IntroductionWelcome| 00:00 | (Music playing.)
| | 00:03 | Hi and welcome to Moodle Essential
Training for Students. I'm Chris Mattia.
| | 00:08 | In Moodle Essential Training for
Students I'll take you step by step through
| | 00:12 | Moodle so you can be successful in your class.
| | 00:15 | In this training we'll go over a
variety of Moodle's features that can help you
| | 00:20 | manage your academic life. I'll show
you how to keep in contact with other
| | 00:24 | students, write a personal blog and
even keep track of all your personal,
| | 00:29 | course, and campus wide events.
| | 00:31 | Next, we'll go inside a sample
course where I'll show you how to complete
| | 00:36 | assignments, participate in discussion
forums and get up to the minute updates
| | 00:41 | on your grades. How your teacher is
choosing to use Moodle for your course is
| | 00:45 | really going to depend on the course
materials, learning objectives, and
| | 00:49 | their particular style of teaching.
| | 00:52 | This video training series should be a
good reference guide for you to learn
| | 00:56 | how to use all the
various tools inside of Moodle.
| | 01:00 | Before we get started, you need to
know that every institution implements
| | 01:04 | Moodle slightly differently. So what
you see at your school's Moodle site is
| | 01:08 | not going to match exactly what I'm showing.
| | 01:11 | However, the features are the same,
no matter what your screen looks like.
| | 01:16 | There's a lot to cover
here so let's get started.
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| Introducing Moodle| 00:00 | You may be wondering what is Moodle.
Moodle is an open source, learning
| | 00:05 | management system that has been
specifically built for creating and
| | 00:08 | distributing online
course materials for education.
| | 00:12 | If you are watching this video
training series then your teacher or professor
| | 00:15 | is probably using Moodle for your class.
Before we get started, there are a few
| | 00:20 | things that I need to warn you about.
| | 00:23 | First off is that every institution
implements Moodle in a slightly different
| | 00:27 | manner, so what you see at your
school's Moodle site is not going to match
| | 00:31 | exactly what I'm showing you on screen.
The layout of the site will be slightly
| | 00:36 | different. The colors, fonts and
images are all probably going to be more
| | 00:40 | similar to your institution's colors
and school theme than what you are seeing.
| | 00:46 | Also, no two teachers create their
courses in exactly the same manner, so
| | 00:51 | there's going to be a lot of variation
in what you find inside of your courses
| | 00:56 | between your various teachers. But for
all of these differences, there are a
| | 01:00 | lot more commonalities that every
Moodle installation and every course share.
| | 01:06 | In this training series, we are
going to step you through all the major
| | 01:09 | components of a course, so you will be
familiar with all the tools available
| | 01:14 | inside of Moodle, so you can
be successful in your class.
| | 01:17 | Now, let's talk about what a Moodle
course is. First off, an online course can
| | 01:23 | be an entirely self-contained class
that exists online and nowhere else.
| | 01:28 | But the most common use for Moodle is
to create an online component to a
| | 01:32 | traditional classroom based class.
| | 01:35 | It's a tool for providing you, the
student, with a rich environment of
| | 01:39 | information, resources, and
activities that enhance what you are already
| | 01:43 | learning inside of your classroom.
Moodle is a tool that your teacher can
| | 01:48 | leverage to move a portion of the
content and information that they would
| | 01:52 | normally have to take up valuable class
time to get over into an online environment.
| | 01:58 | Thus freeing up more in-class time
for you to interact with and engage with
| | 02:02 | your teacher to really drive your
understanding of the subject matter you are
| | 02:06 | learning. How your teacher is choosing
to use Moodle for your course is really
| | 02:11 | going to depend on the course materials,
learning objectives, and particular
| | 02:15 | style of teaching that your instructor has.
| | 02:18 | This video training series should be a
good reference guide for you to learn
| | 02:22 | how to use all of these
various tools inside of Moodle.
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| Login overview| 00:00 | To begin exploring Moodle, you will
need to go to your institution's Moodle
| | 00:04 | installation. For this training series
we are going to use an installation at a
| | 00:09 | fictitious university called Lynda University.
| | 00:12 | You will need to get the URL for your
school's Moodle installation and make
| | 00:16 | sure that you are using the Firefox web
browser. Yes, you can use any other web
| | 00:21 | browser including Internet Explorer,
Safari, and many others. However, Firefox
| | 00:27 | is going to give you the best
experience when you are working inside of Moodle.
| | 00:31 | So you want to make sure that you got
a copy of Firefox if it's available to you.
| | 00:35 | If not, go ahead and use any web
browser and it should work just fine.
| | 00:39 | When you first get to your school's
Moodle installation, you are going to be
| | 00:43 | entered into your school's home page.
| | 00:44 | It's going to look very different from
what you see on screen. But what you are
| | 00:48 | looking for is the location of the
Login button. Usually this is located in the
| | 00:54 | upper right-hand corner of your screen
where it will say, You are not logged in.
| | 00:58 | And there will be a link to Login.
Ur in the lower left-hand corner of your
| | 01:03 | screen there's often one as well.
| | 01:05 | Some schools and institutions also
have a Login block that's set up on their
| | 01:10 | home page somewhere like you see here.
But let's go ahead and go up to the
| | 01:14 | upper right-hand corner and go ahead
and login. Now you need to use your login
| | 01:18 | account that's been set
up for you by your school.
| | 01:21 | I am going to use an use a fictitious
student account for the username of elvis.
| | 01:25 | And the password is 12345. So
go ahead and use your login that's been
| | 01:32 | assigned to you by your IT department.
Go ahead and click the Login button and
| | 01:36 | you should be taken into the main
page for your Moodle installation.
| | 01:39 | You will have a header section up at
the top where you may find additional
| | 01:43 | information and links. Moodle is
then arranged is series of blocks.
| | 01:48 | The left-hand block a lot of times has a
block of content called My courses and it
| | 01:53 | will often times have a listing of all the
courses that you are currently enrolled in.
| | 01:57 | Many institutions also use the center
section of the Moodle installation to
| | 02:01 | repeat the courses that you are
currently enrolled in. So you have a very easy
| | 02:06 | way to get to these courses.
| | 02:08 | For this training series we are going
to be using a course called Introduction
| | 02:11 | to Coral Reef Ecology. On the right-
hand side, you oftentimes find your
| | 02:16 | institution's calendar that has been
set up for you. Here you will see links to
| | 02:21 | events that are going on, on your
campus and within any of the courses that
| | 02:26 | you are currently taking.
| | 02:28 | You can also a lot of times find a
listing of all current online users of other
| | 02:32 | students that are at your institution.
You may find a lot of other information
| | 02:37 | that's showing up here on the home page
of your Moodle installation. But those
| | 02:40 | are the main things that you are looking for.
| | 02:42 | You will also find in the upper right-
hand corner that now you should see a
| | 02:46 | listing that says 'You are currently
logged in as' and your name. I'm currently
| | 02:50 | logged in as the user Elvis McNamera.
| | 02:52 | Anytime you need log out of Moodle,
just go ahead and click the link that says
| | 02:56 | Logout, here just to the right of your
name. This link again is repeated down
| | 03:02 | in the lower left-hand corner of your screen. So
that anytime, you are able to log out of Moodle.
| | 03:07 | You want to make sure that you log
out completely and quit your browser,
| | 03:10 | anytime that you are finished using
Moodle. This will prevent other student
| | 03:14 | from being able to Login to your
account and access any of the information for
| | 03:18 | your user account.
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1. Personal Account InformationChanging the password| 00:00 | The first thing that you want to do
when you login to Moodle for the first time
| | 00:04 | is change your password. Your
password is usually set for you by your
| | 00:09 | institution and often times is
created using some kind of a formula that's
| | 00:13 | shared by all users at your institution.
| | 00:16 | You can change your password by simply
going up to the upper right-hand corner
| | 00:20 | of your screen to where you see 'You
are logged in as' and your name. Go ahead
| | 00:25 | and click on your name, I'll click on
Elvis McNamera. Then at the bottom of the
| | 00:29 | window click on the button for Change Password.
| | 00:32 | You then need to type in your current
password. My current password is set to
| | 00:36 | 12345. I'll set a new password of
123456, then I'll have to type in my new
| | 00:44 | password again, 123456. And
click the Save changes button.
| | 00:51 | You can then see that your password has
been changed successfully. Go ahead and
| | 00:54 | click the Continue button and let's
check and make sure that this password
| | 00:58 | worked. We'll go back to the main site.
I'll go back by clicking on lyndaU in
| | 01:03 | the upper left-hand corner.
| | 01:04 | Then I'll click on Logout. The link
changes back to Login, so I'll click on
| | 01:10 | that. I'll type in my User Name again,
which is elvis, and I'll type in my new
| | 01:15 | password, 123456. I'll click the
Login button and now I can see that my
| | 01:21 | password has been successfully
changed to a new more secure password.
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| Editing a profile| 00:00 | After changing your password the most
common thing that you're going to want to
| | 00:03 | do next is to go and edit your profile
for your user account inside of Moodle.
| | 00:09 | To do this go back up to the upper
right-hand corner of your screen where you
| | 00:12 | see that you are logged in
as and click on your name.
| | 00:15 | I will click on Elvis McNamara. And
then you want to click on the tab for Edit Profile.
| | 00:20 | Here you will find a bunch of
information. Some of this information
| | 00:25 | maybe locked out from editing by your
institution. In this case though, I have
| | 00:29 | got my First name available. I could
change my Surname or my last name.
| | 00:34 | My Email address. I can choose how I
want my email address to be displayed.
| | 00:39 | Currently it set to allow other members
of my course to be able to see my email
| | 00:43 | address. I can allow everyone to see
my address, if I would like. This way
| | 00:47 | anyone at my institution can send me
an email just by simply logging into
| | 00:51 | Moodle and finding my information.
| | 00:54 | Next, I can go in and set whether or
not this email address is enabled.
| | 00:58 | If I leave it set to Enabled, then any
messages that are sent to my account inside
| | 01:03 | of Moodle will automatically be sent
to this email address. I'll go ahead and
| | 01:07 | leave this set. I can then go in and
set the city and town that I live in.
| | 01:12 | Right now it's sent to Somewhere. I
live in Ventura, California. So I'll go
| | 01:16 | ahead and set Ventura as my city.
| | 01:19 | I can then select a country. United
States. That's correct. Timezone,
| | 01:23 | the server's local timezone. Well, I live in
the same location that my institution is.
| | 01:28 | So where my server is located is
fine for having the local time set.
| | 01:33 | My preferred language is English, and in
the installation that I'm using English
| | 01:37 | is my only option. However, there are
many language packs available from Moodle
| | 01:41 | and your institution may have those
set up for you so that you can change the
| | 01:46 | default language for your Moodle
installation and have your entire Moodle
| | 01:50 | system show up in your native language.
| | 01:52 | As I go ahead and scroll down, I have a
place where I can type in a Description
| | 01:56 | of myself. I'll simply put in Biology
Major. But you can add any information
| | 02:03 | that you would like to convey to other
students at your institution to give
| | 02:07 | them an idea about who you are.
| | 02:08 | You can also use any HTML that you
would like to provide additional formatting
| | 02:14 | to the information that you provide.
We'll go over all of these functionalities
| | 02:18 | in a later movie, but for now just
know that you can type in some text here.
| | 02:21 | Let's go ahead and scroll
down a little bit further.
| | 02:24 | The next major section is Picture of.
Here you can upload a picture of
| | 02:28 | yourself. To do this simply click the
Browse button, navigate on your hard
| | 02:33 | drive to find a picture of yourself.
I have got a picture here of myself that's
| | 02:38 | located on my desktop. I'll go ahead
and click on that picture and click the
| | 02:41 | Open button. I can then give the
picture a description. My Picture.
| | 02:46 | As I scroll down a little further,
I have a place where I can list some
| | 02:50 | interests. My interests are scuba
diving and sailing. If you click the button
| | 03:00 | for Show Advanced, you get a lot of
other options. Let's go ahead and scroll
| | 03:04 | back up to the top of the page and we
can see some of these advanced options
| | 03:08 | that are available to us.
They are all highlighted in green.
| | 03:11 | Here we can set what format that we
want our emails to come into us as. We can
| | 03:17 | go ahead and leave it set to Pretty
HTML Format and then any emails that come
| | 03:21 | into us will be formatted using HTML.
| | 03:24 | We can set the default character set,
whether or not we want a digest. Here,
| | 03:29 | you can set whether or not you want
all of the postings that come in from any
| | 03:33 | discussion forums that you are
subscribed to inside of your courses to come in
| | 03:37 | as individual messages, meaning No
Digest. Complete, meaning every day
| | 03:44 | email with all of the full posts will be
concatenated altogether into a single message
| | 03:50 | or an email that comes into you
everyday that just has all of the subject lines
| | 03:55 | of any discussion post for your course.
This way you have a shorter message in
| | 03:59 | your Inbox, but then you have to go to your
course to be able to read all of the messages.
| | 04:03 | I like to have all of my messages come
in one by one. So I'll go and leave it
| | 04:07 | set to No Digest. There is an
option for how to subscribe to the various
| | 04:11 | different discussion forums. We'll go
ahead and leave this set to Yes: when I
| | 04:15 | post subscribe me to that forum. A lot
of instructors set the discussion forums
| | 04:20 | to automatically subscribe all of the
students to all the discussions forums.
| | 04:24 | So in a lot of cases this wouldn't be
necessary, but we'll go ahead and leave
| | 04:27 | this set to Yes as well.
| | 04:29 | The next option is to Forum Tracking,
and by default in many institutions
| | 04:34 | it's set to No: don't keep track of the
forum posts that I have seen. It would be a
| | 04:38 | good idea for you to go ahead and
change this over to Yes though and that will
| | 04:42 | allow you to keep track of what
messages you have already read when you go into
| | 04:46 | a discussion forum. This way you can
streamline your workflow a little bit more
| | 04:50 | so that next time you go into a
discussion forum, all the messages you've
| | 04:54 | already read are already
showing that you read them.
| | 04:57 | You can choose whether or not when you
go into edit text inside of Moodle, if
| | 05:01 | you are going to use just a standard
web form where you can just simply type in
| | 05:05 | text or if you can use the HTML Rich
Editor. The HTML Rich Editor is this one
| | 05:10 | that's down here. And it has all the
different buttons available to you to add
| | 05:14 | formatting, links, images and so forth.
| | 05:18 | It's a good idea if your browser
supports it to use the HTML editor.
| | 05:22 | In most cases, if you are using the Firefox
web browser you want to leave this set to
| | 05:26 | use HTML. If you are using any of the
other browsers, you may need to test and
| | 05:31 | see whether or not your browser is
going to work properly with the HTML editor
| | 05:34 | that's built in to Moodle.
| | 05:35 | The next option is for Ajax and
JavaScript and whether or not you want to use
| | 05:40 | any of the advanced features. It's a
good idea to go ahead and leave this set
| | 05:43 | to Yes if you are using a more modern
browser, such as the current version of Firefox.
| | 05:47 | The next option is for Screen Reader.
