Moodle Teaching Techniques -- Table of Contents -- Moodle Teaching Techniques -- Credits -- About the Author -- About the Reviewers -- Preface -- What is Moodle? -- What This Book Covers -- Who is this book for? -- Conventions -- Reader Feedback -- Customer Support -- Downloading the Example Code for the Book -- Errata -- Questions -- 1. Introduction -- The Moodle Advantage -- What will We Accomplish with this Book? -- Some Moodle Requisites -- Standard Modules -- Instructional Principles and Activities -- Big Ideas -- Distributed Practice -- Guided Notes -- Immediate Error Correction -- Juxtapose Examples and Non-Examples -- Lesson Outline -- Mnemonics and Other Reminders -- Pre-Correction -- Response Cards -- Self-Monitoring -- Socratic Dialogue -- Time Trials -- Instructional Principles and Activities Mapped to Moodle Features -- Summary -- 2. Forum Solutions -- Single-Student Forum -- Why not a Single-Student Wiki Instead? -- Creating Single-Student Forums -- Create a Forum for Each Student/Group -- Enrolling Students -- Create a Group for Each Student -- Motivate Students to Interact with a "Best-of" Forum -- Asking Permission and Setting a Policy -- Which Type of Forum? -- Single Simple Discussion Forum -- Standard Forum -- Keeping Discussions on Track -- Use a Custom Scale to Rate Relevance -- Split Discussions -- Will Splitting Change the Meaning? -- Will Splitting, Move Replies You want to Keep in Place? -- Monitoring Student Participation in a Forum -- Who has Posted to a Forum? -- What Postings has a Student Made? -- Summary -- 3. Chat Solutions -- Uses of Chat -- Test Preparation and Online Study Groups -- Creating Study Groups -- Groups Carried Over to Other Activities -- Key Settings for Study Groups in Chat -- Assigning Review Topics -- What Kind of Questions? -- Reviewing Papers and Other Assignments -- Making a One-on-One Chat.

Workaround 1: Using Groups -- Workaround 2: Hiding the Chat -- Guest Speakers -- Including Chats from Previous Classes -- Copying a Transcript -- Foreign Language Practice -- Preparation for Foreign Language Chat -- Compiling and Reviewing Chat Transcripts -- Copying Chat Transcripts -- Assigning a Chat Transcript as an Editing Exercise -- Tips for a Successful Chat -- Basic Chat Etiquette -- Prepare for a Definite Starting and Ending Time -- Limit the Number of Participants -- Prepare a Greeting for Latecomers -- Focus -- Insert HTML -- Summary -- 4. Quiz Solutions -- Distribute Quizzes Over Time -- Advantages and Limitations of Distributed Practice -- Opening and Closing Quizzes at Predetermined Times -- Indicating that a Quiz is Closed -- Use Quizzes for Frequent Self Assessment -- Exclude Self Assessment Quizzes from the Gradebook -- Making Quiz - A Learning Tool -- Questions Must be Specific -- Adding Feedback to Quiz Questions -- Feedback for a Multiple Choice Question -- Feedback for a Numeric Question -- Reinforce Expertise with Timed Quizzes -- Host a Proctored, Timed Test from a Secure Location -- Different Kinds of Network Addresses -- Full IP Addresses -- Partial IP Addresses and Private Networks -- How to Determine a Computer's IP Address -- On Microsoft Windows -- On a Macintosh -- On a Linux Computer -- Summary -- 5. Lesson Solutions -- Moodling Through a Course -- Need for Sequential Activities -- Activity Locking versus Sequential Lessons -- Lesson Settings -- General Settings -- Grade Options -- Flow Control -- Lesson Formatting -- Access Control -- Other Lesson Settings -- Controlling the Flow through a Lesson: Instructional Pages, Questions, and Remedial Pages -- Use a Lesson to Create a Deck of Flash Cards -- Keep it Moving -- Lesson Settings that Help Create a Flash Card Experience.

Use an Ungraded Lesson to Step through Instructions -- Spot Students who are having Trouble -- A Workaround -- Summary -- 6. Wiki Solutions -- Use a Wiki to Relate Material to Big Ideas -- Why a Wiki? -- Why not a Forum Instead? -- Would a Journal do it? -- So, Why not a Blog? -- An Assignment -- Let's Agree to Disagree -- Individual Student Wikis -- Creating Individual Wikis -- Guided Note Taking with Individual Student Wikis -- Creating a Text File for the Wiki's Starting Page -- Creating Multiple Starting Pages -- Multiple Text Files Create Multiple Starting Pages -- Creating Links to Other Starting Pages -- Upload the Text Files for the Wiki's Starting Pages to Your Course -- Create an Individual Student Wiki in your Course -- While Creating the Wiki, Select the Text Files for the Initial Pages -- Test the Wiki as a Student -- Leveraging Guided Notes Created by Students -- Suggested Wiki Etiquettes -- Summary -- 7. Glossary Solutions -- Moodle's Glossary Functions -- Automatic Linking to a Glossary -- Course versus Site Glossary -- Main versus Secondary Glossary -- Managing Student Contributions to a Glossary -- Ratings and Comments -- Adding Memory Aids to Glossary Entries -- Student-Created Class Directory -- Student-Created Test Questions -- Making Use of the Random Glossary Block -- Summary -- 8. The Choice Activity -- A Look at the Choice Activity -- Students' Point of View -- Teachers' Point of View -- Number of Choices -- Limit -- Time Limit -- Publish Results -- Privacy -- Allow Students to Change their Minds -- Choosing Teams -- Asking for Students' Consent -- How are We Doing? -- Preview the Final -- Summary -- 9. Course Solutions -- Am I in the Right Room? -- Important Announcements -- Moving Blocks to the Main Course Area -- The Goal -- Comparing the Two Links -- A Caveat -- The Method -- Using this Workaround with Other Blocks.

Section Links -- Activities -- The Syllabus -- Printer-Friendly for Letter and A4 Sizes -- Online Calendar with Event Reminders -- Summary -- 10. Workshop Solution -- Workshop Basics -- Plan your Strategy -- Grading Grades -- Step-by-Step Example: Create the Workshop -- What Work do you want the Student to Submit? -- Will a Student Assess the Work of his/her Classmates, and if so, How will that Affect the Student's Grade? -- How much of the Student's Grade Depends on Assessing the Work of his/her Peers, and How much on the Work the Student has Submitted? -- What is the Criteria for Assessing the Work? -- What Submissions will the Student Assess? -- If Classmates Assess Each Others' Work, will They do it Anonymously? -- Must the Classmates Agree on a Grade, or Can they Make their Assessments Independent of Each Other? -- What is the Schedule for Submitting the Work, and Assessments? -- Summary -- Index.