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How a teacher grades a Moodle simple file upload assignment

2012/01/13 plagwitz 1 comment

When you initially createdyour single file upload assignment, there were no student submissions:
Once there are, the link in the upper right of the assignment will tell you and take you right to the gradebook:
Here you have an (1) overview who has submitted, and can click (2) to grade;
In the grading dialogue, you can (1) download and open the file submission (see techniques of grading student audio submissions with Audacity), (2) write comments as you assess the file, (3) assign a final grade and (4) save and move on to the next submission (fastest, when you do batch grading, the notify student of your grading feedback is still useful under these circumstances, but even more so when you your self asked to be notified by email of student submissions as they come in: faster feedback)

Categories: assignments, audience-is-teachers, e-learning, lms, Speaking Tags: audacity, moodle, simple-file-upload

How a teacher creates a Moodle Single file upload assignment, with optional attached file

2012/01/13 plagwitz 1 comment

turn editing on
add activity / simple file upload
Write the assignment instructions
For your students to be able to download a fle with additional information (e.g. the model recording), select some text pointing to it and click the link icon on the editor menu
(1) button: “browse”, (2) click your file uploaded into your moodle course earlier, have the window close and (3) your URL appear (or type one manually, if the file is from the WWW), (4) click button: “ok”:
Voilà, your link:
set the other assignment options according to your needs :
click button: “save and display”, you are done:

Categories: assignments, audience-is-teachers, e-learning, lms, service-is-learning-materials-creation Tags: moodle, simple-file-upload

How a student takes a Moodle MS-Word file upload assignment for writing

2012/01/12 plagwitz 1 comment

Find your file upload writing assignment and click on it:
Read the assignment text, write an MS-Word file (format not required, but your teacher will likely send you MS-Word back if she uses track changes) and attach it, like so:
If this shows, you have finished the assignment:
Wait for notification, then go TBA:review your teacher’s comments.

Categories: all-languages, audience-is-students, documentation, e-learning, lms, Uncategorized, Writing Tags: moodle, MS-Word, track-changes

How to record your speech with Audacity

2012/01/11 plagwitz Leave a comment

For a cut-and-dry recording session, the LRC has a simple instruction on
1. Recording_an_MP3_Audio_File_Using_Audacity_in_the_LRC here.
2. Uploading an mp3 recording into a Moodle Forum here.
For more advanced editing with Audacity, I have a detailed screencast here.

Categories: audience-is-language-learning-center-staff, audience-is-language-learning-center-temp-staff, audience-is-students, audience-is-teachers, documentation, e-languages, lms, Screencasts, Screenshots, service-is-learning-materials-creation, software Tags: audacity, audio, moodle, recording

Calendaring: How to view all your Moodle course assignments in Ninermail, OWA or MS-Outlook – Shortest

2012/01/05 plagwitz 3 comments

Start in Moodle here, then do steps –1 to 2. Open NINERMAIL, continue with steps 1 to 8:

Want a longer step-by-step?

Categories: audience-is-students, audience-is-teachers, documentation, lms, Screenshots, step-by-step-guides Tags: calendaring, FAQs, moodle, ms-outlook, OWA

Sharing and reusing Moodle learning content using backup and restore, part III: Shared intermediate courses

2012/01/03 plagwitz 1 comment

You can facilitate the sharing process if you link source and destination Moodle courses via a Moodle course that is itself shared between the teachers (= all teachers can backup from or restore/import into this shared course), but not to students.
By backing up to and restoring from such a shared Moodle course, you can more easily inspect the shared course content than
1. if you’d import into the destination course to inspect,
2. or either inspect the unzipped XML of the Moodle course backed-up content format, like here:
  2. which can be a daunting perspective on your content:
  4. A little more instructive are the Moodle course export file columns in a handy list, with sample content (where available in our case – sample content does not represent an actual “row”, but merges multiple “rows”, using Excel’s “Paste Special’/ “Skip blanks”):
  5. As you can see, there are fewer than 254 column (meaning you can even load this into Excel <2007), and apparently you get to actual teaching content already on nesting level 3.

Categories: audience-is-teachers, documentation, e-infrastructure, lms, service-is-learning-materials-creation, Spreadsheets Tags: moodle

Sharing and reusing Moodle learning content using backup and restore, part I: Backup

2011/12/15 plagwitz 4 comments

To reuse your own content, you can import. To use somebody else’s content, the other user can backup his content (even though not shown below, a subset of the content of a course can be chosen) and share (by downloading the file created within the course file area) the backup file with you (a zip-archive that contains an xml file), for the other user to restore. Like so: