the main functions that are available, as well as some of the main decisions \r
you'll need to make.</P>\r
\r
-<P><I>Under construction</I></P>\r
+<P>Sections in this document:</P>\r
+<OL>\r
+ <LI><A HREF="#started">Getting started</A></LI>\r
+ <LI><A HREF="#settings">Course settings</A></LI>\r
+ <LI><A HREF="#upload">Uploading files</A></LI>\r
+ <LI><A HREF="#activities">Setting up activities</A></LI>\r
+ <LI><A HREF="#course">Running the course</A></LI>\r
+ <LI><A HREF="#further">Further information</A></LI>\r
+</OL>\r
+<H3><A NAME="started"></A>Getting started</H3>\r
+<blockquote> \r
+ <p>This document assumes your site administrator has set up Moodle and given \r
+ you new, blank course to start with. It also assumes you have logged in to \r
+ your course using your teacher account.</p>\r
+ <p>Here are three general tips that will help you get started.</p>\r
+ <ol>\r
+ <li><strong>Don't be afraid to experiment:</strong>\r
+ <blockquote>feel free to poke around and change things. It's hard to break anything \r
+ in a Moodle course, and even if you do it's usually easy to fix it.\r
+ </blockquote>\r
+ <li><strong>Notice and use these little icons</strong>: \r
+ <blockquote> \r
+ <p> <img src="../pix/i/edit.gif"> - the <strong>edit icon</strong> \r
+ lets you edit whatever it is next to.</p>\r
+ <p><img src="../pix/help.gif" width="22" height="17"> - the <strong>help \r
+ icon</strong> will provide you with a popup help window </p>\r
+ </blockquote>\r
+ </li>\r
+ <li><strong>Use the navigation bar at the top of each page</strong>\r
+ <blockquote>this \r
+ should help remind you where you are and prevent getting lost.\r
+ </blockquote></li>\r
+ </ol>\r
+ <hr>\r
+</blockquote>\r
+<h3><A NAME="settings"></A>Course settings</h3>\r
+<blockquote> \r
+ <p>The first thing you should do is look under the "Administration" \r
+ on your course home page and click on "<strong>Settings...</strong>" \r
+ (Note that this link, and in fact the whole Administration section is only \r
+ available to you (and the site administrator). Students will not even see \r
+ these links).</p>\r
+ <p>On the Settings page you can change a number of settings about your course, \r
+ ranging from its name to what day it starts. I won't talk here about all these, \r
+ as they all have a help icon next to them which explains them all in detail. \r
+ However, I will talk about the most important of these - the <strong>course \r
+ format</strong>.</p>\r
+ <p>The course format that you choose will decide the basic layout of your course, \r
+ like a template. Moodle version 1.0 has three formats - in future there will \r
+ probably be many more (please send new ideas to <a href="mailto:martin@moodle.com">martin@moodle.com</a>!)</p>\r
+ <p>Here are some screenshots of three sample courses in each of these three \r
+ formats (ignore the different colours, which are set for a whole site by the \r
+ site administrator):</p>\r
+ <p align="center"><strong>Weekly format:</strong></p>\r
+ <p align="center"><img src="pix/weekly.jpg" width="570" height="527"></p>\r
+ <p align="center"> </p>\r
+ <p align="center"><strong>Topics format:</strong></p>\r
+ <p align="center"><img src="pix/topics.jpg" width="570" height="463"></p>\r
+ <p align="center"> </p>\r
+ <p align="center"><strong>Social format:</strong></p>\r
+ <p align="center"><img src="pix/social.jpg" width="570" height="429"></p>\r
+ <p> </p>\r
+ <p>Note that the weekly and topics formats are very similar in structure. The \r
+ main difference is that each box in the weekly format covers exactly one week, \r
+ whereas in the topic format each box can cover whatever you like. The social \r
+ format doesn't use much content at all, and is based around just one forum, \r
+ which is displayed on the main page.</p>\r
+ <p>See the help buttons on the Course Settings page for more details.</p>\r
+ <HR>\r
+</blockquote>\r
+<H3><A NAME="upload"></A>Uploading files</H3>\r
+<blockquote> \r
+ <p>You may have existing content that you want to add to your course, such as \r
+ web pages, audio files, video files, word documents, or flash animations. \r
