METTU UNIVERSITY
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY
LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (LMS Moodle)
By: ETIM DEPARTMENT
Mettu, Ethiopia
May, 2021
Contents
what is Moodle?
what can Moodle do?
what Moodle contains?
what a teacher can do in Moodle?
what a student can do?
how to add new user
how to create new course?
create new course
how to enroll users to courses?
how to add course assignments
how to create quizzes?
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What is Moodle?
• Moodle is a course management system (CMS) - a free, Open Source software package
• designed using sound pedagogical principles, to help educators create effective online
• learning communities.
• Moodle is an electronic classroom.
• Moodle is the name of a program that allows the classroom to extend onto the web. This
program allows a common place for students to go for many classroom resources.
• Using Moodle, you can post news items, assign and collect assignments, post electronic
journals and resources, and more.
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What is Moodle and why use it?
• Moodle is a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) which makes it easy for you to provide
online support for your course.
• Providing a central space on the web where students and staff can access a set of tools and
resources anytime anywhere.
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Cont…
• Staff and students of the Department have found most valuable aspects are:
An easy way to communicate with students and staff where ever they are
A quick way to share documents
Easy access to relevant and useful online resources
Online assignment handling
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What can a teacher do in Moodle?
• You can create assignments; you can open a chat; you can organize a choice
• (poll) for a selection or election; you can post questions to a forum; you can
• create lessons; you can design and give a quiz; you can initiate a wiki;
• you can conduct a workshop ; and you can keep track of all these activities, and
• many more, with a variety of administrative tools.
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What can a teacher do in Moodle?
• You can create assignments; you can open a chat; you can organize a choice
• (poll) for a selection or election; you can post questions to a forum; you can
• create lessons; you can design and give a quiz; you can initiate a wiki;
• you can conduct a workshop ; and you can keep track of all these activities, and
• many more, with a variety of administrative tools.
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What can a student do in Moodle?
• You can see all your enrolled classes at a glance; you can work on assignment from
• any computer with an Internet connection and a compatible browser; you can check your
• grades for assignments, quizzes and other tasks; you can contribute to forums,
• wikis, and glossaries that your teacher establishes; and you can check your course's
• calendar for important dates and upcoming course events.
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Creating Quizzes
To add a quiz
1. Select Quiz from the Add an activity menu. This takes you to the “Quiz” editing screen.
2. You need to give your quiz a name and write an introduction to the quiz. You have access to
full formatting (bold, italics, etc.). Other format options include:
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Cont…
• Open the quiz – sets the opening
• date and time for the quiz.
• Students cannot take the quiz
• before this time.
• _x0001_ Close the quiz –sets the ending
• date and time of the quiz. Students
• cannot take the quiz after this time.
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Online assignment handling:
• When your students and tutors are not close to Oxford online assignment handling can save
time and effort for everyone involved.
• whether it is just used for student submission with marking done on paper or the whole process
is moved online saving time, postage and paper.
• Other advantages:
• Save time and money – making resources available online can save time and money in
photocopying.
• Control access to different areas – can make a space for dispersed tutors to communicate with
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each other as well as students.
Cont…
• Use less paper – keep a central copy online so everyone can find the latest version of a course
handbook etc. provide handouts online and students only print out what they really need.
• Designed to encourage collaborative learning – Moodle makes it easy to model the oxford
tutorial system online if you want to use it with globally distributed students
• Easy to experiment with new ideas and tools – a low risk way to incorporate new tools and
ideas into your teaching.
• Manage your materials – if all your course information is on Moodle this is easy access this
year after year.
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Other features and tools:
• Course calendar – use this to flag important events to everyone on your course.
• Profiles and contact information – help students and staff get to know each other at the start
of the course, also hold information about course team and students in one place.
• Deliver content – post up slides etc
• Video and audio – many academics find it easy to record lectures as podcasts or even arrange
for videos of lectures or special events– posting these online and making it available to
students is straight forward with Moodle
• Group tools for students – there are many tools that students can use for collaboration with
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