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Read steps, then go to the UW-Stout Lynda.com Portal
The portal page opens in a new window or tab.
Login using your D2L username and password.
Leave the page open and return to Moodle.
Once you have logged in to Lynda.com, the video tutorials will work properly.
This orientation video will help you see how the Moodle CMS works.
This video will quickly orient you to the Moodle Discussion system.
Learn how to customize the look of your Moodle page.
Use the video to help you complete your Moodle Profile Assignment.
Use information from your D2L Profile and your the Professional Biography Worksheet* you created in the last module to write a draft of your instructor biography for use in your Moodle Profile.
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Contents for Module 3: Please have your prompt posted no later than Wednesday.
Module 3
Green Group: Brent, Jen, Keli, Kristin
Module 3 Red Group:Corrie, Lisa, Susan R., Sue
G.
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YOU ARE NOW IN TEACHER MODE. Teachers see tools that are hidden from students. To use the tools you MUST 'Turn editing on' by CLICKING THE BUTTON IN THE UPPER RIGHT HAND CORNER OF THE SCREEN.
Contents for Module
4: Please have your assessment posted no
later than Wednesday.
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Read steps, then go to the UW-Stout Lynda.com Portal
The portal page opens in a new window or tab.
Login using your D2L username and password.
Leave the page open and return to Moodle.
Once you have logged in to Lynda.com, the
video tutorials will work properly.
MOODLE SURVEY TOOLS
This overview of Moodle Assessment tools will help you get oriented to your new role as instructors.
The Moodle Choice tool makes it easy to create a simple one question poll.
This is the first of six short videos explaining how to create a Moodle Feedback activity.
MOODLE QUIZZES
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.
Mod
4 Blue Group: Brent, Jen, Keli,
Kristin
Click the Add an activity... link in the lower right corner of this group work area
Include your name in the title so we know which assessment is yours.
Offer feedback to everyone in your group in the Peer Review discussion forum.
An important type of assessment is the Diagnostic Assessment often called pretesting. In the Science classroom assessing your student's current thinking is particularly important because misunderstandings about the way the natural world works often interfere with students learning the correct science concepts.
Look at the following article about pretesting and answer the following short survey about your experience with pretesting.
Mod 4 Purple
Group:Corrie, Lisa, Susan R., Sue
G.
Click the Add an activity... link in the lower right corner of this group work area
Include your name in the title so we know which assessment is yours.
Offer feedback to everyone in your group in the Peer Review discussion forum.
This survey explores the interest of educators in volunteering
to teach refugees or other marginalized groups online.
The idea came from reading an article on Inside Higher Ed
entitled, "A Global Jesuit University: A pilot program
has set up online courses from Jesuit colleges at refugee camps
in three countries."
Nelson, L. A. (2013, March 27). "Jesuit universities offer online courses in refugee camps." Retrieved June 26, 2016, from https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/03/27/jesuit-universities-offer-online-courses-refugee-camps
Choose from the following list a maximum of 2 options that would help thwart plagiarism in your classroom.
I feel I could best combat plagiarism in my classroom by:
Columbia College. (2016). What constitutes appropriate collaboration in your course. Retrieved from https://www.college.columbia.edu/faculty/resourcesforinstructors/academicintegrity/plagiarism
Bart, Mary. (2011). Tips for Preventing Plagiarism among College Students. Faculty Focus. Retrieved from http://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/instructional-design/tips-for-preventing-plagiarism-among-college-students/
There can be many variables which can contribute to online student success. To explore what specific characteristics an instructor needs to have to facilitate successful online student learning, please read the following article, Instructor Characteristics That Affect Online Student Success, then choose which 1 response you believe is the most important characteristic of an online instructor.
Orso, D. & Doolittle, J. (2012, Nov. 2). "Instructor Characteristics That Affect Online Student Success." Retrieved on June 29, 2016 from http://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/online-education/instructor-characteristics-that-affect-online-student-success/