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Be the Master of Your Moodle: Creative Vibrant Online Courses

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Be the Master of Your Moodle: Creative Vibrant Online Courses - 1: Feb 2012
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Be the Master of Your Moodle: Creative Vibrant Online Courses - 2: Oct 2012
Track: 
Tools and Techniques
Level: 
Level 2 - Intermediate
Sloan-C Certificate Program Eligibility: 

This online workshop can be counted toward the Sloan-C Certificate.

Workshop Description
Introduction: 

Formerly titled: Using Moodle to Create Online Courses

Moodle is an open source web-based learning management system used by educational institutions all over the world. Moodle’s numerous features were developed with a focus on collaboration, communication, sharing, interactivity, and critical reflection to support constructivist methodologies. In this introductory workshop, you will learn many of the fundamental features of Moodle as you build your own Moodle course.

Resources Provided: 
  • Presentations, readings, web links, discussion threads and other materials, viewable online for 1 year
  • 1-Hour Live Workshop Orientation - Learn about Moodle 2.2 and BlackBoard Collaborate. Navigate the workshop space
  • 1-Hour Live Panel Discussion - Participation in Live Q&A
  • Viewing of Live Sessions available for 1 year
Learning Objectives: 
  • Develop a Moodle course using:
    • Resources tool to add a syllabus page
    • Forums tool to add 5 different types of forums and explain potential for each type
    • Activities tool to add 4 different assignment types
    • Gradebook to have a weighted average of course assignments.

 

Outcomes: 

Develop the beginnings of a course you can use at your own institution.

Facilitators
Facilitator(s): 

Ellen Marie Murphy

Pricing and Cancellation Policy

Price: $345 Each
Sloan-C Member price: $195 w/coupon code* (you will enter the coupon code on the payment page of your shopping cart process)
College Pass Member Pricing: No Cost w/coupon code* (you will enter the coupon code on the payment page of your shopping cart process)
*Members receive unlimited discounts with membership and College Pass holders receive 100 (50 or 25) "free" seats in the entire Sloan-C Workshop series.

Cancellation Policy: 

If you register and pay for a Sloan-C workshop and are unable to attend or if Sloan-C reschedules/cancels a workshop, we will be happy to apply your payment to another Sloan-C workshop/seminar at your request. However, no refunds will be given. This offer is good for one year.

Technical Requirements/Minimum System Requirements

Combining the capabilities of industry leaders Wimba and Elluminate, Blackboard Collaborate provides a comprehensive learning platform designed specifically for education. It is helping thousands of higher education, K-12, professional, corporate, and government organizations worldwide deliver a more effective learning experience through online, blended, and mobile learning.

System Requirements:

  • Click here to check the system requirements and support browsers for using Elluminate
  • Click here to find out if your computer has the right Operating System and Java version installed to run Elluminate and to configure your system.

     
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Moodle: Sloan-C uses an open-source LMS called Moodle for the asynchronous component of workshops. Moodle provides a flexible and user-friendly set of asynchronous collaboration and learning tools. As with most open-source technologies, the Moodle software is free, making it a very cost-effective software package for any institution or company, without sacrificing quality. Moodle is a robust environment that is dynamic, interactive, and provides cross-platform learner access through a standard web browser.

System Requirements

Moodle will work in any modern web browser, however, moodle works best in a range of specific browser types (see below). Your browser should also have both cookies and javascript enabled. These are typically enabled by default, but if you think these settings might need enabling, check the documentation for your particular browser for how to do these.

To make best use of what moodle has to offer, it is recommended that users choose a browser that supports moodle's in-line HTML editor. This is a WYSIWYG (what-you-see-is-what-you-get) editor with an interface much like you would see in most word processing packages.

This in-line HTML editor will only appear if you use one of a specific range of browser types that knows how to start the editor. If you do not use one of these browser types, you can still use moodle just fine, but without the luxury of a WYSIWYG editor. Luckily, there is a supported browser that will work on all major operating system types. The list of supported and not supported browsers is shown below:

Browsers that support the HTML editor Browsers that do not support the HTML editor
Recent versions of: 

Internet Explorer (v5.5 or later) 
Firefox (all versions) 
Mozilla (v1.7 or later) 
SeaMonkey (all versions) 
Netscape (v7 or later) 		 Any versions of: 

Opera 
Safari 
Camino 

 
Register now for session: 
Be the Master of Your Moodle: Creative Vibrant Online Courses - 1: Feb 2012
Register now for session: 
Be the Master of Your Moodle: Creative Vibrant Online Courses - 2: Oct 2012
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