Moodle Moot: Building Courses in Moodle

Building Courses in Moodle

Monday morning

This turned into more of a "here's what's new in 1.9" and lots of very specific questions about more advanced settings.  Here are the highlights...

Groupings

Moodle Docs on Groupings

In Moodle 1.9 onwards, groups may be organised into groupings. Activities and resources may then be assigned to particular groupings.

This is useful if you want to make different activities for different groups.  The traditional groups tool will create spaces for different groups that all contain the same activity.  For example, the groups tool will create separate groups all with the same assignment.  Groupings will let you create different assignments for each grouping.

Grading Discussions

There are new ways to calculate the grade from the ratings for each discussion - addative, average, maximum, minimum, counting.

Gradebook

* You can create custom columns (make your own column)
* Add feedback to the gradebook
* Outcomes reports (need to do some more research on this)
* Create custom calcuated columns
* There's a lot more to look at here, so there will be more to come...

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Blogging from the Moodle Moot

I am attending the Moodle Moot this week in San Francisco, a gathering of people interested in using Moodle.  We are located in downtown SanFrancisco, with a view of the Transamerica building, and mere 3 blocks from where the great Steve will come down from the mountain and reveal the holy handset 2.0. 

I am going to blog about what I learn about Moodle, so stay tuned...


Greg
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