Today is the second day of my three day Moodle course. Thanks to those of you who left suggestions and tips in the comments already. #
Day one was a time to explore and go through Moodle as a student. At the end of the day, I set up all course participants as course creators and we’re going to spend much of today building our own Moodle courses for use in the Fall. I thought it might make sense for those of you with Moodle experience to offer tips that you have for new course creators. What should we avoid? What should we definitely make sure to do? How do we deal with limited access to technology and still create resources that students will use? How are elementary teachers using Moodle? (Some of these are questions the course participants have, others are my own.) #
I’ll be sharing your comments with the class today, in real time as we work, as well as providing the link to this post for later perusal. Our class runs from 8am to noon MST today and tomorrow. Please offer your tips and advice! #
Thanks in advance. #
I facilitated a full-scale project in Moodle for all of our 8th graders – about 1,200 of them and learned many things along the way. First of all, make sure your server can handle the amount of use that will occur (as you might have guessed, our server crashed). Moodle requires users to have an email account to sign up. If your district doesn’t provide one, you’ll need to figure out a plan for what the students will enter in that field. Students loved the chat feature (actually it was a mixed blessing, the teachers asked for this feature to be turned off after about a week….). We included Unitedstreaming videos (using Assignment Builder), but found out that there was a conflict with IE and therefore we needed to use Firefox.
The ability for students to upload files is very nice and saves paper. The students LOVE getting quick feedback and having the ability to re-submit assingments. Enjoy the rest of your training. Using Moodle is lots of fun!