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This is a practice area to help you familiarize yourself with the Moodle
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Activities are just as they imply...learning activities you can have your students engage in. These can range from a discussion forum or taking an assessment to
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 Forum Module Documentation file- Forums are the bread and butter of Moodle. It is in forums that most discussion takes place.
Forums can be structured in different ways, and can include peer rating of each posting.
The postings can be viewed in a variety for formats, and can include attachments.
  News forum- A Standard forum for general use
- Each person posts one discussion Forum
- A single discussion Forum
- Q and A forum
- Discuss the Forum Module
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- Quiz Module Documentation file
- This module allows the teacher to design and set quiz tests, consisting of
multiple choice, true-false, and short answer questions and more. Each attempt is automatically marked, and the
teacher can choose whether to give feedback or to show correct answers.
You can create a question bank that you can use to make multiple quizes.
 A short quiz about Moodle (with timer)- Example Listening Quiz
- A quiz with a password
- Discuss the Quiz Module Forum
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- Glossary Module Documentation file
- This activity allows participants to create and maintain a list of definitions, like a dictionary.The entries can be searched or browsed in many different formats.
 Teacher-Defined Glossary- Learner-Defined Glossary
- A glossary of common terms
- Discuss the Glossary Module Forum
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| 6 | Activity: Wiki (core)
"Wiki Wiki" in Hawaiian means, "really fast". A wiki is a web page that anyone can add to or edit...really fast! It enables documents to be authored collectively and supports collaborative learning. Old versions are not deleted and may be restored if required.
This is a great tool for brainstorming, and collaboratively working on a document.
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- This module is a very important reflective activity. The teacher
asks the student to reflect on a particular topic, and the student can
edit and refine their answer over time. This answer is private and
can only be seen by the teacher, who can offer feedback and a grade
on each journal entry. It's usually a good idea to have about one
Journal activity per week.
 My Journal- Discuss the Journal Module Forum
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- Here a teacher asks a question and specifies a
choice of multiple responses. This can be useful as a quick poll to
stimulate thinking about a topic; to allow the class to vote on
a direction for the course; or to gather research consent.
 A Choice with anonymous results- A Choice with non-anonymous results
- A Choice that allows you to update anytime
- A Choice with a limited number of responses allowed
- Discuss the Choice Module Forum
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| 9 | Activity: Feedback & Questionnaire (3rd party)
The Feedback module allows you create online surveys and collect user responses. You can easily create questions with multiple choice or text responses.
The Questionnaire module is a more robust survey tool.
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- The Chat module allows participants to have a real-time synchronous
discussion via the web. This is a useful way to get a different
understanding of each other and the topic being discussed.
 A repeating chat with public session logs- An open chat event
- Discuss the Chat Module Forum
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| 11 | Blog
Moodle users can post to their own blog site. To access a user's blog, click on their name from the course participants list, then click on the "Blog" tab from the profile page. At the administrative level, view restrictions can be set for all blogs. These restrictions include, allow course members, site members, or the whole world to view the blog.
Note: Currently there is no "comment" feature with blogs in Moodle.
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- A lesson delivers content in an interesting and flexible way. It consists of a
number of pages. Each page normally ends with a multiple choice question. Navigation
through the lesson can be straight forward or complex.
 How to use the Lesson Module- Discuss the Lesson Module Forum
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| 13 | Activity: Podcast (3rd party)
You can post Podcasts in Moodle. After recording and editing your podcast with tools like Audacity upload it to the Podcast module.
Note: There is no "comment" feature in the Podcast module.
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- This module allows teachers to create multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill quizzes using Hot Potatoes software.
- The Hot Potatoes module needs to be made visible via Administration >> Configuration >> Modules.
 Newton's 2nd and 3rd Laws Pretest Hot Potatoes Quiz- Crossword Puzzle with Timer Hot Potatoes Quiz
- Discuss the Hot Potato Module Forum
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- A Workshop is a peer assessment activity with a huge array of options.
It allows participants to assess each other's projects, as well as
exemplar projects, in a number of ways. It also coordinates the
collection and distribution of these assessments in a variety of ways.
 Using Moodle Ch. 6: Workshops PDF document- Discuss the Workshop Module Forum
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The Slide Show module allows you to upload and view pictures. Simply upload the pictures to the file directory and tell the module where to find them.
Another 3rd Party Module to show pictures is the LightBox Gallery.
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You can add additional functions to your Moodle page by inserting a "block" on the right or left column. Moodle comes pre-configured with a number of different block. Or you can us the "HTML Block" to add anything you want.
To add a block to your page, turn editing on and then select the desired block from the drop-down menu on the right column.
More info on blocks can be found at:
http://docs.moodle.org/en/Blocks
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Think of the HTML Block as a mini webpage. You can create and display any HTML in a the block. You can even embed HTML from another source like TeacherTube
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Block: Calendar (core)
The calendar, on the upper right corner of the page, allows teachers to add events for the class to see. Students can also use this as a private calendar to keep track of their own events.
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Filters allow you to show various file types on your Moodle pages (e.g Flash, videos, java applets). When Moodle sees a link to a file it also looks at the file extension and then runs the appropriate filter to display it on the page. |
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Freemind is an open source interactive mind mapping software. The Freemind filter in Moodle, allows you to embed Freemind files on pages allowing students to interact with them.
To use it in a page or activity, create a hyperlink and upload the Freemind file you've created. The filter will then display the file on the page.
You can download the Freemind application at: http://freemind.sourceforge.net/
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In Moodle, you can upload and run interactive Java applets and Flash movies. Students can interact with them alone, in a small group or as a whole class discussion.
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Moodle has the ability to convert mathematical text entered in a special way into symbolic notation. You activate it by surrounding an expression or equation with "$$"
For example if you type "$$f(x)=3/(x^2)-12$$" into a forum post, it will return:
Here's a more sophisticated example:
Entering $$x = \frac{{ - b \pm \sqrt {b^2 - 4ac} }}{{2a}}$$, yields:
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| 28 | GeoGebraGeoGebra is an open-source program, similar to Geometer's Sketchpad, that combines geometry, algebra and calculas. The program was developed in collaboration with mathematicians from Florida, Luxembourg, France, Spain, and Austria. It is widely used in schools throughout Europe. The best part of the program is that it is FREE. You can download it and install the program on a lab of computers. Students can even download it for use at home.
Moodle provides a way to embed GeoGebra files directly into activities like assignments and forums.
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