If you need an assistive device such as
| | 05:51 | the Screen Reader to help you with
reading the screens and navigating the web
| | 05:55 | sites at Moodle, then you want to go
ahead and change this option to Yes.
| | 05:59 | We'll go ahead and leave this set to No.
| | 06:01 | Go ahead and scroll down in the window,
down to the bottom and you will find an
| | 06:07 | Optional section. Here, you can type
in your web address and a variety of
| | 06:12 | different links to the various social
networks that you maybe a member of.
| | 06:16 | I'll go ahead and type in my Skype ID, which
is elvis@lyndau, my AIM ID, elvis@lyndau,
| | 06:27 | my Yahoo, MSN, my Institution's ID
number, which is 00009. I'll also go ahead
| | 06:44 | and put in my mobile number. That way
any of the students that are in my class
| | 06:48 | if they need to get a hold of me in
the evenings outside of class, they can
| | 06:52 | simply call me on my cellphone.
I'll put in the number of 555-555-1212.
| | 07:00 | If I'm a commuter student, I may want
to go ahead and type in my address to
| | 07:03 | allow other students to be able to send
me additional information and know how
| | 07:06 | to find me at home. I'll
leave this blank for now.
| | 07:09 | You then simply click the button for
Update Profile. All your information is
| | 07:13 | saved and you get links directly to
all of your personal information that's
| | 07:18 | right up on your profile page so that
anybody in any of your courses can be
| | 07:21 | able to get a hold of you, find out
what your interests are and know what
| | 07:25 | courses you are currently enrolled in.
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| Using the blog| 00:00 | Your Moodle account has a blog that's
associated with it that you can keep
| | 00:04 | other users on your Moodle system up
to date with all the goings-on in your life.
| | 00:09 | To access your blog, go to the
upper right-hand corner of your screen to
| | 00:13 | where see the 'You are logged
in as' and click on your name.
| | 00:17 | Then click on the tab for Blog. Here
you are able to go ahead and then add
| | 00:22 | entries to your blog. To do this
simply, click the link that says Add a new entry.
| | 00:27 | You give your blog entry a title,
Welcome to my blog. And then down the
| | 00:36 | next blank you are able to enter in the
main text for your blog, Welcome to the
| | 00:42 | personal blog for Elvis McNamera.
| | 00:51 | If you want to add additional formatting,
you can do that by simply clicking
| | 00:54 | any other tools that are available inside the
HTML editor that appears at the top of the window.
| | 01:01 | Next, go ahead and scroll down. If you
would like to attach any files such as
| | 01:05 | images, audio or video, you can do so
by simply clicking the Browse button
| | 01:09 | navigating your local hard drive to find the
file you want to upload and then upload it.
| | 01:14 | You can see something that says Max size
and then a number with the file size limit.
| | 01:18 | This is the limit that's
placed on files on your particular Moodle
| | 01:22 | installation. It's going to vary from
installation to installation. The system
| | 01:26 | that I'm working on currently has a
32MB file size limit. This should be
| | 01:31 | sufficient for most files that you
want to upload onto your Moodle site.
| | 01:35 | You can then choose who you want to
publish your blog entry to. By default,
| | 01:39 | it's set to Anyone on this site,
meaning anyone inside of your Moodle
| | 01:43 | installation. This means that anyone
who can't log in to your institution's
| | 01:47 | Moodle installation will not be able
to see any of the blog entries that are
| | 01:51 | posted. But it does mean that anyone who can
log in will be able to see your blog entry.
| | 01:56 | You can also choose to just post a
draft or post this blog entry to yourself.
| | 02:01 | This is a great way for you to keep
track of the notes that you are taking
| | 02:04 | inside of your classes and just post
them as drafts to yourself. In this case
| | 02:09 | we'll leave our set to Anyone on this site.
| | 02:12 | Next, you can add tags to your
posting so that other users on your Moodle
| | 02:16 | installation will be able to search
for and find information related to the
| | 02:20 | posting. So in this case I'll simply
type in a tag of Welcome. But if I'm
| | 02:25 | posting something about a particular
event that's going on in campus such as
| | 02:29 | the Mayday Parade, I may want to go
ahead and simply type in Mayday Parade and
| | 02:33 | then all blog entries that are being
created for that event would all be
| | 02:37 | grouped together inside of Moodle.
| | 02:39 | We will simply go ahead and click the
Save changes button at the bottom and our
| | 02:43 | blog entry is been posted. We can see
that it's added our picture that we added
| | 02:47 | in a previous movie. We can see the
date and time that the entry was added.
| | 02:51 | We can also see the message that was posted
and any tags that are associated with it.
| | 02:56 | There is a link on the right-hand
side where we could go back and edit this
| | 03:00 | blog entry, delete the blog entry or
define it as a permanent link. A listing
| | 03:06 | of all blog tags begins to appear on
the right-hand side where we can see all
| | 03:10 | the tags that have been added to our
Moodle installation. This will allow you
| | 03:14 | to quickly navigate between your blog
entries and other blog entries for other
| | 03:18 | users of your system. Let's go and
return back to the main course by clicking
| | 03:22 | on the lyndaU or your institution's
name in the upper left-hand corner.
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| Messaging inside Moodle| 00:00 | Moodle has a built-in messaging system
that's available to you to be able to
| | 00:04 | send messages to other students in
your class, institution, or even your
| | 00:08 | teachers. To use this feature simply
go up to the upper right-hand corner of
| | 00:12 | your screen, where you see the You are
logged in as, and click on your name. In
| | 00:16 | my case I'll go ahead and
click on Elvis McNamera.
| | 00:19 | Next, down at the bottom you should
see a button that says Messages. You may
| | 00:24 | see a number inside of there,
indicating the number of messages that have
| | 00:27 | currently been sent to you. I'll go
ahead and click the Messages button and now
| | 00:32 | a new window appears with a series of
tabs. There's a listing for Contacts,
| | 00:36 | Search and Settings.
| | 00:38 | Currently, we do not have any
Contacts in our list of people that we send
| | 00:42 | messages to on a regular basis. We can
see that there's one Incoming Contact
| | 00:47 | with a message. We see the image for
the person, the person's name. This
| | 00:51 | happens to be me, Chris Mattia. The
number of the message that I had sent, then
| | 00:56 | a link, that's a small smiley face icon.
If you simply click on this link, it
| | 01:01 | adds this person's contact to your list of
people that you can contact on a regular basis.
| | 01:06 | If you click on the person's name, it
opens up a message that you can send to
| | 01:11 | them. I'm currently listed as the
instructor. And my account has sent a message
| | 01:15 | to Elvis' account saying Welcome to
Coral Reef Ecology. I can send a reply back
| | 01:20 | by simply saying, Thanks. I'll click
the Send message button and the message is
| | 01:25 | sent back to the other account.
| | 01:27 | Let's go ahead and close this window
and then we'll go ahead and click the
| | 01:31 | Search tab. Here I can search for
other users. I know there's a student names
| | 01:36 | Al in my class. So I'll type in al and
then click the Search button. I'll get a
| | 01:42 | listing of all the students in our
institution that have the name Al anywhere
| | 01:45 | in their name. Here it's polled up a
listing for Sally Jones and Al Uminium.
| | 01:50 | I want to send a message to Al Uminium.
I'll click on the Add Contact button.
| | 01:56 | And now I have got a Contact that's
been added for Al. I can click on his name
| | 02:00 | and now send a message directly to him.
Can we get together to study later
| | 02:09 | tonight? I'll click the Send message
button and now this message has been sent
| | 02:15 | to Al. You can also see that we can go
ahead and remove the contact if we need
| | 02:19 | to or the green dot allows us to block
a contact, meaning that no messages will
| | 02:25 | be sent back and forth between myself and Al.
| | 02:27 | There is also a link for Message
History where we can see the history of all
| | 02:31 | the messages that have been sent back and forth.
| | 02:34 | Let's go ahead and close this
window and look at the last tab, which is
| | 02:37 | Settings. Here we can configure how we
want the messages inside of our Moodle
| | 02:43 | installation to work. By default, it's
set to Automatically show the Message
| | 02:48 | window anytime a new message appears.
And we are currently logged in to our site.
| | 02:52 | As long as our browser doesn't block pop
-up windows this should work just fine.
| | 02:57 | We can set it so that we can block all
messages from people who are not in our
| | 03:00 | contact list. This is fine if you
spend the time to go in and set up just the
| | 03:05 | people inside of your list that you
want to communicate with. Otherwise, it's a
| | 03:08 | good idea to leave this box unchecked
so that any student at your institution
| | 03:12 | can contact you. You can set whether or
not you want your browser to beep. This
| | 03:17 | may not work on all installations and
is really dependent on the browser and
| | 03:21 | the specific plug-ins that you
have installed on your system.
| | 03:24 | You can choose whether or not you want
your messages to use the HTML editor or
| | 03:28 | just Plain text. The messages that we
have sent already are just using the
| | 03:32 | Plain text Editor. We can then
choose whether or not we want a simplified
| | 03:36 | version of our messenger that doesn't
use JavaScript. We'll go ahead and leave
| | 03:40 | this option set to off.
| | 03:41 | We can then choose to have any
messages sent to us via email if we are
| | 03:46 | currently not online. This is a great
tool to use. To do this, simply make sure
| | 03:51 | that you set the number of minutes
that you want to be offline for before the
| | 03:55 | message is sent. And then the email
address that you want the message to go to.
| | 04:00 | Here I have got entered in my default
email address, which is elvis@lynda.edu.
| | 04:05 | I can choose the format of the message
that I want it to go, either plain text
| | 04:08 | or HTML. I'll go ahead and leave it
for plain text and simply click Save my
| | 04:12 | settings. My settings have been
updated and now anytime somebody sends me a
| | 04:17 | message when I'm not online that
message will go directly to my E-mail inbox.
| | 04:21 | We will go ahead and close the
messaging window and then return back to our
| | 04:25 | main site. In my case, I'll do that
by clicking on lyndaU in the upper left-hand corner.
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| Managing the Calendar| 00:00 | Moodle has a built-in calendaring
system that not only keeps track of various
| | 00:04 | events inside of your class, but it
also keeps track of campus wide events,
| | 00:09 | group events, and also your own
personal dates that you have to keep.
| | 00:13 | To access your calendar many Moodle
installations have a calendar blog showing
| | 00:18 | on the front page of their site. You
can simply click on the month or any
| | 00:23 | particular day and jump directly to the
events for that particular day or month.
| | 00:29 | I will go ahead and click on the Month
link and it takes me into a Month View
| | 00:32 | for my calendar. Here I can see the
different calendar events that are showing
| | 00:37 | up and they are all color coded to
show whether or not this event is a class
| | 00:41 | event or course event, indicated by
this orange color on my system, or a global
| | 00:46 | or campus wide event indicated by
the green color that you see here.
| | 00:50 | I can find additional information about
any particular event by simply clicking
| | 00:54 | on the events name and it jumps
directly to that day's events inside my
| | 00:58 | calendar. I can also jump back to the
Month View by simply clicking on the name
| | 01:02 | of the month in the right-hand column again.
| | 01:04 | There are a variety of preferences
that I can configure to customize my
| | 01:08 | calendar. I can do that by going up to
the upper right-hand corner and clicking
| | 01:12 | on the Preferences button. Here I
can choose how I want my times to be
| | 01:16 | displayed. The Default setting pulls
directly from your server. But if you
| | 01:21 | prefer to have all the dates
displayed in the 12 hour with am and pm
| | 01:26 | designation or in the 24 hour time
designation, you can choose that here.
| | 01:31 | I am going to go ahead and choose 12-
hour (am/pm). Next, you can choose what
| | 01:35 | the first day of the week appears on
your calendar. Mine is default set to
| | 01:40 | Monday but I prefer to have the first
day of the week to show as Sunday. This
| | 01:44 | way as I'm preparing for my week's
worth of classes, I know what's going on in
| | 01:48 | my Monday class and I can plan for my Sunday
so that I'm ready for classes Monday morning.
| | 01:54 | Then I can set the maximum number of
upcoming events that I want to appear in
| | 01:59 | any given calendar. My system is
showing 10 but I think that's more than I need
| | 02:03 | to know about. I would rather have
it set to 5. So I'll just go ahead and
| | 02:06 | scroll down, select 5 and change that there.
| | 02:09 | Next, we can set the number of days to
look ahead for events. Currently, it's
| | 02:14 | set to 21 days and that's fine. That
gives me a couple of weeks to look ahead
| | 02:17 | on my calendar to know what's coming
up so I can prepare for any upcoming
| | 02:21 | assignments, papers, or
projects that I have to do.
| | 02:24 | Finally, I can choose whether or not I
want to remember my filter settings. You
| | 02:28 | can filter your calendar in a
variety of different ways to only look for
| | 02:32 | specific information. If you select
Yes then the last set of filters that you
| | 02:36 | set on this page will be activated
the next time you go into your calendar.
| | 02:40 | I'll go ahead and leave this set to No
and then click to Save changes button.
| | 02:47 | The screen flash is showing me that
the changes have been made and it returns
| | 02:50 | me back to my main calendar. Now I have
a much more manageable list of upcoming
| | 02:55 | events. I'm only seeing 5 that are
appearing here in front of me. On the
| | 02:59 | right-hand side, I can see all my
months and I can see color coded for events
| | 03:03 | that are happening on those days
based on what type of event they are.
| | 03:06 | Let's go ahead and return back to the main page
by clicking on lyndaU in the upper left-hand corner.
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| Adding Calendar events| 00:00 | The calendaring system inside of Moodle
will not only keep track of campus wide
| | 00:04 | and course events but it will also
keep track of your personal calendar as
| | 00:08 | well. To add an event to your personal calendar,
simply find the Calendar block inside of Moodle.
| | 00:14 | In my case, I have got the Calendar
block over here on the right-hand side.
| | 00:18 | We can then click on the link for the
month April 2009. The calendar view opens up
| | 00:24 | and in the upper right corner of the
Calendar is a button for New Event.
| | 00:28 | We'll click on that button and then give the
event a name. We are going to call this
| | 00:32 | our, Study Session. We then give a
Description for the study session. Here
| | 00:38 | we'll just simply type in, Study
group for coral reef ecology class.
| | 00:46 | As we scroll down in the window, we can
now set the date for the event. We are
| | 00:50 | going to set up our Study Session for
the 29th April 2009. And we are going to
| | 00:57 | set that to be at 8 O'clock. Now
remember that your calendar is set up on the
| | 01:01 | 24 hour clock. So 8 O'clock in the
evening will be 20:00 hours. We'll select
| | 01:06 | 20. Then we can set the Duration of
time that our Study Session is going to
| | 01:10 | last for. Here we'll select the radio
button for Duration in minutes and we'll
| | 01:14 | type in 30 minutes.
| | 01:15 | We are not going to repeat this Study
Session. So we are only going to have one
| | 01:19 | calendar event. So leave the radio
button under Repeat set to, No repeats. And
| | 01:23 | then click the Save changes button.
