Moodle Workshop Outlines

If you would like to explore Moodle further, please join us for the following face-to-face workshops:

Get Ready to Develop Online with Moodle:

Part A

This workshop will focus on the navigation, structure and the format of your Moodle course. The following topics will be covered:

• Home Page & Course Menu
• Breadcrumbs & Jump To
• Blocks, Calendar & Scheduler
• People Block & Profiles
• Quick Mail, Messaging & Online Users
• Discussion Forums and Chat
• Course materials & web-ready formats (docs, files, media and conversion techniques)
• Links to Internal Files & External Sites
• Main and supplemental Glossaries

Get Ready to Develop Online with Moodle:

Part B

This workshop will focus on the assessments, content, and activities of your Moodle course. The following topics will be covered:

Assessment Tools

• Assignments
• Quizzes

Survey Tools

• Choice
• Feedback
• Questionnaire

Content Tools

• Book
• Database
• Glossary

Get Ready to Deliver Online with Moodle:

Part A

This workshop will focus on the communications, scheduling, and facilitation of your Moodle course. The following topics will be covered:

• Communications: One-to-One; Many-to-One; One-to-Many; & Many-to-Many
• Messaging, Mail and Discussions and Chat
• Calendar, Scheduler
• Wikis & RRS Feeds
• Tips to help your Online Students adapt to Moodle
• Control Panel and Course Administration
• Participants, Groups, Guest Access and Tracking

Get Ready to Deliver Online with Moodle:

Part B (To Be Announced)

This workshop will focus on the file management, grade books, and the administration of your Moodle course. The following topics will be covered:

• Group Communications, Chat and Conferencing
• Announcements, Activity Reports & Logs
• Hiding/releasing components, re-sequencing Topics and File Management
• Gradebook Setup and Custom Scales
• Recording Marks & Calculating Grades
• Choice Poll, Questionnaires and Surveys
• Viewing Stats and Producing Reports

If you have any questions about Moodle, please feel free to contact the VIUonline Team at online@viu.ca