Course: E-Learning For Educators Section 1 (Summer 2015)

Topic outline

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Welcome to Class
Moodle Student Orientation

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- Editing Your Profile: Lynda.com URL
  
  As a UW-Stout Student you have access to Lynda.com video tutorials. Login using your D2L username and password!
- Manage Your Moodle: Lynda.com URL
  
  Learn how to customize the look of your Moodle page.
- Moodle Course Overview: Lynda.com URL
  
  This orientation video will help you see how the Moodle CMS works.
- Managing the Moodle Calendar: Lynda.com URL
  
  Understand how the Moodle Calendar works. Personalize as needed.
- Moodle Discussion Overview: Lynda.com URL
  
  This video will quickly orient you to the Moodle Discussion system.
Module 3: Activities to Engage Online Learners
Module 3: Activities to Engage Online Learners

Contents for Module 3:
- Creating your discussion prompt. - Develop a prompt. Post it to your Group Work Area. Facilitate a discussion with your group.
- Module 3 Introduction - Readings - Activities URL
- Mod 3 Activity 2 facilitate your discussion forum URL
- Contact your group members ASAP: The Golden Rules of Collaboration: (Silence isn't Golden) URL
Mod 3 work area
Mod 3 Group Work Area: Lisa / Cyndy / Sheilah / Sheri / Sharon
- Post Discussion Topics Here Forum
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Module 4: Welcome Moodle Teachers!
Moodle Teacher Orientation
- Moodle Survey Tools
- Understanding Choice, Feedback, and Survey activities: Lynda.com URL
  
  This overview of Moodle Assessment tools will help you get oriented to your new role as instructors.
- Creating a Choice Activity URL
  
  The Moodle Choice tool makes it easy to create a simple one question poll.
- Creating a customized Feedback activity URL
  
  This is the first of six short videos explaining how to create a Moodle Feedback activity.
- Example Choice Poll: Which CMS would you prefer to drive?
- Example Feedback: Digital Texts in the Classroom
- Moodle Quizzes
- Assessing Students with Tests and Quizzes URL
  
  This link takes you to the first for 13 short video tutorials that will walk you through the process of creating a Moodle Quiz. (Run time 1hr 4min.) You are not expected to create a long test. Instead explore question types as you create a brief assessment on a topic that interests you.
  
  The Moodle Testing tools are powerful and complex. Choose this option if you are up for a technically challenging experience.
- Example Quiz: Creative Commons - by Jen Hegna
Module 4: Assessment: Measuring Online Learning
Module 4: Assessment

You must be in the Teacher Role. (See the note above in lavender highlighting for how to achieve this before Monday, should you so desire.) Things will look different!

This mode allows you to create several types of assessments.

To create assessments you MUST Turn editing on by clicking the button in the upper right hand corner.

Contents for Module 4
- Module 4 Introduction - Reading - Activities URL
- Module 4 Activity: Create Your Moodle Assessment URL
Mod 4 Group Work Area
Module 4 Group Work Area: Lisa / Cyndy / Sheila / Sheri / Sharon

Click add assignment or resource link in lower right corner of this section to create your assessment.

Include your name in the title so we know which assessment is yours.
- Peer Review of surveys and quizzes Forum
- A Three-Step Process for Becoming an E-Learning Pro (Sharon) Quiz
  
  Please read the blog and take the brief quiz.
  
  http://blogs.articulate.com/rapid-elearning/three-step-process-for-becoming-e-learning-pro/
- E-Learning and Student Success Quiz (Lisa Fitzgerald)
- eLearning vs Classroom Training Quiz
  
  Please reference the article, eLearning vs Classroom Training - How Different Are They? for this quiz. (Sheilah Smith)
- Multiple Intelligences In e-Learning: The Theory and Its Impact (Cyndy) URL
- Multiple Intelligence In e-Learning Quiz
- 7 Strategies to Make Your Online Teaching Better (Sheri Perez) Quiz
  
  Please read the following blog post by Andrea Zellner, 7 Strategies to Make Your Online Teaching Better.
  
  After reading the blog, you will take a short quiz.