The event then appears on Wednesday, the
| | 01:28 | 29th April and it's showing up in this
blue color. The same blue color that's
| | 01:32 | reflected up in our events key in the
upper right-hand corner that we can see
| | 01:35 | that it's a user event.
| | 01:37 | If you look down on your calendar
though and we look at April 2009 on the 29th,
| | 01:42 | the orange color for the course events
is still showing up rather than the blue
| | 01:46 | color. This is because there is a
hierarchy set up for the color sequence to
| | 01:52 | appear inside of these days. So a course event
has a greater weight to it than a user event.
| | 01:57 | So the overall day is showing that
there is something that needs to happen
| | 02:00 | inside of your course rather than just
a user event. But when we are on that
| | 02:04 | particular day we can see that we
have both the course events and our
| | 02:07 | individual user events.
| | 02:08 | I am going to go ahead and return back
to my course by clicking on the lyndaU
| | 02:12 | icon in the upper left-hand corner.
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| Integrating the Moodle Calendar with iCal| 00:00 | Now that you have Moodle keeping
track of all the various different campus
| | 00:03 | events, course events and your
personal calendar events, it would be great if
| | 00:07 | we could have all those events then appear
inside of our local calendar on our computer.
| | 00:12 | In this movie, we are going to step
to the process of piping your Moodle
| | 00:15 | calendar directly into iCal on a Mac.
In the next movie, we'll show you how to
| | 00:20 | go ahead and do the same thing by
piping your calendar into Outlook on Windows.
| | 00:24 | So, if you are using a Windows machine,
go ahead and jump to the next movie, if
| | 00:27 | you are using a Mac, go over to your
Calendar block and click on the current
| | 00:31 | month's calendar inside of Moodle. We
can then see all the different events
| | 00:35 | that we have got as we
have been looking at before.
| | 00:38 | This time we'll go down to the bottom
of the screen and click on the Export
| | 00:41 | calendar button. Here, we can go ahead
and setup the various different export
| | 00:45 | options. We can choose whether or
not we want to have all events on our
| | 00:49 | calendar to be exported, meaning all
the campus, personal and course events, or
| | 00:54 | do we only want the
events related to our courses.
| | 00:57 | In this case, we want all events, so
that we get everything coming into our
| | 01:00 | iCal calendar. We can then set the
time period that we want to have all of
| | 01:05 | these events for. We can choose to have
the Week, Month, the Next Month or the
| | 01:10 | Recent and the next 60 days.
| | 01:12 | Let's go ahead and select the Recent
and next 60 Days, so we can download a
| | 01:15 | more complete version of our calendar.
We then have two options, Get Calendar
| | 01:20 | URL and Export. We'll go into both of these.
| | 01:23 | Let's begin by clicking on the Export
button and then select Save File from the
| | 01:28 | pop-up menu. We'll click OK. The
file will download. The file was called
| | 01:34 | icalexport.ics. This is an open
standard calendar format. Go ahead and close
| | 01:40 | the Downloads window, and
it'll minimize our web browser.
| | 01:43 | Next, go to the location on your
hard drive, where your file has been
| | 01:47 | downloaded to. In my case it's
downloaded to my desktop. We can them simply
| | 01:51 | double click the icalexport.ics file.
iCal will open up on top and a window
| | 01:57 | will pop-up on top allowing us to
choose which calendar we want to link these
| | 02:01 | calendar events to.
| | 02:03 | We can choose to use one of the
existing calendars that we already have or we
| | 02:06 | can select the option for new calendar.
I'm going to go ahead and select New
| | 02:10 | Calendar and then click OK. My calendar
imports. You can see it showing up here
| | 02:16 | on the left-hand side and it's being
colored red to contrast with the other
| | 02:19 | calendars that are already on my system.
| | 02:21 | All the different events that were on
my main calendar upon Moodle are now
| | 02:25 | appearing inside of iCal. One thing to
note though is that when we are up on
| | 02:29 | Moodle, the different events such as
our Coral Reef Lecture and Coral Reef Lab
| | 02:34 | were showing up as course events.
| | 02:36 | Where as the May Day Parade that's
happening on May 1st at noon, would be
| | 02:41 | showing up as a campus event. Here
it's showing up just inside of our
| | 02:44 | icalexport. If I scroll down in my
window a little bit, we can see that the
| | 02:49 | Study Session that we just created in a
previous exercise is also showing up on
| | 02:53 | this same calendar, even
though that's a personal event.
| | 02:56 | While you lose the separation between
the different types of events, when you
| | 03:00 | do the import into iCal, what you do
gain is the ability to overlay your
| | 03:04 | academic calendar with your other
calendars that you maybe managing.
| | 03:08 | Let's go ahead and uncheck the box for
icalexport. So that calendar's worth of
| | 03:13 | information disappears off of our screen.
Now let's go in and I'll show you how
| | 03:17 | to subscribe to a calendar. To do this,
let's go back into our web browser and
| | 03:22 | this time click the button for Get calendar URL.
| | 03:25 | A URL appears at the bottom of your
screen, go ahead and select that URL and
| | 03:30 | copy it with Command+C. Now that that
URL is copied to our clipboard, go ahead
| | 03:36 | and minimize your web browser and go
back over to iCal. This time go up to the
| | 03:42 | Calendar menu and select Subscribe.
| | 03:46 | A shield pulled down asking us for the
calendar URL. Paste with Command+V, the
| | 03:51 | URL that we copied off of Moodle and
then click the Subscribe button. We can
| | 03:57 | then give this calendar a name and
we'll say Moodle Calendar. And you can give
| | 04:03 | it a description as well as set the color
that you want the calendar to appear in.
| | 04:07 | I'll go ahead and leave mine set to
Orange. The URL then appears in the
| | 04:11 | Subscribed to, we can choose
whether or not we want to remove Alarms,
| | 04:15 | Attachment or To Do items. We'll go
ahead and uncheck all of those, so that all
| | 04:19 | of those appear. We can see the last
time that this calendar was updated and
| | 04:23 | whether or not we want the calendar to
refresh and how quickly we want it to refresh.
| | 04:27 | I'll go ahead and set my calendar to
Refresh Every day, then click the OK
| | 04:32 | button. Now, any time new events are
created on my calendar on Moodle and then
| | 04:37 | I open iCal, iCal will automatically
get updated everyday with all of the
| | 04:43 | events that are added to my course. So
if a faculty member puts a note in my
| | 04:47 | course I can see that reflect
into my local iCal calendar.
| | 04:51 | If you use the calendar export then
events are only updated every time you
| | 04:57 | re-export your calendar and re-add it
into iCal. This can be helpful to get a
| | 05:02 | quick snapshot as to upcoming events.
But it doesn't apply changes every time
| | 05:07 | the way that the subscription
version of the calendar does.
| | 05:10 | I'm going to go ahead and uncheck the
icalexport because I want to just have
| | 05:14 | subscription version of my calendar.
Let's go ahead and return back to Moodle
| | 05:19 | and then to go back to the main page
on my site. I'm going to go ahead and
| | 05:22 | click on the lyndaU link in the upper left.
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| Integrating the Moodle Calendar with Outlook| 00:00 | Now that you have personal, course and
campus-wide event information inside of
| | 00:04 | your Moodle calendar let's go to
process of subscribing to this calendar inside
| | 00:09 | of your local copy of Microsoft Outlook.
| | 00:12 | To do this, go ahead and go over to
your calendar block and click on the month
| | 00:16 | that you want to begin the subscription
for. In my case, I'm going to click on
| | 00:19 | April 2009. Here we can see the
calendar of events that we have been working
| | 00:25 | with in previous movies.
| | 00:26 | At the bottom of the screen, you'll
find a button that says Export Calendar, go
| | 00:31 | ahead and click on this button and you
are taken to the Export Calendar window.
| | 00:35 | Here you are able to choose the Export
settings that you would like to use. You
| | 00:39 | can choose to export all events,
meaning all of you personal, course and campus
| | 00:43 | wide events or simply select
just events related to your courses.
| | 00:47 | In our case, leave this set to All
Events, then you can come down here to the
| | 00:52 | For section and you can set the time
parameters that you want these calendar
| | 00:55 | events to be exported for. You can
either choose to export a single week, just
| | 01:01 | this current month or the
recent and next 60 days.
| | 01:05 | Let's go ahead and select the Recent
and next 60 days, so we get the maximum
| | 01:09 | number of events for our calendar,
then you have two options over here on the
| | 01:13 | right-hand side, Get Calendar URL and
Export, we'll go into both of these in detail.
| | 01:19 | Let's begin by showing how to export
our calendar directly into Outlook. To do
| | 01:23 | this, simply click the Export button.
Your browser should then prompt you to
| | 01:28 | either open the file with or save
the file that's been downloaded.
| | 01:32 | In our case, we'll go ahead and leave
the set to Open with and make sure we
| | 01:35 | have got selected Microsoft Office
Outlook which should be the default program.
| | 01:40 | If you are using another calendar
program, you may have that option here, or
| | 01:43 | you can choose Other and select it. As long
as it supports the iCal open standard format.
| | 01:48 | Next, go ahead and click the OK button.
This will cause the file to download
| | 01:53 | and automatically open Outlook for us.
Then the calendar is automatically
| | 01:58 | imported directly into our calendars.
Here we can see under My Calendars, we
| | 02:04 | have other calendars and there's a
calendar called icalexport.ics. This is
| | 02:10 | going to show all the current events
that we have scheduled inside of our
| | 02:13 | calendar on Moodle.
| | 02:15 | Here's our Coral Reef Lectures,
here's the May Day Parade which is a campus
| | 02:19 | wide event and if we scroll down a
little bit further, we can see our study
| | 02:22 | session that we created for Wednesday, the 29th.
| | 02:25 | Now, one drawback to using this method
of exporting our calendars, you are only
| | 02:30 | going to get a snapshot of the
calendar as it exists at the time that you
| | 02:34 | exported. This is going to be very
helpful if you want to overlay a whole
| | 02:37 | variety of different events to quickly
look and see how it's going to interact
| | 02:41 | with your calendars inside of Outlook.
| | 02:43 | However, as events change inside of
your Moodle calendar, they are not going to
| | 02:47 | be automatically updated inside of
Outlook. To do this let's go ahead and come
| | 02:52 | over here to the left-hand side and
uncheck the box next to icalexport.ics.
| | 02:56 | That will hide the export that we just
did, then we'll go back to the Moodle
| | 03:02 | page. Only this time, we'll click the
button for Get Calendar URL, a new frame
| | 03:07 | appears with the URL in it. Go ahead
and select that URL and copy it with
| | 03:13 | Ctrl+C on your keyboard. Then go ahead and
minimize your browser and go back to Outlook.
| | 03:19 | This time, go to the Tools menu at the
top of the page and come down to Account
| | 03:24 | Settings, then click on the tab for
Internet Calendars and click the New
| | 03:30 | button. Then paste in the URL that we
just copied off of Moodle using Ctrl+V.
| | 03:37 | Then click the Add button. A new
window is going to open up asking us for our
| | 03:41 | subscription options. We can then
choose the folder name for this calendar. By
| | 03:45 | default it's set to export_execute,
but let's change this to Moodle Calendar.
| | 03:51 | We can give it a description if we
would like and then we can come down here to
| | 03:55 | Attachments. It asks us if we want
to download any attachments for this
| | 03:59 | Internet Calendar. This is a good idea.
We'll go ahead and say yes for this.
| | 04:03 | Then you set the Update Limit, by
default it's checked, so I'll go ahead and
| | 04:07 | leave that checked and say OK. We
can then see that this calender's last
| | 04:12 | updated on, Status is pending. We'll go
ahead and leave that alone and now click Close.
| | 04:18 | Now in our other calendars, we now
have a calendar called Moodle Calendar. If
| | 04:23 | we check the box to the left of that,
so that it appears, our Moodle Calendar
| | 04:27 | now appears inside of our main Outlook
Calendar. The advantage to this type of
| | 04:32 | calendar is that can be automatically
updated, any time events are updated on
| | 04:37 | our calendar on Moodle and those changes will
show up inside of our local Outlook Calendar.
| | 04:42 | One thing to keep in mind with both
types of calendar exports is that if you
| | 04:46 | notice, we have our course events,
which are the Coral Reef Ecology Lectures
| | 04:51 | and Ecology Lab, we have our Campus
event, which is the May Day Parade, and
| | 04:57 | then we have our personal event, which
is the Study Session. On Moodle these
| | 05:01 | three different types of events show up
in three different colors and they are
| | 05:05 | easily identified by the
type of event that they are.
| | 05:08 | However, when we export the calendar
or subscribe to the calendar, all events
| | 05:13 | from our Moodle Calendar get
subscribed to as a single type of event on our
| | 05:17 | Outlook Calendar. So you'll lose the
designation of Personal, Course or Campus
| | 05:21 | events when you import them into Outlook.
| | 05:25 | But don't worry, all the events will be
there and they are also still loaded up
| | 05:28 | on your Moodle account. Let's go ahead
and close Outlook and return back to our
| | 05:34 | Moodle course and then I'll go back to
the main page of my site by clicking on
| | 05:38 | the lyndaU link in the upper left-hand corner.
