overview Page
  • Example assignment
• Topic 1
  

  Topic 1

  Week One: Design
  Participants will learn how to:
  

  1. Design Moodle environment
  2. Add graphics
  3. Add documents

  • Task: Signing up for your own Moodle Course Page
  • Activity: View these Atomic Learning Videos Page
  • Assignment: Design Top Sections
  • Forum: Intros
• Topic 2
  

  Topic 2

  Week Two: Forums
  Participants will learn how to:
  

  1. Create and use forums
  2. Layout and organize course content
  3. Add web links

  • Activities
    
  • Activity: Invite two teachers Page
  • Activity: Visit other teacher's Moodle courses Page
  • Tasks
  • Task: Create a "Social" Forum Page
  • Task: Post to the News Forum Page
  • Task: Create labels Page
  • Task: Create web links Page
  • Assignment
  • Assignment: View Moodle Exemplars
• Topic 3
  

  Topic 3

  Week 3: Assignments and Files
  Participants will learn how to:
  

  1. Use online and offline assignments
  2. Use the gradebook
  3. Setup course files

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    Assignments:
    There are two basic types of assignments--online and offline.
    Here is a flow chart of how assignments work in Moodle.
    
    
  • flowchart Page
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    Directories:
    Directories can display files. It's a good idea to setup a file structure for a course early on, even if you don't display directories. Otherwise your course documents might start looking like your desktop
  • Directory of Course Files for Blended Moodle Folder
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  • Activity: Watch Atomic Learning Tutorials Page
  • Task: Create Assignments in Your Moodle Page
  • Task: Create File Structure for Course Page
  • Assignment: How will you use Moodle in your classroom?
  • Forum: Assignments in Moodle
• Topic 4
  

  Topic 4

  Week 4: Moodle Web 2.0 Tools
  Blogs, Glossaries, Choice, Journals, Feeback
  
  Participants will learn how to:
  

  1. Use these Moodle Web 2.0 tools: Choice, Blogs, Journals, Feedback, and Glossary
  2. Integrate Google apps

  • Activity: Choice: What would you rather be doing?
  • Activity: View Atomic Learning Tutorials Page
  • Task: Exploring Using Google Spreadsheets to collect info Page
  • Assignment: Add a Glossary to your Classroom Moodle