Training and Development

List of Teaching and Learning Centre IT Workshops that will be on offer this year
All workshops are free for staff, but require registration as workshops are limited to 8 people.

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MOODLE WORKSHOPS
Mahara Workshop (NEW)
Moodle: Database Workshop (NEW)
Moodle: Survival Workshop
Moodle: Forums workshop
Moodle: Assignments Workshop
Moodle: Grades Workshop
Moodle: Quiz Workshop
Moodle: RSS feeds and media input
Moodle: Wiki (OU), Blog, Dialogue Workshop

OTHER
Triple ‘A’ Feedback: Anytime, Anywhere, Anyhow

Mahara Workshop (NEW)

Mahara is now integrated with moodle and may provide just the tool you need for yourself or your students. From the Mahara website: “Mahara is an open source e-portfolio system with a flexible display framework. Mahara is user centred environment with a permissions framework that enables different views of an e-portfolio to be easily managed. Mahara also features a weblog, resume builder and social networking system, connecting users and creating online learner communities.”

At the end of this workshop you should be able to:

  • Log on to Mahara
  • Add content to Mahara
  • Create views to content
  • Control access to views
  • Understand some of the social networking aspects of Mahara
  • Make decisions about portfolios for your use after viewing a number of these
  • Know a little about the follow up Mahara workshops/activities

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Moodle: Database Workshop (NEW)

The database tool in Moodle is quite powerful and can be used in many different ways including: building a collaborative, useful and searchable database of information (student work: graphics, text, etc; journal article reviews; gathering comments on resources; providing a tool for peer review and more. By the end of this workshop, participants should be able to: use the database tool: add, search; create a database from scratch; manage the database activity; and have an understanding of some of the uses of this activity 

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Moodle: Survival Workshop

This is the first of the Moodle workshops and is an essential workshop for all academic staff who will be using Moodle in their teaching.

Session Outcomes
By the end of this session participants should be able to:

  • Log on to Moodle sites
  • Set up your profile
  • Discover the tools available through Moodle
  • Obtain a Moodle site and bring students into the site
  • Add other people now or later
  • Customise blocks (hide, add, move)
  • Change the Settings in the Administration block
  • Add announcements
  • Put up a Unit Outline
  • Link to Library E-Reserve
  • Add resources (content)
  • Upload one or more documents to Moodle
  • Import from previous site
  • Get help

Moodle: Forums workshop

This workshop will give you the knowledge and experience to use and manage Forums in Moodle. This is a very powerful medium for online teaching and can be used to facilitate deep learning.

Session Outcomes
By the end of this session participants should be able to:

  • Add a discussion forum
  • Access a forum and its discussions
  • Compose a message and add an attachment
  • Search forums
  • Manage forums
  • Subscribe to a forum
  • Relate forums to other Moodle communication tools
  • Propose a communication strategy to be adopted within their Moodle site(s)

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Moodle: Assignments Workshop

This workshop will make you able to set up and mark assignments. You will probably also want to do the Online Grades workshop which complements this one.

Session Outcomes
By the end of this session participants should be able to:

  • Know which assignment type to use
  • Add an assignment
  • Other assignment types (3)
  • Retrieve and Mark assignments
  • Change student grades

Moodle: Grades Workshop

Moodle uses the term grades to mean both marks and grades, and also to mean the markbook holding these items.

It is good to set up categories first, then set up assignments or quizzes (if any) in the correct category, before setting up the Grades area (markbook). For most items staff will probably either grade in the grade area of the activitiy (eg assignments) or will use use quick grades. However Moodle can do quite complicated gradings and some of that will be touched on here.

Session Outcomes
By the end of this session participants should be able to:

  • Add/edit categories (this is an optional step)
  • Move assessment items into categories (needed if you will use items in calculations)
  • Add ID to assessment items
  • Add a final marks column and use the calculator to create a mark out of 100
  • Be able to see the final mark column as a letter or a number.
  • Grade student work using the Grades tool
  • Use quick grading
  • Know whether Outcomes is useful for you.
  • Hiding grades from students

Moodle: Quiz Workshop

Session Outcomes
By the end of this session participants should be able to:

  • Add a quiz to a teaching site
  • Create a category
  • Add questions to a category
  • Add and remove questions to/from the quiz
  • Add question sets/random questions
  • Set question order
  • Set quiz setting for release
  • Mark quizzes, including changing marks
  • Work with quiz results
  • Preview a quiz
  • Import Quiz from another Moodle site
  • Import questions from TestGen

Moodle: RSS feeds and media input

Session Outcomes
By the end of this session participants should be able to:

RSS

  • Know what RSS is
  • Know how RSS feeds might be useful
  • Recognise RSS feeds
  • Find sites with RSS feeds
  • Find the URL of these RSS feeds and get/create the piece of code to link to the feed
  • Add feeds to a personalized search page (e.g. Google, Yahoo, etc.) and/or use Bloglines as an aggregator
  • Incorporate RSS into Moodle

MULTIMEDIA


Moodle: Wiki (OU), Blog, Dialogue Workshop

Session Outcomes
By the end of this session participants will be able to:

  • Create a moodle wiki
  • Edit a moodle wiki
  • Insert pictures in a wiki
  • Have a better idea of wiki use in teaching
  • Add and open dialogue messages with students
  • Access instant messages
  • Understand how to add and edit moodle blog entries

Triple ‘A’ Feedback: Anytime, Anywhere, Anyhow 

Session Focus
In time for collecting mid-semester feedback on your teaching, the following topics will be explored in this session:

  • Defining evaluation
  • Formative and summative evaluation
  • What questions about formative evaluation are uppermost in your mind?
  • Why undertake formative evaluation?
  • Ways to gather feedback
  • Examples: Moodle feedback tool and ‘one minute paper’

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