Moodle Assignments & Activities Workshop
Overview of Activities
- Read this Overview of Activity Modules on Moodle Docs
- Enroll in Arielle's Poetry Course and look at the Activities menu at the top-left. Which of the items in this list are NOT activities? Ttry some of the activities it contains.
- Open your Moodle course, Turn editing on, and review activity descriptions by clicking on information link (? or I) next to Add An Activity.
- Signup or login to coolcourses.moodle.org and check out the activities in the winner of the Best Application of Moodle Activities category:
Concepts of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) - Open the Teacher Documentation in Moodle Docs -
http://docs.moodle.org/en/Teacher_documentation
Look at the links at right side of the page. These links contain detailed instructions for setting up and using the activities. - Instructions - For instructions on building activities, see links at right side of page in Teacher Documentation: http://docs.moodle.org/en/Teacher_documentation or click on the name of the activity in the list below.
Moodle Activities: Definitions, Instructions, Examples
Links on activity names below go to the instructions for that activity. Links on [Example] links below go to examples. Some of the examples are on coolcourses.moodle.org; you need to be logged into that site to view these examples.
- Assignments (Assignments are graded)
- Upload a Single File - [Example] Any type of assignment where student works with electronic file: Writing, Desktop Publishing, Graphics, Audio, Video, Chart, Spreadsheet, Coding, etc.
- Advanced Uploading of Files - [Example] Same as above, except allows multiple files and/or multiple exchanges of a file. Choosing Single or Advanced Upload
- Offline Assignment - [Example] Anything you want the student to do and submit outside of Moodle, including in-class tests or presentations.
- Online Text - [Example] Any type of writing assignment. Allows repeat submissions and inline comments by teacher.
- Workshops - [Example] The workshop module allows students to evaluate each others' projects or exemplar projects you supply for criticism.
- Chats - Live, synchronous discussion. Best used for short, scheduled sessions, including office hours, study sessions, or specific topic discusssion.
- Forum - [Example] Threaded, asynchronous discussion. Participants can read or contribute to discussions, or start new ones, any time they want. Students can rate each other, or you can be the only one allowed to rate student posts.
- Wiki - [Example] The wiki module allows students to work collaboratively to develop a web site as part of your course. Any participant can add pages or edit the content on existing pages.
- Blogs - [Example] Every Moodle account has its own blog. Blogs are user-based, not course-based. Some teachers use blogs as a way to encourage student writing, reflection, or journals, but students should be aware that Moodle blogs are open to the public.
- Glossary - [Example] Let your students build a course glossary collaboratively. Students can rate each other, or you can be the only one allowed to rate student entries.
- Quizzes - [Example] Develop various question types, or import them from a variety of sources. Once the questions are in your question bank, it takes only minutes to set up a quiz to deliver selected or random questions from the question bank.
- Lessons - [Example] Lessons allow you to seamlessly integrate tutorial, practice, and remediation in a series of web pages. You can present content, pose questions, and provide branching based on student responses.
- Choice - [Example] Deliver any kind of survey, choice or vote to students and let them view the results. Examples: Choose a project, Sign up for presentation time, Pick your favorite flavor of ice cream.
- Questionnaire - [Example] You can construct any type of survey or questionnaire to administer to your class. Survey results can be viewed by student, by question, or by course.
Grading Activities
- Graded activities
- Some Moodle activities are graded, and some do not include a grading option.
- Activities that include grades will automatically appear on Moodle gradebook and post student grades to Moodle gradebook.
- A grade of [No Grade] can be selected for any graded activity, in which case the activity will NOT appear in the gradebook.
- UnGraded Activities
- Activities that do not include a grading option can be graded by:
- Pairing with an Offline Activity in the Course, or
- Adding a Grade Item in the Gradebook
- Ratings - Forum and Glossary scores are called Ratings and, by default, can be given by other students. Note that ratings by other students will show up in the gradebook if they are allowed. You can turn off rating; or you can disable students' ability to rate each other's posts, so that only you can rate forums and glossaries. So, forums and glossaries can be Un-Rated, Rated by Peers, or Graded (rated by instructor).
