Moodle Moot 2013Held at Crowne Plaza Dublin

Workshop - Course assessment in Moodle 2.4

• General overview of the grade book• Creating your own (custom) scales for grading• Creating outcomes• Using forums, glossaries and databases for

formative and peer assessment

Celebrity Flatshare Game (good for staff training)

• Reality Game show• Forum - users get a grade when posting to

forum saying why they want to be in the flatshare

• Database - used for images and details of celebrities, custom scales used for grades users vote for the four celbs they want in the flat

• Glossary – Users added a favourite recipe

AssessmentMoodle can be used for:-

• Peer assessment• Formative assessment• Summative assessment• Moodle Lesson - decision making lessons, eg heath

and safety - what do you do first?

Enable students to rate entries:- Site admin> Settings>Permissions>Database rate entries, click on + then select role, do the same for forums.

Outcomes

• Site admin to turn on outcomes globally, teacher can then turn on in course

• Examples:-

Research SkillsVery thoroughFairly thoroughNot thoroughNo research demonstrated

ParticipationFull participationSatisfactory participationLittle participationNo participation

Knowledge & UnderstandingAdvancedProficientBasicNone

Site administration>Settings• Static Columns - Allows grades to scroll horizontally

without losing sight of the students column, by making it static – done in site admin

• Moodle docs – open in new window• Grade settings>Navigation Method>dropdown/tabs

When creating custom scales, enter lowest first – bottom up

Harnessing the power of Moodle quiz ( not just multiple choice)

• 27 extra types of questions on Moodle - drag and drop, matching, pattern match, missing words, mathematical, PoodLL recording audio and video http://bit.ly/YP2K0B

• Limit number of questions per page

• Sequential - cannot go back

• Question Creator Role – created by site admin and allow teachers to assign role to students

• Turn off show blocks during quiz attempts

• Question formats – Word table format export Moodle questions to Word http://bit.ly/WEcigf

Quiz Continued

• Deferred feedback with CBM• CBM - Certainty Based Marking (CBM) involves

asking students not only the answer to an objective question, but also how certain they are that their answer is correct – their choice can affect their score

• Jamiep.org – An interactive tour of the Moodle quiz http://jamiep.org/

Rubrics• Advanced grading methods - http://bit.ly/WkwwZI• Rubrics - http://bit.ly/XV2Wt7 set up assignment,

under grade select grading method choose Rubric, Save and display

• Name rubric - Click to edit criterion, add the levels , add criterion if more are required then save as draft or save and make it ready

• Feedback - if grade boundary is passed feedback can contain link to another course or activity

• Marking Guide - Set up similar to rubric, add criterion for students, description for markers, frequently used comments

Grading Checklist• Checklist – The advanced grading method is an easy way for

the user and teacher to view a list of criteria and the associated grade value for each criteriaPlugin http://bit.ly/UoJmEd Documentation http://bit.ly/V4jjrv

Checklist http://bit.ly/13eXxoJ

Mount Orange School 2.4.1 demo• Mount Orange School http://school.demo.moodle.net - login as a teacher and you

will see activities that you can access - new in Moodle 2.4 - change role to student to see student role. Site is re-built on the hour!

• Certainty questions, rubrics, how to find resources - there is an editing course anyone can use

Assignments – new features• Cut off date can be extended for individual students,

• Submit in groups

• Groupings for students, http://bit.ly/136FIIE

• Submission statement

• Blind marking assignment

• Download all assignments

• Grant extension to individuals

• Group assignment - all students have to submit or you can give a group grade - collaborative activity either online or off line. Can grade group or individuals

File Management

• Drag and drop more than one file into a topic at the same time

• Link to a file in a staff folder, do as alias – when the main file is changed it will change everywhere

• Drag and drop now showing uploading time bar

Other workshops

• Help Me – a Context Sensitive Support Block in Moodle – Aalborg http://slidesha.re/Yzzaw0