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2. Moodle Course BasicsMoodle course overview| 00:00 | Let's go ahead and take a look at a
typical course inside of Moodle. To do this,
| | 00:03 | find the listing of courses that you have
available to you inside of your main Moodle page.
| | 00:08 | I'm going to click on a course called
Introduction to Coral Reef Ecology. When
| | 00:12 | you enter into a typical course
inside of Moodle, you'll notice that the
| | 00:15 | content is arranged in three major columns.
| | 00:18 | The left-hand column and the right-
hand column are usually much narrower
| | 00:22 | columns of information, both of which
consist of a series of content blocks.
| | 00:26 | Each content block has a heading on
it letting you know the type of content
| | 00:29 | that's inside of that block.
| | 00:31 | The top right corner of each of these
content blocks has a small Hide button
| | 00:35 | that you are able to click on to hide
away the content that's inside of that
| | 00:38 | block. Clicking on that button
second time reveals the information again.
| | 00:42 | The center section of your Moodle
course is where all the main content for your
| | 00:45 | course has been created by your
instructor. If we scroll down just a little bit
| | 00:48 | further, you can see that in this layout,
every single week of the semester has
| | 00:53 | its own separate content
block associated with it.
| | 00:56 | If you want to focus on just one
week's worth of content, in the upper right
| | 01:00 | corner of each of these content blocks
is a small box icon. If you go ahead and
| | 01:04 | click on that box icon, all the other
content blocks for your semester are
| | 01:09 | hidden out of the way except for the
main header section at the top of the page.
| | 01:14 | This way you are able to just focus on
the content that you need to focus on
| | 01:17 | for that particular week in your
semester. The center section of content may
| | 01:21 | also be arranged as a series of
topics or units. In the course that we are
| | 01:25 | looking at on screen though, all of this
content is arranged as a series of weeks.
| | 01:29 | If we move back over to the left-hand
side, let's go ahead and look at some of
| | 01:33 | the other content blocks that are
available to us. The top left-hand block is
| | 01:37 | called people. Here we can see a
listing of all the participants or students
| | 01:41 | inside of your course.
| | 01:43 | You can see their User picture, their
name, the city or town that they are
| | 01:46 | from, the country they are from and
the last time that they accessed the
| | 01:50 | course. You also have the ability to
go in and search for a particular user.
| | 01:54 | So for instance, if we want to search
for User name Al Uminium, we can click on
| | 01:58 | for the first name A that will
automatically limit our list to just users whose
| | 02:03 | first name starts with A. I'm going to
go ahead and return back to my course by
| | 02:06 | clicking on the Biology432 link in the
upper left-hand corner. You'll notice
| | 02:11 | that this series of links allows you to
quickly navigate back up and down, the
| | 02:15 | course structure inside of Moodle.
| | 02:17 | The next block down on left-hand side
is called Activities, here you'll see all
| | 02:21 | of the different activity types inside
of your course and they are grouped by
| | 02:25 | the type of activity that they are. So
for instance, throughout the course of
| | 02:29 | your semester, you may have a series
of assignments that are located within
| | 02:33 | each week of your course
in the main content area.
| | 02:35 | But if you want to locate all of the
assignments that are due in your course,
| | 02:39 | you can click on the link for
Assignments inside of the Activities block. And
| | 02:43 | now they are all grouped together.
This grouping will also show you the week
| | 02:46 | that that assignment is due, the Name
of the project and the Assignment type,
| | 02:51 | the Due date, whether or not you
have submitted any content towards that
| | 02:54 | assignment and the Grade if it's
been assigned by your instructor.
| | 02:58 | Clicking on the link for any of these
assignments will take you directly to
| | 03:01 | that assignment and allow you to begin
completing the assignment. I'm going to
| | 03:05 | go ahead and return back to my course
now by clicking on the Biology432 link in
| | 03:09 | the upper left-hand corner.
| | 03:10 | Let's also take a quick look at
Resources. This is under the Activities block
| | 03:14 | and this block is going to again,
show you all the different resources or
| | 03:18 | materials that are available inside
of your course for the particular week.
| | 03:22 | With links directly to them and with a
summary for what that resource is. We'll
| | 03:26 | go into these in more detail in later movie.
| | 03:29 | Let's go ahead and go back to our
course by clicking on the Biology432 link
| | 03:32 | again. Other block to take note of is
the Administration block. This is usually
| | 03:37 | located on the left-hand side and this
is where you have access to your Grades.
| | 03:42 | If your instructor is using the
Grade book that's built into Moodle, here
| | 03:46 | you'll find all of the different assignments
that are being graded inside of your course.
| | 03:50 | The Categories that they are being
graded for, the Grade that's been assigned
| | 03:53 | to you, any Percentages that have been
assigned to you for that Grade and any
| | 03:58 | Feedback that your instructor has
given. You can also click directly on the
| | 04:01 | link for Grade items and it will take
you directly to that assignment and where
| | 04:05 | you can go in and complete it. I'm going
to go ahead and return back to my course.
| | 04:08 | Now let's have a look at some of the
blocks on the right-hand side. On the
| | 04:12 | right-hand side, the top block on my
course is listed as Latest News. Here your
| | 04:17 | faculty member is able to post updates
and announcements that are going to be
| | 04:21 | relevant information about your course,
any content that's posted inside of the
| | 04:25 | latest news should also be sent to you
as an email to the email account that we
| | 04:30 | noted earlier when we were
editing our user profiles.
| | 04:33 | The next section is called Upcoming
Events. In the Upcoming Events block is
| | 04:37 | pulling information directly from your
Moodle calendar. It's going to show you
| | 04:42 | all the events that are related to
this particular course and any campus wide
| | 04:46 | or personal events that may also be
related. Upcoming events for other courses
| | 04:51 | would not be displayed inside of here.
You can also get links directly to your
| | 04:55 | calendar or create new events from within your
course from within the Upcoming Events block.
| | 05:00 | So scroll down a little bit further,
we'll notice that there is a dropdown menu
| | 05:04 | at the very bottom of the page, this
allows us to jump to a particular week of
| | 05:09 | our course and jump directly to that
content area. Let's go ahead and scroll
| | 05:13 | back up to the top of our course.
| | 05:15 | Now you have a pretty good idea as to
the general layout of a typical course
| | 05:19 | inside of Moodle. Just remember that
the content blocks that you are looking
| | 05:23 | for are usually located here in the
center section and the Activities block is
| | 05:27 | going to have groupings for all the
different types of assignments, resources
| | 05:32 | and so forth for your course.
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| Viewing documents| 00:00 | Perhaps the most common thing that
you are going to do inside of your Moodle
| | 00:03 | course is to view various different
documents or resources that your instructor
| | 00:07 | has posted for you. All of these
documents will appear in the center section of
| | 00:11 | your Moodle course that has all of your
content for each different week of the
| | 00:15 | semester or each different unit.
| | 00:17 | All of the items that are listed
inside of these areas are going to be listed
| | 00:21 | as links with an icon out to the
left-hand side of the link. The icons
| | 00:25 | represent the type of document that
you are going to find here. So for
| | 00:28 | instance, in this document we've got
Introduction to major tropical ecosystems.
| | 00:32 | It's a PowerPoint document and the
PowerPoint icon is over here to the left. Up
| | 00:37 | here, we've got our course syllabi and
a Syllabus is a word document and it's
| | 00:41 | showing the Microsoft Word
document icon next to it.
| | 00:45 | To view the document, you can simply
click on the link to the document and
| | 00:49 | depending on the browser and
operating system that you are using, it will
| | 00:52 | either open the document directly
inside of your browser window or it's going
| | 00:56 | to attempt to go ahead and download and
save the file to your local hard drive.
| | 01:00 | In this case, I'll go ahead and leave the
radio button set to Save File and click OK.
| | 01:05 | My Syllabus downloads and then I can
close my Downloads window, minimize my
| | 01:09 | browser and then go to the location
of my hard drive where the document has
| | 01:13 | been downloaded to. In this case,
it's been downloaded to my Desktop. I can
| | 01:17 | double-click on that document and the
document opens directly in my target
| | 01:22 | application. In this case, Microsoft
Word. I can then do any work that I need
| | 01:26 | to with the document.
| | 01:27 | Let me go ahead and close the syllabi
and return back to my Moodle course. All
| | 01:34 | types of documents work in this manner.
If I scroll down to this first content
| | 01:38 | area, you can see some of the other
content types that are listed in here as
| | 01:42 | well. In this case, we have got
Required Reading. It's got an icon that looks
| | 01:46 | like a webpage. I'll go ahead and
click on that link and we can see that the
| | 01:50 | information that's contained inside of
this resource is simply just an HTML or
| | 01:54 | a webpage. I'll go ahead and click back
on my Biology432 link in my upper left
| | 01:58 | corner to return back to my main page.
| | 02:01 | Another type of link is an outside web
resource. Here we've got a web resource
| | 02:05 | that's linking us out to the Recent
2009 Articles about Coral Zooxanthellae
| | 02:09 | Symbiosis. The icon as listed for this
shows a globe icon sitting on top of a
| | 02:14 | page indicating that this is a web link and
it's going to link us to an outside website.
| | 02:19 | When we click on this link, another
window opens up and now we get a listing of
| | 02:24 | all the current Coral Reef research
related to Coral Zooxanthellae Symbiosis
| | 02:29 | for all 2009 Articles. This link has
been setup inside of Google Scholar, which
| | 02:34 | you can access separately at scholar.
google.com. I'm going to go ahead and
| | 02:38 | close this window to
return back to my main course.
| | 02:41 | If I scroll down a little bit further,
we can see that there are other types of
| | 02:44 | resources here listed including
folders of materials. In this case, I'll go
| | 02:48 | ahead and click on this link and here
my instructor has linked out to a whole
| | 02:52 | folder full of content including Word
documents, Excel documents, PDF files,
| | 02:58 | Keynote presentations, and PowerPoint
presentations. Each of these different
| | 03:02 | document types I can click
on and download the files for.
| | 03:06 | Another way to download these files is
to right-click or Ctrl+Click on the file
| | 03:10 | and choose Save Link As and this will
force your browser to download this file
| | 03:15 | directly to your computer. I'll go
ahead and hit Cancel in this file and then
| | 03:19 | I'll return back to my main course by
clicking on Biology432 in the upper left.
| | 03:23 | All the different document types appear
in that way. If you want to look at all
| | 03:27 | the different resources for your
course all in one location, you can simply
| | 03:30 | click on the Resources link
underneath of the Activities block, which is
| | 03:34 | usually located in the left-hand column.
Clicking on Resources then shows you
| | 03:39 | for each week of the semester, all of
the resources or files that have been
| | 03:43 | posted by your instructor
for you to have a look at.
| | 03:47 | This view also gives you a summary
of what the information inside of that
| | 03:51 | document is about, and now I'll
return back to my course by clicking on the
| | 03:54 | Biology432 link in the upper left-hand corner.
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| Contributing to discussion forums| 00:00 | An activity that you are going to
find in many Moodle courses is the
| | 00:03 | discussion forum. You can access all
the forums over in the Activities block on
| | 00:07 | the left-hand side by simply clicking
on the link for Forums. Otherwise, you
| | 00:11 | can note the icon showing as the two
faces looking at each other or having a
| | 00:15 | conversation. And then look for any
of those types of activities scattered
| | 00:20 | throughout the main outline of your course.
| | 00:22 | In the Header block for every course,
there is always a News forum where news
| | 00:27 | about the course can be discussed.
This forum is setup by default in all
| | 00:31 | courses. Your instructor may have
turned this forum off but more than likely,
| | 00:35 | it's still listed here.
| | 00:36 | If I scroll down a little bit further,
I can see that in the first week of my
| | 00:40 | semester, my instructor has created a
forum called Week 1 Notes, I can go into
| | 00:45 | that forum by clicking on the link for
Week 1 Notes and now my instructor is
| | 00:49 | giving me instructions, let's say this
forum is a place for me to post notes
| | 00:53 | about the lecture and discuss
materials for this week's information.
| | 00:56 | I can then click the button for Add a
new discussion topic. Here I can add a
| | 01:00 | subject for my message. I'll say Notes
from Elvis. Then in the message section,
| | 01:07 | I have a standard HTML Editor where I
can add any formatting that I need to use
| | 01:11 | the HTML buttons at the top of this
window or I can simply type in text or copy
| | 01:16 | and paste it from a document that I
have written on my local computer.
| | 01:19 | I am just going to add a quick
note. This week's lecture covered an
| | 01:28 | introduction to coral reef ecology.
Now I'm going to go ahead and scroll down
| | 01:35 | to the bottom and look at any
other option that are available to me.
| | 01:39 | The top option here says that this
message is going to be in the HTML format. I
| | 01:44 | have no ability to change or modify
this nor can I change the fact that
| | 01:48 | everyone in the class, all students and
instructors are all subscribed to this
| | 01:52 | forum. This may be the case or it may be
slightly different depending on your course.
| | 01:57 | Finally, the last thing that I can
do in this forum is that I can add an
| | 02:00 | attachment if I would like to post
additional documents and attach them to this
| | 02:04 | forum post. This is very helpful in a
lot of classes and you may find your
| | 02:09 | faculty member asking you to post
copies of your papers that you are writing,
| | 02:13 | so that other students in the class
can review them and add comments to them.
| | 02:17 | If that's the case, you simply
click the Browse button over here to the
| | 02:20 | right-hand side, navigate your local
hard drive to find the document that you
| | 02:23 | want to attach and then click the Open
button. Since I'm not going to attach
| | 02:27 | anything, I'm just simply going to click
the Cancel button to close this window.
| | 02:30 | Then I'm going to click the button for
Post to forum. This is going to submit
| | 02:34 | this posting up to the forum. When the
page finally refreshes, I can see all
| | 02:39 | the of the different discussion
topics that are listed in this table.
| | 02:42 | Currently, there is only this one
discussion topic that I have added. You can
| | 02:46 | see the subject that I added, Notes
from Elvis, who the discussion thread was
| | 02:49 | started by, the number of replies to this
thread and whether or not it's been read or not.
| | 02:54 | I am going to go ahead and click on the
Notes from Elvis discussion, so we can
| | 02:58 | see how we would reply to if read. Here
we are able to see the posting that was
| | 03:02 | made. This week's lecture covered an
introduction of coral reef ecology. Since
| | 03:07 | I'm the author of this post, I could go
ahead and edit this post if I needed to
| | 03:11 | by clicking the Edit link or delete the
post entirely by clicking the Delete link.
| | 03:15 | If I want to reply to this note and
add additional information, I can simply
| | 03:19 | click the Reply button. I can see at
the top the original posting. I can see
| | 03:24 | the subject that was added including
a Re: or response to this note. In the
| | 03:29 | main message section, I can add an
additional note about this topic. In this
| | 03:32 | case, I'll simply add a note just
as, I learned about different reef
| | 03:39 | structures. I'll go ahead and scroll
down at the bottom of the page and we have
| | 03:44 | the same options that we had
earlier when we created the first post.
| | 03:47 | If I needed to attach a document to
this post, I can do so here. I'm not going
| | 03:52 | to attach a document now, I'm going to
just simply go ahead and click the Post
| | 03:55 | to forum button. The message is posted
up to the forum and now I can see that
| | 04:00 | my initial posting has a response to
it. The response has been tapped in
| | 04:05 | showing the hierarchy of responses.
