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Revision as of 23:28, 29 October 2018

Visual Cue Narration
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Teacher’s dashboard in Moodle

Welcome to the Spoken Tutorial on Teacher’s dashboard in Moodle.
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Learning Objectives:

  • Moodle course overview
  • The teachers’ dashboard
  • How to edit profile
  • How to edit preferences
  • How to add some preliminary details pertaining to our course on Moodle.
In this tutorial, we will learn about a typical Moodle course overview.


Then we will learn about:

  • The teachers’ dashboard
  • How to edit profile and
  • How to edit preferences

Lastly, we will learn to add some preliminary details pertaining to our course on Moodle.

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OS, Web Server and Moodle Versions

This tutorial is recorded using:
  • Ubuntu Linux OS 16.04
  • Apache, MariaDB and PHP obtained through XAMPP 5.6.30
  • Moodle 3.3 and
  • Firefox web browser

You may use any web browser of your choice.


However, Internet Explorer should be avoided, as it causes some display inconsistencies.

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Assumptions


This tutorial assumes that
  • your site administrator has set up a Moodle website
  • and assigned you to a new, blank course where you have teacher privileges.
Show Slide:

Moodle-block-diagram.pdf

My system administrator has already done the following.

Please note:

Teacher role has been assigned to user “Rebecca Raymond” for the course “Calculus”.

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Prerequisites

Ask your site administrator to refer to the Moodle tutorials on this website.


And create a user for you, who has teacher privileges for at least one course.

Show Slide 6: Moodle is one of the most flexible, creative and easy-to-use teaching and learning system.
Show Block Diagram

Uses of Moodle for a teacher.pdf

Typically, Moodle can be used by teachers to -
  • Upload their teaching-learning resources
  • Manage their collection of multimedia e-resources like files, videos, etc.
  • Share web resources and open educational resources
  • Embed YouTube / Vimeo videos
  • Administer quizzes and assignments
  • Encourage the use of collaborative content like Wiki, Glossary, etc.
  • Interact and communicate with students synchronously and asynchronously and
  • Track students' learning progress
Show Block Diagram

Courseflow-Calculus.pdf

I have with me the course overview of my Calculus course.
Same slide continues I have
  1. The topics that will be covered
  2. Number of lectures per week
  3. Total number of assignments for the course
  4. Total number of quizzes (weekly or fortnightly)
  5. Total number of end of course exams
  6. Marks distribution
  7. Course materials
  8. Book references
Only narration I have to structure my course and upload all the materials accordingly on Moodle.
Switch to the browser.

Enter http://127.0.0.1/moodle/

Switch to the browser and open the Moodle site.
Highlight the header and the courses A page with a header and available courses will be displayed.
Click on Log in Click on the Login link at the top right corner of the window.
Type username = becky0808 and password = Spokentutorial1@ I will login as teacher Rebecca Raymond.
Change password page We are on a page that prompts us to change our password.


This is because the Force password change option was activated by the admin earlier.

New password -> Type current password >> new password Spokentutorial12# Type the current password followed by the new password.


I will type Spokentutorial12 #

New password (again) -> Re-type new password >> Click on Save changes button Re-type the new password.


And then click on Save changes button at the bottom.

Highlight the success message in a red box A success message appears confirming that the password has been changed.


Click on the Continue button.

The page that we are in now, is called the dashboard.
Point to the 3 columns Our dashboard is divided into 3 columns.


The one on the left is the Navigation menu.


The wider one in the middle, is the main Course overview area with 'Timeline' and 'Courses' tabs.


The one on the right is the Blocks column.

Click on Courses Courses tab lists the courses you are enrolled in.


Click on the Courses tab in the Course overview area.

Point to Calculus In the In Progress tab, we see 2 courses here: Calculus and Linear Algebra.


These are the courses assigned to teacher Rebecca Raymond by the admin.

Click on Future tab.


Click on Past tab.

Future courses assigned to her, will be visible in the Future tab.


Likewise, any of her courses that are over, will be seen under the Past tab.

On the top left corner >> point to Navigation menu. Let us now look at the header of the page.


On the top left corner, we can see Navigation Drawer or Navigation menu.

Point to Calendar and Administration This gives access to the Calendar, Private Files and My courses links.
Click on the menu bar to collapse it.


Toggle it to open it.

This is a toggle menu.


Which means it changes its status from open to close and vice-versa, when clicked.

Highlight the notification and messages icons. At the top right, there are quick access icons for notifications and messages.
Click on the Rebecca Raymond’s user menu.


Clicking on the profile picture at the top right, will enable us to access the user menu.


It is also called as the quick access user menu.


Click on it.


All these menu items are also toggle menus, similar to the one on the left.

Click on the Profile link. Click on the Profile option.
Highlight various sections of the Profile page. Every user in Moodle has a profile page. It has links to
  • allow users to edit their profile information
  • see the courses they are enrolled in
  • view their blog or forum posts
  • check any reports they have access to and
  • view their access logs that was used to login the last time
Click on Edit Profile link. Now let’s click on the Edit Profile link
Scroll down to show the various sections.