After Drag and Drop – What Next?• Presentation from Davo Smith http://bit.ly/ZGkiAW

Topics format colours http://bit.ly/128erG4

Navigation buttons http://bit.ly/VKSw2G

Realtime Quizhttp://bit.ly/SwNEun

PDF Annotate http://bit.ly/VqYMcV

Coming in 2.5 Drag images into topicshttp://bit.ly/WtbLO5

Gold, Silver, and Bronze (GSB) Medals

• The GSB set allows automatic medal awards for Moodle courses based upon a defined benchmark criteria of activities and resources. The set consists of a report which allows the criteria to be benchmarked and a block to publicize the award to the teacher(s)

• Report http://bit.ly/WfNLAB • Block http://bit.ly/VKqCUo

SkyDrive & Moodle Integration Manchester Metropolitan University

• Videos saved in SkyDrive and linked in Moodle, students can upload their files.

• http://skydrive.live.com - take photos, videos then upload to SkyDrive, or have files in Facebook and tag images so they appear in SkyDrive

• Photography - generic SkyDrive account, workshop template to download and then upload to SkyDrive - shared Google calendar for workshops.

• Embedding docs - OneNote documents (web app) which students can work on collaboratively on SkyDrive - Moodle is used just for link to SkyDrive documents

• Embed documents into SkyDrive • Flipped lesson - students go out and capture images and uploaded

to box https://www.box.com/ file sharing

Using LTI in Moodle to easily educate students in your local schools and promote your college

• Dublin University College (DUC) are working with local schools using Learner Tool Interoperability (ITL). ITL is free and allows seamless integration of activities via the VLE (Moodle)

• Students in local schools are given free online taster courses, eg introduction to forensic science – school teacher does not have to do anything.

• DUC pay for hosting for 4 schools for 3 years cost about £1,000 pa, externally hosted. Single sign on.

• Students who do the free courses are more likely to attend the college when they leave school!

Moodle 2.4 Futures

• Performance - Moodle Universal Cache (MUC) to improve performance for large sites

• New vector icons (SVG) - completely new default icons for activities, blocks and actions

• Course formats - re-written to make formats more flexible and pluggable

• Plugins – upgrade via web interface• Assignment – new features from Netspot like groups,

blind marking• Calendar – Import iCal streams into the Moodle calendar

Moodle 2.5 and 2.62.5 and 2.6 major releases in May and November.• Feedback tools in progress• Analytics/Reporting• Outcomes stage 2• Open Badges• Notifications• New interface for course/category management• Themes new core themes• Forms new library • Assignments – better GUI and offline marking on mobile• Survey 2 – combining Survey, Questionnaire and Feedback• Forum 2 – review of forum from OU as a complete replacement• Wiki 3 – Review OUWiki as a replacement for wiki in core• Plugins – will be like apps for Moodle https://moodle.org/plugins/

Help materials

• Moodle docs grades http://bit.ly/15HoYqI• Moodle docs Quiz http://bit.ly/XPMhu1 • Moodle docs Assignment http://bit.ly/WkmjfE

Packt Publishing

Moodle Quiz ModuleHow-toBy Jean Coy

Moodle GradebookBy Rebecca Barrington

Useful Links• Moodle content a database of Moodle course content, such as

quiz questions, database presets, IMS, LTI sites and more. http://bit.ly/XZ7kv3

• PeerWise supports students in the creation, sharing, evaluation and discussion of assessment questions http://bit.ly/b4vdCH

• Official Moodle Mobile App - MM is an HTML5 app that uses common web technologies http://bit.ly/X3sYtr

• Ajax Marking Block - Shows a teacher all of the unmarked work which has been submitted by their students across all of the courses they teach in http://bit.ly/WRFrFE

• Open Badges – Information and a link to a play course http://bit.ly/XV7Xnk

• Moodle videos Mary Cooch (Moodle Fairy) http://bit.ly/13S9yfx