Moodle 1.9 for Design and Technology -- Table of Contents -- Moodle 1.9 for Design and Technology -- Credits -- About the Author -- About the Reviewers -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. Setting Up a Basic Moodle Site for Design Technology (DT) -- Setting up Moodle Virtual Learning Environment -- Assigning access rights to roles -- Creating a new course -- Adding resource materials to your basic Moodle site -- Adding static resources to your Moodle site -- Naming the element -- Summarizing the element -- Linking to the resource (such as a file or website) -- Presentation of the information -- Grouping -- Adding instructions with the web page resource -- Adding interactivity to the basic Moodle site -- Increasing user interactivity by adding assignments -- Increasing user interactivity by adding forum discussions -- Increasing user interactivity by adding quizzes -- Assessing student progress -- Managing student participation with Moodle generated reports -- Setting up your Moodle environment -- Summary -- 2. Organizing Information using Moodle Modules -- Preparing for market research -- Worked examples in this chapter -- Organization of research using the Database module -- Enabling the Database module for your course -- Naming your database -- Setting the general options on your database -- Controlling the availability of the database -- Prompting students to complete their tasks -- Allowing comments and ratings -- Applying grades to the student entries -- Creating the database -- Designing the database fields -- Adding a text field -- Adding a picture field -- Adding a menu field -- Adding a number field -- Using a menu field for the type of industry -- Adding a latitude / longitude field.

Adding a Textarea field -- Adding a URL field -- Adding database entries -- Designing a good questionnaire to gather opinions on your designs -- Discussing the nature of questions to use -- A worked example -- Enabling the questionnaire module -- Naming and describing the questionnaire -- Deciding on the Timing options -- Displaying Respondents' Responses -- Controlling student participation -- Controlling the display of user identity -- Allowing students to view their responses -- Allowing students to save their work -- Assigning a grade to the questionnaire response -- Adding the questions to your questionnaire -- Customizing your questionnaire -- Setting the type of questionnaire -- Adding further details to your questionnaire -- Choosing a display theme for your questionnaire -- Redirecting students after response submission -- Sending e-mail to respondents on their completion of the questionnaire -- Adding the questions -- The purpose of this questionnaire -- Creating our questions -- Checking the responses to questions -- Exporting the responses for detailed analysis -- Downloading the questionnaire module -- Installing the questionnaire module -- Using Midnight Commander to install a module -- Installing the Questionnaire module on Windows servers -- Summary -- 3. Encouraging Reflective Practices using Forums and Blogs -- Engaging in reflective practices using blogs -- Enabling blogs for your course -- Blog menu options -- Blog preferences -- Adding a new entry -- General options -- Tags options -- Viewing entries -- Adding a Blog Tag block -- Worked example of reflective practice: Work Placement Blogs -- Enabling and using blog syndication through RSS -- Engaging in reflective practices using forums -- Enabling and choosing a forum -- Creating a forum for role-playing -- General options -- Grading forum posts -- Blocking posts on forums.

Differentiating users on forums -- User view preferences -- Additional forum suggestions -- Creating galleries to track student progress -- Using Lightbox gallery: A third party gallery resource -- Gallery general settings -- Gallery advanced settings -- Images allowed -- Resize of images on upload -- Image resolution settings -- Enabling comments on the images -- Restricting access to images -- Allowing students to receive notifications through RSS -- Displaying extended information -- Adding images to the gallery -- Modifying images -- Creating individual galleries -- Creating a folder to store images -- General option settings -- Assigning admin privileges to a teacher -- Examples of best practice -- Individual Learning Plan (ILP) -- Module settings: Targets and Reports -- Report options -- Target options -- ILP blocks: Personal Learning Plan (PLP) -- Main options -- Student information block -- Creating targets -- Accessing personal plans -- Summary -- 4. Exploring Design Portfolios -- Exploring the Exabis portfolio -- Site-wide settings -- Installing the Exabis block into a course -- The personal information tab -- The Categories tab -- Building up the portfolio content -- Creating views -- Sharing their work and thoughts -- Importing and exporting portfolios -- Future developments in Exabis -- Exploring the MyStuff portfolio -- Configuring system-wide settings (Storage) -- MyStuff configuration -- MyStuff export settings -- MyStuff Export Settings: File Export Type -- Using MyStuff in courses -- Guiding students to use MyStuff -- Creating and using forms -- Building a catalogue of information -- Creating notes -- Sharing the material with others -- Attaching a message to the submission -- Setting a time limit on shared material -- Commentary on shared work -- MyStuff development and limitations -- Mahara -- Mahara features.

