I'm about to use Moodle and am looking for some ideas from people with Moodle experience
by Jamie Houge -
Number of replies: 4
Hi there Moodle users,
I've been checking out Moodle over the last few days to assess how I could utilize it for a corporate training session. I am certainly impressed with the size of the community and the information and features Moodle offers, so much so that I think I may be suffering from a little Information overload.
I thought I'd draw on the collective experience of the community and see If anyone could give me a little point in the right direction with where I'm headed. Perhaps you know the best plugins or Activity Modules or even good examples of existing Moodle sites similar to that which I hope to achieve.
The Process for the training session is as follows:
1) Student Logs In
2) Watch a video
3) Answer questions based on the video
4) Watch another video
5) Answer questions based on the video
5) Watch another video
6) Trainer runs through answers and insures all questions were correctly answered (at which point clarifies any wrong answers and reviews them with trainee until student can correctly answer the question)
7) Trainee enters some information about themselves into a form. This data must be stored in the database and is to be added to the user details.
thanks in advance to anyone willing to help me out.
Jamie
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Re: I'm about to use Moodle and am looking for some ideas from people with Moodle experience
by Anthony Borrow -
Jamie - Welcome to the Moodle community! I would probably keep it simple and upload the videos or create links to them if they are on a video streaming server. For the questions, I would use the quiz module as then any questions not answered correctly can receive feedback automatically. You may want to do an adaptive mode quiz so that they can continue to guess until they get the correct answer. In any case, the quiz module provides many options. It sounds like at the end you want them to get a certificate and there is a 3rd party certificate module although I have never tested or used it myself. Best of luck in setting things up. If you run into specific problems or have questions just write back. As you have already observed this is a pretty active, responsive, and friendly community. Peace - Anthony
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Re: I'm about to use Moodle and am looking for some ideas from people with Moodle experience
by Jez H -
Hi Jamie,
I would echo what Anthony says and "keep it simple".
There is a temptation when you are new to an application to "pimp up your site" with a lot of third party plugins.
Remember that a plugin may not work after a Moodle upgrade so look at how well used / supported a plugin is, and do not get into a position where you rely too heavily on them.
Wherever possible stick to core Moodle, on that note I do not think there is anything on your list that cannot be done with core Moodle.
I would suggest you start using it before looking at plugins.
Consider changing your process to fit Moodle as opposed to changing Moodle to fit your process... it will make administration far less problematic.
Have fun
Jeremy
I would echo what Anthony says and "keep it simple".
There is a temptation when you are new to an application to "pimp up your site" with a lot of third party plugins.
Remember that a plugin may not work after a Moodle upgrade so look at how well used / supported a plugin is, and do not get into a position where you rely too heavily on them.
Wherever possible stick to core Moodle, on that note I do not think there is anything on your list that cannot be done with core Moodle.
I would suggest you start using it before looking at plugins.
Consider changing your process to fit Moodle as opposed to changing Moodle to fit your process... it will make administration far less problematic.
Have fun
Jeremy
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Re: I'm about to use Moodle and am looking for some ideas from people with Moodle experience
by Paul Nijbakker -
Hi Anthony,
If your videos and questions need to be linked, so that the student cannot do the second until having done the first you may also consider the lesson module. And point 7 sounds to me like updating the user profile.
Rgrds,
Paul.
If your videos and questions need to be linked, so that the student cannot do the second until having done the first you may also consider the lesson module. And point 7 sounds to me like updating the user profile.
Rgrds,
Paul.
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Re: I'm about to use Moodle and am looking for some ideas from people with Moodle experience
by Jamie Houge -
Thank you for your advice
I was hoping to update the user profile as a part of the lesson/ quiz but limit the update to just the one field. does this make sense? I may have to custom build this.
Thank you,
Jamie