Moodle 2 Masterclass

Facilitating Education www.pukunui.com / [email protected]: 1300 466 635 or +61 8 9328 4545

Tuesday, 13 November 12

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Who is This?







Perth - Sydney - Melbourne - Hong Kong - Beijing - Kuala Lumpur







Engagement is Key!







is the

e-Learningswiss army knife

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online learning often fails because the

users are

disconnected







Engagement







Explore

Repeat

Enquire

Trigger

Test

Query

Pause

Interact

Create

Respond

Customise

React

Engagement







Connect

Collaborate

Contribute







Day One Agenda

❖ Plating up a perfect Dish

❖ What is a Theme?

❖ The HTML and Main Menu Blocks

❖ Clever use of Labels

❖ Setting up your Homepage

❖ Using Moodle 2 Orphaned Items

❖ Creative linking Techniques

❖ More Advanced Ingredients

❖ Use of the Workshop Tool

❖ Use of the Database tool

Our cooking highlights







Plating up a perfect dish













More Advanced Ingredients❖ Use of the Workshop Tool








Day Two Agenda

❖ Cooking with Game

❖ Completion Tracking

❖ Course scaffolding with conditionals

❖ Baking the Perfect Roll

❖ Advanced use of Moodle Roles

❖ Moodle plugins

Our cooking highlights







❖ Lesson scaffolding in Moodle

❖ Game based learning practice

In this session we will cover

Cooking With Game







❖ Overriding of roles at the activity level

❖ Assign roles at the Activity Level

❖ Hiding activities for groups (Time permitting)


Baking a perfect Roll







❖ Do you suffer from dull looking courseware?

❖ Do you think all Moodle courses look the same?

❖ Do students complain about lack of engagement?

This session looks at innovative uses of existing Moodle tools to

create visually engaging and instructionally sound courseware.

More importantly we will look at innovative ways to solve the

SODding issue (Scroll of Death) suffered by many large courses







The room you’re in matters!







People enjoy video games because their creators put engagement before everything else







eLearning authors often put engagement a distant second to academic rigor







The key to using any technology effectively is underpinning it with the right pedagogy@vnarayanAcademic Advisor (eLearning and Learning Technologies), Unitec New Zealand







Unit: Plating up a perfect dish

Customising Themes







Why Use Themes?

❖ Meet brand requirements

❖ Match an existing site

❖ Present a more engaging design for your particular audience

❖ Establish a unique look and feel for your site. be a Stand out!







❖ Blocks can go anywhere

❖ Many options set by developer who created the theme

❖ Easy to add dropdown menu’s

❖ No code needed to personalise site

Highly Customisable







HANDS ON SESSION








Crafty Blocks







❖ Anything can be added to a HTML block

❖ Make content stand out.

❖ Just like a Label...but on the side!

❖ Not as scary as you think

Why use HTML Blocks?







❖ Great way of adding materials to a site frontpage

❖ Can make things “Not Visible” without being hidden

❖ Use in concuntion with labels and HTML Blocks

Why use theMain Menu block?







HANDS ON SESSION








Setting up your Homepage







❖ What is the objective of the homepage

❖ How can we make it work best for our students?

❖ Using a “Topic Section” to add material to the homepage

Think ahead







HANDS ON SESSION







More Advanced Ingredients







❖ Use of the Workshop Tool



More Advanced Ingredients







HANDS ON SESSION







Cooking With Game







❖ Lesson scaffolding in Moodle

❖ Game based learning practice


Cooking With Game







1 + 2 =

different learningand teaching styles







Adaptive flowLinear flow







Narrative based learning

Game based learningProblem based learning







HANDS ON SESSION







❖ Overriding of roles at the activity level

❖ Assign roles at the Activity Level

❖ Hiding activities for groups (Time permitting)









HANDS ON SESSION






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