NMT Moodle 1.9 Instructor's Guide |  |
NMT Moodle 1.9 Instructor's Guide | |
Moodle's activities are tools that you and your students use to interact with the course. There are many, but here are the common ones; see the online help for instructions on the use of most of these tools.
For posting homework assignments. Depending on options you choose, you may wish to allow the student to upload their submissions as one or more files. See Section 11, “Assignment activities”.
For outside homework, or quizzes and exams that don't use Moodle's online quiz feature, there are two ways to get that grade into the gradebook.
If you want to give your graders the ability to post that grade, use an Assignments activity of type .
If you don't want your graders to be able to post or even see a grade, use the procedure described in Section 12.4, “Adding a gradebook column for an external grade”.
For details about the kinds of graders and their access rights, see Section 9, “Roles and access control”.
Creates an online chat room for course members.
A simple poll containing one multiple-choice question.
The forum activity is a full-featured bulletin board with threading.
If your course involves a lot of technical jargon, you may want to create a glossary for the course.
With the lesson tool, you can create arbitrarily complex computer-assisted instruction scenarios.
You can construct online tests with various types of questions: multiple-choice, short answer, computational, or essay questions.
If you like, you can set up a Wiki, a sort of interactive encyclopedia, for course members.
Once you have added an activity to a block, you can move it to a different block; see Section 7.4, “Moving a resource or activity to a different block”.