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Well, hi everybody and welcome to Moodle Support Theater. We're going to pick up
where we left off in our last lesson although we are going to go to a new
course shell. this one's called Movie Base and it's set up pretty much like it
was in the former version - we have our course information block in the upper
right-hand corner and we are in topic outline section.
Now, before we get going on the assignments and activities which is what
I promised you, notice
in the center, class materials, assignments and links to resources,
and no other titles.
Let's go to the upper right-hand corner, let's turn our editing on,
and in the highlighted section, which is Topic area four,
notice there's that hand holding the pencil.
This is a summary box you're going to get so let's click on the hand holding the
pencil
and I'm just going to type Civil War a: it's easy to type and b: it sounds
like something you might find in an academic
class, especially
if you're in the History department.
And their is your little headline. You can come down to Five and do the same
thing.
You could type Reconstruction
uh... Westward Expansion, you know, whatever you want to do, but one thing
you don't want to do in the summary boxes is put too much content.
Don't put a movie in here!
Don't put a huge illustration!
The boxes have a
limited amount
of capacity.
So use it to put
pretty much,
well, Civil War,
Reconstruction or whatever you'd like to,
otherwise you run the risk of reasoning
your course and the programmers have to go in and
uh...
unthaw it.
Not a pleasant procedure.
Okay, notice in the center section on the right-hand side we have Add a Resource
and Add an Activity.
In this series of videos were going to concentrate on going through the
activities
and show you how to add them
one of the time,
so let's choose the drop-down
and our first series are
Assignments of Activities.
Activities are something a student will do
or complete.
Let's go to Offline Activity and give it a click,
and this is like every student has done from the beginning of time,
where you created an assignment,
the student responds to that assignment, writes it down,
brings it to you, you grade it, you give it back.
I'm going call this assignment Chapter One.
(typing in Chapter One)
I'm going to put in some content which I have
copied and
prepared in advance,
it gives instructions on what to do,
about that assignment, to compare and contrast
the author with what we discussed in class.
Our next item is the grade.
Select the dropdown in the grade box. You'll notice by scrolling up and down
you can go from one point all the way up
to two hundred and fifty points,
credit/no credit, or satisfactory, even give no grade for the activity.
Point: credit/no credit, for reasons unbeknownst to me, likes to come up
with, uh, two points,
so if you only want to give one point for something, scroll to the bottom
and use one point.
It allows you to set available dates. You do not
have to - because nothing is turned in in Moodle,
it's only going to be handed to you,
it has no actual impact,
unless you make it very clear you will not be accepting assignments after a
certain date.
This does come into play for online assignments, and it is good information
for the students.
Prevent Late Submissions - it doesn't really matter if you're using
an offline assignment.
The next thing -- Group Mode -- we'll get into Group Modes in another video.
Visible - this is "are you going to show this assignment to the student yet?" is very
much like
hiding it
something we covered
in our basic programming.
And ID number -
do not put anything in this category.
If you feel the need
to fill it in,
call me, I'll talk you out of it.
Grade category....
this is where you can decide and I'm using the drop-down arrow. I have set up
categories in my Gradebook; this is going to be a participation project
worth thirty percent of the grade.
I've prepared that. More videos ahead on how to do that in the Gradebook section.
Really, that's all you need - you've given them an assignment
and you've decided if you're going to use a group and you've placed in the
proper category. We select Save and return to course,
and now if we come over to the Activities block in the lower portion
of the left-hand column,
we see an assignment has been created.
It shows us
the topic name,
it tells us the name of the assignment, and if we click the name of
the assignment,
it gives us all the assignment
details -
when it's due,
what is expected, that type of thing.
Let's go back to the Assignment block -
it tells us the assignment type, the due date if you provided, and here's
something very interesting - for students they would see their grade
when you apply a grade.
You, as a faculty member, when you see "no attempts have been made on this
assignment" well, of course it's not going to show in Moodle if they turned
anything in,
but go ahead and click on it,
and when you do, you're going to have the opportunity to do
Quick grading.
Notice you have the student name,
a drop-down which gives the full value
the number of points you've chosen, you can put a small comment in here by
typing it in.
Do not try and copy and paste a paper in here!
This is a small area, like you might find on an online form.
Nothing more than a couple...
couple dozen words here, please - again, it's a limited capacity item. Enter your
grades,
make sure you save at the bottom, and those grades go automatically
to the Grade book.
Kinda simple - let's come back next time and take a look at
how to add an assignment
and upload a single file - very handy in a Dropbox sort of way.
Got a question between now and then give us a call at extension 3633
...
because, like I like to say, we are here to help!