Moodle 2Learning Map

Create

Design Your Course

• Use an Integrated Course Design Approach

  • Creating Significant Learning Experiences: An Integrated Approach to Designing College Courses
  • Designing Courses for Significant Learning: Voices of Experience (online book)
  • Self-Directed Guide For Designing Courses for Significant Learning

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Set Up Your Moodle Site

• Request a Course Site

  • Request a New Course Site
  • Reuse an Existing Course Site

• Organize Your Site

  • Course Topics
  • Structuring Your Prose - Web Style Guide
  • Update the Instructor Profile
  • MDL101 - Creating Basic Course Websites with Moodle

    This course is for faculty and course developers who would like to use Moodle to create course websites. Participants will learn how to build a basic site containing course content and an interactive activity.

    • U of MN staff, faculty & student employees can register for this course in ULearn.
    • U of MN students and affiliates must create an account before accessing ULearn.

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Add Resources

• Manage Course Files

  • In-place files
  • Course files folder
  • Netfiles

• Reuse Content

  • Import Content
  • Activity Clipboard Block

• Integrate UMN Library Resources

  • Create persistent links to articles in the Libraries’ databases
  • Moodle: Integrating Library Resources

• Evaluate Copyright and Licensed Content Use

  • University Libraries copyright pages

• Select and Incorporate Multimedia

  • VID101 - Getting Started with Video and Audio

    This course explores communicating with video and audio, including how to deliver these media types via the web. Participants will discuss how to use these different media types effectively, and learn tips, techniques, and best practices. This course is delivered as a series of short seminars with a hands-on exercise.

    • U of MN staff, faculty & student employees can register for this course in ULearn.
    • U of MN students and affiliates must create an account before accessing ULearn.
  • VID211 - Techniques for Creating Video Content

    This course introduces participants to a variety of techniques for creating video content for anything from student projects, course or department websites to direct communications. The course explores screen capture techniques, as well as creating “good enough” videos with minimal editing.

    • U of MN staff, faculty & student employees can register for this course in ULearn.
    • U of MN students and affiliates must create an account before accessing ULearn.
  • YouTube Video
  • Adobe Presenter
  • Kaltura
  • Classroom Recording Support

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Create Activities and Assessments

• Choose Moodle Activities and Assessments

  • Request a consultation with Educational Technology Services
  • Moodle Teaching Techniques (online book)
  • Understanding “Cognititive Whys” and “Social Hows” of Group Work
  • Using Jigsaw and Case Study for Supporting Online Collaborative Learning
  • MDL241 - Managing Groups and Exploring Activities in Moodle

    This course is for instructors and course developers who would like to explore collaborative uses of Moodle. Participants will review, create, and manage group activities, and explore tools such as forums, polls, surveys, group collections of user entries, and collaboratively-authored web pages (i.e., wikis).

    • U of MN staff, faculty & student employees can register for this course in ULearn.
    • U of MN students and affiliates must create an account before accessing ULearn.
  • MDL221 - Managing Student Assignments in Moodle

    This course is intended for instructors and course designers who would like to have their students submit class papers, short writings, and other files via their Moodle course websites. Participants will learn how to work with the different Moodle assignment types.

    • U of MN staff, faculty & student employees can register for this course in ULearn.
    • U of MN students and affiliates must create an account before accessing ULearn.
  • MDL231 - Creating and Administering Quizzes in Moodle

    This course is intended for instructors and course designers who would like to administer quizzes or self-tests in their Moodle course websites. Participants will create and work with different quiz types.

    • U of MN staff, faculty & student employees can register for this course in ULearn.
    • U of MN students and affiliates must create an account before accessing ULearn.
  • MDL311 - Managing Workshops for Peer Review Projects in Moodle

    This course is intended for instructors and course designers who would like to conduct robust peer assessment of submitted papers in their course websites. Participants will learn the stages of the workshop planner table for configuration, submission, allocation, assessment, and evaluation. The workshop tool facilitates text and file submissions, text only, dichotomous choice, and rubric-based peer assessments of other students’ work.

    • U of MN staff, faculty & student employees can register for this course in ULearn.
    • U of MN students and affiliates must create an account before accessing ULearn.
  • Moodle Instructor Guide (See Activities section)

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Set Up Grading

• Prepare for Grades

  • MDL211 - Managing a Gradebook with Moodle

    This course is intended for instructors and course designers who would like to learn about Moodle's gradebook features. Participants will categorize and add gradable items, enter and update student grades, and work with various aggregation methods.

    • U of MN staff, faculty & student employees can register for this course in ULearn.
    • U of MN students and affiliates must create an account before accessing ULearn.

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Manage Enrollment

• Review Privacy and Protected Information

  • FERPA

• Understand Access and Moodle Roles

  • MDL101 - Creating Basic Course Websites with Moodle

    This course is for faculty and course developers who would like to use Moodle to create course websites. Participants will learn how to build a basic site containing course content and an interactive activity.

