MOODLE
Moodle is a web-based course management system used by faculty to post course
materials on the web, and by students to access those materials. Moodle replaced Blackboard
at Smith starting in Fall 2006.
Within Moodle, students and faculty may use a course calendar, announcements, threaded discussions,
virtual chat, email, online file exchange, online tutorials, and content searching. In addition,
faculty have access to assessment tools, gradebook database reporting, and student tracking.
Not all courses use all Moodle features.
To connect to Moodle, click here: http://moodle.smith.edu
The documents below contain usage instructions for students and faculty:
Moodle documentation for students
Moodle documentation for faculty
Installing required plug-ins (Flash, QuickTime, and Adobe
Reader)
Moodle workshops are
also available for faculty only. For more information, see: Fall
2007 Moodle workshops
Moodle Documentation for Students
A Student's Guide to Moodle
This PDF document provides an overview of Moodle for Smith students.
Moodle Documentation for Faculty and Other Instructors
Moodle
Quick Start Guide for Faculty
This short document provides an overview of the Moodle instructor interface and explains
how to get started, change your course settings, upload new course content, set up student
activities, and manage your course.
On-Line Tutorials for Moodle Instructors
These tutorials show the steps required to perform a number of common Moodle operations.
Note that you must have Adobe Flash installed on your computer to view the tutorials; if
you don't already have it, click here.
Comprehensive User Guides
The following user guides were written for any instructor responsible for creating or managing
a Moodle course. Each guide covers essentially the same topics, but each author treats the
content a little differently. You may wish to scan all the guides to determine which has
the level of detail that best meets your requirements.
Note 1: Moodle documentation may be used and distributed for non-commercial purposes only.
Note 2: The first two documents listed below are PDF files that require Acrobat
Reader to open. If you don't already have Acrobat Reader on your computer, click
here to download it from the Adobe website.
Moodle
for Teachers, Trainers, & Administrators
Bryan C. Williams, Matt Riordan, and Martin Dougiamas
This manual provides detailed instructions for creating Moodle courses. Although written
to support version 1.4.3, most of the content also applies to later versions of Moodle.
Moodle:
An Electronic Classroom
Matt Riordan and Tom Marcais
This manual has been updated to cover Moodle 1.5.3, and provides easy sidebar navigation
between sections.
Using Moodle: Teaching with the Popular Open
Source Course Management System
Jason Cole
Click on this link to access the individual chapters in Jason Cole's comprehensive Moodle reference
book (O'Reilly Press, 2005).
Required Plug-ins
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If a file requires Apple's QuickTime media player to display properly, click here to download QuickTime from Apple's website. |
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If a file requires Adobe Reader to display properly, click here to download Reader from the Adobe website. |
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