Course: Moodle Demo

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Welcome to the Moodle Features Demo Course

Within this course you can explore the various Moodle features available. For a full demo of Moodle as a teacher or administrator, please visit demo.moodle.org.
- News forum
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General features
- Overall design of Moodle Page
- Site management Page
- User management Page
- Course management Page
- Text Filters (May be applied to any text in a Moodle site)
- Auto-linking Page
- Mathematics notation Page
- Media plugins Page
- Multi-language content Page
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Assignments
- Assignments allow teachers to grade electronically submitted material or 'offline' submissions such as paper-based assignments or class presentations.
- An Upload File assignment
- An Online Text Assignment
- An Offline assignment
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Chats
- 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.
- A repeating chat with public session logs
- An open chat event
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Choices
- Here a teacher asks a question and specifies a choice of multiple responses. This 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.
- A Choice with anonymous results
- A Choice with non-anonymous results
- A Choice that allows you to update anytime
- A Choice with a limited number of responses allowed
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Forums
- It is in forums 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.
- A Standard forum for general use
- Each person posts one discussion Forum
- A single discussion Forum
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Glossaries
- 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.
- Teacher-Defined Glossary
- Learner-Defined Glossary
- A glossary of common terms
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HotPot
- This module allows teachers to create multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill quizzes using Hot Potatoes software.
- Newton's 2nd and 3rd Laws Pretest HotPot
- Crossword Puzzle with Timer HotPot
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Lessons
- A lesson delivers content in an interesting and flexible way. It consists of a number of pages. Each page normally ends with a multiple choice question. Navigation through the lesson can be straight forward or complex.
- How to use the Lesson Module
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Quizzes
- This module allows the teacher to design and set quiz tests, consisting of multiple choice, true-false, and short answer questions and more. Each attempt is automatically marked, and the teacher can choose whether to give feedback or to show correct answers.
- A short quiz about Moodle (with timer)
- Example Listening Quiz
- A quiz with a password
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Resources
- Resources 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.
- A Text Page
- A Text Page (markdown formatting)
- A Web Page
- A Web Page (opens in a new window)
- A Web Link (opens in a new window) URL
- A Web Link (framed) URL
- A Web Link (with parameters) URL
- A Directory Folder
- A Label Page
- Links to uploaded files (Moodle automatically assigns the icons according to the file type):
- An image File
- An MP3 file
- A Flash file (opens in a new window)
- A Windows Media file (opens in a new window)
- An Office file
- A PDF file
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Topic outline

General

Welcome to the Moodle Features Demo Course

Topic 1

General features

Topic 2

Assignments

Topic 3

Chats

Topic 4

Choices

Topic 5

Forums

Topic 6

Glossaries

Topic 7

HotPot

Topic 8

Lessons

Topic 9

Quizzes

Topic 10

Resources

Topic 11

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Topic 13