How to Moodle

There are two ways of adding documents such as presentations or word process files to your course. One way is dragging and dropping as we've seen in an earlier video. If you can't use drag-and-drop, this next method uses Moodle's activity chooser and file picker to upload files.

What is the file picker? In this video we're going to explore Moodle's file picker and how you can use it.

Here are three ways to add images to your Moodle course.

Every user in Moodle has a personal file storage area known as Private files.

Although it's very easy to upload your course materials such as word processed documents to Moodle, it's sometimes better to add them directly into Moodle in for instance a Book or a Page.

To add learning content to a Moodle course page you use Moodle's activity chooser.

A 'Book' in Moodle is a series of connected pages. You can think of it as a mini website or as a manual.

It's easy in Moodle to display sound files like mp3s, video files like mp4 or externally hosted files such as on YouTube.

With Moodle it's very easy to display for all learners links to websites or links to files uploaded online.

Being able to discuss our learning with others helps us to progress and Moodle offers several different types of discussion forums for you as a teacher to enable your learners to do exactly that.

It's sometimes useful to be able to see at a glance how your learners are progressing or to gauge their opinions or needs. Moodle has an activity called Choice which allows teachers to set up voting options with radio buttons.

A glossary would typically contain key terms and definitions in a subject area, for instance this theatre glossary .With the Moodle glossary you can browse by alphabet, category, date or author, and you can also search for particular key terms.

Moodle has a number of filters which affect how elements of the course are displayed.

If you've ever gone to wikipedia to look something up you might have noticed that you can actually edit the page: you can add information to it, because it is a wiki which is collaboratively created and edited. Moodle has a wiki too, which you could set up for your learners.

Activity completion or completion tracking allows students to see their progress throughout a course using check or tick boxes on the side of activities.