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FirstAttemptsAtMoodle.fm p. 1 Revised; April 3, 2007

Faculty of Engineering

Carleton University 2007

Moodle

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Neal Holtz

John Knight

Some Things We DidWhat We Liked

What We Didn’t Like

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Carleton University © John Knight FirstAttemptsAtMoodle.fm p. 2, Revised; April 3, 2007

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Moodle First Attempts

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ELEC 2607

Large Course• Multiple Sections, Labs

• Engineering Course

Possible Advantages From Moodle Over Present Web-Page Base• Organizing course events by date

• Choosing, and maintaining lab partnersCan update own class lists

• On line quizzes.• Rapid easy feedback for marks.

≈ 6000 marks

• Coordinating Automatic email Forums on lab and lectures

• Hyperlinked explanations

Different lecturers 10 Teaching Assistants

Same finalSame labs

300 students, 20 marks/studentNumerical assignments Material quite specific Not discussions based

On rev 22 of main web page (2007 only)

Excel sheet posted for each lab/prob set60 sheets posted now.

Some musical partnersSick? Checkout in a different period?

Automatic email lecturer diedspecial review period

Correcting lecturer noteslab sheets

Glossary , ELEC2607 Wiki

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Rational for Trying Moodle


Rational for Trying Moodle Problems that Course Based Software

Problems that Course Based Software Might HelpLab partners

Labs start the first week. TAs don’t know who is in class for several weeks, let alone who are lab partners.Some students change partners, some several times. This causes problems since the work is shared and depends on strong co-operation.In the future each partner will have to register on Moodle. It is very visible to the TAs and to the lab section.

On-Line qizzesBefore they do the lab, studentds have their prelab worked checked. The teaching assistants are trying to check if their circuits work, and really can’t tell if the students understand their prelab. Students who copy the prelab, or who don’t understand it may get filtered here.

Rapid easy mark feedbackAt present the teaching assistants are given an Excel template and told very clearly not to change anything.Each lab has 5 marks. these are entered on the spreadsheet. When completed, there is an Excel macro which removes the student’s names and generates an html file which the assistants post. There are now 60 postings, and as a result, many student’s don’t bother to check their marks. Multiple marks, and correction from different sources are a problem.Moodle is a central data base where a student can easily see their own marks, but no other students.

Hyperlinked explainationsThere is a glooary for terms, and a wiki to which all student’s can post.

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Choosing Lab Partners On Line

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Problems that Course Based Software

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The Choice Activity The teacher asks a question and gives a choice of multiple responses.Uses: From Moodle Manual

(off label use)Use for Lab Partner Choice• Initiate mass email before lab starts.

• Student gets login instructionsand starts Choice.

• Gets list of other students in his lab section. finds friend.

• Contacts friend

• Each use “Choice” to choose a lab group

A poll to stimulate thinking on a topic

Allow a class vote on a direction for the course

To gather research consent

Contact method needs refinement.

No emails in list at the moment.

Can make choice in lab.

“Forums” does this easily

Removeme from

L2ECan change mind butvery visable audit trail.

L2Eg1 L2Eg2 L2Eg3 L2Eg4 L2Eg5KnightHoltz

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Choosing a Lab Partner


Choosing a Lab Partner Problems that Course Based Software

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Knight’s Lab section isL2E (Even weeks)Select a partner from hereor wait and do it in the lab.

He can only see L2E students

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Participants Page

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of Lab L2E

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Participants Page Problems that Course Based Software

Identifying who is in one’s lab sectionEach student finds this out under Participants. At the moment the participants’ list does not give emails. We should change this to give connect emails, so the student’s can easily contact potential partners.We are looking at Forums. They generate automatic emails from postings, and we could post an email to all registered students in December, to start looking for a partner. It might help.

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Sign up for a lab group for the Monday even-weeks labFirst lab Monday January 15, 2007Last Lab Monday March 19, 2007

Choose a partner from lab L2E; then both of you putIf you cannot see your partner’s name she/he is not in L2E.If you are not formally registered in ELEC2607 L2E you will see no other names.

yourselves in the same group.

Your name will temporarily appear if you choose a lab group, but your choice will disappear in the next cleanup.

Holtz hasn’tchoosen yet.

Or he didn’tlike Knight.

JOHN KNIGHT

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Choices Page (Lab Partner in L2E)


Choices Page (Lab Partner in L2E) Problems that Course Based Software

Choosing a partnerAn Activity comes up when they login in January. This tells them to look at the participants list and guides them into the Choice for their lab section. They can see what lab groups have formed already.They can put themselves into any empty lab group, or one with only one person.Their partner must put themselves into the same lab group.Students not registered in the lab can appear to have choosen a lab group, but no other student can see it.

