What's a Moodle?

This guide is intended to prepare members of the GSLIS community for teaching and learning using Moodle's rich toolset.  It includes information about the major components of Moodle, as well as a few tips about navigation and communication within Moodle.  This guide, while not comprehensive, does examine the major tools and functions of Moodle.  Additional documentation will be added to this guide as new features are developed.

Moodle is an open source course management system developed by Martin Dougiamas and launched in 2002. All the information you could ever want to know about Moodle is available at moodle.org. Moodle was first used at GSLIS in Spring 2006, and was implemented for all GSLIS classes in Spring 2007.

GSLIS's Moodle is located at: http://courses.lis.uiuc.edu

If you are a new GSLIS student, or are taking a GSLIS course for the first time, this guide is intended to provide information as a complement to orientation sessions offered at the beginning of each semester.  Please view our welcome page and our workshop schedule for more information about training and orientation sessions.  Please also feel free to contact help@support.lis.uiuc.edu if you have additional questions or would like to request individual training.

If you are a GSLIS instructor, this guide is intended to provide the basic information you will need to set up your course space.  We strongly recommend scheduling individual or group training with the Instructional Technology & Design Office in advance of your first semester of teaching online or using Moodle.  In addition, we are always happy to schedule refresher sessions.  Please feel free to contact help@support.lis.uiuc.edu if you have additional questions or would like to request individual training.

If at any point you have questions, concerns, or would like individual assistance or training, please feel free to contact the Instructional Technology and Design Office in person in room 318 GSLIS, by phone at 217-244-9555 (local) or 1-800-377-1892 (toll-free), or by email at help@support.lis.uiuc.edu.

Click on the blue bars below to access each portion of this guide.

See also:

• Video Tutorial  for overview and navigating within Moodle
• Video Tutorial for Moodle course space basics
  

Getting Started

1. Accounts and Passwords
2. Moodle "Happy Place"
3. Moodle Navigation
4. Editing your Profile

Course Pages

1. What are all these boxes?
2. Activities and Resources
3. Instructor Options
   

Assignments

1. Finding your assignments
2. Assignment types
3. Turning in your assignment
4. Other information
5. Instructor Options

Calendar

1. Locating the Calendar
2. Calendar Block
3. Viewing the Calendar
4. Adding Calendar Events
5. User Options
6. Instructor Information

Choice

1. Locating a Choice
2. Responding to a Choice
3. Instructor Options

Discussion Forums

1. Getting to the discussion forums
2. How to use the discussion forums
3. Reading a message
4. Posting a response to a message
5. Posting a new message
6. Editing a message
7. Subscribing to a forum
8. Read/Unread
9. Other information
10. Instructor Options

Glossary

Grades and Scales

Groups

1. Setting up Groups
2. Creating Group Forums
3. Posting to Group Forums

Live Session

1. Getting started
2. Entering and participating
3. Class archives
4. Other information

Messaging

1. Sending Messages
2. Receiving Messages
3. Message Options
4. Instructor Options
5. Technical Information

Setting up the Quiz Tool

1. Quiz timing
2. Quiz display
3. Attempts
4. Grades
5. Students may review
6. Time delay
7. Security
8. Overall feedback

Resources

1. Viewing Resources
2. Instructor Options

Wiki

Due to a variety of issues, we are discouraging the use of the Moodle wiki. The Confluence wiki is available for classroom or collaborative use; for more information, please see the Confluence portion of our course management page.

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