SoN Grad Faculty Moodle Bootcamp

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Instructional Designer Maria Erb shares her thoughts about the benefits of adopting a standardized course design.

alternate format of Course Design Podcast

Good online/hybrid teaching starts with good communication. You need to know that you can get information out to your learners, and students need to know that they can ask questions or seek help when they need it.

When thinking hybrid/online courses, what types of frustrations, concerns, problems, or issues come to mind? Confused students, missed deadlines, and buried information or information overload are consistent problems. In short, students often miss important information that they need to be successful.

For the purposes of this course, you are going to be learning ways that you can use the technology built into Moodle to make assessing student work more consistent and transparent. 

Watch these seven super-short videos to learn the basics of using the Snap theme. You don't need to memorize or learn all these tricks at once. As you watch, look for differences between the way Snap works and the way you are used to working with Moodle. 

*Computer mouse graphic designed by Freepik from Flaticon. 

Explore the possibilities offered by rich text-editing capability in Moodle.

*image from the Captiva icon set by bokehlicia used under GNU General Public License

How to turn the Snap theme on or off in your Moodle course.

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Forums allow students to engage in online discussions posting comments as part of a 'thread'. They may also incorporate multimedia such as images or videos in their posts. As the teacher, you may choose the use "Ratings" to assess student work in a forum.

* "Chat" designed by Iconpond from Flaticon

The assignment activity creates a digital dropbox that students can use to submit work for you to grade and give feedback on.

* "Desktop" designed by Iconpond from Flaticon

VoiceThread is a powerful tool that allows teachers to create mixed media conversation spaces or presentations. Teachers and students can share media (images, documents, sounds, videos) and make comments on them using webcams, microphones, or keyboards. The idea is to enrich the text-based activities of an online course with authentic audio and video driven communication. 

CaptureSpace is a simple, easy to use screen capture tool that can be used to create screen recordings and video lectures or presentations. It's free to download and is integrated into UP's MediaSpace video portal. After recording, you can easily upload your video to UP MediaSpace, where you can share your video and order captioning to make your video accessible to more learners.

Skype for Business is a synchronous communications tool. It allows individuals or groups to connect at distance in real-time. Participants can instant message, make audio or video calls, view each other's computer screens, and even co-edit files like Word documents or PowerPoint slides. SfB could be used for synchronous lectures at distance, remote student presentations, or virtual office hours.