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Obtaining and Updating Student Lists

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Getting Student Names, Numbers and EmailsFrom Banner

Our secretaries will email me a class listFrom Carleton Central

Class lists (with no emails)displayed on the screen.

Screen copy these lists -> ExcelTweak data in Excel

MoodleMoodle reads named columns in csv (comma separated variable) format. (Top-level) -> Users -> Accounts -> Upload UsersWill create new, or update old accounts, as desired.Works well!

Why I like This.Carleton Central data is real time

=> Lab lists are current as I am.Helps control lab jumping.

WDN students are up-to-date

Don’t have to bother Patrick dailyfor updated lists.

firstname lastname name Central

email Banner

usernameJohn Knight John Knight [email protected] jknightNeal Holtz Neal Holtz [email protected] holtz2

Example of Tweaking Banner Data In Excel

Same lab runs for 2 weeks.Procrastinators try to crash the last Friday.

Some of the worst administrative problems withdraw.

The Centre’s staff are very patientbut I embarrass easily.

student numbers

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Obtaining Class Lists


Obtaining Class Lists Problems that Course Based Software

Obtaining Class ListsA) Student Lists from Carleton Central1. They do not give emails which must be obtained from Banner. 1) In Excel - Sweep-out enough rows for all the students - Format the cells for no wordwrap. {->Format->Cells->alignment and completely uncheck wordwrap } 2) Login to Carleton Central

Faculty Services -> Summary Class List ->Select Course: To get the list you want 3) On the the downloaded sheet - sweep-out the whole list and copy (^C). Exclude the headings and the summary at the bottom. - deposit it in Excel via {Right click, Paste Special, ->Text}B) Getting the information for Moodle 1) Make a column username, which is their email name. Fill it using using the formulas given starting in Row 2 =LEFT(P2,FIND("@",P2,1)-1) We assume P2 contains the firts email address, -1 removes the "@" 2) Make a column firstname from the combined name in the regstrar's list. =RIGHT($D2,LEN($D2)-FIND(",",$D2,1)-1) We assume D2 contains the first combined name. and make a column last name =LEFT($D2,FIND(",",$D2,1)-1)3) Make a column course1. Separate the course section from the title i.e. ELEC 2607 C-> C. Assume it starts in D2 =SUBSTITUTE(LEFT($E2,LEN($E2)-1)," ","") Changes ELEC 2607 C->ELEC2607 =RIGHT($E2,1) Changes ELEC 2607 C -> CC) To make the Moodle file

1. Banner is the main administrative system at Carleton. Carleton Central is a system accesible by teachers, that can supply class lists.

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Moodle-Ready Excel Sheet

File name:

Save as type: CVS (Comma delimited) (*.cvs)

MoodleClassListJan07,cvs

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Moodle Ready Excel Sheet


Moodle Ready Excel Sheet Problems that Course Based Software

1) Make an Excel sheet with these titles at the top of the first 11 columns. Groups and phone are optional.. username password firstname lastname idnumber email course1 group1 phone1 type1 group2The password is the student number. Since that can be changed, the idnumber= student number.Type is always 1 for studentsCourse is ELEC2670 which is the short name for the course.Group1, in ELEC2607 is the lab group i.e L1O etc.Group2 is A, B, C, the lecture section here. Group1 and group2 are interchanged to group into lecture sections.2) copy the appropriate data columns onto this new “Moodle” sheet. 3) Save the file as a .xls file4) Then save the Moodle page as a cvs file.5) In Moodle be sure all the lab groups and lecture groups are already created.6) In Moodle use DOE(Top-level) -> Users -> Accounts -> Upload UsersBy default Moodle creates new user accounts, and skips records where the username matches an existing account. Setting "Update existing accounts" to Yes, will update existing accounts. It does this well, but will tell you it updated the rewritten people to the same group they were in already.7) To put in the lecture groups (Sections) change group2 into group1 and rerun. It will now put everyone in two groups., the lab and the lecture. - Be sure you have precreated the Lecture groups. - be sure to allow Update Existing Accounts

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On-Line Quizzes

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Types of Questions• Match list 1 with list 2• Multiple Choice• Calculated answers

Quiz can have random choice of questions.

A Match Question

Essay: type in answer, teacher reads

Short answer: What is the Prime Minister’s name?Ans = Steven*Harper with score 100%Accepts: steven, harper, Harper Steven

Numerical: What is pi?Accepts: 3.1416 ± .01

Some Other Types

2 from bin A 3 from bin B 1 from bin C

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On Line Quizzes


On Line Quizzes Generating a quiz

Generating a quizFirst generate the questions.

