Suggested course plan

Purpose to show staff how to manage their course on Moodle.

Topics:

1. what is a vle and the moodle environment?
2. what your course area looks like
3. structuring your course
4. adding resources to your course:
5. what is a resource?
6. adding activities to your course
7. what is an activity?
8. what type of activity should I use?
9. Using forums: the news forums and discussion forums

Yacapaca

Yacapaca is a great free system where teachers can access loads of free on-line quizzes for their students and create their own. It will keep track of students scores and also now contains its own integrated e-portfolio system.

Gadget of the week

Have a look here at a great fun gadget that could have all sorts of eucational uses:

http://www.chumby.com/

The first posting for this blog

Since we were looking at some of the different open source options available here's some sites to look at:

http://www.moodle.org/ - the homepage for the open source vle
http://www.mahara.org/ - the site for the open source e-portfolio
http://www.dimdim.com/ - great free on-line presentation system