The Edit Profile page opens up.

This page is divided into 5 sections:

  • General
  • User Picture
  • Additional Names
  • Interests
  • Optional
Point as per narration The General and User picture sections are expanded, by default.
Click on the Expand all and Collapse all links The ‘Expand all’ link on the right, expands all the sections.
Click on any one section And clicking on any section name either expands or collapses it.
All fields here are editable.
First Name: Rebecca

Surname: Raymond

Email address: rebecca@maths.iitb.ac.in

City: Mumbai

Country: India


Email display: Allow only other course members to see my email address

Email activated: This email is enabled

Email format: Pretty HTML

……..All options as default

You can enter your personal details in General section, as I have done now.
Description:

First Name: Prof. Rebecca Raymond

Building: Mathematics Department Annex

Phone: 25761234

Email: rebecca@maths.iitb.ac.in

Website: http://www.aero.iitb.ac.in/~rebecca/


Specialization: Numerical Analysis, Finite Element Methods


Background

IIT Bombay (2001 - present), XYZ Bangalore (1997 - 2001), Vantage Haifa (1995 - 1997)


R&D Areas/Projects:

Vector Calculus & Linear Algebra, Problems in Elliptic Partial Differential Equations


Courses Taught:

Modern Theory of partial differential equations

Linear Algebra

Calculus

As a teacher, I’d like my students to know a little bit about me.


So, here in the Description field, I will fill out some details.


Pause the tutorial and fill out your details as I have done here.

Point to the other fields and sections


Point to Profile picture

You can also add some information in the other fields and sections.


You can upload your picture as well.

City/Town: Mumbai

Select India in the Select a Country dropdown.

Timezone: Asia/ Kolkata


Scroll down to the Optional Section that has instant messaging details.


Institution: IIT Bombay


Department: Mathematics


Phone number: 9876543210

I have added a few more details in General and Optional sections.
Click on Update Profile Then click on Update Profile button and save the page.
Click on quick access menu.


Click on Preferences.

Now click on the quick access user menu at the top right again.


And click on the Preferences link.

The Preferences page gives users quick access to various settings they may wish to edit.
Highlight the 3 sections. Preferences page for a teacher’s account is divided into :
  • User account
  • Blogs and
  • Badges
Scroll down to show the User account section. We have already seen Edit Profile and Change Password earlier.
There are some other preferences for Language, Forum, Editor, Course, Calendar, Message, Notification.
Click on Calendar Preferences. Let’s click on the Calendar preferences.
Select 24-hour from the Time display format dropdown. We will set the calendar to display time in 24 hour format.
Select 2 weeks from the Upcoming events look-ahead dropdown. Also, we will set the Upcoming events look-ahead to 2 weeks.


This means we’ll see notifications for all events happening in the next 2 weeks, on the calendar.

Click on Save Changes button. Click on the Save Changes button.
We will go through the rest of the preferences when we discuss those features later in this series.
Point to the breadcrumbs Notice the information here.


This is the breadcrumb navigation.


It’s a visual aid that indicates which page we are on, within the Moodle site’s hierarchy.

Point first to Dashboard It helps us to go back to a higher-level page with a single click.
Click on Dashboard Click on the Dashboard link in the breadcrumbs to go to the dashboard.
Now let us see how to add a topic and brief summary for the Calculus course.
Click on Calculus Let’s click on the Calculus course in the Navigation menu at the left.
Click on gear icon at top-right On the new page, click on the gear icon at the top right.
Click on Turn editing on Then click on Turn editing on option.
The page now displays more edit options.
Click on pencil next to Topic 1 Click on the pencil icon next to Topic 1.
Type Basic Calculus >> Press Enter Now, in the text box that appears, type Basic Calculus.


Press Enter.

Point to the topic name Notice the change of topic name.
Click on Edit Now click on the Edit link at the extreme right of that topic.
Click on Edit topic And then click on Edit topic option.
Point to Summary This brings us to the Summary page.
Summary field:

Following sub-topics will be covered in this topic:

Evolutes and involutes; Evaluation of definite and improper integrals; Beta and Gamma functions and their properties; Applications of definite integrals to evaluate surface areas and volumes of revolutions.

Here, in the Summary field, we can give a brief summary of the topic.


I will type as shown.

Click on the Save Changes Scroll down and click on the Save Changes button.
Observe the change.
Only narration This is how we begin to add details of our course in Moodle.
Click on user icon >> choose Log out We will now logout of Moodle.


To do so, click on the user icon at the top right.


Now choose Log out option.

Only narration. <PAUSE>

With this, we come to the end of this tutorial.

Let us summarize.

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Summary

In this tutorial, we learnt about:
  • Course overview details
  • The teachers’ dashboard
  • Edit profile settings and
  • Preferences settings and
  • Adding preliminary details of the course in Moodle.
Assignment


Change all other topic names and add summaries.

As an assignment,
  • Change the names of all topics in Calculus course
  • Add respective summaries to all topics
  • Refer to assignment-code file of this tutorial for details.
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(Acknowledgement)

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This script has been contributed by Nancy and Priyanka.

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