These can go in bins Two bin levels works well.Three caused problems for me (newby!)

Then generate the quizSelect questions from any bin.Or/and random questions from assorted bins.

Numerical Questions

Binary Arith Bin State Machine

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A Multiple Choice Question• Can have many choices.• Can deduct for wrong

answers• Generate a new question

Click to copy -Then edit the new question

Match this circuit with

a. complet b. sum circ c. carry circ d. overflow e. controlle


a. complet b. sum circ c. carry circ d. overflow e. controlle Match this circuit with

a. complet b. sum circ c. carry circ d. overflow e. controlle


a. complet b. sum circ c.carry circ d. overflow e. controlle

Match this circuit

a. comb. sumc. carrd. ove

Family of questions

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On Line Quizzes


On Line Quizzes

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Calculated Questions

What teacher types for the question.

What the teacher types for the answer. decbin((16-8*{d}-4*{c}-2*{b}-{a})%16)

mod 16

1010 student types this (we hope)

Answer teacher types is -pow(2,{k}-1)

Given X={d}{c}{b}{a}

{k}

When {a} is encountered Moodle displays a random number to the student.

We gave {a} auniform distributionbetween 0 and 1 with 0 decimal places.

Moodle uses functionsfrom the PHP library.

Does trig, hyperbolic,base conversion, . . .

Ans can have a tolerance3.1416 ± .03

(not for binary arithmetic)

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On Line Quizzes


On Line Quizzes

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Distribution Generator

The little hand symbol in the upper left of the questions is Moodle’s “click to edit” symbol. Of course this only appears if you are the teacher.

decimal places

Distribution for variable {g}

can do log normal too

Sample value

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The Moodle Gradebook

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Grades Page

• Name is on both sides.

- Can download to Excel.• Uploading is not standard yet

- Trial code exists.

• Assignments, quizzes . . .done on-line are entered automatically

⇒ Typing in external marks is slow• Each column is hierarchical

Click on (say) Lab2 to get expansion.

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Moodle’s Gradebook


Moodle’s Gradebook Gradebook

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GradebookStudent’s view of Gradebook

You are logged in as John knight (Logout)

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2nd-Level Grades Page

L2_coop L2_TechL2_Tech L2_PreLabL2_Write L2_Ckout

Final Lab2Lab1 Lab3 Lab4 MidtermAmsaadAhmedAl-OtabiAmbroseBurah

18.4

Previous Grades Page

This is Moodle‘s‘‘click for help‘‘ symbol(the Moodle paperclip)

This says ‘‘Stats‘‘click to get μ, σ highest, lowest, median, mode

Have not been able toget student numbersin this column

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Moodle’s Gradebook Opinionated Appraisal

Opinionated Appraisal

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Opinionated Appraisal • Collecting grades for work done on-line

• Dumping grades to Excel

• Displaying grades to teacher

• Displaying grades to student

• Collecting grades collected off-line

• Collecting statistics and manipulation

• For having one easily correctable database

With many off-line marks.With nonstandard mark manipulation.

For fast typing

THERE IS NOTHING LIKE A SPREADSHEET

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Moodle’s Gradebook Opinionated Appraisal

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The Glossary• Insert terms and their definitions in the Glossary.• Any text typed in Moodle’s editor will be hyperlinked

(But not external files)• Great for TLAs.

CPLD:A Complex Programmable Logic Device

that can be programmed to perform a logic

Some other similar circuits are:PLAs (Programmable Logic Arrays),PALs (Programmable Array Logic), andFPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Arrays)

In the ELEC 2607 laboratory, they are used

is one of the family of prebuilt logic circuits

function up to some maximum complexity.

Click to get popup

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Hyperlinked Explainations


Hyperlinked Explainations Opinionated Appraisal

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The Wiki• A full function Wikipedia

• Anyone in the class can enter topics edit topics rollback entries . . .

• “Anyone” can be changed if desired.

• I like the Web Wikipedia

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Hyperlinked Explainations


Hyperlinked Explainations Opinionated Appraisal

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Like• The open source.

If you need a feature hack the code.

• You probably don’t have to hack, check the forums.

• WYSIWYG editor is very good.Not on the menu? Try inserting html code.

• On line quizzes are very well doneMoodle can do University level math! (one line of it)

• The weekly calendar organization is delightful.

• Can control my own student lists.

Dislike• Would like to see Moodle Gradebook ⇔ Excel (Open Office)

• Would like selective hiding of certain resources

• Probably better for nurds

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Summary


Summary Opinionated Appraisal

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