+ Any type of file that exists can be uploaded into your course and stored on \r
+ the server. While your files are on the server you can move, rename, edit \r
+ or delete them.</p>\r
+ <p>All of this is achieved through the <strong>Files</strong> link in your Administration \r
+ menu. The Files section looks like this:</p>\r
+ <p align="center"><img src="pix/files.jpg" width="400" height="347"></p>\r
+ <p> </p>\r
+ <p>This interface is only available to teachers - it is not accessible by students. \r
+ Individual files are made available to students later on (as "Readings" \r
+ - see the next section).</p>\r
+ <p>As you can see in the screenshot, files are listed alongside subdirectories. \r
+ You can create any number of subdirectories to organise your files and move \r
+ your files from one to the other.</p>\r
+ <p>Uploading files via the web is currently restricted to one file at a time. \r
+ If you want to upload a lot of files at once (for example a whole web site), \r
+ it can be a lot easier to use a <strong>zip program</strong> to compress them \r
+ into a single file, upload the zip file and then unzip them again on the server \r
+ (you will see an "unzip" link next to zip archives).</p>\r
+ <p>To preview any file you have uploaded just click on its name. Your web browser \r
+ will take care of either displaying it or downloading it to your computer.</p>\r
+ <p>HTML and text files can be edited in-place online. Other files will need \r
+ to be edited on your local computer and uploaded again. if you upload a file \r
+ with the same name as an existing file it will automatically be overwritten.</p>\r
+ <p>A final note: if your content resides out on the web then you don't need \r
+ to upload the files at all - you can link directly to them from inside the \r
+ course (see the Readings module and the next section).</p>\r
+ <HR>\r
+</blockquote>\r
+<H3><A NAME="activities"></A>Setting up activities</H3>\r
+<blockquote> \r
+ <p>Building a course involves adding course activity modules to the main page \r
+ in the order that students will be using them. You can shuffle the order any \r
+ time you like.</p>\r
+ <p>To turn on editing, click "Turn on editing" under Administration. \r
+ This toggle switch shows or hides the extra controls that allow you to manipulate \r
+ your main course page. Note in the first screenshot above (of the Weekly format \r
+ course) that the editing controls are turned on.</p>\r
+ <p>To add a new activity, simply go to the week or topic or section of the screen \r
+ where you want to add it, and select the type of activity from the popup menu. \r
+ Here is a summary of all the standard activities in Moodle 1.0:</p>\r
+ <dl>\r
+ <dt><strong>Assignment</strong></dt>\r
+ <dd>An assignment is where you set a task with a due date and a maximum grade. \r
+ Students will be able to upload one file to satisify the requirements. The \r
+ date they upload their file is recorded. Afterwards, you will have a single \r
+ page on which ou can view each file (and how late or early it is), and then \r
+ record a grade and a comment. Half an hour after you grade any particular \r
+ student, Moodle will automatically email that student </dd>\r
+ a notification.<BR>\r
+ <BR>\r
+ <dt><strong>Choice</strong></dt>\r
+ <dd>A choice activity is very simple - you ask a question and specify a choice \r
+ of responses (currently only two). Students can make that choice, and you \r
+ have a report screen where you can see the results. I use it to gather research \r
+ consent from my students, but you could use it for quick polls or class \r
+ votes.</dd>\r
+ <BR>\r
+ <BR>\r
+ <dt><strong>Forum</strong></dt>\r
+ <dd>This module is by far the most important - it is here that discussion \r
+ takes place. When you add a new forum, yu will presented with a choice of \r
+ different types - a simple single-topic discussion, a free-for-all general \r
+ forum, or a one-discussion-thread-per-user.</dd>\r
+ <BR>\r
+ <BR>\r
+ <dt><strong>Journal</strong></dt>\r
+ <dd>Each journal activity is an entry in the whole course journal. For each \r
+ one you can specify an open-ended question that guides what students write, \r
