Moodle Orientation Programme
by
BHUVANESWARAN B
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science & Engineering
Rajalakshmi Engineering College, Chennai
Theoretical Moodle
What is Moodle?
Moodle is a free software e-learning
platform also known as a
Course Management System (CMS), or
Learning Management System (LMS), or
Virtual Learning Environment (VLE).
What is Moodle?
Acronym for:
Modular
Object-Oriented
Dynamic
Learning
Environment
What is Moodle?
Moodle
created in 1999 by Martin Dougiamas, a
WebCT administrator at Curtin University,
Australia.
Who uses Moodle?
Moodle is used in 235 countries in 75 languages
(as on 11.07.14).
Moodle Statistics (as on 11.07.14)
Registered sites
64,233
Countries
235
Courses
7,522,003
Users
71,920,858
Teachers
1,153,662
Enrollments
103,589,549
Forum posts
134,112,848
Resources
69,100,347
Quiz questions
214,463,651
Source: http://moodle.org/stats/
Top 10 Countries by Registrations
Country
Registrations
United States
10,853
Spain
5,473
Brazil
4,297
United Kingdom
3,634
Mexico
2,649
Germany
2,360
Colombia
1,754
Italy
1,685
Portugal
1,598
Australia
1,518
Source: http://moodle.org/stats/
Moodle Users / Site Comparison
Versions Used
RITs Moodle Home Page
What are the Benefits?
No programming experience necessary
Engage all learning styles
Provide multiple methods for learning the
same material
Decrease paperwork (green solution!)
Engage digital natives where they learn
best
How do I Start?
Installing it on your computer (this way
you can use it offline too!)
http://download.moodle.org/
Windows, Linux and Mac OS
Hardware Requirements
Organization
Setup
Single Instructor
Desktop / Laptop
Small School
Shared Server
Large School
Dedicated Server
Medium to Large College
Dedicated application and
database servers
University
Load-balanced clusters
1 GB RAM for each concurrent users
Software Requirements
Database
MySQL (4.16 or later)
PostgreSQL (7.4 or later)
Microsoft SQL Server (2005
or later)
Oracle (8 or later)
Web server
Apache
IIS
Admin
The Administration control panel puts all
important learner management functions
a single click away.
Teachers and Students can be manually
enrolled or removed from a course.
Configuration of course Backup and
Restore is achieved on a single screen.
Course Structure
Weekly Format
Each week consists of activities.
Some might have deadlines, others might be opened.
Topics Format
Presented and organized in topics.
A topic is not restricted to any time limit.
Social Format
All activities are presented and organized into a single
forum.
Could also be used as noticeboards.
Assignment Module
Assignment can be viewed online, or
downloaded.
Teacher can attach feedback comments.
Notification is sent out by e-mail.
Resubmission can be granted for
assignments, for re-grading.
Assignment Module
Assignments can be specified with a due date
and a maximum grade.
Students can upload their assignments (any file
format) to the server they are date-stamped.
Late submissions are allowed, but the amount of
lateness is shown clearly to the teacher.
For each particular assignment, the whole class
can be assessed (grade and comment) on one
page in one form.
Forum Module
Different types of forums are available:
Teachers only
Course news
Open-to-all
One-thread-per-user
All postings have the authors photo attached
Discussion can be viewed as nested, flat, threaded, oldest
or newest first.
Every registered user can join, or the teacher can force
subscription for all.
The teachers can choose not to allow replies.
Discussion threads can be easily moved between forums.
Attached images are shown inline.
Quiz Module
Teacher can define a database of questions for re-use in
different quizzes.
Teachers have the ability to create many types of quizzes.
They are also able to import questions from a variety of
sources.
Quizzes are automatically graded, and can be re-graded if
questions are modified.
At the teachers option, quizzes can be attempted
multiple times, and can show feedback and/or correct
answers.
Quiz questions and quiz answers can be shuffled
(randomized) to reduce cheating.
Questions allow HTML and images.
Quiz Module
Multiple-choice questions:
Single or multiple answers
Short answer questions:
Words or phrases
True-False questions
Matching questions
Random questions
Numerical questions (with allowable ranges)
Embedded-answer questions (cloze style)
Embedded descriptive text and graphics
Practical Moodle
Moodle Components
Admin
Content
Topics or Weeks
Updates
Editing with Moodle
Editing mode on
Note the extra icons, resources & activities
Editing with Moodle
Editing a topic block
Show only this topic
Highlight this topic as the current topic
Hide this topic from students
Move Topic Down
Starting with Moodle
Adding an activity or resource
Important Activities
Assignment
Chat
Choice
Database
Glossary
Quiz
Important Resources
File
Folder
Page
URL
User Authentication
The Moodle administrator has the
flexibility to choose from user selfregistration, manually entering users, or
user accounts can be drawn directly from
the institutions existing databases.
Most major databases are supported.
Learners View
User can view recent changes, check their
grades, search for topics in the course
forums, move to their choice of activities,
etc.,
Course Logs
Books on Moodle
http://docs.moodle.org/23/en/Using_Moodle_book
E-mail: bhuvaneswaran@rajalakshmi.edu.in
Ph: 91 44 3718 1077
Mob: 91 9791519152
