Online Resources for Moodle

Start Here: Lisa's Getting Started with Moodle page

Other Guides

A full course based in Moodle -- self-paced

Moodle primer: a brief intro to starting your own Moodle class by Emmett Dulaney of Campus Technology magazine

Moodle Tool Guide for Teachers: help for choosing which tool to use

Eduwiki Moodle: a wiki dedicated to helping folks use Moodle

GlobalClassrom.us: free Moodle class and self-paced tutorial

CSU Quickguide: search mini-tutorials for Moodle

How To

Moodle Tutorials: website with video tutorials about using Moodle
55 Moodle Tutorials: arranged by Moodle menu

• Lisa's tutorial on backing up a course with all users *
  * Backing up your whole class (Quicktime video, same as above but in .mov format)
• Lisa's tutorial on setting up a forum
• Lisa's tutorial on changing Blackboard settings to send students to Moodle
• Lisa's tutorial on changing your settings in Edit Profile (including how to stop all those emails and upload your photo)
• Karen Korstad's tutorial on adding your Captivate files to run in Moodle
• Lisa's tutorial on creating a quiz category (question pool) and quiz using an uploaded text file (Aiken format)
• Lisa's tutorial on how to allow students to upload images to a forum
• Lisa's tutorial on how to remove the time limit for particular students on particular quizzes (extended time testing)

Students and Moodle

Moodle tutorial for students: created by Lisa for her students new to Moodle

My FAQ for my students (feel free to steal and edit for your own use)

Creating a forum:

From the Moodle.org website:

Moodle Docs: Getting Started with Moodle

Using Moodle: main Moodle.org start with useful forums for help

Blogs and Groups about Moodle

Mary Cooch: Podcasts and Blog
Moodlemeet Ning (a social network for Moodlers, featuring Laurie Korte, author of Moodle Magic)

Special Help for Moodle 1.9 -- a new page of tutorials, plus the big changes from Moodle.org's Documentation:

• Auto-create groups
• Aggregate type for grading forums
• Category aggregation for Grades
• Role renaming inside your course settings
• Grades -- the entirely new gradebook and the biggest change, thus the Grades FAQ and the Grades Tutorial
• Force download of a file so it can't be viewed in the browser
• Organize groups in Groupings
• Notes about your students
• Outcomes
• Changes to Question Categories for setting up quizzes and Question Contexts (enables sharing questions among courses and activities)
• And here's a cool thing, with Ajax enabled (admin how-to video) we can drag and drop blocks and other elements!
• Moodle 1.9 Fixes: