Moodle: A Complete Guide: 3 In 1

Master Moodle and create powerful Gamified Moodle courses

What you'll learn

Design resources and activities using multimedia elements as well as Moodle’s resources

Set up study groups in order to create social interaction within the Moodle course

Design a wiki activity in order to use Moodle's social activities

Provide feedback to your students in several ways using Moodle or external tools

Create, upload, and use badges when finishing a graded activity and gamify your Moodle course

Requirements

Some basic Moodle knowledge would be helpful but is not essential.

Description

Are you looking forward to get well versed with performing various activities in moodle? Then this is the perfect course for you.Moodle is one of the most popular open source platforms to create, manage, and organize content for courses. This comprehensive 3-in-1 course guides you to work with repositories and e-portfolios and organize the content to gamify the course. Similarly, you'll gain interest in learning various other elements that can be added to a Moodle course in order to make it more attractive to students.By the end of the course, you will be able to make the most of Moodle for teaching purposes along with having your own portable repositories for collaborative work.Contents and OverviewThis training program includes 2 complete courses, carefully chosen to give you the most comprehensive training possible.The first course,  Moodle for Beginners hows you how to create both activities and resources, creating them in a Moodle course and also using external tools. We’ll enhance our Moodle course by creating external websites, blogs, videos, and channels in order to create a dynamic course. Furthermore, you’ll learn to work with repositories and e-portfolios and organize the content to gamify the course. You’ll learn how to deal with and organize information, edit, and share it.The second course, Moodle Recipes is one of the most popular open source platforms to create, manage, and organize content for courses. It starts giving recipes on how to enhance the Moodle course using different types of external elements and embed them in it. Later it goes on adding social condiments as well as the creation of groups within Moodle. Afterwards, the course shows how to interact online and live among students, teachers, and parents.The Third course,  Mastering Moodle shows how to create graded activities and exams, personalize grade-books, provide feedback, and award students with the use of badges in several ways using different tools. These may be within the Moodle course or external tools specific to such purposes. The course also covers applying gamification to Moodle. There are plenty of items that can be used in order to gamify a Moodle course. There are simple steps to bear in mind when designing and then applying for a Moodle course. Students can get badges for specific goals within the course. There are plenty of other elements that can be added to a Moodle course in order to make it more attractive to students. Blocks are also explored and added according to the needs of the course. Gamified courses need gamification blocks as well as certain plugins.About the Authors:Silvina P. Hillar is Italian and has been teaching English since 1993. She has always had a great interest in teaching and has done a lot of research on teaching methodologies and management techniques, and embedding them into e-learning and teaching. She has also explored different types of e-learning combining them with Moodle.She also researches multimedia assets that enhance teaching and learning through VLE platforms. She tries to embed the learning of students through new resources that are appealing and innovative for them. In this way, she ensures that multimedia stimulates different thinking skills as well as multiple types of intelligence.She is an English teacher, a Certified Legal Translator (English/Spanish), and has a postgraduate degree in Education (graduated with honors).She has worked at several schools and institutions with native English speaking students and students of English as a foreign language, and as an independent consultant for many international companies in the capacity of an Interpreter, Translator, and Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) Course Designer.She has always had a passion for technological devices concerning education. Formerly, videos and cassettes were a must in her teaching lessons; the computer was, and still does, play a big role. Her brother, Gastón C. Hillar, designed some programs and games for her teaching. Lately, she has been teaching using Moodle and the Web. She believes that one of the most amazing challenges in education is bridging the gap between classic education and modern technologies.She has authored: Moodle 1.9: The English Teacher's Cookbook, Moodle 2.0 Multimedia Cookbook, Moodle 2.5 Multimedia Cookbook second edition, Mind Mapping with FreeMind, and Moodle 2.3 Multimedia Video Course.When not tinkering with computers, she enjoys traveling with her son, Nico and her love, Jorge, with whom she spends wonderful time.

Overview

Section 1: Moodle for Beginners

Lecture 1 The Course Overview

Lecture 2 Exploring Resources within Moodle

Lecture 3 Choosing a Resource

Lecture 4 Designing a Resource

Lecture 5 Uploading a Resource

Lecture 6 Adding a Resource within a Block

Lecture 7 Exploring External Resources

Lecture 8 Designing Blogs

Lecture 9 Creating Videos

Lecture 10 Embedding External Resources

Lecture 11 Combining External Resources

Lecture 12 Enabling a Repository

Lecture 13 Working with the Repository

Lecture 14 Enabling an e-Portfolio

Lecture 15 Working with the e-Portfolio

Lecture 16 Embedding the e-Portfolio in the Moodle Course

Lecture 17 Exploring Solitary or Intrapersonal Activities

Lecture 18 Designing a Solitary or Intrapersonal Activity

Lecture 19 Exploring Social or Interpersonal Activities

Lecture 20 Choosing a Social or Interpersonal Activity and Uploading Content to It

