Modulul Activităţi

Moodle permite o paletă largă de activităţi care pot fi folosite pentru a construi orice fel de curs.

 Forum

Această activitate poate fi cea mai importantă - ea facilitează dezbaterile. Forumul poate fi structurat în diferite feluri. Intervenţiile pot fi arătate în diferite moduri şi pot include fişiere ataşate. Prin înscrierea la forum, participanţii vor primi prin e-mail o copie a fiecărei intervenţii publicate. Profesorul poate impune înscrierea fiecărui cursant dacă doreşte acest lucru.

 Jurnal

Aceasta este prin excelenţă o activitate reflectivă. Profesorul poate cere studentului să reflecteze la un anumit subiect, iar studentul poate modifica şi rafina răspunsul în timp. Rezultatul acestei activităţi este privat şi poate fi evaluat doar de profesor prin feedback şi note. Este o idee bună ca în fiecare săptămână studentul să desfăsoare o activitate de acest tip.

 Resurse

Resursele reprezintă conţinutul: informaţia pe care profesorul doreşte să o aducă în curs. Resursele pot fi fomate din fişiere pregătite şi încărcate pe server, pagini redactate direct în site-ul tău sau pagini web externe site-ului care să apară ca parte a cursului.

 Temă de casă

Tema de casă permite profesorului specificarea unei sarcini de lucru în care studentul trebuie să pregătească un material digital (orice format) şi să-l încarce pe server. Sarcini tipice includ: scrierea unui eseu, a unui proiect, raport etc. Această activitate include posibilitatea notării.

 Test

Această activitate permite profesorului conceperea testelor constând din întrebări cu mai multe variante de răspuns, adevărat - fals şi răspuns scurt. Aceste întrebări sunt păstrate într-o bază de date organizată şi pot fi refolosite în cadrul cursului sau chiar între cursuri. Testele pot fi rezolvate în repetate rânduri. Fiecare încercare de rezolvare este notată, profesorul poate alege între arătarea sau ascunderea feedback-ului sau a răspunsurilor corecte. Această activitate include posibilitatea notării.

 Formular evaluare

Această activitate este foarte simplă - profesorul concepe o întrebare şi specifică mai multe variante de răspuns. Poate fi folosită ca sondaj rapid pentru stimularea interesului faţă de un anumit subiect; pentru a permite clasei să voteze direcţia de desfăşurare a cursului, etc.

 Sondaj

Activitate "Sondaj" oferă un număr de instrumente de sondaj care s-au dovedit folositoare în evaluarea şi stimularea procesului de învăţare online. Profesorii pot folosi aceste instrumente pentru a aduna date de la studenţii lor. Aceste date se vor dovedi utile în stabilirea modelului şi metodei pedagogice.

 Chats

The Chat module allows participants to have a real-time synchronous discussion via the web. This is a useful way to get a different understanding of each other and the topic being discussed - the mode of using a chat room is quite different from the asynchronous forums. The Chat module contains a number of features for managing and reviewing chat discussions.

 Choices

A choice activity is very simple - the teacher asks a question and specifies a choice of multiple responses. It can be useful as a quick poll to stimulate thinking about a topic; to allow the class to vote on a direction for the course; or to gather research consent.

 Forums

This activity can be the most important - it is here that most discussion takes place. Forums can be structured in different ways, and can include peer rating of each posting. The postings can be viewed in a variety for formats, and can include attachments. By subscribing to a forum, participants will receive copies of each new posting in their email. A teacher can impose subscription on everyone if they want to.

 Glossary

This activity allows participants to create and maintain a list of definitions, like a dictionary.

The entries can be searched or browsed in many different formats.

The glossary also allows teachers to export entries from one glossary to another (the main one) within the same course.

Finally, it is possible to automatically create links to these entries from throughout the course.

 Journals

This module is a very important reflective activity. The teacher asks the student to reflect on a particular topic, and the student can edit and refine their answer over time. This answer is private and can only be seen by the teacher, who can offer feedback and a grade on each journal entry. It's usually a good idea to have about one Journal activity per week.

 Labels

This is a not a true activity - it is a "dummy" activity that allows you to insert text and graphics among the other activities on the course page.

A lesson delivers content in an interesting and flexible way. It consists of a number of pages. Each page normally ends with a question and a number of possible answers. Depending on the student's choice of answer they either progress to the next page or are taken back to a previous page. Navigation through the lesson can be straight forward or complex, depending largely on the structure of the material being presented.

 Resources

Resources are content: information the teacher wants to bring into the course. These can be prepared files uploaded to the course server; pages edited directly in Moodle; or external web pages made to appear part of this course.

 SCORM packages

A SCORM package is a bundle of web content packaged in a way that follows the SCORM standard for learning objects. These packages can include web pages, graphics, Javascript programs, Flash presentations and anything else that works in web browsers. The SCORM module allows you to easily upload any standard SCORM package and make it part of your course.

 Surveys

The Survey module provides a number of verified survey instruments that have been found useful in assessing and stimulating learning in online environments. Teachers can use these to gather data from their students that will help them learn about their class and reflect on their own teaching.

 Assignments

Assignments allow the teacher to specify a task that requires students to prepare digital content (any format) and submit it by uploading it to the server. Typical assignments include essays, projects, reports and so on. This module includes grading facilities.

 Quizzes

This module allows the teacher to design and set quiz tests, consisting of multiple choice, true-false, and short answer questions. These questions are kept in a categorised database, and can be re-used within courses and even between courses. Quizzes can allow multiple attempts. Each attempt is automatically marked, and the teacher can choose whether to give feedback or to show correct answers. This module includes grading facilities.

 Wikis

A Wiki enables documents to be authored collectively in a simple markup language using a web browser.

"Wiki wiki" means "super fast" in the Hawaiian language, and it is the speed of creating and updating pages that is one of the defining aspects of wiki technology. Generally, there is no prior review before modifications are accepted, and most wikis are open to the general public or at least to all persons who also have access to the wiki server.

The Moodle Wiki module enables participants to work together on web pages to add, expand and change the content. Old versions are never deleted and can be restored.

This module is based on Erfurt Wiki.

 Workshop

A Workshop is a peer assessment activity with a huge array of options. It allows participants to assess each other's projects, as well as exemplar projects, in a number of ways. It also coordinates the collection and distribution of these assessments in a variety of ways. The Workshop module is contributed by Ray Kingdon.