Re: Moodle documentation: Participant User Documentation
Have a good one.
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Any contributions in this area will be very welcome!
Once I've got this done I'll start on a "Using Moodle - for teachers" course.
I'm contributing these to the project once they are done. Assuming that Martin thinks they are good enough, and assuming that we get a course backup and restore tool to enable distribution of the things.
I'm trying to keep each part of the course as generic as possible, so that it can be easily fitted in to anyone's site without the need for too much modification.
Translations will be required of course, once the tutorial courses have been completed, whoever writes the actual tutorials.
Sean K
Is this your first visit to this site? Please read this first.
Hopefully they click the link and are taken to the "logininfo.html" file and carefully read everything there, then print the page and come back to the home page to start the login/registration process. Initial feedback has been positive. Users have a printed page to refer to and a place to record their details. As you'll see if you view the file it's nothing more than the info on the login page but the explanation and spaces for recording details seems to instill confidence or something, I dunno? This link appears first in a course I'm building called "A good place to start" titled such so that it will always appear at the top of the page. Maybe our efforts are being duplicated. Collaboration possible? I'll help where I can. John
If you want to take a look at what I've done so far (and Martin too, and anyone else in the moodle community, if you are interested) then moodle over to http://www.oxilp.ac.uk/elearning and take a look in the moodle tutorials category and the "Moodle for Students" course. You can log in as a guest but please don't actually put any content in the forums, assignments or so on at the moment. And please bear in mind that this is a work in progress. The enrolment key you'll need is "antipodes"
The screen shots that I am using have all been taken from a previous incarnation of this site. I guess that if people want to customise the course, they can do screenshots of their own site and insert them.
If there's anything I can do to help please don't hesitate to ask.
Everyone reading Sean's post would be encouraged to take him up on his offer to view the site and see what is possible...
Thanks again, John
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I'll have a longer look tomorrow after I get some sleep, but I agree with John - excellent stuff!
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As I said, it's a work in progress...due to meetings and other stuff involving budgets for the next academic year, as well as other IT support and development work, I've been too busy to do anything on it for about two weeks, but I'm hoping to get back to work on it next week.
I stole your description of moodle, Martin, as I couldn't think of anything which described it better
Sean K
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We now have one school course running on our moodle server and have put together a little booklet that gives our students enought information to find their way into the course and start using it. The booklet is written specific to the course, but is really a general introduction on using Moodle.
I am talking the liberty of attaching a pdf copy of the booklet . If anyone would like a copy of the file in Word format so that you can modify it to your needs, I would gladly send it along.
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Course transferring is unfortunately not possible yet but is one of the top priorities.
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http://www.des.prn.bc.ca/moodle/mod/resource/view.php?id=178
It is a Word 2001 document. If you need this file in another format or version of Word, please contact me @: nkaspar@prn.bc.ca
Excellent resource!
  This will be the foundation of my introductory material with minimal changes. Great job on the GUI graphics. The entire document is straight ahead and crystal clear in it's details. The Word format was very useful. Thanks a million Norbert
John Captain
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Norbert Kaspar
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Nice manual!
Mind if I use it and translate some of its content to norwegian? I'll put the product here when it's finished. (Though it would not help you much if you don't speak norwegian...)
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Thanks! A great manual!
Here are some suggestions to improvement to the tutorial:
- Use the "logininfo" that John Captain (thank you) provided to this forum. It helps the students to find back to the site. (My experience is that some of my users mix between username and password in Moodle and their email, and also misunderstand the enrolement key.
- Maybe the students would be interested in what Moodle is? I added a small section with some basic information. (Of course, you can also give this information to your students later, ie. when the course starts.)
- I have a section about first time log-in. You don't need that since you enrol them "from the inside". How does that work? A lot of work? Do you provide email adresses? (I'm curious because at my university college we discuss this problem now in front of next semester.)
- Another of my experiences is that the students (in my case: both university college professors and students) don't quite understand the menus in the system, ie. those to the left. I added some screenshots and explained them.
- More important to me is the activities and the resources. I added a section with illustrated help to these.