    • U of MN staff, faculty & student employees can register for this course in ULearn.
    • U of MN students and affiliates must create an account before accessing ULearn.
  • Moodle Roles

• Add Participants and Create Groups

  • Add Students
  • Create Guest IDs
  • Add Assistants, course designers, and other aids
  • Create Groups
  • MDL241 - Managing Groups and Exploring Activities in Moodle

    This course is for instructors and course developers who would like to explore collaborative uses of Moodle. Participants will review, create, and manage group activities, and explore tools such as forums, polls, surveys, group collections of user entries, and collaboratively-authored web pages (i.e., wikis).

    • U of MN staff, faculty & student employees can register for this course in ULearn.
    • U of MN students and affiliates must create an account before accessing ULearn.

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Test!

• Create Test Accounts

  • Create a Fake Student Account for Testing

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Teach

Welcome and Orient Your Students

• Open Your Site

  • Open Moodle Site for Students

• Welcome and Orient

  • Link to Online Student Orientation Videos
  • Recommend Students Update Their Profiles

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Communicate with Your Students

• Develop an Instructor Presence

  • Teaching Presence, Communities of Inquiry
  • Papers on teaching presence

• Provide Announcements and Updates

  • Contact Participants

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Facilitate Student Communication and Collaboration

• Foster Student Discussion and Interaction

  • Moodle Forums
  • Forums - Exploring the Virtual Classroom: What Students Need to Know (and Teachers Should Consider)
  • Forums - Balancing Quality and Workload in Asynchronous Online Discussions: A Win-Win Approach for Students and Instructors
  • Moodle Chat
  • Chat - Synchronous and Asynchronous Text-Based CMC in Educational Contexts: A Review of Recent Research
  • Chat - Synchronous Learning Experiences: Distance and Residential Learners’ Perspectives in a Blended Graduate Course
  • Moodle Dialogue
  • Dialogue - Structuring dialogue with students via learning tasks

• Include Peer Review

  • MDL311 - Managing Workshops for Peer Review Projects in Moodle

    This course is intended for instructors and course designers who would like to conduct robust peer assessment of submitted papers in their course websites. Participants will learn the stages of the workshop planner table for configuration, submission, allocation, assessment, and evaluation. The workshop tool facilitates text and file submissions, text only, dichotomous choice, and rubric-based peer assessments of other students’ work.

    • U of MN staff, faculty & student employees can register for this course in ULearn.
    • U of MN students and affiliates must create an account before accessing ULearn.
  • Forums in Moodle

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Include Moodle in the Classroom

• Use Student Response Systems

  • TurningPoint

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Evaluate Student Work

• Address Plagiarism

  • TurnItIn
  • Preventing Plagiarism - Center for Writing, UMN

• Grade Activities

  • MDL211 - Managing a Gradebook with Moodle

    This course is intended for instructors and course designers who would like to learn about Moodle's gradebook features. Participants will categorize and add gradable items, enter and update student grades, and work with various aggregation methods.

    • U of MN staff, faculty & student employees can register for this course in ULearn.
    • U of MN students and affiliates must create an account before accessing ULearn.
  • MDL311 - Managing Workshops for Peer Review Projects in Moodle

    This course is intended for instructors and course designers who would like to conduct robust peer assessment of submitted papers in their course websites. Participants will learn the stages of the workshop planner table for configuration, submission, allocation, assessment, and evaluation. The workshop tool facilitates text and file submissions, text only, dichotomous choice, and rubric-based peer assessments of other students’ work.

    • U of MN staff, faculty & student employees can register for this course in ULearn.
    • U of MN students and affiliates must create an account before accessing ULearn.
  • MDL231 - Creating and Administering Quizzes in Moodle

    This course is intended for instructors and course designers who would like to administer quizzes or self-tests in their Moodle course websites. Participants will create and work with different quiz types.

    • U of MN staff, faculty & student employees can register for this course in ULearn.
    • U of MN students and affiliates must create an account before accessing ULearn.
  • MDL221 - Managing Student Assignments in Moodle

    This course is intended for instructors and course designers who would like to have their students submit class papers, short writings, and other files via their Moodle course websites. Participants will learn how to work with the different Moodle assignment types.

    • U of MN staff, faculty & student employees can register for this course in ULearn.
    • U of MN students and affiliates must create an account before accessing ULearn.

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Administer Your Site

• Troubleshoot Technical Issues

  • MoodleTalk - Instructor Support Forums (UMN Sign-in required)

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Share, Reuse, and Archive

Share Content on Your Site

• Share Content Between Moodle Sites

  • Activity Clipboard Block

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Archive Your Site

• Close the Course Site at the End of the Term

  • Close the Course Site
  • Backup Your Course Materials

• Understand the Moodle Archive Process

  • Archive Policy

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Reuse Your Course Content

• Copy Your Moodle Course Site for a New Course

  • End of Semester Checklist(See section: Import Content from the Previous Course into the New Site)

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