Moodle at its core is a repository for information and resources. As a Learning Management System (LMS), Moodle allows faculty to quickly and easily provide course materials to students in a secure, flexible, and mobile environment. In turn, students are able to access all of their course materials in one location from any location.
Provide student access to syllabi, course readings, or links to any other content, images, videos, or URLs.
Create various assignment types with built-in Moodle modules to allow student uploads.
Create quizzes and exams with automatic multiple choice grading and option for manual grading for essay questions.
Create on line discussion forums to spark student interaction or communicate with enrolled students.
Quickly email all students enrolled in your course.
Determining the best tool to use within the Moodle environment can sometimes be challenging. In order to achieve desired student learning outcomes and increase the potential for successful Moodle implementation in your courses, check out some of the methods below.
Using the Discussion Forum to create collaborative dialogue before, during, and after the classroom learning experience.
Using Quizzes to test student knowledge on reading assignments.
Make this an interactive quiz, allowing unlimited attempts to promote reflective thinking.
Create or link to videos or content that students can study prior to the next class period.
A follow-up quiz can test their knowledge of the material and bring up discussion points in class.
Using the Database module to collect content from students. Students can add content to the database and view others' contributions. This could be great for text, dates, URLs, files, images, etc.
When using large amounts of text, opt for a Page or Book module, rather than the Label.
Don't force users to continuously scroll and scroll down the page.
Don't use more than 3 font styles per page.
Use the course page as a launchpad.
Provide links to other content using the built-in Moodle tools, activities, and resources.
Use the News Forum or Quickmail for quickly contacting students in your course.