This way a discussion can continue on
| | 04:09 | outside of class and not everyone
has to be online at the same time to
| | 04:13 | participate in the discussion.
| | 04:15 | I can use the list of links along the
top to navigate back out to my Week 1
| | 04:20 | Notes, and now I see that the
discussion topic is still listed who the
| | 04:24 | discussion was started by and the
number of responses to that discussion topic.
| | 04:29 | If I click on the link for Forums, I'm
taking to the main listing of all the
| | 04:33 | current forums that are in the course
that I'm currently viewing. In this case,
| | 04:37 | there is only the News forum and the
Week 1 Notes forum. You can also see how
| | 04:41 | many discussion thread are under each
of these different areas, the number of
| | 04:45 | unread threads that I have, whether or
not I'm tracking the information inside
| | 04:49 | of this courses and if I'm
subscribed to those forums or not.
| | 04:53 | Discussion forums are very helpful
tool that are used throughout a lot of
| | 04:56 | classes that use Moodle. So it's a
good idea to be familiar with all of these
| | 05:00 | tools. Let me go ahead and return
back to my course by clicking on the
| | 05:03 | Biology432 link in the upper left-hand corner.
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| Completing text assignments| 00:00 | Aside from the resources or
information that your instructor is going to be
| | 00:03 | providing to you inside of your
Moodle course, they are also going to be
| | 00:07 | providing you a bunch of different
assignments that you can complete, so that
| | 00:10 | you can be graded on.
| | 00:12 | The first type of assignment that we
are going to look at is the simple text
| | 00:15 | based assignment. You can access all
the assignments for your course from the
| | 00:19 | Activities blog ion the left-hand
side by clicking on the Assignments link.
| | 00:23 | That will show you all the different
assignments available inside of your course.
| | 00:27 | You may also scroll down inside of your
course and find inside of a particular
| | 00:31 | content blog, a listing for an
assignment. Here my instructor has created
| | 00:36 | separate groupings for my lecture
materials and for the assignments associated
| | 00:41 | with each week of content. The
assignment that I want to complete is this
| | 00:44 | Project Ideas assignment. You can see
the icon on the top is showing a hand
| | 00:48 | with a piece of paper in it, indicating that
this is something that you are going to turn in.
| | 00:52 | I will go ahead and click on the link
for Project Ideas and the assignment
| | 00:56 | appears on screen. The assignment
simply says to submit my top three choices
| | 01:00 | for research project ideas. Possible
topics will be discussed during the first
| | 01:04 | week's lecture. So I'll click the
button that says Edit my submission at the
| | 01:08 | bottom and then I'll just have a simple
blank where I can go ahead and type in
| | 01:13 | my response or if I have already typed
it in to another document on my local
| | 01:16 | computer such as using Microsoft Word
or a Text Editor, I can simply copy and
| | 01:21 | paste that text directly into this blank.
| | 01:24 | In this case, I'm simply going to go
ahead and type in a response and let the
| | 01:27 | instructor know that I'm interested
in a project on Coral zooxanthellae
| | 01:35 | symbiosis, eutrification of reefs, and
fish cleaning stations. I'll go ahead
| | 01:50 | and scroll down to the bottom of the
screen and then simply click the Save
| | 01:53 | changes button to submit this
assignment to my instructor.
| | 01:57 | The text that I sent is now listed on
this page from my assignment. If I need
| | 02:02 | to make any edits, I can simply click
the Edit my submission button and I can
| | 02:06 | go back in and edit the text inside of
that page. Otherwise, my assignment is
| | 02:10 | complete and I can return back to the
main course by clicking on my course's
| | 02:14 | name in the upper left-hand corner.
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| Uploading attachments to assignments| 00:00 | Another very common type of assignment
that you are going to have to complete
| | 00:03 | inside of most Moodle courses is an
assignment where you have to upload a file
| | 00:07 | that you've created in another program
on your local computer. This can be a
| | 00:11 | file such as a Word document,
PowerPoint presentation, Excel document, Keynote
| | 00:16 | file, or other type of file that you
have written on your local machine.
| | 00:20 | To find an assignment of this type, I'm
going to go over to my Activities block
| | 00:24 | on the left-hand side and click on
the link for Assignments. Here I can see
| | 00:28 | listed all the different assignments
for this course that I'm currently taking.
| | 00:32 | In week 15, there is a link for my
final research paper or I can upload a copy
| | 00:37 | of the final paper that I have
been working on all semester long.
| | 00:40 | I will go ahead and click on this link
and I'm taking to the assignment page
| | 00:44 | for the final research paper.
Here my instructor's provided me with
| | 00:48 | instructions as to how I should
complete this assignment. I should upload my
| | 00:52 | final paper in Microsoft Word format
and submit all tables and figures as
| | 00:56 | separate documents. I want to make
sure that I follow my Instructions to
| | 01:00 | Authors in which my instructor has created
a link to, right here inside of this page.
| | 01:05 | The next section of this page shows me
my Submission draft section where I can
| | 01:09 | see a listing of all the different
files that I have already attached to this
| | 01:11 | assignment. I have not submitted any
files yet. To do this, I'll come down here
| | 01:16 | to this next section. I want to first
make a note of this line right here,
| | 01:20 | where I can see that my Upload Maximum
file size is set to 32MB. This size is
| | 01:26 | going to vary depending on the Moodle
server that you are working on and so you
| | 01:30 | want to make sure that the files that
you are uploading are smaller than this
| | 01:34 | maximum file size. Otherwise, you won't
be able to upload those documents. I'll
| | 01:38 | show you an easy way to test when
we go to upload the file to Moodle.
| | 01:42 | To upload the file to Moodle, simply
click the Browse button to the right-hand
| | 01:46 | side of this blank and then navigate on
your local computer until you find the
| | 01:49 | document that you want to upload. In
this case, I have got the file right here
| | 01:53 | on my desktop called Final_Research_Paper.doc.
| | 01:57 | I can also see, once I have selected
the file, the size of that document, in
| | 02:01 | this case, 28 KB. Well the maximum
upload size on my system in 32 MB. So this
| | 02:07 | document will easily be
uploaded and not give me any problems.
| | 02:11 | With the document selected, I'll
simply click the Open button and then click
| | 02:15 | the button for Upload this file. The
file is uploaded. I can see the icon over
| | 02:21 | to the left-hand side of my link.
It's showing me that Moodle has already
| | 02:25 | detected that this is a Microsoft Word
document that I have uploaded. I see a
| | 02:29 | link to the full name of the document
and an X that's to the right-hand side.
| | 02:33 | If I want to delete this document and
upload a different one, I could simply
| | 02:37 | click the X and then repeat the same
process for uploading a document to
| | 02:41 | replace that document with.
| | 02:42 | If I need to upload additional
documents, I can do so by simply clicking the
| | 02:47 | Browse button, finding the other
documents and then uploading those as well.
| | 02:52 | The last section in this particular
assignment is a place for me to add notes
| | 02:56 | that I can send a note to my
instructor if I want to that's attached to this
| | 03:00 | particular assignment. To add a note, I
can simply click the Edit button under
| | 03:05 | the Notes section and now I've got a
blank where I can add in some additional
| | 03:08 | note to my instructor.
| | 03:10 | I will just add a quick note saying,
All the figures will be attached tomorrow,
| | 03:20 | still working on those but my final
draft of my paper is attached. I'll go
| | 03:29 | ahead and scroll down at the bottom of the
page now and click the Save changes button.
| | 03:36 | Now my instructor has more
information for me letting them know about this
| | 03:40 | document and also letting them know
that I'm going to go in tomorrow and upload
| | 03:44 | the figures that I'm still working on.
When I'm all finished with my assignment
| | 03:48 | and I'm ready to hand it into my
instructor, I can click the button that says
| | 03:52 | for Send for marking. Until I click
this button, I can leave this assignment
| | 03:56 | and return to it, as many times as I
need to, before the assignments do and I
| | 04:00 | have got a holding place where I have
got all the documents that I'm attaching
| | 04:04 | to this assignment and any notes that
I'm adding to my instructor. But I'm not
| | 04:08 | saying that I want my instructor to
begin grading this assignment until I click
| | 04:12 | this button that says Send for marking.
| | 04:14 | I will go ahead and click the button
that says Send for marking now, and I'm
| | 04:17 | given a warning letting me know that
once this assignment is sent for marking,
| | 04:21 | I'll no longer be able to delete or
attach any files. Since we are only doing a
| | 04:25 | demo of this, I'll go ahead and say yes.
Now we can see that this assignment
| | 04:29 | has been submitted for marking and
is not able to be updated anymore.
| | 04:34 | If I do need to make any change to
this document, I need to contact my
| | 04:37 | instructor and let them know that I
need to make some additional changes. You
| | 04:42 | can always get in contact with your
instructor by returning back to your main
| | 04:45 | course, clicking on the Participants
link inside of the People block and then
| | 04:51 | making sure that the sorting is
showing all of the different users in your
| | 04:55 | course. Your instructor should be
listed inside of your course here.
| | 04:59 | Here is my instructor's name, I can go
ahead and click on the instructor's name
| | 05:02 | and send them a message and let
them know that I may need to make some
| | 05:05 | additional modifications to that
assignment. Let me go ahead and return back to
| | 05:09 | my main course by clicking on
Biology432 in the upper left-hand corner.
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| Participating in a course wiki| 00:00 | Another activity type that you'll find
in many courses inside of Moodle is the
| | 00:04 | creation of a Course Wiki. The Course
Wikis are always listed with an icon to
| | 00:09 | the left-hand side that has this
crosshatch pattern. You can find them either
| | 00:13 | in the main content blocks, in the
center of your page or on the left-hand side
| | 00:17 | in the Activities block
under the listing for Wikis.
| | 00:21 | In my course, I have got a Research
Project Wiki that's listed in the Header
| | 00:25 | block for my course content. I'll go
ahead and click on the link for Research
| | 00:29 | Project Wiki to go into that wiki.
Now you maybe wondering, what is a wiki?
| | 00:33 | A wiki is a collaboratively built
website that uses a markup language that's
| | 00:39 | very simple and easy to learn how to use.
If you want to see a detailed set of
| | 00:43 | instructions as to how to access all
the different codes that you can use
| | 00:47 | inside of a wiki, if you go to the
upper right-hand corner of an wiki page, you
| | 00:51 | will see this little yellow icon with
the question mark on it. You can click on
| | 00:56 | that icon and it will open up a new
window that has all of the different wiki
| | 01:00 | markup language code that you
can use inside of your wiki.
| | 01:03 | We are going to go and demonstrate
some of these right now. I'm going to go
| | 01:06 | ahead and close that window. You will
notice that when you first enter into a
| | 01:10 | wiki, if no content has been added
already. The first tab here that's called
| | 01:15 | View, which would normally be the tab
that you would use to navigate around
| | 01:19 | inside of the wiki, is the same as the Edit tab.
| | 01:23 | If I click on the Edit tab, this is
where you would normally go in and start
| | 01:27 | editing the content inside of your wiki.
The Links tab shows you all the links
| | 01:32 | that are linking to this particular
page that you are working on. Because this
| | 01:36 | is the first page in our site where
there currently no pages linking to this
| | 01:39 | page. You also have a tab for History.
| | 01:42 | The History tab would allow you to
rollback or back up in time and look at
| | 01:47 | different versions of the wiki page.
Since every student in your class will all
| | 01:51 | be able to edit the content on all
these pages. Finally there is a tab for
| | 01:55 | Attachments, where you would be able
to attach files to the various different
| | 01:58 | pages of your wiki. This is very
helpful for uploading figures and graphs,
| | 02:03 | images or other types of documents such
as Word, Excel, PowerPoint and so forth.
| | 02:08 | Let's go ahead and began editing our
wiki. We'll start off by clicking on the
| | 02:12 | Edit tab and then in the main blank
for the Research Project Wiki we'll start
| | 02:17 | adding in some text. First we'll just
give it a title, Research Project Wiki.
| | 02:23 | If I simply click the Preview button at
the bottom of the page, I can see what
| | 02:27 | this page is going to look like so far.
| | 02:29 | Right now I just have some text that
says Research Project Wiki. Let's go ahead
| | 02:33 | and add some formatting to that to make
it stand out a little bit more. To add
| | 02:37 | formatting to our page, we'll simply
add three exclamation points to the front
| | 02:42 | of the first line of the text where it
says Research Project Wiki. Now when I
| | 02:46 | scroll down to the bottom of the
page and click the Preview button again.
| | 02:50 | Now I can see that my Research Project
Wiki has had some formatting applied to
| | 02:54 | it. All right, we are doing good.
Let's go ahead and now add a second page.
| | 02:58 | I'll come to the end of the first line
of text in this blank here. Hit Enter or
| | 03:02 | Return on my keyboard a couple of
times and then I'll create a link to a new
| | 03:06 | page by putting square brackets and the
name of the page that I want to create.
| | 03:11 | In this case I want to
create a page called Packing List.
| | 03:13 | I will close the open square brackets
with the right-hand square bracket. Now
| | 03:19 | when I scroll down to bottom of the
page and click the Save button, I jump out
| | 03:23 | of the Edit tab and go over to the View
tab. Now I can see my Research Project
| | 03:28 | Wiki heading that I created. I can see
the listing that says Packing List, but
| | 03:33 | that's not a link yet. At the far right
-hand end of Packing List, there is a
| | 03:36 | question mark that is a link. When I
click that question mark, a new page is
| | 03:41 | created called the Packing List Page.
| | 03:44 | Here I can begin editing content, so
that I can create a listing of all the
| | 03:48 | different items that my research group
is going to need for our research trip
| | 03:51 | when we go to Belize during our spring break.
| | 03:53 | I will go ahead and first list out my
group. I'm in the Coral group, so I'll
| | 03:58 | put two exclamation points and then
simply type in Coral Group. I'll hit Enter
| | 04:04 | or Return on my keyboard and now I
want to start creating a list of all the
| | 04:08 | different items that my group is going to need
to conduct a research when we were in Belize.
| | 04:13 | The first item that I'm going to need
is some duct tape. So I'll type in the
| | 04:16 | word Duct Tape and then hit Enter or
Return. When I click the Preview button, I
| | 04:22 | can see that right now I just have my
heading listed with my group and then the
| | 04:26 | first item listed. Now this will be
fine, if I just wanted to have a straight
| | 04:30 | list. But if I want to have a bulleted
list, then I can need to come down to
| | 04:33 | the bottom here where I still have my
Edit window and I'll go ahead and add an
| | 04:37 | asterisk in front of the word Duct Tape.
| | 04:40 | Now when I preview my document by
clicking the Preview button at the bottom,
| | 04:44 | now I have got my heading for my Coral
Group and Duct Tape is now tapped in and
| | 04:48 | its got a bullet listed in front of
it, indicating that I have had a list
| | 04:51 | started. I know I'm also going to need
some cable ties. So at the end of Duct
| | 04:55 | Tape line, I'll hit Enter or Return, put
another asterisk and then type in Cable Ties.
| | 05:01 | Now when I scroll down to the bottom
and hit Save and I'm taking over to my
| | 05:05 | View menu, now I can see that I have
got a list started for Duct Tape and Cable
| | 05:09 | Ties. If I want to return back to the
main page of my wiki, I can do so by
| | 05:14 | clicking at the link at the bottom of
the page that says Research Project Wiki.
| | 05:19 | This takes me back to my main page.
