MOODLE ADVANCED

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WELCOME TO THE ADVANCED GUIDE

This guide has been designed to be interactive and will expand as we develop
more support materials.
To make life a little easier we have prioritised the most useful Moodle activities
and developed these support materials first.
If you cannot see the activity you want to learn more about in this guide, it is
probably still under development and will be added shortly.

2 Moodle Advanced

Assignments
The assignment activity enables lecturers to collect electronic submissions
from students and to provide the students with electronic feedback and
grades.
Any submitted work is only visible to the lecturer and feedback and grades
are only visible to the individual student (unless group submissions have been
enabled).
Please note this is not the same as a Turnitin assignment.
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3 Moodle Advanced

Choice
The choice activity allows the lecturer to ask the students a quick multiple
choice question.
Choice can be used to find out how useful a resource was or to find out the
best day to arrange a field trip (for example).
The lecturer can publish the results to the group or keep them private.
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4 Moodle Advanced

Group Choice
This activity lets students enrol themselves in a lecturer created group.
The groups are only available in the Moodle course they have been created in.
The lecturer can set the maximum number of students per group and choose
to display the group enrolment (or not).
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5 Moodle Advanced

Grades (Gradebook or Grader Report)

The Grades collects all assessed activity data in Moodle (e.g. quizzes,
assignments or discussion forums).
Lecturers can view disparate results in one place.
Students canonly view their grades.
Grades can be exported out of Moodle for ease of use.
Columns are automatically generated each time an assessed activity is added
to a Moodle course.
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6 Moodle Advanced

Forums
Forums are asynchronous online discussions where lecturers and students
can post and/or reply to text-based messages over a period of time.
There are five forum types to choose from:

Standard forum for general use

A single simple discussion

Each person posts one discussion

Q and A forum

Standard forum displayed in a blog-like format

Posts can be graded or used in peer marking exercises.

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7 Moodle Advanced

Quizzes
Quiz activities help lecturers to design and construct quizzes using a variety of
question types (e.g. multiple choice, true-false or short answer questions).
Moodle creates a question bank where the questions are stored and from
which they can be reused.
Grading of quizzes is very sophisticated in Moodle.
Quiz reports can be student or question based.
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8 Moodle Advanced

Workshop
The workshop is a peer assessment activity.
Students submit a piece of work to a modified assignment dropbox.
The lecturer creates a rubric (or similar scale) to guide the students through
the peer assessment process.
Student submissions are graded.
Student assessment of their peers is graded.
The workshop activity does not support groups or groupwork.
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9 Moodle Advanced

Moodle book
Moodle books are a series of linked web pages displayed in an easy to use
book like format.
Website content (HTML pages) can be imported directly into a book.
Books can be printed in their entirety or chapter by chapter.
Books are not interactive but you can link to discussion forums or quizzes
from within them.
Flash movies and other multimedia content can be added to a book.
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