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Moodle Glossary
Assignment: Assignments allow the teacher to specify a task that requires
students to prepare digital content (any format) and submit it by uploading
it to the server. Typical assignments include essays, projects, reports and
so on. This module includes grading facilities.
Chat: The Chat module allows participants to have a real-time synchronous
discussion via the web. This is a useful way to get a different understanding
of each other and the topic being discussed - the mode of using a chat room
is quite different from the asynchronous forums. The Chat module contains
a number of features for managing and reviewing chat discussions. Choice:
A choice activity is very simple - the teacher asks a question and specifies
a choice of multiple responses. It can be useful as a quick poll to stimulate
thinking about a topic; to allow the class to vote on a direction for the
course; or to gather research consent.
Cookies:
Two cookies are used by the ION
Moodle site.
The essential one is the session cookie, usually called MoodleSession. You
must allow this cookie into your browser to provide continuity and maintain
your login from page to page. When you log out or close the browser this
cookie is destroyed (in your browser and on the server).
The other cookie
is purely for convenience, usually called something like MOODLEID. It just
remembers your username within the browser. This means
when you return to this site the username field on the login page will be
already filled out for you. It is safe to refuse this cookie - you will just
have to retype your username every time you log in.
Dialogue:
The Dialogues module provides a simple communication method between
pairs of users. A teacher can open an dialogue with a student, a student
can open a dialogue with a teacher, and (optionally) a student can open a
dialogue with another student. A teacher or student can be involved in many
on-going dialogues at any time.
Forum:
This activity can be the most important - it is here that most discussion
takes place. Forums can be structured in different ways, and can include
peer rating of each posting. The postings can be viewed in a variety for
formats, and can include attachments. By subscribing to a forum, participants
will receive copies of each new posting in their email. A teacher can impose
subscription on everyone if they want to.
Glossary:
This activity allows participants to create and maintain a list
of definitions, like a dictionary.
The entries can be searched or browsed in many different formats.
The glossary also allows teachers to export entries from one glossary to
another (the main one) within the same course.
Finally, it is possible to automatically create links to these entries from
throughout the course.
Grades:
Many of the activities allow grades to be set.
By default, the results of
all grades within the course can be seen in the Grades page, available
from the main course page.
If a teacher is not interested in using grades
in a course, or just wants to hide grades from students, then they can disable
the display of grades
in the Course Settings. This does not prevent individual activities from
using or setting grades, it just disables the results being displayed to
students.
Grades:
Many of the activities allow grades to be set.
By default, the results of
all grades within the course can be seen in the Grades page, available
from the main course page.
If a teacher is not interested in using grades
in a course, or just wants to hide grades from students, then they can disable
the display of grades
in the Course Settings. This does not prevent individual activities from
using or setting grades, it just disables the results being displayed to
students.
Journal:
This module is a very important reflective activity. The teacher
asks the student to reflect on a particular topic, and the student can edit
and refine their answer over time. This answer is private and can only be
seen by the teacher, who can offer feedback and a grade on each journal entry.
It's usually a good idea to have about one Journal activity per week.
Label:
This is a not a true activity - it is a "dummy" activity
that allows teachers and administrators to insert text and graphics among
the other activities on the course page.
Lesson:
A lesson delivers content in an interesting and flexible way. It
consists of a number of pages. Each page normally ends with a question and
a number of possible answers. Depending on the student's choice of answer
they either progress to the next page or are taken back to a previous page.
Navigation through the lesson can be straight forward or complex, depending
largely on the structure of the material being presented.
Martin Dougiamas:
Moodle designer.
Moodle:
The word Moodle is an acronym for Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic
Learning Environment, which is useful for programmers and education theorists.
It's also a verb that describes the process of lazily meandering through
something, doing things as it occurs to you, an enjoyable tinkering that
often leads to insight and creativity. This process applies to the way Moodle
was developed, and the way a student or teacher might approach studying or
teaching an online course.
Quiz:
This module allows the teacher to design and set quiz tests, consisting
of multiple choice, true-false, and short answer questions. These questions
are kept in a categorised database, and can be re-used within courses and
even between courses. Quizzes can allow multiple attempts. Each attempt is
automatically marked, and the teacher can choose whether to give feedback
or to show correct answers. This module includes grading facilities.
Recent Activity:
Moodle can display "recent activity" on the course home page.
This
shows the everything that has happened in the course since the last time
the viewer logged in to the course, including new posts, new users,
submitted journals etc.
It is highly recommended you leave this feature enabled
in your courses, as it helps give a sense of activity in the course. Knowing
what everyone
else is doing also helps to promote a collaborative atmosphere in the class.
You might want to disable this feature for extremely large or heavily used
courses, as it may slow down the display of the course page.
Resource:
Resources are content: information the teacher wants to bring
into the course. These can be prepared files uploaded to the course server;
pages edited directly in Moodle; or external web pages made to appear part
of this course.
SCORM:
A SCORM package is a bundle of web content packaged in a way that
follows the SCORM standard for learning objects. These packages can include
web pages, graphics, Javascript programs, Flash presentations and anything
else that works in web browsers. The SCORM module allows you to easily upload
any standard SCORM package and make it part of your course.
Survey:
The Survey module provides a number of verified survey instruments
that have been found useful in assessing and stimulating learning in online
environments. Teachers can use these to gather data from their students that
will help them learn about their class and reflect on their own teaching.
Wiki:
A Wiki enables documents to be authored collectively in a simple markup
language using a web browser.
" Wiki wiki" means "super fast" in
the Hawaiian language, and it is the speed of creating and updating pages
that is one of the defining
aspects of wiki technology. Generally, there is no prior review before modifications
are accepted, and most wikis are open to the general public or at least to
all persons who also have access to the wiki server.
The Moodle Wiki module
enables participants to work together on web pages to add, expand and change
the content. Old versions are never deleted and
can be restored.
This module is based on Erfurt Wiki.
Workshop:
A Workshop is a peer assessment activity with a huge array of
options. It allows participants to assess each other's projects, as well
as exemplar projects, in a number of ways. It also coordinates the collection
and distribution of these assessments in a variety of ways. The Workshop
module is contributed by Ray Kingdon.
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