Moodle 1.9 for Design and Technology电子书

Moodle 1.9 for Design and Technology

Table of Contents

Moodle 1.9 for Design and Technology

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Setting Up a Basic Moodle Site for Design Technology (DT)

Setting up Moodle Virtual Learning Environment

Assigning access rights to roles

Creating a new course

Adding resource materials to your basic Moodle site

Adding static resources to your Moodle site

Naming the element

Summarizing the element

Linking to the resource (such as a file or website)

Presentation of the information

Grouping

Adding instructions with the web page resource

Adding interactivity to the basic Moodle site

Increasing user interactivity by adding assignments

Increasing user interactivity by adding forum discussions

Increasing user interactivity by adding quizzes

Assessing student progress

Managing student participation with Moodle generated reports

Setting up your Moodle environment

Summary

2. Organizing Information using Moodle Modules

Preparing for market research

Worked examples in this chapter

Organization of research using the Database module

Enabling the Database module for your course

Naming your database

Setting the general options on your database

Controlling the availability of the database

Prompting students to complete their tasks

Allowing comments and ratings

Applying grades to the student entries

Creating the database

Designing the database fields

Adding a text field

Adding a picture field

Adding a menu field

Adding a number field

Using a menu field for the type of industry

Adding a latitude / longitude field

Adding a Textarea field

Adding a URL field

Adding database entries

Designing a good questionnaire to gather opinions on your designs

Discussing the nature of questions to use

A worked example

Enabling the questionnaire module

Naming and describing the questionnaire

Deciding on the Timing options

Displaying Respondents' Responses

Controlling student participation

Controlling the display of user identity

Allowing students to view their responses

Allowing students to save their work

Assigning a grade to the questionnaire response

Adding the questions to your questionnaire

Customizing your questionnaire

Setting the type of questionnaire

Adding further details to your questionnaire

Choosing a display theme for your questionnaire

Redirecting students after response submission

Sending e-mail to respondents on their completion of the questionnaire

Adding the questions

The purpose of this questionnaire

Creating our questions

Checking the responses to questions

Exporting the responses for detailed analysis

Downloading the questionnaire module

Installing the questionnaire module

Using Midnight Commander to install a module

Installing the Questionnaire module on Windows servers

Summary

3. Encouraging Reflective Practices using Forums and Blogs

Engaging in reflective practices using blogs

Enabling blogs for your course

Blog menu options

Blog preferences

Adding a new entry

General options

Tags options

Viewing entries

Adding a Blog Tag block

Worked example of reflective practice: Work Placement Blogs

Enabling and using blog syndication through RSS

Engaging in reflective practices using forums

Enabling and choosing a forum

Creating a forum for role-playing

General options

Grading forum posts

Blocking posts on forums

Differentiating users on forums

User view preferences

Additional forum suggestions

Creating galleries to track student progress

Using Lightbox gallery: A third party gallery resource

Gallery general settings

Gallery advanced settings

Images allowed

Resize of images on upload

Image resolution settings

Enabling comments on the images

Restricting access to images

Allowing students to receive notifications through RSS

Displaying extended information

Adding images to the gallery

Modifying images

Creating individual galleries

Creating a folder to store images

General option settings

Assigning admin privileges to a teacher

Examples of best practice

Individual Learning Plan (ILP)

Module settings: Targets and Reports

Report options

Target options

ILP blocks: Personal Learning Plan (PLP)

Main options

Student information block

Creating targets

Accessing personal plans

Summary

4. Exploring Design Portfolios

Exploring the Exabis portfolio

Site-wide settings

Installing the Exabis block into a course

The personal information tab

The Categories tab

Building up the portfolio content

Creating views

Sharing their work and thoughts

Importing and exporting portfolios

Future developments in Exabis

Exploring the MyStuff portfolio

Configuring system-wide settings (Storage)

MyStuff configuration

MyStuff export settings

MyStuff Export Settings: File Export Type

Using MyStuff in courses

Guiding students to use MyStuff

Creating and using forms

Building a catalogue of information

Creating notes

Sharing the material with others

Attaching a message to the submission

Setting a time limit on shared material

Commentary on shared work

MyStuff development and limitations

Mahara

Mahara features

Adding details to your profile

Views in MyPortfolio

Using live website feeds in views

Inserting multimedia into views

Using the MyFiles tab for file management

E-Portfolio advantages

Using Groups in Mahara

Settings in Mahara

Setting up features of Mahara from the administrator login

Requesting to join a group

Using Multiple institutions with Mahara

Exporting their portfolio

Summary

5. Testing Students' Knowledge using Moodle Modules

Implementing a glossary

Checking the settings

Default settings

Preventing duplicate entries

Allowing comments

Automatically linking comments

Entry level default settings

Creating a glossary

Enabling the glossary

Editing the glossary

Rating entries

Adding entries (categories)

