The information below will help you choose the right Moodle activity for a particular learning outcome.
Assignments (Assignments are graded)
- Upload a Single File - Use for any type of assignment where student works with electronic file: Writing, Desktop Publishing, Graphics, Audio, Video, Chart, Spreadsheet, Coding, etc.
- Advanced Uploading of Files - Same as above, except allows multiple files and/or multiple exchanges of a file. Choosing Single or Advanced Uploadif you want to mark up and give back a draft submission to the students.
- Offline Assignment - Use for anything you want the student to do and submit outside of Moodle, including manual assignment submissions, class presentations, etc.
- Online Text - Any type of online writing assignment. Allows repeat submissions and inline comments by teacher.
Chat
- Live, synchronous discussion.
- Best used for short, scheduled sessions, including office hours, study sessions, peer tutoring, or specific topic discusssion.
- Threaded, asynchronous discussion.
- Use a forum to post announcements, share ideas, and hold any-time discussions outside the classroom.
- There are four forum types. Depending upon the type you choose, participants can read or contribute to discussions, or start new discussions.
- Students can rate each other, or you can be the only one allowed to rate and grade student posts.
Wiki
- The wiki module allows students to work collaboratively to develop a set of web pages as part of your course. There are different wiki types in Moodle, but we usually think of a wiki as an activity where students collaborate in building knowledge.
- You could use a wiki to have students develop knowledge around the organizing principles and core concepts of your course.
- As an active, but not collaborative, activity, you could have each student build an individual wiki of course notes.
Glossary
- The glossary activity allows you to build a glossary of definitions, terms or other entries.
- You can build the glossary, or you can let your students build a course glossary collaboratively.
- Students can rate each other, or you can be the only one allowed to rate student entries.
Quiz
- You can develop various question types in Moodle or import them from a variety of sources.
- Once the questions are in your question bank, it takes only minutes to set up a quiz to deliver selected or random questions from the question bank.
Lesson
- Lessons allow you to seamlessly integrate tutorials, practice, and remediation in a series of web pages.
- You can present content, pose questions, and provide branching based on student responses.
- Because you can vary feedback and branching based on correct or incorrect responses, this activity is very adaptive and and increases "instructor bandwith."
Choice
- Deliver any kind of one-question choice or poll to students, with any number of responses, and let them view the results for the class.
- Examples: Choose a project, Sign up for presentation time, Give your opinion, Test your knowledge, Pick your favorite flavor of ice cream.
Questionnaire
- You can construct any type of survey or questionnaire to administer to your class.
- Questionnaire results can be viewed by student, by question, or by course.
For instructions on how to create a specific activity, click http://docs.moodle.org/en/Teacher_documentation.
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