20060127 Moodle Seminar

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The Moodle Course Management System: 

The Moodle Course Management System Allan Knight Department of Computer Science California State University San Bernardino

Who Am I?: 

Who Am I? Allan Knight California State University San Bernardino aknight@csci.csusb.edu BS Computer Science 2000 Full-time Lecturer for the 2005 - 2006 year University of California Santa Barbara aknight@cs.ucsb.edu PhD. Candidate Department of Computer Science

My Colleagues: 

My Colleagues

What is Moodle?: 

What is Moodle? Course Management System Organizes and Manages course materials Open Source Created using Pedagogical Principles Not just a tool for Content Management Strives to build a course community

What Moodle Do?: 

Assignments Quizzes Chats Forums Online Grading Glossary Journal User Profiles What Moodle Do?

What Does Moodle Require?: 

What Does Moodle Require? A Host Machine Preferably running Linux Web Server Software We use Apache 2 Database Software We use MySQL Others, like PostgreSQL, are also supported PHP PHP: Hypertext Protocol

Who Created Moodle?: 

Who Created Moodle?

Building a Course Community: 

Building a Course Community Constructivism Building knowledge interacting with your environment Constructionism Constructing something for others to experience Social Constructivism Extends the above ideas into a social group Separate and Connected Objective and Subjective

Where Have We Deployed Moodle?: 

Where Have We Deployed Moodle? @ UCSB Computer Science Writing History Educational Psychology Political Science @ CSUSB Computer Science

What Modifications Have We Made?: 

What Modifications Have We Made? Quoting for Peer Review Adds feature of other forums offer Column Grading Entering one grade at a time is inefficient Arbitrary Point Values Originally limited to 100 points Live RSS Feeds RSS feeds were not live and were updated daily Added RSS feeds for assignments

Where to Get More Info: 

Where to Get More Info Moodle Site http://moodle.org Moodle Hosting Site http://www.moodle.com Moodle @ UCSB http://moodle.cs.ucsb.edu Moodle @ CSUSB http://jb345-1.csci.csusb.edu:8080/moodle

Questions?: 

Questions? To request a copy of these slides or to ask further questions, contact me at aknight@csci.csusb.edu