- I don't know which laws people out there have to deal with, but in many cases the log in Moodle will have to deal with laws. In Norway, all universities and university colleges have a common agreement with the "Datatilsynet" who set some rules tu us about information. (They have a set of strict rulse about electronical (and manual) logs.) Because of this, we have to inform the students about this logs before they start to use the system, and I added a section about this in the manual.
I will leave a copy of it here in Word format when it's finished; maybe soon. Even though it's in norwegian, the images may show how I'm thinking...
Again, thank you for your help!
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To answer your question, I create the log ons for my students because it gives me control over the process and eliminates one more point at which students can experience problems. I also provide email addresses for them if they are needed (I have my own mail server). So far, I have found this the best way to register students in my course because it allows me to do the entire registration process at once (we have to register them elsewhere at the same time) and simplifies the process for our students. It is more work though.
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Norbert Kaspar
The course intro is correct.....once the course is completed. However I didn't want the students rampaging around in there until I had finished it, hence the enrolment key of "antipodes", as mentioned further up in this thread.
It does actually say "This course is currently under construction and will be opened up once it is ready to be viewed." at the bottom of the intro.
Anyway, take a look. I'm hoping to do some more work on it this coming week.
The plan is that once the course is completed (and hopefully the "Moodle for teachers" one as well), I'm going to donate them to the project, assuming that you folks (and Martin) think they are good enough, and I'll maintain them after that to keep in step with changes to moodle.
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Really nice course! If you don't mind, I'll use your standard and translate it to norwegian and offer it to employees and students at Nesna University College in Norway. Of course; it need some changes, but you really have a good start! I'm teaching Moodle for alle employees and students here, and have made a similar page in norwegian.
I also added an offline assignment where every single teacher/professor/whatever have to make their own Moodle site, which I evaluate and grade it passed or failed. Those who fail have to fix their site until they pass. This way the University College check that every teacher/professor really is able to use this tool (which they have to).
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And thanks for the nice comments
I'll be working on it a lot more in the coming two weeks, as all our students will be on Easter break and so I will have a little more time.
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I'm working (and using) a similar site, but I guess it's not as easy for you to grab anything from it since it's in norwegian... But later (I guess May) I'm gonna put a summary in english here somewhere about my experiences, difficulties and how I tried to solve them; both the student course and the teacher course.
Thank you so very much. As with the web page and pdf that were made by John Captain and Norbert Caspar, I am learning a tremendous amount about how to structure classes from your work.
Thank you for the kind words, but you should be thanking Martin for writing such a great piece of software, and the other coding wizards that are producing enhancements...me, I'm just a sysadmin and BOFH that can sometimes write.
Please take whatever you need from my course for your own site.
I'm hoping to get the rest of the basic sections finished during the next 10 days or so.
Sean K
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Hi Sean
I' m getting a "forbidden error" when I try to access the site.
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /elearning/ on this server.
Apache-AdvancedExtranetServer/1.3.27 Server at www.oxilp.ac.uk Port 80Nicholas Cutajar
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The course moved to a new server several months ago. Take a look at http://elearning.oxilp.ac.uk instead...
Sean K
Joe
Sean
This is excellent (but you might want to know that the graphic links are all showing as little red xs this morning!)
Do I understand correctly that you don't object if I shamelessly plagiarise your efforts here? 
If so I don't suppose you have a back up that would make such pilfering even easier do you
Regards
John
My reference to the graphic links should refer specifically to the user registration page - other pages are OK!
J
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I don't suppose you have a back up that would make such pilfering even easier do you
I'll leave the other questions for Sean to answer, but regarding this one: have a look at the Moodle Exchange course. I believe a backup of Sean's course is available there.
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I thought there was something like that but I searched for "Moodle Exchange" for 20 minutes before posting that , getting nowhere!!!
I have now found it - It's a course not a forum isn't it- duh!
Thanks
J
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http://matrixmagic.com/cweb
Open the category "Site Dev" and enter the class "Experimental Class".
There are two formats of the student manual, one is MS Word, at about 250K and one is pdf at an awful 430K. I'm puzzled by how much bigger the pdf is. There are a number of images in it, maybe that's the problem.
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Nice manual!
Mind if I use it and translate some of its content to norwegian? I'll put the product here when it's finished. (Though it would not help you much if you don't speak norwegian...)