Moodle, Use and Features of Moodle ?

MOODLE
Presented By:
ATAUR RAHAMAN
Class: M.Ed. 4th Sem.
Reg. No: EME-051702
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
CENTRAL UNIVERSITY OF KERALA
LMS/CMS SOFTWARE

RESEARCH PROPOSAL FOR
MASTER OF EDUCATION
PROGRAM
Supervisor Scholar

INTRODUCTION
Moodle is an alternative to proprietary commercial online
learning solutions, and is distributed free under open source
licensing.
An organization has complete access to the source code
and can make changes if needed.
Moodle’s modular design makes it easy to create new courses,
adding content that will engage learners.

CONT...
Moodle is as interactive and helpful to teaching and
learning as you allow it to be.
The Moodle Learning Management System be your
365/24/7 teaching and learning aid.
Learners can login any time, anywhere to interact with
coursework, and can specify the Time Zone and
Language they wish to use.

What is the full form
of
Moodle?

FULL FORM OF MOODLE
Moodle is an acronym for:
Modular
Object
Oriented
Dynamic
Learning
Environment

WHAT IS MOODLE ?
Moodle is a learning management system that is designed to help
Teachers create an online classroom setting with opportunities for
rich interaction and collaboration with their students.
Moodle contains various design aspects that allow instructors and
students to interact, collaborate, and experience online learning
in exciting multiple ways.
Moodle can be used to supplement on ground courses or
can be used to host completely online courses.

CONT…
The Moodle Course Management System
can provide teachers with a powerful set of
tools to create and manage courses, course
content, course materials, track student
attendance and performance through tests,
and administer quizzes, assignments, and
surveys provides a platform to create a
forum for interaction between students and
teachers and between students also.

WHAT IS MOODLE VLE ?
Moodle is the University’s Virtual Learning Environment (VLE).
Moodle is a web platform designed specifically to support the delivery
of teaching and learning materials and activities.
The VLE consists of a number of tools, and integrates with other
learning systems.
Moodle is the biggest open source VLE – under continual development

Moodle’s integration with other systems

HOW IT CAN BE USED ?
To use the various aspects of Moodle, first of all the course developer
need to download the Moodle package available on moodle.org.
After that the package has to be uploaded to the web page designed for
the course.
This changes the whole outlook of the webpage.
The webpage will now look like an application program like MS Office
with tool bars and fields for entering data.
Various tools can be used to create an interactive website targeted for
online course.

WHY USE MOODLE ?
1. Why use Moodle ?
2. How will it help to create a better website for online course ?
First of all:
Moodle is now one of the most popular and easy to use learning management systems
available.
Secondly:
It’s various tools allow the course developer an easy to use interactive application
based website to provide a huge arsenal of teaching and assessment webpage for
online teaching.

FEATURES
 Reading Materials;
 Papers and Projects;
 Discussion on the course
concepts;
 Forum relating to the
course;
 Conduction of Quizzes;
 Distribution, collection and
evaluation of assignments;
 Keeping track of class
attendance;
 Recording of grades.

READING MATERIALS
Reading materials could contain various lectures,
reports, e-books and various other materials for
the course.
It also can be very useful in categorising the
course materials in various categories. Like
“Math” or “English” or “History” or more
detailed categories to organize related courses.

CONT...
The course has been uploaded by the teacher it
can again be changed removed or new content can
be added to these courses or new courses can also
be added accordingly.
Although, there will a need to categories the users
of the site between students and teachers, so that
only the teachers can be allowed to make changes
to the course.

PAPERS AND PROJECTS
Papers and Projects of the teacher or the various
papers/projects submitted by earlier students to the
institute (or teacher) can also be published and made
available to the students undergoing the course.
As these students are registered through the site they
may be allowed to read and study these materials at their
own benefit.

DISCUSSION ON THE COURSE CONCEPTS
A chat window or a discussion section can be introduced to
discuss the topic or course discussed on the site.
Where, both the teacher and the student can interact freely
among themselves to create a discussion environment.
Also, the students themselves may be able to interact
among themselves through this section.

FORUM RELATING TO THE COURSE
Just like a discussion section a forum can
be created where, frequently asked
questions can be included to minimise the
time consumption of the teacher and
some students which can be saved from
joining in the discussion of the FAQ
topics.

CONDUCTION OF QUIZZES
 Create all the familiar forms of assessment including:
True-false,
 Multiple choice,
 Short answer,
 Matching question,
 Random questions,
 Numerical questions

DISTRIBUTION, COLLECTION AND
EVALUATION OF ASSIGNMENTS
• Under different activities one of the activities that can be organised by
the teachers is distribution of assignments to the students.
• This can be done by selecting activities and the choosing assignments.
• Then a teacher can create an assignment of a course for the students.
• Then, the teacher can inform the students about the assignment
through the e-mail.
• After that the students can access the assignment through the site and
then submit their assignment for the course.

KEEPING TRACK OF CLASS ATTENDANCE
As moodle provides an online
active participation of the course
by the teacher, a class attendance
can be kept for the students who
have participate in the course.

RECORDING OF GRADES
Similar to keeping track of
attendance of the students, the
teacher can accumulate and keep
track of the grades provided by
him to each student through
tests, quizzes and assignments by
using the database of the site.

CONCLUSION
To sum it all up, Moodle is the best Online Learning
Management System available at this time, and is very
easy to use for creating an online course.
It can be used for many of the various activities for
providing a very interactive and composite form of a course
that can be provided online (i.e. through internet).

CONT...
 Many of the various activities that a teacher can provide
through a course constructed on Moodle consists of:-
i) Reading assignments. ii) Online live class.
iii) Papers and projects. iv) Discussion of course concepts.
v) Forums. vi) Tests. vii) Keeping track of grades.
viii) Additional learning opportunities.

REFERENCE
Various materials and website through which this Presentation is based on
are :-
1. Moodle.org
2. Click2try_moodle19_tutorial.pdf by Presage Technologies, LLC.
3. Faculty_ moodle_tutorial.pdf by Baker University School of Professional
& Graduate Studies.
4. Moodle.pdf by College of Education.Online.

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