Topic outline
General
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.
Topic 1
General features
Text Filters (May be applied to any text in a Moodle site)
Topic 2
Assignments
- Assignments allow teachers to grade electronically submitted material or 'offline' submissions such as paper-based assignments or class presentations.
Topic 3
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.
Topic 4
Choices
- Here a teacher asks a question and specifies a choice of multiple responses. ThisĀ 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.
Topic 5
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.
Topic 6
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.
Topic 7
HotPot
- This module allows teachers to create multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill quizzes using Hot Potatoes software.
Topic 8
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.
Topic 9
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.
Topic 10
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.
Links to uploaded files (Moodle automatically assigns the icons according to the file type):