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Course Facilitation Tutorial
In this tutorial, you will learn best practices and techniques for course
facilitation specific to the Moodle platform in the areas of:
communication, maintenance, grading, and reporting.
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Overview
This tutorial was designed to introduce you to some best practices in online course facilitation. At the conclusion of this tutorial, you will be able to:• Discuss facilitation techniques used in the online
classroom.• Identify resources, activities, and blocks.•Use standard communication tools in Moodle.
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Tutorial Instructions
To use this tutorial, click on the topic you want to learn more about.
Some topics have sub-menus directly beneath the main menu. Explore
the tutorial in any order that you would like.
To return to the main menu, click on the Home icon located in the
lower left corner of the screen.
For additional Help resources , click the Question icon located in the
bottom right corner.
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Where to Find Help
Moodle is literally a world-wide system, and there are many places where you can
find assistance to further your Moodle knowledge.
Here are some recommended resources for finding more information on any
Moodle-related topic:
•Using Moodle by Mary Cooch (video tutorials on Youtube)
•Moodle Manuals at moodle.org (text-based)
Remember that you can always search on Moodle.org as well for help with core
Moodle questions. You may want to bookmark these sites so that you have direct
access to them later.
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Facilitate Overview
Before you begin facilitating a course, there are a few things you will want to do
beforehand that will not only make your course run smoother but make your life easier too.
In this section you will learn how to set up a practice course with a fake student account,
update your profile so it is optimized for facilitation, use feedback activity to improve your
course instruction, and then wrap up with a few reminders and tips on facilitation.
Practice Shells & Accounts
Your Profile
Feedback
Things to Remember
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Facilitate > Practice Shells and Accounts
Practice Shells & Accounts | Your Profile | Feedback | Things to Remember
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Facilitate > Your Profile
Practice Shells & Accounts | Your Profile | Feedback | Things to Remember
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Facilitate > Feedback Activity
Practice Shells & Accounts | Your Profile | Feedback | Things to Remember
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Facilitate > Things to Remember
Practice Shells & Accounts | Your Profile | Feedback | Things to Remember
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Communicate Overview
Communication with students in an online/virtual environment is
critical. Consistent communication ensures that students feel
connected and part of the online and course community. Strategically
use Moodle functionality to communicate with your students through
tools you will explore in this section.
Messages
News Forum
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Communicate > Moodle Messaging
Moodle Messaging | The News Forum
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Communicate > The News Forum
The News forum is
another effective means
of communication in
Moodle.
It’s the default forum for
general news and course
announcements found in
every Moodle course.
Users enrolled into courses
are also automatically
subscribed to the forum,
meaning they receive e-
mail copies of posts made
by the instructor.
Any post to the news
forum mails automatically,
if the Mail Now button is
selected, or within 30
minutes by default.
The News forum is
recommended for
important
announcements because
it also shows up in the
Latest News block, as
well as being archived in
the forum and sent to
the students’ e-mail.
Moodle Messaging | The News Forum
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Maintain Overview
Although you may not be building out your own course, it is
important to understand how that process works. Having basic
knowledge of this will allow you to maintain your course, should
something need to be changed. We will have a high-level overview of
course building pertaining to modules now.Resources
Activities
Activity Settings
Blocks
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Maintain > Resources
Resources are links to
files, URLs, repository
items, or constructed
web pages that are not
graded, which the
instructor provides for
the students. Moodle
provides a variety of
ways to input content
into courses via
Resources.
Resources | Activities | Activity Settings | Blocks
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Maintain > Activities
Activities are interactive
components of the
course that are typically
graded upon completion.
Think of activities as
those which foster
communication, assess
or provide feedback, and
which require the student
to interact with content.
Resources | Activities | Activity Settings | Blocks
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Maintain > Activity Settings
Each activity module has
different settings that
control how it works for the
teacher and the students.
Many of the options that you
will find in the settings are
similar, but some are
activity specific. If
something in an activity isn’t
working the way you think it
ought to, check the settings
to make sure some feature
is not disabled.
Resources | Activities | Activity Settings | Blocks
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Maintain > Best Practices with Blocks
Resources | Activities | Activity Settings | Blocks
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Grade Overview
As the course facilitator, you may not necessarily be building your
gradebook, but you will be grading. If something isn’t working as
expected, you should at least have a basic working knowledge of
the gradebook.
In this section, you will look at the basics of the gradebook, briefly
review categories and aggregations, look at tips for grading and
some general best practices for grading.Gradebook Management
Grading Tips
Best Practices with
Gradebook
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Grade > Gradebook Management
Gradebook Management | Grading Tips | Best Practices
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Grade > Grading Tips
Gradebook Management | Grading Tips | Best Practices
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Grade > Best Practices with Gradebook
Gradebook Management | Grading Tips | Best Practices
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Report Overview
Reports allow teachers to track, in detail, course, item, and user
activity. Moodle reports instantaneously log user interactions
straight into the database. It logs views, actions, grades, uploads,
and many other interactions that are done by users.
Moodle Course Reports
Using Course Reports
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Report > Moodle Course Reports
Course reports are one
of the most used
reports in Moodle.
Accessing reports is
quite easy: just enter
the course in which you
want to gather the data
and use the Navigation
block to find the link to
reports.
Moodle Course Reports | Using Course Reports
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Report > Using Course Reports
The Logs list users
interaction with the
system. You can see what
pages the student
accessed, the time and
date they accessed it, the
IP address they came from,
and their actions. Use
filters to sort information
by course, participant, day,
activity, and action.
The Live logs show the
same information but are
only taken from the
database records of the
last hour.
The Activity reports
show the number of
views for each activity
and resource. Information
is organized by topic.
The Participation
reports display which
students have
participated in a
particular activity. You
can use filters to look
back on days, or sort by
role or action. Once the
report is generated, you
can select a user and
send them a message.
Moodle Course Reports | Using Course Reports