Adding entries

Mapping their minds

Making a map

Quizzing their understanding

Developing a quiz for Food Technology

Site-wide settings

Preparing the work surface

Choosing ingredients

Setting the quiz timings

Setting the quiz display options

Setting the attempts allowed

Setting common module settings: groups and categories

Determining feedback options

Mixing ingredients

Summary

6. Helping your Students Gather Data about their Potential Markets

Encouraging students to perform SWOT analysis

Gathering data using the Questionnaire module

Setting up a Questionnaire

Setting the Response Options

Type

Enabling the Questionnaire for groups of students

Configuring the Advanced settings

Adding questions

Analyzing the results

Collecting user feedback with the Feedback module

Adding the Feedback module

Changing the settings of the Feedback module

Feedback options

Record user names

Show analysis to students

Send e-mail notifications

Adding the feedback questions

Analyzing the results

Widening the response

Using the DimDim interactive tool

System settings

Setting up the DimDim module on your Moodle site

Customizing the meeting settings

Waiting Area

Maximum Participants

Meeting Duration

Audio/Video

Attendee Mikes

Having a meeting

Meeting facilities

Setting the meeting preferences

Sharing ideas using the whiteboard

Sharing your desktop

Reminding users about a meeting

Summary

7. Adding Multimedia Resources to your Moodle Site

Using the Lesson module to construct media-rich content

Setting up a lesson in your course

Lesson planning overview

Enabling a lesson in your course

Changing the general settings for the lesson

Setting grading options for the lesson

Setting the flow control of your lesson

Setting the lesson format for your lesson

Setting the access control for your lesson

Setting the dependency features of your lesson

Using a sample file in your course for instructions

Linking your lesson to other course activities

Creating the lesson structure

Adding questions and branches to your lesson

Adding a branch to your lesson

Adding question pages to your lesson

Adding a multiple choice question page

Enabling the editor on questions to add highlights and images

Students' view of the lesson

Marking the essay and giving students feedback

Checking the reports for the lesson

Checking the detailed statistic report for a lesson

Distributing interactive materials using the SCORM standard

Adding free resources to your site

Choosing material

International repositories: Adding Ariadne-based resources to your site

Adding Ariadne materials to your course

Adjusting the window size and options

Choosing material for groups or groupings on the course

Choosing the repository

Viewing the GLOBE repository material

Alternative repositories

Adding proprietary SCORM sources to your site

Choosing the correct settings

Grading students' attempts at the SCORM material

Creating your own learning materials using myUdutu

Creating an account

Creating content

Course outline

Configuring options

Editing your Health and Safety Scenario

Changing the layout of your course

Adding data to the slide

Adding content from your personal library

Testing the knowledge learned in the exercise

Adding multiple choice questions to a test slide

Publishing your myUdutu material

Using the myUdutu module in Moodle

Other options for multimedia creation

Summary

8. Assessing Student Progress

Using the assignments module to gauge student progress

Setting up the assignment module

Creating assignments

Creating offline activity assignments

Grading offline assignments

Creating and uploading a single file assignment

Uploading attachments to assignments

Marking assignments

Creating an online text assignment

Creating a basic online text assignment

Marking the work

The student's view

Creating an Advanced uploading of files assignment

Setting up the assignment

Allowing students to upload assignments

Marking the assignments

Creating a summary for assignments

Creating a progress bar summary

Adding the block

Staff support

Installing the Ajax Marking block

Summary

9. Tracking Progress with the Gradebook

Configuring the gradebook for your site

Setting the site options

Configuring general settings for the gradebook

Configuring grade category settings

Configuring grade item settings

Configuring scales

Enabling outcomes for courses

Meeting key skills requirements using outcomes

Translating numerical grades to letter grades

Configuring the grader report

Displaying a student's rank

Assessing and using the gradebook

Categories and items

Suggested areas of study

Adding items for grading

Creating custom calculations for categories

Tracking and monitoring competencies

Enabling outcomes at the site level

Enabling outcomes for Resistant Materials

Using course-based outcomes to track competence

Creating an IT outcome for Resistant Materials

Applying the outcome to an assignment

Implementing letter grades for Resistant Materials

Grading with custom letters

Importing and exporting Moodle grades

Modifying display options

Viewing your student grades

Displaying outcomes report

Assessing group performance

Summary

Index