Lecture 21 Adding New Users and Enrolling Them in Both Activities

Lecture 22 Using a Website to Create Activities

Lecture 23 Uploading Activities in the Moodle Course

Lecture 24 Using Free and Open Source Software to Create Activities

Lecture 25 Uploading Activities in the Moodle Course

Lecture 26 Using Already Made Activities and Embedding Them in the Moodle Course

Lecture 27 Adding Content to a Lesson

Lecture 28 Adding a Question to a Lesson

Lecture 29 Adding More Questions to a Lesson

Lecture 30 Previewing the Lesson

Lecture 31 Ending the Lesson

Section 2: Moodle Recipes

Lecture 32 The Course Overview

Lecture 33 Exploring Advantages and Disadvantages of Video Channels

Lecture 34 Exploring Video Resolutions

Lecture 35 Adding Subtitles and Closed Captions to Videos

Lecture 36 Adding Hotspots or Links to Videos

Lecture 37 Optimizing the Touch Experience

Lecture 38 Exploring Free Sounds and Music

Lecture 39 Exploring Tools to Work with Podcasts, Sounds, and Music

Lecture 40 Editing a Podcast

Lecture 41 Embedding Recordings in Moodle

Lecture 42 Creating an Activity or Resource Using the Recording

Lecture 43 Exploring Images File Formats

Lecture 44 Exploring External Tools to Work with Images

Lecture 45 Creating Different Types of File Formats

Lecture 46 Editing Images

Lecture 47 Creating an Activity or Resource Using the Images

Lecture 48 Creating a Social Format Course

Lecture 49 Communicating Through Forum Within the Social Format Course

Lecture 50 Communicating Through Personal Messages

Lecture 51 Designing Activities for Collaborative Work

Lecture 52 Creating Wikis

Lecture 53 Exploring Online Live Speaking Plugins in Moodle

Lecture 54 Exploring Online Live Speaking Resources Outside Moodle

Lecture 55 Embedding Online Live Speaking Resources Outside Moodle

Lecture 56 Exploring Social Networks and Embedding Them in Moodle

Lecture 57 Using the BigBlueButton

Lecture 58 Working in Groups Using Google Docs

Lecture 59 Using SurveyMonkey to Work in Groups

Lecture 60 Using an Interactive Web Based Whiteboard: Twiddla

Lecture 61 Embedding Twiddla in Moodle

Lecture 62 Designing a Workshop Activity in Moodle

Section 3: Mastering Moodle

Lecture 63 The Course Overview

Lecture 64 Creating and Adding a Quiz Activity

Lecture 65 Adding Questions to the Quiz Activity

Lecture 66 Designing a Drag and Drop Quiz Activity with Images

Lecture 67 Adding the Drag and Drop Activity Combined with the Quiz

Lecture 68 Submitting the Activity and Checking the Grade

Lecture 69 Designing a Poll within Moodle

Lecture 70 Designing a Graph after the Poll

Lecture 71 Exploring Multimedia Poll Tools

Lecture 72 Embedding External Polls in Moodle

Lecture 73 Creating an Activity Using the Polls

Lecture 74 Creating an Online Test

Lecture 75 Embedding the Online Test in Moodle

Lecture 76 Creating a Test Within Moodle

Lecture 77 Setting the Rules for the Test

Lecture 78 Assessing the Test

Lecture 79 Why Gamooification

Lecture 80 Creating Resources for a Gamified Course

Lecture 81 Adding a Profile Completion Badge

Lecture 82 Obtaining a Profile Completion Badge

Lecture 83 Adding a Course Completion Badge

Lecture 84 Allowing Activity Completion When Designing an Activity

Lecture 85 Creating Threaded Activities or Resources

Lecture 86 Adding an Activity Completion Badge

Lecture 87 Adding an Activity Result Block

Lecture 88 Exploring Blocks for Gamifying Courses

Lecture 89 The Role of Badges in a Gamified Moodle Course

Lecture 90 Creating a Badge from Scratch

Lecture 91 Deciding the Criteria of the Badge

Lecture 92 Adjusting the Size of the Badge for the Gamified Moodle Course

Lecture 93 Uploading the Badge to the Gamified Moodle Course

This Learning Path is ideal for anyone who has to administer a Moodle system. Whether, dealing with a small-scale local Moodle system or a large-scale multi-site Virtual Learning Environment & also for developers who want to design different types of activity and add social interaction to the Moodle courses.