What teachers NEED to know about Moodle 2
Topic outline
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Navigation
Moodle 2 has a new intuative way of navigating the site and course pages. Including the navigation block and docking.
The dock is a completely new feature in Moodle 2. Now, if you don't want to see all the blocks in the course, you can dock them by clicking a little icon in the corner. They then move to the dock area where they hide until you need them. The great thing is you don't need to do it every time you visit your course. It remembers which blocks you docked!
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Adding Files (or "Where Has My Files Section Gone?!")
How files are handled now, bulk uploading files, creating folders, updating files, private files, touch on file repositories.
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Naming Topic Boxes / Sections
To ensure that the Navigation block shows your course topics ensuring a better navigation of your course for students and staff, edit your course to have section names in your topic summaries of your course.
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Course Completion
Enabled by admin and in course settings, then at each activity and resource. The block to track course completion and self-completion.
Completion criteria can be set on all resources and activities within a course, but the sort of criteria depends on the type of activity. For example, this is a label. The only completion that can be done for this is for the student to manually mark it as complete. There is no interaction in this resource, students don't need to open it to see it. Click the checkbox to the right of this activity to mark it complete for yourself! → → →
Once you have viewed the above page resource, you should see that it has automatically ticked itself complete.
This is all well and good, but how do you as a teacher see what the student has "completed"?
See the video resource below:
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Conditional Activities
With screencasts of examples of activities / resources that are hidden before certain conditions are met.
As a student in this course, you can see how conditional activities could work for a student.
Click the activity below:
Now that you have completed the first activity, click the link below to continue!
So how is this all set up?
See the video resource below:
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New Blocks
Including Private Files, Comments, Blog Menu and Logged in User.
- The following videos show you ALL the standard blocks in Moodle 2, and this includes a lot of the blocks that were available in Moodle 1.9 as well. It can be a lot of information, and watching them is optional.
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Blog-type forum
Posts to a blog type forum are displayed like a blog with comments enabled. The first post displays as the blog post, and any replies are displayed as comments. Unlike a blog, which stays in the chronological order of the initial post, posts in this forum type will organise themselves in order of those that have been replied to most recently being at the top.
Posts to a blog type forum are displayed like a blog with comments enabled. The first post displays as the blog post, and any replies are displayed as comments. Unlike a blog, which stays in the chronological order of the initial post, posts in this forum type will organise themselves in order of those that have been replied to most recently being at the top.
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Quiz
Differences in setting up questions in the quiz.
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Lesson
Moodle lessons haven't changed dramatically from version 1.9, but there are some minor changes. These videos will show you how to create lessons in Moodle even if you've never created any before.
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Wiki
The wiki activity in Moodle is much more robust now. It doesn't break, and you have the choice of what sort of formatting you want to use. Watch these videos to find out more.
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Managing Users
Viewing a list of enrolled users, enrolling users, enrollment plugins.
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SCORM
There have been some issues with SCORM packages since we upgraded to Moodle 2. Please email any issues you have with your SCORM to elearn@unitec.ac.nz - we will endeavour to find a solution for you, and when we do we will put the answer here.
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