Now that I have created that second page
| | 05:23 | and add a content to it, the text that
said Packing List with the question mark
| | 05:27 | on it before is now a full link and if
I click on that link, I'm taking to that
| | 05:31 | page that has all the listing of all
the information that I have been adding to
| | 05:35 | this page. I can then return back to my
main page of the wiki by again clicking
| | 05:39 | on the Research Project Wiki link.
| | 05:41 | At any point, I can go and add an
additional content by clicking on the Edit
| | 05:45 | tab and continuing to edit the content
inside of my Research Project Wiki page.
| | 05:50 | Creating additional content and pages
inside of a Wiki is a very easy. In the
| | 05:54 | later movie, we'll go into some
additional formatting that you can use inside
| | 05:58 | of your wiki pages. But for now, just
know that you can add content and link to
| | 06:03 | additional pages inside of your wiki.
I'm going to return back to my main
| | 06:06 | course by clicking on the Biology432
link in the upper left-hand corner.
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| Working with databases| 00:00 | Another type of activity that your
instructor may have you work with is that of
| | 00:04 | a database. Databases are a way for
your instructor to provide additional
| | 00:08 | information to you or to have you
create additional information and share it
| | 00:13 | amongst your whole class.
| | 00:14 | There are two ways to get into a
database are by simply clicking on the link for
| | 00:18 | Database is over in the Activities
block in the left-hand side to see a listing
| | 00:21 | of all the databases that have been
created for your course, or just scroll down
| | 00:26 | to the main content block and
find the listing for the databases.
| | 00:30 | In this case, in the second week of
our semester we've got a database whose
| | 00:33 | icon shows this can icon or a container
that holds data or information and the
| | 00:39 | name of our database is called
Identified Organisms. We'll go ahead and click
| | 00:43 | on the link for Identified Organisms and it
will take us into the main view for the database.
| | 00:48 | There are four main tabs available to us.
The first tab is the View list.
| | 00:53 | There are currently no entries in our database,
but we'll take care of that in just a second.
| | 00:57 | The second tab is the View single.
Here, you will be able to see each
| | 01:01 | different entry in the database listed
separately. There is also a Search tab,
| | 01:05 | so you can search the database to
find the data that you are looking for.
| | 01:10 | Finally, there is an Add entry tab. If
you click on the Add entry tab, we get
| | 01:15 | the form that's being created that
contains all of the data that we need to
| | 01:18 | enter in for this particular database.
And keep in mind that each database is
| | 01:23 | created by your instructor for the
particular course that you are taking. So
| | 01:28 | the fields that you see here are going
to be very different depending on the
| | 01:31 | specific data that is being
collected as part of your class.
| | 01:35 | In this case we are creating a database
of all the different Species and Common
| | 01:39 | names of all the different organisms
that we identify inside the laboratory or
| | 01:44 | in the field portion of our class when our
class goes to Belize during spring break.
| | 01:49 | Let's go ahead and add in one of
the names of organisms that we have
| | 01:52 | identified. The scientific name for
this is Gymnothorax funebris. The common
| | 02:01 | name of this organism is the green
moray eel. There is also a place in this
| | 02:08 | particular database where we could
upload a file. In this case we could upload
| | 02:12 | such as an image, an audio file
or a video file of this organism.
| | 02:17 | In this case, we don't have any of
those things. So we'll go ahead and leave
| | 02:20 | that alone and click the Save and view
button. We get on a page that shows that
| | 02:25 | our entry has been saved and then we
can see the single view listing of the
| | 02:29 | entry that we just added. In this case,
the scientific name is showing up in
| | 02:33 | Italics and the common
name listed underneath of it.
| | 02:36 | Now if we go over to View list, we
can see the listing of all the different
| | 02:40 | organisms that have been added into our
database. At the bottom of the page we
| | 02:45 | get the ability to search and sort the
information that's appearing in the main
| | 02:49 | part of our database. This is the same
listing if we click on the Search tab
| | 02:53 | where we can go in and search and
find all the information. To pull up a
| | 02:57 | specific entry, I'll come down here to
the Author's first name and I'll simply
| | 03:01 | type in Elvis. Then I'll click the Save
settings button and I can see just the
| | 03:08 | entries that the user Elvis has added
into this database. You can also sort by
| | 03:13 | the other data fields that are
associated in your database. Keep in mind that
| | 03:17 | every database is going to be different.
| | 03:19 | So this just gives you a quick overview
as to how you would work with the data
| | 03:23 | that's inside of a database activity
inside of a Moodle. Let's go ahead and
| | 03:27 | return back to the main course, and in
this case I'll click on Biology432 in
| | 03:32 | the upper left-hand corner.
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| Working with glossaries| 00:00 | A very specific type of database that's
available inside of many Moodle courses
| | 00:04 | is the creation of a course glossary.
Glossaries can be found both in the
| | 00:08 | Activities block on left-hand side
under the Glossaries link or found
| | 00:13 | throughout your course in
the main content sections.
| | 00:17 | All the glossaries have an icon to
the left of them that looks like an open
| | 00:20 | book. In our case, our course has
two glossaries, the Main Glossary and a
| | 00:26 | Reference Library. Let's go ahead and look at
each of these glossaries and see how they work.
| | 00:30 | To begin, I'll click on the link for
the Main Glossary. Here, we have a listing
| | 00:35 | of a variety of different terms that
are going to be used throughout the
| | 00:38 | course. You will also notice that
there is a couple of links that are set up.
| | 00:42 | Here the word Hermatypic corals is a
link and if I hover the mouse over it, I
| | 00:47 | can see that this is a
link in the Main Glossary.
| | 00:49 | Well, if we look up here is the word
Hermatypic coral. So what this Moodle
| | 00:54 | course is doing is that anytime this
particular term Hermatypic coral shows up
| | 01:00 | anywhere throughout our site, that
term is going to be created as a hot link
| | 01:05 | that will, if we click on it, pop open
a window that will take us directly to
| | 01:09 | the definition of that word.
| | 01:11 | Inside of our glossary, we can also do
things like search for individual terms,
| | 01:17 | Browse alphabetically, Browse by
categories if they are set up, Browse by date
| | 01:22 | which would list out all the different
terms by date or browse it by the author
| | 01:27 | that created those entries. We also
have the ability to go in and sort our
| | 01:31 | glossary by just showing all of the words that
begin with a particular letter of the alphabet.
| | 01:37 | In this case, if I click on the link
for Host, only the word Hermatypic coral
| | 01:42 | remain showing. To look at all the
glossary entries, I'll click on the link for
| | 01:45 | All again and all the entries will
appear once more. Many glossaries on the
| | 01:50 | right-hand side of the entry will have
a small little icon that allows you to
| | 01:54 | add a comment. If we click on this,
here we can go in and add additional
| | 01:58 | information or comments about
this particular glossary entry.
| | 02:03 | It's a great way, if you were to add
additional information in resources to
| | 02:06 | individual entries inside of a glossary.
Let's go ahead and go back to the Main
| | 02:11 | Glossary by clicking on the link for
Main Glossary in the breadcrumbs at the top.
| | 02:15 | Now we already saw how the word
Hermatypic coral is linked, but let's go in and
| | 02:19 | look and see how that works in
another page. If I return back to the main
| | 02:23 | course by clicking on Biology432, and
then inside of the first week of content,
| | 02:28 | I have got a link for a page called
Coral Zooxanthellae Symbiosis. If I click
| | 02:33 | on that link, I can see a page that's
been written by my instructor that's got
| | 02:37 | a lot of information inside of this document.
| | 02:40 | Everywhere that the word Hermatypic
coral, which is listed inside of the
| | 02:44 | Glossary, appears, if I click on that
word, a pop-up window opens up giving me
| | 02:50 | the definition of that term. I can
always close that window and go and click on
| | 02:54 | the link for another term such as
Zooxanthellae and now I have got detailed
| | 02:58 | information about what a Zooxanthellae is.
| | 03:01 | Go ahead and close the window again
and we'll also note that we have got some
| | 03:06 | references that are listed here as well.
The first reference listed is Dustan
| | 03:10 | 1979. If I click on that link I get
another window that pops open that has a
| | 03:15 | detailed description as to what
reference is. Here the term in this glossary is
| | 03:21 | the name of the article as it's
appearing inside of the document. So Dustan
| | 03:25 | 1979 would link me directly to
the full reference for this library.
| | 03:30 | I also have a link directly out to the
reference library. Let's go ahead and
| | 03:34 | close this window and let's add a
glossary entry for the Glynn 1993 article. To
| | 03:41 | do this, I'll return back to the main
course by clicking on Biology432 and then
| | 03:46 | I'll go into the Reference Library
glossary. Here, I can see that I only have
| | 03:51 | one entry currently in my database,
but I can add a new entry by clicking on
| | 03:55 | the Add new entry button up here
in the top center of my window.
| | 03:59 | Now I can add in the Concept name, in
this case I want to add the name of the
| | 04:03 | reference as it's going to appear in
the text. So I'll go ahead and type in
| | 04:07 | Glynn 1993 then in the definition
for this window, I'll type in the full
| | 04:14 | reference to this article. Glynn P. W. (
1993) Coral Reef Bleaching: Ecological
| | 04:32 | Perspective. It's in the journal Coral
Reefs, volume 12: Pages 1-17. I can go
| | 04:44 | in and also add a little formatting to
this page by selecting the journal title
| | 04:49 | and then clicking the Bold button at
the top. Now the term Coral Reefs is going
| | 04:53 | to appear bolded, because it's the
journal that this reference is in.
| | 04:57 | I will go ahead and scroll down to
the bottom of the page. If there are any
| | 05:01 | categories that have been set up by
my instructor, I could select those
| | 05:04 | categories here, I could also add
additional keywords, if I needed to, such as
| | 05:09 | in this case coral bleaching, to let
other users know that this article is
| | 05:15 | about coral bleaching.
| | 05:17 | If I want to attach a document, I
could do so here as we have seen in other
| | 05:21 | movies. This might be a great place
if we have had a PDF reprint of this
| | 05:25 | article that we could link directly
back to this reference in our library so
| | 05:29 | that other students would be able to
not only find the reference, but would be
| | 05:32 | able to read the full text of the article.
| | 05:34 | Finally, we have a section here for
auto-linking. Now auto-linking may or may
| | 05:39 | not be available on your server. It is
available on this server and it's what's
| | 05:43 | making these links possible. I want
this article to be auto-linked, so I'll
| | 05:48 | check the box that says This
entry should be automatically linked.
| | 05:51 | Then I get the ability to check
additional boxed that allow me to say whether
| | 05:56 | or not I want this entry to be case
sensitive. I don't want this entry to be
| | 05:59 | case sensitive so if anywhere Glynn
1993 appears, then it will automatically
| | 06:05 | link back. So I'll leave
the first box unchecked.
| | 06:08 | Finally, it asked me if I want to match
whole words only, and I definitely want
| | 06:13 | to check that. Because otherwise I
don't want to have everywhere the numbers
| | 06:16 | 1993 appear, I don't want them to link
back to this article. I want the entire
| | 06:21 | phrase Glynn 1993 to create the link
back to this article. I'll go ahead and
| | 06:26 | click the Save changes button and now that
reference has been added into our library.
| | 06:31 | Let's go ahead and check and see if
it got added correctly into that Coral
| | 06:35 | Zooxanthellae page. So I'll go back up
to my course by clicking on Biology432
| | 06:41 | and then come down to the Coral Zooxanthellae
Symbiosis article that we clicked on earlier.
| | 06:46 | Now when we go into this article we
can see that the reference for Glynn 1993
| | 06:51 | is now a hot link. I can click on
that link and it takes me directly to the
| | 06:55 | reference that I just created inside
of my glossary. Let's go ahead and close
| | 06:59 | this window and return back to out
main course by clicking on the Biology432
| | 07:03 | link at the top of the page.
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| Taking an online quiz| 00:00 | Perhaps one of the most common
activities that you will have to complete inside
| | 00:03 | of your Moodle courses is taking an
online assessment in the form of a quiz or exam.
| | 00:08 | Quizzes or exams can all be
found listed under the Activities block on
| | 00:13 | left-hand side under the link of Quizzes.
You can also find individual quizzes
| | 00:18 | listed under the particular week
that they appear inside of your course.
| | 00:22 | In this case, in the last week of our
semester we have our Final Exam that's
| | 00:26 | going to be given as an online
assessment. We can tell that this is a quiz
| | 00:30 | because the white page icon that has a
red check mark appears to the left of
| | 00:34 | the link for Final Exam. I'll go ahead
and click on the link for Final Exam and
| | 00:39 | I'm given the instructions about this
quiz. The instruction simply says that
| | 00:43 | this is the Final Exam for this course.
It lets me know the grading method for
| | 00:48 | this quiz, which is going to be the
highest grade that I achieve on all my
| | 00:52 | different attempts.
| | 00:53 | I can then begin my first attempt of
this quiz by clicking on the button for
| | 00:57 | Attempt quiz now. I then enter into the
quiz. I can jump to any question inside
| | 01:03 | the quiz by navigating among the
different pages or simply take the quiz in order.
| | 01:07 | Let's go ahead and take this quiz. The
first question, The coral depicted here
| | 01:12 | is one commonly referred to as a
brain coral. The scientific name for this
| | 01:16 | coral is what? As I looked down to the
bottom of the screen, I can look and see
| | 01:20 | that this is a brain coral that I
know is Diploria labyrinthiformis. I know
| | 01:24 | it's not Montastrea cavernosa, but
now I have got two different audio files
| | 01:28 | that I need to listen to.
| | 01:30 | I will click on the link for the first one.
| | 01:32 | (Male voice: Diploria labyrinthiformis.)
| | 01:36 | That is the correct name of the file. So
I'll hit the Back button on my browser and
| | 01:40 | that is the option that I want to
select. I'll click the Submit button and I
| | 01:45 | get instant feedback letting me know
that this is the correct answer. I also
| | 01:50 | can see that my Marks for this submission are
1/1, meaning I got full credit for this question.
| | 01:56 | Let's go ahead and go to the next
question. I'll click the Next link at the
| | 01:59 | bottom of the page and the next
question appears. This is a different type of
| | 02:03 | question. This is one where I have to
match the image on the left-hand side
| | 02:07 | with the correct answer. It's asking me
to identify the correct scientific name
| | 02:11 | of each organism that's being depicted.