Adding details to your profile -- Views in MyPortfolio -- Using live website feeds in views -- Inserting multimedia into views -- Using the MyFiles tab for file management -- E-Portfolio advantages -- Using Groups in Mahara -- Settings in Mahara -- Setting up features of Mahara from the administrator login -- Requesting to join a group -- Using Multiple institutions with Mahara -- Exporting their portfolio -- Summary -- 5. Testing Students' Knowledge using Moodle Modules -- Implementing a glossary -- Checking the settings -- Default settings -- Preventing duplicate entries -- Allowing comments -- Automatically linking comments -- Entry level default settings -- Creating a glossary -- Enabling the glossary -- Editing the glossary -- Rating entries -- Adding entries (categories) -- Adding entries -- Mapping their minds -- Making a map -- Quizzing their understanding -- Developing a quiz for Food Technology -- Site-wide settings -- Preparing the work surface -- Choosing ingredients -- Setting the quiz timings -- Setting the quiz display options -- Setting the attempts allowed -- Setting common module settings: groups and categories -- Determining feedback options -- Mixing ingredients -- Summary -- 6. Helping your Students Gather Data about their Potential Markets -- Encouraging students to perform SWOT analysis -- Gathering data using the Questionnaire module -- Setting up a Questionnaire -- Setting the Response Options -- Type -- Enabling the Questionnaire for groups of students -- Configuring the Advanced settings -- Adding questions -- Analyzing the results -- Collecting user feedback with the Feedback module -- Adding the Feedback module -- Changing the settings of the Feedback module -- Feedback options -- Record user names -- Show analysis to students -- Send e-mail notifications -- Adding the feedback questions -- Analyzing the results.

Widening the response -- Using the DimDim interactive tool -- System settings -- Setting up the DimDim module on your Moodle site -- Customizing the meeting settings -- Waiting Area -- Maximum Participants -- Meeting Duration -- Audio/Video -- Attendee Mikes -- Having a meeting -- Meeting facilities -- Setting the meeting preferences -- Sharing ideas using the whiteboard -- Sharing your desktop -- Reminding users about a meeting -- Summary -- 7. Adding Multimedia Resources to your Moodle Site -- Using the Lesson module to construct media-rich content -- Setting up a lesson in your course -- Lesson planning overview -- Enabling a lesson in your course -- Changing the general settings for the lesson -- Setting grading options for the lesson -- Setting the flow control of your lesson -- Setting the lesson format for your lesson -- Setting the access control for your lesson -- Setting the dependency features of your lesson -- Using a sample file in your course for instructions -- Linking your lesson to other course activities -- Creating the lesson structure -- Adding questions and branches to your lesson -- Adding a branch to your lesson -- Adding question pages to your lesson -- Adding a multiple choice question page -- Enabling the editor on questions to add highlights and images -- Students' view of the lesson -- Marking the essay and giving students feedback -- Checking the reports for the lesson -- Checking the detailed statistic report for a lesson -- Distributing interactive materials using the SCORM standard -- Adding free resources to your site -- Choosing material -- International repositories: Adding Ariadne-based resources to your site -- Adding Ariadne materials to your course -- Adjusting the window size and options -- Choosing material for groups or groupings on the course -- Choosing the repository.

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