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

2012/01/12 1 comment

  1. Find your file upload writing assignment and click on it: w0
  2. 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:  w0a
  3. If this shows, you have finished the assignment: w0b
  4. Wait for notification, then go TBA:review your teacher’s comments.
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How to record your speech with Audacity

2012/01/11 Leave a comment
    1. 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.
    2. For more advanced editing with Audacity, I have a detailed screencast here.
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Calendaring: How to view all your Moodle course assignments in Ninermail, OWA or MS-Outlook – Shortest

2012/01/05 3 comments

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

moodle-calendar-OWA-subscribing renaming-all-in-1

Want a longer step-by-step?

 

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

2012/01/03 1 comment
  1. 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.
  2. 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:
      1. moodle-backup-xml-in-excel
      2. which can be a daunting perspective on your content:
      3. moodle-backup-xml-in-excel1
      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.
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Sharing and reusing Moodle learning content using backup and restore, part I: Backup

2011/12/15 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:   backup1 backup2a backup3a backup4a backup5abackup6backup7backup8

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Sharing and reusing Moodle learning content using backup and restore, part II: restoring

2011/12/15 4 comments

Here I am restoring the backup I made from a different user’s Moodle course in part 1:backup, to add the learning content to my own target course:

restore-uploadrestore-menu-itemrestore-upload1restore-upload2 restore-upload3 restore-upload4 restore-upload5 restore-upload6 restore-upload7 restore-upload8 restore-upload9 restore-upload10

Now how can we scale this collaboration on Moodle learning content without an erepository?

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How to allow resubmitting of Moodle Kaltura video assignments

2011/12/12 Leave a comment
  1. Students may need a number of tries to complete a Kaltura video recording assignments, especially if they do not take advice to do it  in the LRC, with the provided support structure, but overly confident, prefer to try “relying on their own metal”.
  2. To allow them to learn from their mistakes, one is best advised to allow for resubmission of their assignment.
  3. If you have not enabled the assignment, click on the assignment on the Moodle course home page –  apparently no need to   “turn editing on” prior –, and in the upper right corner of the assignment page, click button: “update this assignment”, like so: kaltura=allow-resubmission0
  4. On the assignment settings page, make sure, “allow resubmitting” is set to “yes”, like highlighted below:kaltura-allow-resubmission
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What are best practices for recycling Moodle course teaching content? A running log

2011/12/08 Leave a comment
  1. Guiding Questions:
  2. I am in the process of creating Moodle assignments with instructors. I am inclined to tell them that this is best done now, before the term starts. I have met several instructors who seem to redo all their Moodle assignments and other content, for each term and each section, and who change Moodle courses on the fly, in the middle of the term, adding identical assignments to multiple sections. When I taught with the LMS (in Blackboard environments), the entire course (content) was “rolled over” between terms (and copied into sections), after subtracting student data. What are best practices in Moodle for reusing/recycling such course content, across terms, sections, and instructors? 
  3. Is it possible to get entire course+instructor combinations recycled centrally and automatically, whenever an instructor teaches a course again, from the archive of the last version of the course, sans student data?
  4. Or does each instructor, any time she reteaches a course, have to manually reimport all materials she wants to reuse from her old courses? So far, I have followed this page: http://teaching.uncc.edu/Moodle/how-to/importing-Moodle-course (here is an example of using the import feature when adding assignments into multiple sections in the middle of the term: https://plagwitz.wordpress.com/tag/importing+moodle/). Can this be done before term start at least into one section, from which the other section is created by copying? What would be the cut-off date for that?
  5. Would instructors use the last live version of the course to go forward, like I did with Blackboard, or are instructors advised to develop all content in separate development courses, and selectively import content from there into live courses? Does each instructor have a development course by default? Is it possible/advisable for an instructor to have one development course per actual course she teaches (repeatedly)? Does access of instructors to past courses expire when they get archived, and when would that be?
  6. Finally, how could assignments be exchanged between instructors who teach the same courses? 
  7. Courses seem to be complex packages. Repackaging individual assignments from one generic development course into course packs while importing seems administrative overhead, unless there is a in-built support for packaging that allows to add course tags to content. On the other hand, courses need to be easily updateable: student data needs to be added and removed easily. Teacher content needs to be refined, possibly updated with some current materials each term.
  8. Exploration:
    1. files planning:
      1. When publishing files, I have been trying to restrict all information that needs regular updating (dates, fine tuning of assignments and grading) to the syllabus files which I upload every term. So that I can “roll over” the rest of the course, including its files. 
      2. observe the (max 64mb) file size limit in your Moodle courses
      3. You cannot use this procedure to share Kaltura videos, not even the ones a teacher made
    2. importing
      1. importing steps see here.
      2. To be seamless, source and target course need to have the same format (settings / topical, weekly or other). Otherwise, your exports from a weekly formatted course into a topically formatted course will get put into the topic number corresponding to the week # (which, if you have set to fewer topics than you had weeks, may effectively hide them. Not to worry, you can still retrieve them by adding topics to your course, then moving the assignments where you want them).
      3. backing up/restoring
        1. backing up see here 
        2. restoring see here
        3. more on backup/restore from the Moodle docs FAQ
        4. primary instructor can use assign roles to add other teachers to give them access to importing; better create an intermediate, not student-accessible Moodle course for sharing instead
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