I'll click the dropdown menu for the
| | 02:14 | first link and I can see that the coral
depicted in this image is Porietes Asteroides.
| | 02:21 | Next, I'll look at the next image. I
know that's Acropora Palmata. So I'll come
| | 02:26 | over here to the right-hand side,
click the dropdown menu and I find the
| | 02:29 | listing Acropora Palmata, I'll
select that as the correct answer.
| | 02:33 | The third image in this question is a
Mithrax crab. So I'll click the dropdown
| | 02:37 | menu and there it is Mithrax sculptus.
I'll select that. Click the Submit
| | 02:43 | button at the bottom and I can see
that I have got the correct answer. And I
| | 02:48 | have also been given full
credit for this question.
| | 02:50 | Let's go ahead and go to the next
question. Click the Next button and now I get
| | 02:55 | a question asking me, What specific
type of body cavity is found in the
| | 02:59 | organism depicted in the figure above?
The figure is showing a flat one. I'll
| | 03:03 | scroll down and I'll look at the
different possibilities, blastocoel,
| | 03:07 | enterocoel, gastrocoel, acoelomate, or
schizocoel. I'm not really sure about
| | 03:13 | this one, so I'm going to go ahead
and guess acoelomate. I'll check the box
| | 03:17 | next to d and click the Submit button.
| | 03:19 | All right, looks like I guessed right.
I got full credit for this question.
| | 03:23 | Let's go ahead and go down to the next
question. I'll click the Next button.
| | 03:27 | Now the question is asking, Hermatypic
corals have a very specific temperature
| | 03:31 | range in which they survive. Please
list an acceptable annual average sea water
| | 03:36 | temperature (C) where you
would typically find coral reefs.
| | 03:41 | Well, I know that coral reefs exist
only in the tropics and the average
| | 03:45 | temperatures there need to be between
18 and 32 degree Celsius. So I'll choose
| | 03:50 | a temperature of 28. I'll click the
Submit button and I was right. I get full
| | 03:57 | credit for this question because I got
the green check mark next to the answer.
| | 04:00 | And I can also see that I got
1/1 point for this question.
| | 04:04 | Let's go on to the next question. Here
I'm asked, What's the scientific name of
| | 04:08 | this animal? Here I have got a video
that's been pulled directly into my course
| | 04:12 | from YouTube. I can click the play
button and I can see the animal in action.
| | 04:18 | Oh! I remember this. This is the
Green Moray Eel whose name is Gymnothorax
| | 04:26 | funebris. I'll go ahead and scroll
down to the bottom of the page and
| | 04:30 | I'll go ahead and type in my answer,
Gymnothorax funebris. I'll click the Submit
| | 04:38 | button. And as I scroll all the way down I
can see, aha, I got the right answer. Great!
| | 04:44 | Let's go ahead and go to the next
question. The next question is a true/false
| | 04:48 | question. It asks me, Hermatypic
corals and zooxanthellae have a symbiotic
| | 04:53 | relationship. Yeah, that's right.
Zooxanthellae are the small, one cell, brown
| | 04:57 | algae that are living inside the
tissues of Hermatypic corals. Go ahead and
| | 05:02 | answer True to that and click the
Submit button. Looks like I got the right
| | 05:06 | answer again. And the instructor has
even given me a little feedback to prompt
| | 05:10 | me on my way. Good job.
| | 05:11 | All right, let's go to the next one.
Here it's asking, The animal depicted here
| | 05:17 | is a sponge named Aplysina fistularis.
That does look correct. So we'll go
| | 05:22 | ahead and answer True to that and hit
Submit. As I scroll down to the bottom, I
| | 05:27 | can see that yeah, I got the right answer
one more time. Marks for this submission: 1/1.
| | 05:32 | Proceeding on to the next. Okay, The
attached map shows the barrier reef of
| | 05:37 | Belize and Turneff Atoll. Please
discuss the formation of these two structures.
| | 05:42 | Well, this question showing me a map
that's got Google maps piped directly into
| | 05:46 | the question. I can look and see the
barrier reef is listed right here and
| | 05:51 | Turneff Atoll is listed right here. We
can tell this in the Atoll because it's
| | 05:55 | got the lagoon in the middle of it and
it's a ring of a reef that goes all the
| | 05:58 | way around. I can also look at the
Satellite view of this, if I want to see a
| | 06:02 | live view as to what the reef
actually looks like from a satellite.
| | 06:05 | Let's go back to Terrain view. Scroll
on down to the bottom and here I have got
| | 06:11 | an essay question. I'll simply go
ahead and add in, A barrier reef forms
| | 06:19 | parallel to the shoreline and grows out
away from shore in a perpendicular direction.
| | 06:35 | Now for most essay questions you are
obviously going to want to write a lot
| | 06:38 | more information. But for the purpose
of this training, I'll go ahead and just
| | 06:41 | leave that as my answer and click the
Submit button. When I scroll down at the
| | 06:46 | bottom of this answer, I'm not given
any feedback that lets me know that this
| | 06:49 | answer is right or wrong. That's
because my instructor is going to have to go
| | 06:53 | in and read this essay question and
answer it individually and it's not going
| | 06:57 | to be graded automatically by Moodle.
| | 06:59 | Well, I have completed all the
different questions so I'll click on the button
| | 07:03 | now for Submit all and finish. And I
get a dropdown menu that says I'm about to
| | 07:08 | close this attempt, and once I close it I'll
no longer be able to change any of my answers.
| | 07:13 | I will click OK and now I get an
automatic grading of my quiz. I can see how
| | 07:18 | long it took me to take the quiz. The
grade that I got currently, 7/8, which is
| | 07:24 | 88%. Keep in mind that the last
question is the essay question that my
| | 07:29 | instructor still needs to grade. So I
still have the opportunity to gain a few
| | 07:32 | more points depending on how well I
have answered that final question. I now
| | 07:36 | want to click the button that says
Finish review and it takes me back to the
| | 07:41 | main page for this final exam.
| | 07:43 | Here I can see my first Attempt, the
date and time that I completed the attempt
| | 07:48 | on, the Grade that was automatically
assigned to me by Moodle, and any Feedback
| | 07:52 | that the instructor has put into
Moodle based on the particular grade that
| | 07:56 | I have already gotten.
| | 07:57 | If the quiz allows me to retake the
quiz, I can take a second attempt by
| | 08:02 | clicking the button here or I can
simply return back to my main course by
| | 08:06 | clicking on the link for
Biology432 in the upper left-hand corner.
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| Checking grades| 00:00 | Perhaps the most popular feature of
Moodle that students really love is the
| | 00:04 | Grade Book. The Grade Book allows you
to find exactly what your grade is at all
| | 00:10 | times during the course. You can
access the Grade Book from inside of your
| | 00:14 | course by going over to the
Administration block, which is normally found on
| | 00:18 | the left-hand side, and
clicking on the link for Grades.
| | 00:21 | Now the Grade Book is only going to
work if your instructor is using Moodle to
| | 00:26 | keep track of grades and is keeping the
information up to date. The Grade Book
| | 00:31 | shows you every single item that's
being graded as part of the course,
| | 00:36 | the category that item is listed in,
the grade that you have received,
| | 00:41 | the percentage of points that you have
gotten, and any additional feedback that
| | 00:45 | your instructor has given you
for that particular assignment.
| | 00:49 | You can also click on links inside of
the Grade Book under the Grade item name
| | 00:54 | to jump directly to an assignment that
you handed in, to see any feedback, the
| | 00:58 | files that you have submitted and so
forth. I'm going to go ahead and click the
| | 01:02 | Back button in my browser to
return back to my Grade Book.
| | 01:05 | Another nice little hidden gem of the
Grade Book is right here, this dropdown
| | 01:10 | menu that says Choose an action.
Because we entered into the Grade Book from
| | 01:14 | inside of our coral reef class, when
we clicked on the Grade Book we got a
| | 01:18 | listing for all the grades inside of
this particular course. But if I click the
| | 01:22 | dropdown menu for Choose an action and
then select Overview report. I'm given a
| | 01:28 | listing of all the different courses
that I'm currently taking inside of
| | 01:32 | Moodle, the name of the
course and my current grade.
| | 01:36 | So if I'm taking multiple classes, I
can instantly see how I'm doing it at any
| | 01:40 | point or in the semester. I can then
go into any particular class by simply
| | 01:45 | clicking on the link for the class and it takes
me to the Grade Book for that particular course.
| | 01:50 | Another way to do this is clicking the
dropdown menu for Choose an action and
| | 01:54 | simply selecting User report. This is the
report that we are currently looking at.
| | 01:59 | The Grade Book provides a nice way for
you to constantly keep up to date and
| | 02:03 | know how you are doing in your class, so that
you can know what areas you need to improve on.
| | 02:07 | Let's go ahead and return back to
the course by clicking on the link for
| | 02:10 | Biology432 in the upper left-hand corner.
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3. Advanced TechniquesUsing the HTML editor| 00:00 | Let's have a look at the HTML Editor
that's build into Moodle and learn how to
| | 00:04 | really leverage this tool. To do this
let's create another blog entry. Go up
| | 00:09 | to the upper right-hand corner of your
screen and click on the link for your
| | 00:12 | name in the Your are logged in as space.
Then we'll click the tab for Blog and
| | 00:19 | we'll go ahead and add a new entry, by
clicking on the link for Add a new entry.
| | 00:22 | We will give this blog entry a title of
Learning to use the HTML Editor.
| | 00:30 | We'll then go down to the main blog body entry.
First we'll add a line of text where
| | 00:34 | we can add some formatting. So we'll
add a line that simply says, Here is a top
| | 00:40 | level heading. Hit Enter or Return a
few times, then select that block of text
| | 00:46 | that we just wrote, and click the
dropdown menu and select Heading 1.
| | 00:51 | Now the text is showing up in a large
Heading 1 style. I can click down near
| | 00:55 | the bottom, then I can add additional
text and format it using the tools at the
| | 01:00 | top such as Bold, Italics, Underline
Strikethrough, Subscript, Superscript and
| | 01:07 | so forth. You are probably quite
familiar with many of these tools as the icon
| | 01:12 | that are appearing here are the same ones that
are used throughout most text editing programs.
| | 01:17 | The second line of icons allows you to
control the justification of your text,
| | 01:21 | the direction or flow of text from
left to right or right to left. You would
| | 01:26 | only use these if you are trying to
write text in another language that is not
| | 01:30 | typically written or read from left to right.
| | 01:32 | The section allows you to create
either ordered or bulleted list. You can
| | 01:36 | increase or decrease the indent of the
text with the next couple of tools and
| | 01:40 | change the color of text or if the
background color of a particular area with
| | 01:45 | the standard color pickers.
| | 01:47 | If you want to add a horizontal line or
horizontal rule, you can simply do that
| | 01:51 | by clicking this button here and then
a horizontal line will show up allowing
| | 01:55 | you to separate content inside of your text.
| | 01:58 | The next set of tools allows us to
create links. Let's say we have some content
| | 02:01 | of our on Flickr that we want to link.
To do this, begin by simply opening up a
| | 02:06 | new tab on your browser. If you are
using Firefox, you can use Command+T or
| | 02:11 | Ctrl+T to open a new tab. Then simply
go to Flickr, www.flickr.com. We'll then
| | 02:21 | do a search for some content that we
want to add in. I know I have already
| | 02:24 | tagged some content with moodle_esst.
I'll type that into the Search field and
| | 02:30 | then click the Search button.
| | 02:32 | Now I get a listing of a bunch of
images that I have posted all were related to
| | 02:36 | Moodle Essential training series. To
link directly to all of these images, I'll
| | 02:40 | just go ahead and select the whole
URL at the top of the page and copy with
| | 02:45 | Command+C or Ctrl+C. Then I'll come
back over to the tab that has my blog entry
| | 02:49 | in it and I'll type in, Here is a
link to some content on Flickr related to
| | 02:59 | this training. I'll then go ahead and
select content on Flickr and then click
| | 03:06 | the icon for Insert a web link. I can
then type in the full URL or simply paste
| | 03:13 | it with Command+V or Ctrl+V. I can
give the page a title Images for Moodle
| | 03:19 | Training and then set a Target.
| | 03:23 | Now the Target allows us to tell our
web browser what we want to happen when a
| | 03:28 | user clicks on this link. If we leave
the Target set to None then the resulting
| | 03:33 | web page will just reload inside of the
main window that we are already working
| | 03:37 | in. But if we want to have the user
stay on the page that we were currently at,
| | 03:41 | but have the link open up in the new
window, we can simply select New Window
| | 03:45 | from the dropdown menu for Target. The
page that we were going to does not have
| | 03:50 | any anchors and the anchors are not
going to be very common for you to use
| | 03:53 | unless you have created the content and
created anchors, which would allow you
| | 03:57 | to link down to a
particular point inside of a page.
| | 04:00 | So we'll go ahead and leave Anchors
left alone and then click the OK button.
| | 04:04 | Now we have our link that's been
created for us. But if we were to click on
| | 04:08 | this link right now, we are not going
to see anything happened. In order to
| | 04:12 | test it, we need to go ahead and
scroll all the way to the bottom of our page
| | 04:16 | and then click the Save Changes button.
