Moodle Tutorial
Moodle is a free and open-source learning management system written in PHP. Moodle is used for blended learning, distance education, flipped classroom and other e-learning projects in schools, universities, workplaces and other sectors.
How to Upgrade Moodle
For upgrading your moodle site to the latest moodle version, follow the five steps:
Read MoreEnable Moodle Mobile App
Moodle Mobile is the Moodle official mobile application for Android, iOS, and Windows Phone. It is available in Google Play, Apple Market, and Windows App Stores. The app requires Moodle versions 2.4 and later.
Read MoreTeacher Resources in Moodle
Moodle offers several features that are of special interest to teachers. These focus on determining how well your students are progressing through a course. Reports and logs show you who has done what on your site, or in your course.
Read MoreAdding Blocks in Moodle
Blocks add functionality to your site or your course. A block usually displays information in a small area in one of the side columns. For example, a block can display a calendar, the latest news, or the students enrolled in a course.
Read MoreManaging Students With Groups
A group is a collection of students in a course. Outside of a course, a group has no meaning.
Read MoreGroups and Cohorts in Moodle
Groups and cohorts are both collections of students. There are several differences between them. Cohorts enable administrators to enroll and unenroll students all together, whereas groups enable teachers to manage students during a class.
Read MoreEnrollment Methods in Modle
Enrollment is different from authentication. In authentication, you grant a user access to your site. In enrollment, you grant a user access to a course.
Read MoreAdding Workshop to Moodle Course
A workshop provides a place for students in a class to see an example project, upload their individual projects, and see and assess each other's projects. When a teacher requires each student to assess the work of several other students, the workshop becomes a powerful collaborative grading tool.
Read MoreAdding Wiki to Moodle Course
The Moodle wiki module enables students to collaborate on a group writing project, build a knowledge base, and discuss class topics. As wiki is easy to use, interactive, and organized by date, it encourages collaboration among its participants. This makes it a powerful tool to create group knowledge.
Read MoreAdding Glossary to Moodle Course
A glossary is a list of words and definitions that students can access. However, a course creator allows students to add entries to a Glossary. This transforms the glossary from a static list of vocabulary words to a collaborative tool for learning purposes.
Read MoreAdding Forums to Moodle Course
Forums are one of Moodle's most useful features. A well-run class forum can stimulate thoughtful discussion, motivate students to become involved, and result in unexpected insights.
Read MoreAdding Chats to Moodle Course
The chat module creates a chat room where students can have real-time online chats. Similar to other activities in a course, the chat activity is available to students enrolled in the course. Chat sessions can be logged and made available to students who may join the course later.
Read MoreType of Questions in Moodle Quizzes
These question types are included in the default installation of Moodle.
Read MoreAdding Quizzes to Moodle Course
In most courses, a quiz or test is a major activity. In Moodle, creating, taking, and grading quizzes can be much faster. This means that you can use quizzes liberally throughout your courses.
Read MoreReview Options in Moodle Quizzes
Review options determine what information a student can see when they review a quiz. These options also determine when they can see this information.
Read MoreQuestion Behaviour in Moodle Quizzes
The settings for How questions behave determines how the quiz will present the questions to the student.
Read MoreAdding Choices to Moodle Course
A choice is the simplest type of activity. In a choice activity, you create one question and specify a choice of responses.
Read MoreAdding Feedback to Moodle Course
The feedback activity enables you to create surveys for your students. Do not confuse this with the survey activity. In survey, you must choose from several pre-made surveys; you cannot build your own surveys. In the feedback activity, you can build your own poll, using several kinds of questions.
Read MoreAdding Lessons to Moodle Course
A lesson is a series of web pages displayed in a specific order. Most lessons consist of several pages. The next page that the student sees might depend upon the student's answer to a question.
Read MoreAdding Assignments to Moodle Course
An assignment consists of something that a student creates, and then uploads into the course for the teacher to grade. For example, the student can write a paragraph or take a photograph. The options in the assignment activity give you many choices in how to run the assignment.
Read MoreMoodle File Repositories
Every file that you upload into a Moodle course, is stored in a Moodle repository. Before you add files to our course, you need to understand how repositories work and how to choose the right kind for your course.
Read MoreAdding URLs To Moodle Course Page
On Moodle site, you add the link to your course's home page. When the student clicks the link, the linked item is displayed.
Read MoreSix Types of Moodle Course Resources
Resources are course materials that students read but don't interact with, such as presentations, graphics, and PDFs. Resources are added from the "Add an activity or resource".
Read MoreHow to Create Course In Moodle
Every course belongs to a category. You can change the category of a course anytime.
Read MoreMoodle Course Material: Resources and Activities
On Moodle, the course material is either a resource or an activity. A resource is an item that the student views, listens to, reads, or downloads. Examples include a web page, a link to another location on the Web, a file that the student downloads and a video that the student watches.
Read MoreManaging Moodle Course Categories
Categories are a site-wide way to organize your courses. You can also create subcategories. The categories or subcategories become an online course catalog.
Read MoreConfiguring Moodle Front Page
Your site's front page welcomes the world to your learning site. Moodle treats your front page as a special course. This means that you can do everything on the front page that you can do in a normal course, plus make a few additional settings.
Read MoreMoodle Filters
Moodle's filters read text and media that the users put on the site. The filters can then do three things with that material: link, interpret, and restrict.
Read MoreMoodle Security Settings
You can find security settings under
Site administration → Security
Read MoreLanguage Administration in Moodle
The default Moodle installation includes many language packs. A language pack is a set of translations for the Moodle interface. Language packs translate the Moodle interface, not the course content.
Read MoreAuthentication Methods in Moodle
Authentication is what happens when a user is logging in to your site. When a user is created, an authentication method must be chosen for that user. This can be changed for the user, later.
Read MoreHow to Install Moodle
Moodle is one of the best open source (free) online learning management system. If you are planning to launch e-courses on your website, you can consider going with Moodle.
Read MoreMoodle Architecture Framework
Moodle runs on any web server that supports the PHP programming language and a database. It works best when running on the Apache web server with a MySQL database.
Read MoreHow to Enable or Disable Maintenance Mode In Moodle
In maintenance mode, only site administrators can login and use the the site. When users try to access a course when your site is in maintenance mode, they will see a message informing them that the site is in maintenance mode. You can also create your own message.
Read MoreRemove Moodle Logo & Link in Footer
When you install Moodle (Moodle is the most popular Learning Management System), you see a logo with link to moodle website. This guide will help you to replace the logo with your branding. I have checked with the latest 2.9 version.
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