+ as well as a window of time in which the journal is open (weekly course \r
+ format only). Encourage students to write reflectively and critically in \r
+ these journals, as they are only available to them and you. Afterwards, \r
+ you will be able to grade and comment all the entries for that week or topic, \r
+ and students will receive an automatic email informing them of your feedback.</dd>\r
+ <BR>\r
+ <BR>\r
+ <dt><strong>Reading</strong></dt>\r
+ <dd>Readings are the content of your course. Each reading can be any file \r
+ you have uploaded or can point to using a URL. You can also maintain simple text-based pages by typing them\r
+ directly into a form.</dd>\r
+ <BR>\r
+ <BR>\r
+ <dt><strong>Survey</strong></dt>\r
+ <dd>The survey module provides a number of predefined survey instruments that are useful in \r
+ evaluating and understanding your class. Currently they include the COLLES and the ATTLS instruments.\r
+ They can be given to students early in the course as a diagnostic tool and at the end of the \r
+ course as an evaluation tool (I use one every week in my courses).</dd>\r
+ </dl>\r
+ <p>After adding your activities you can move them up and down in your course \r
+ layout by clicking on the little arrow icons (<img src="../pix/t/up.gif" width="9" height="10"> \r
+ <img src="../pix/t/down.gif" width="9" height="10">) next to each one. You \r
+ can also delete them using the cross icon <img src="../pix/t/delete.gif" width="10" height="10">, \r
+ and re-edit them using the edit icon <img src="../pix/t/edit.gif" width="10" height="11">.</p>\r
+ <HR>\r
+</blockquote>\r
+<H3><A NAME="course"></A>Running the course</H3>\r
+<blockquote> \r
+ <p>I could write a thesis about this. Actually I <strong>am</strong> writing \r
+ a thesis about this. <img src="../pix/s/biggrin.gif" width="16" height="16"></p>\r
+ <p>Until then here are just a few quick pointers:</p>\r
+ <ol>\r
+ <li>Subscribe yourself to all the forums.</li>\r
+ <li>Encourage all the students fill out their user profile (including photos) \r
+ and read them all - this will help provide some context to their later writings.</li>\r
+ <li>Keep notes to yourself in the private "<strong>Teacher's Forum</strong>" \r
+ (under Administration). This is especially useful when team teaching.</li>\r
+ <li>Use the "<strong>Logs</strong>" link (under Administration) \r
+ to get access to complete, raw logs. In there you'll see a link to a popup \r
+ window that updates every sixty seconds and shows the last hour of activity. \r
+ This is useful to keep open on your desktop all day so you can feel in touch \r
+ with what's going on in the course.</li>\r
+ <li>Use the "<strong>Activity Reports</strong>" (next to each name \r
+ in the list of all people, or from any user profile page). These provide \r
+ a great way to see what any particular person has been up to in the course.</li>\r
+ <li>Respond quickly to students. Don't leave it for later - do it right away. \r
+ Not only is it easy to become overwhelmed with the volume that can be generated, \r
+ but it's a crucial part of building and maintaining a community feel in \r
+ your course.</li>\r
+ </ol>\r
+ <HR>\r
+</blockquote>\r
+<H3><A NAME="further"></A>Further information</H3>\r
+<blockquote> \r
+ <p>If you have any particular problems with your site, you should contact your \r
+ local site administrator.</p>\r
+ <p>If you have some great ideas for improvements to Moodle, or even some good \r
+ stories, come over to <a href="http://moodle.com/" target="_top">moodle.com</a> and join \r
+ in the Teacher's forum on that site. We'd love to hear them, and you can help \r
+ Moodle improve.</p>\r
+ <p>If you want to contribute to coding new modules, or writing documentation, \r
+ or papers, contact me: <a href="http://dougiamas.com/" target="_top">Martin \r
+ Dougiamas</a> or browse the "bug tracker" site for Moodle, at <a href="http://bugs.moodle.com" target="_top">bugs.moodle.com</a></p>\r
+ <p align="center">Thanks for using Moodle - good luck!</p>\r
+ <HR>\r
+ <p> </p>\r
+</blockquote>\r
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