This will update the content on our
| | 04:20 | page and we are able to then click on the
link that showing up inside of our blog entry.
| | 04:26 | And a new tab is created for us with
the search parameters that we set up
| | 04:31 | taking us directly to the images on
this page. But what if we want to display
| | 04:35 | one of these images inside of our blog entry.
| | 04:38 | To do that we'll have to use a little
trick here. On this Flickr page we have
| | 04:43 | this image of a Mithrax what I want to
do is right-click or Ctrl+Click on this
| | 04:47 | image and say View Image. This is
going to open up just this image inside of
| | 04:52 | our browser window and we are going to
get the complete URL to this image up
| | 04:56 | here in the top of our window.
| | 04:58 | Let's go ahead and select that URL and
copy it with Command+C or Ctrl+C then go
| | 05:04 | back over to the tab that has your
Moodle blog in it and then click on the Edit
| | 05:08 | button on the lower right-hand corner
of this blog post. This will take us back
| | 05:14 | into our HTML Editor. We'll go ahead
and click at the end of the line where
| | 05:18 | we've got this text and hit Enter or
Return a couple of time and now we'll
| | 05:23 | click the button here for inserting an image.
| | 05:26 | The Insert an image window pops open
and it asks us for the URL to the image.
| | 05:32 | I'll go ahead and hit Command+V or Ctrl+
V on my keyboard to paste in the URL of
| | 05:36 | the specific image that
we want to show on Flickr.
| | 05:40 | Next, we'll simply add in some
alternate text. Here we'll put image of a
| | 05:45 | Mithrax. We can choose to add some
controls for the Alignment, Thickness of a
| | 05:50 | border around the image or any Spacing
that we want to have set. I'll go ahead
| | 05:55 | and leave all of these at the
default and then click the OK button.
| | 05:59 | Now the image that's located up on
Flickr is being pushed directly inside of
| | 06:03 | this blog entry. I can scroll all the
way to the bottom of the page, click the
| | 06:07 | Save changes button, and now I can see
that this image is properly attached to
| | 06:12 | this blog entry. There are lots of
additional tricks that you can use with the
| | 06:16 | HTML editor to add additional
interest and content to any page that you are
| | 06:21 | using inside of Moodle that uses the
HTML editor. Now note that not everything
| | 06:26 | that you can normally do inside of HTML is
going to work inside of the Moodle HTML editor.
| | 06:32 | This is because not all HTML code is
allowed to be used by students on all
| | 06:38 | servers. So you may run into some
roadblocks on a particular Moodle
| | 06:42 | installation that you are working on.
If you do you may need to contact the IT
| | 06:46 | department at your institution to find
out what's specific code is allowed and
| | 06:51 | not allowed inside of any Moodle page
that you are working on. Let's go ahead
| | 06:55 | and return back on to our main course
by first clicking on the link back to our
| | 06:59 | institution and then clicking on
the link to our course. In this case,
| | 07:04 | Introduction to Coral Reef Ecology.
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| Advanced wiki techniques| 00:00 | In an earlier movie we learned the
basics of creating pages inside of a Wiki
| | 00:04 | and adding content to it. Now let's
learn some advanced techniques that allow
| | 00:09 | us to enhance the content
that we are adding to our Wiki.
| | 00:12 | To do this, begin by first going into
your course Wiki. In this case I'm going
| | 00:16 | to click on the link for Research
Project Wiki in the header block of my
| | 00:19 | course. I'm taken into the main
page for my Wiki under the View tab.
| | 00:24 | Let's first create a link to another
page that we can edit. To do this, click
| | 00:29 | the tab for Edit and then at the end
of the listing for Packing List,
| | 00:33 | we'll create a new entry by hitting Enter
or Return, a left-hand square bracket,
| | 00:39 | a listing for Coral Group and then a right
-hand square bracket. To convert these
| | 00:44 | items into a list, I'll go to the
beginning of each of these two lines and add
| | 00:49 | an asterisk as the first character in
each line to designate each of these as a list.
| | 00:54 | I'll then click the Save button,
and now I have got a list of items that
| | 00:58 | has my Packing List and a
listing for my Coral Group.
| | 01:02 | We will click the question mark to the
end of the Coral Group listing and that
| | 01:05 | creates the page for our Coral Group.
I'll now go ahead and copy and paste some
| | 01:10 | text that I have already written in
another document. I'll open up my Text
| | 01:14 | Editor where I have already got this
text written. Select the text and copy it
| | 01:18 | with Command+C or Ctrl+C. Then jump
back over to my browser, click in the text field
| | 01:24 | and hit Command+V or Ctrl+V to
paste in that text. I can preview what
| | 01:28 | this text is going to look like by
simply hitting the Preview button.
| | 01:32 | At the top, I have got a Hypothesis,
with the hypothesis that my Coral Group is
| | 01:36 | going to explore during our research
trip to Belize. Then I have got a listing
| | 01:41 | for a Proposed Method that we are
going to follow, including a listing for a
| | 01:45 | scientific name of the organism that
we are going to work with, Acropora
| | 01:49 | palmata. We also have a place where
we can add a link to Current Research
| | 01:53 | Papers and a Sample Data Table.
| | 01:56 | Let's go ahead and add some formatting
to all of this text now. So if I scroll
| | 02:00 | down in the window, we know already
that we can add heading text by adding
| | 02:05 | exclamation points to the front
of each of our different headings.
| | 02:08 | We saw what happened to when we add
three exclamation points to add a top level
| | 02:12 | heading. If we add two exclamation
points in front, that will add a secondary
| | 02:17 | heading. I'll go ahead and do this for
each of the different headings that
| | 02:20 | I have got here. Both for Hypothesis,
Proposed Method, Current Research Papers,
| | 02:27 | and Sample Data Table.
| | 02:28 | I will preview this so we can see what
the results look like. Here, we have got
| | 02:34 | the box and the bolded heading for
Hypothesis, Proposed Method, Current
| | 02:39 | Research Papers, and Sample Data.
Things are looking better already. Let's go
| | 02:43 | ahead and scroll down a little bit,
and now we want to make our Acropora
| | 02:47 | palmata or depending on where you are
at in the world, Acrop-ra palmata,
| | 02:52 | show up in Italics.
| | 02:54 | To do this, we simply add two single
quotes at the beginning and at the end of
| | 03:01 | the phrase Acropora palmata. Now when
we preview this page and we look, we can
| | 03:07 | see that Acropora palmata is showing up
in Italics. Let's go ahead and create a
| | 03:12 | link to an outside web resource. In
this case, we want to link to outside web
| | 03:17 | pages that are showing all the current
research related to a particular topic.
| | 03:22 | In this case, we'll open a new tab
in our browser by hitting Command+T or
| | 03:25 | Ctrl+T. If you are using a browser other than
Firefox, this may be a different keyboard command.
| | 03:31 | Next, I'll go to scholar.google.com.
Here, I'll do a search for coral polyp
| | 03:40 | density and depth, because that's the
topic that we are working with.
| | 03:44 | I'll go ahead and click the Search button
and I can see that I have got 2,730 results.
| | 03:50 | That's a lot of results. Let's just
look for the recent articles that have been
| | 03:54 | published this year. To do this, I'll
go ahead and click on the link for recent
| | 03:58 | articles. Now I'm down to 791. Well,
that's all of the articles that have been
| | 04:03 | published using those keywords since
2004. But if I click the dropdown menu
| | 04:08 | here and change this since 2009, now I have
only got 39 articles. Much more manageable.
| | 04:14 | To create the link to this page, I'll
go ahead and select the complete URL that
| | 04:19 | has all the results in the window that
we want to use and then hit Command+C or
| | 04:23 | Ctrl+C on my keyboard to copy that to
my clipboard. I'll then jump back over to
| | 04:28 | the tab where my Wiki is and scroll
down in the page to where I can edit the
| | 04:32 | content. At the end of the line for Current
Research Papers, I'll hit Enter or Return.
| | 04:38 | Now we have already seen that you
create a link by putting a left-hand square
| | 04:42 | bracket. The thing that you want to
link to, in this case I'll just hit
| | 04:46 | Command+V or Ctrl+V to paste in the
complete URL and then put a right-hand
| | 04:50 | square bracket. But before we go
ahead and preview this, there is something
| | 04:54 | else we need to do. We need to come up
here to the very beginning of this link
| | 04:58 | and just inside of the left-hand square
bracket we'll type in the text that
| | 05:03 | we want to be the link.
| | 05:05 | In this case, we want to type in
Current Research Papers. I'll then type in a
| | 05:12 | space and enter in the pipe character
or the vertical bar that's often times
| | 05:18 | Shift and the key above your Return key
on your keyboard. You may have to look
| | 05:22 | around to find this key on your keyboard
if it's in a different place on your particular keyboard.
| | 05:27 | Now when we preview this page,
we can see that we have a link to Current
| | 05:31 | Research Papers. Let's go ahead and
save this page before we actually click on
| | 05:36 | the link though. So we'll click the
Save button and we are taken into the View
| | 05:40 | menu for this page. I'll click the link
Current Research Papers and we can see
| | 05:45 | that the page is refreshed directly to
Google Scholar with the parameters that
| | 05:49 | we set in showing the 39
articles that we wanted to show.
| | 05:53 | I will go ahead and click the Back
button in my browser and now we are back
| | 05:57 | inside of our Wiki. I'm going to click
the Edit tab and the last thing we want
| | 06:01 | to do is add a Sample Data Table to
the bottom of this page. To do this,
| | 06:06 | I'll simply come down to the bottom of my
page, where I have got the Sample Data
| | 06:09 | Table listing, hit Enter or Return a
couple of times, so I have got a nice
| | 06:13 | clean line to start working on.
| | 06:15 | Now to create a table, you do this with
the pipe characters that we typed when
| | 06:19 | we were creating the link. So let's
begin with a pipe character and then type
| | 06:24 | in Depth | Number of Polyps |
Temperature (C) | Salinity | PAR |. That's going
| | 06:55 | to establish the first row our table.
I'll hit Enter or Return and now we can
| | 07:01 | start creating the data that's going
to go underneath of that first row.
| | 07:04 | We need to make sure that we have the same
number of pipe characters in each line
| | 07:08 | of text. So we'll type in the first one | m | for 1 meter |,
and then four more pipe characters separated by spaces.
| | 07:24 | Let's go ahead and preview this document
to make sure we are going down the right path.
| | 07:28 | I'll hit the Preview button and
now as I scroll down, I can see that I've
| | 07:32 | got my table and its setup right. The
right-hand side is showing this extra column.
| | 07:36 | Don't worry about that. That
will disappear after we go ahead and save
| | 07:40 | the page. So let's scroll back down to
the bottom of the page and scroll to the
| | 07:44 | bottom of our text window.
| | 07:45 | Now instead of typing the same line
over and over for all the different numbers
| | 07:50 | to show the depth between one and five
meters, I'll simply select the entire row,
| | 07:55 | copy it with Command+C or Ctrl+C,
then hit Enter or Return, paste with
| | 08:00 | Command+V or Ctrl+V and repeat that
process several times until I have the
| | 08:08 | right number of lines.
| | 08:09 | Now I can simply go in and just make
the edits to 2 meters, 3 meters, 4 meters,
| | 08:19 | and 5 meters. When I click the Save
button, now we have our Italicized text
| | 08:25 | showing up properly. We have a link to Google
Scholar and our Sample Data Table is looking great.
| | 08:31 | Let's add one more thing. Let's show
you how to add an image into your Wiki page.
| | 08:35 | To do this, go ahead and click
the Edit tab, so we are ready to begin
| | 08:39 | editing more content inside of here.
We'll then scroll all the way down to the
| | 08:43 | bottom and just past our Sample Data Table,
we'll hit Enter or Return a few times
| | 08:48 | and we'll type in
Image of Experimental Design.
| | 08:53 | We will go ahead and make that a
heading two by putting two exclamation points
| | 09:00 | at the beginning of the line and then
save that text. So we scroll down, we can
| | 09:05 | see that the area is
setup for us to add our image.
| | 09:07 | Next, we'll have to use a trick.
We are going to go over here to the
| | 09:11 | Attachments tab and here we can
browse and find an image that we want to
| | 09:15 | attach. Out on my Desktop, I have got
an image called method.jpg. I'll go ahead
| | 09:21 | and click the Open button and then click
the button for File Upload. The image uploads.
| | 09:27 | Let's go ahead and preview the image
that we opened up. To do this, simply
| | 09:31 | click on the link to the image. The
image is going to attempt to download back
| | 09:34 | to our machine. We can go ahead and
click OK. The file will download and we can
| | 09:38 | simply double-click to open up the
image. The image was captured by our group
| | 09:42 | when we were sitting down in the
classroom and we were drafting out the ideas
| | 09:46 | for how we are going to conduct
our experiment. We drew it out on the
| | 09:49 | chalkboard and then used one of our
digital cameras to take a picture of the board.
| | 09:54 | Now we want to add this particular
image directly inline inside of our Wiki.
| | 09:58 | To do this, let's go ahead and simply
close both of these windows and then we'll
| | 10:03 | right-click or Ctrl-click on the link to
this file, and select Copy Link Location.
| | 10:10 | Next, we'll go back over to the Edit
tab and scroll down in the window until
| | 10:16 | we get to the line where we have our image
of experimental design. We then simply
| | 10:21 | put a left-hand bracket and then paste
with Command+V or Ctrl+V to paste in the
| | 10:26 | complete URL that we just copied for
the image that we uploaded and then close
| | 10:32 | this link with a right-hand square bracket.
| | 10:35 | Now when we save this page and we
scroll down in the window, we are now able to
| | 10:41 | see the image displayed directly in
line inside of our Wiki. This is a great
| | 10:46 | little tool for you to use in order
to add images directly inline inside of
| | 10:50 | your Wiki. Otherwise, there are a
couple of other ways to add images, some of
| | 10:55 | which may or may not work on a
particular Moodle system that you are working on.
| | 11:00 | But this one seems to
work on most of the systems.
| | 11:03 | To return back to the name page of
our Wiki and to check our work, we can
| | 11:07 | scroll all the way to the bottom of the
page and click on the link for Research
| | 11:10 | Project Wiki. Now we have our
Research Project Wiki where we have got the
| | 11:15 | Packing List for all of the items
that we are going to take with us on our
| | 11:19 | field trip or we can return back to the
main page and click on the link for our
| | 11:23 | Coral Group where we have got our text
that's formatted, links to outside web sites,
| | 11:27 | data tables and we have even
added a picture that shows our experimental
| | 11:32 | design that we have captured off
of our digital camera or cellphone.
| | 11:35 | Let's go ahead and return back to the
main course by clicking on Biology432 in
| | 11:40 | the upper left-hand corner on my screen.
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ConclusionGoodbye| 00:00 | Well, this brings us to the end of
Moodle Essential Training for Students.
| | 00:03 | We have spent some time going through all
your personal account information inside
| | 00:07 | of Moodle, how to edit your profile,
use your blog, use the messaging system
| | 00:13 | inside of Moodle and really control the
calendaring system that you have got available to you.
| | 00:17 | We have also gone over some Moodle
course basics including going through a
| | 00:21 | basic course in Coral Reef Ecology.
We looked at viewing different types of
| | 00:25 | documents, contributing to discussion
forums and completing assignments online.
| | 00:30 | We even spent some time going
through the course Wiki and contributing to
| | 00:34 | databases, glossaries and taking an online quiz.
| | 00:38 | Don't forget to check your grades on a
regular basis in that lower left-hand
| | 00:41 | administration block.
| | 00:43 | Well, that's all for now. I hope you
have had as much fun learning about Moodle
| | 00:46 | as I have had making this training
video for you. Until next time, I'm Chris Mattia.
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