- IT Services will help faculty learn Moodle by providing a wide variety of resources available online. IT Services will conduct Moodle workshops as well as provide individual consulting and support as requested.
- Review the Moodle Course Management Model in detail:
- Course Management Model: Narrated Video or PDF Document or Illustration
- Moodle Category-Based Course Organization Details
- Peruse the following resources:
- Introduction to Moodle: Brief Video Presentation
- IUP Moodle Documentation: "Common Operations"
- Moodle Frequently Asked Questions
- Request a new Development course (Username Login Format: IUPMSD\YourUserName)
- Register for the Introduction to Moodle Workshop
- Build-out a Development course from scratch with lessons, assignments, and quizzes
or
import or restore a course template prior to creating lessons, assignments, and quizzes
and help with rearranging course materials (Contact us as needed)
- Test your course materials by switching to the "student" role. Note that you will be listed as both a "Teacher" and a "Student" in your Development course
- Add another course teacher to your Development course, if desired. Note that "students" cannot be added to a Development course.
- Import content from your Development course into an automatically generated semester-based course-section shell
or
Request a Meta course to combine course sections, and import content into the Meta course.
- Add another teacher, teaching associate, or student to your semester-based course-section shell using the Assign Roles feature, if desired.
You will now be ready to conduct your course from either the semester-based course-section shell or a Meta course by making the course available to students.
Please note, all semester-based course-section shells (materials and student work) will be archived automatically two weeks into the next semester. However, faculty might want to consider hiding the course after it has completed. Otherwise, students will continue to have access to the course until two weeks into the next semester. If course content has been changed in the course-section shell, faculty can import changed content back to their Development course.
Optional Related Services
- Request a Course-Section E-mail List (list membership managed automatically!).
- Integrate Wimba Classroom for Moodle into your Moodle course for real-time "virtual classroom" interaction.
- Utilize a Course-Section Blog as another way to communicate with your class.
- Utilize the Course-Section Project Directory Service for supplemental storage, hand-in, streaming audio/video, or to obtain a copy of the course roster.
- Request a Streaming Media Service publishing point to serve audio or video content.
- Use Respondus to manage quizzes and exams on a Windows-based PC, then import to Moodle.
- Utilize the web-based turnitin service for plagiarism detection and prevention.
- Use EndNote to support bibliographic creation.
- Use StudyMate to create flash-based learning games on a Windows-based PC.