Activity Modules
Moodle contains a wide range of activity modules that can be used to
build up any type of course.
Chats
The Chat module allows participants to have a real-time synchronous
discussion via the web. This is a useful way to get a different
understanding of each other and the topic being discussed - the mode
of using a chat room is quite different from the asynchronous forums.
The Chat module contains a number of features for managing and
reviewing chat discussions.
Quizzes
This module allows the teacher to design and set quiz tests, consisting of
multiple choice, true-false, and short answer questions. These
questions are kept in a categorised database, and can be re-used
within courses and even between courses. Quizzes can allow
multiple attempts. Each attempt is automatically marked, and the
teacher can choose whether to give feedback or to show correct answers.
This module includes grading facilities.
Labels
This is a not a true activity - it is a "dummy" activity that allows you
to insert text and graphics among the other activities on the course page.
Help for the Flash Activity Module
The 'Flash Activity Module' allows Flash authors to integrate their Flash movies into Moodle as a Moodle activity.
It makes it easy to adapt Flash movies, with the minimum of coding, so that they can be used as activity modules within Moodle and :
- can be added as an 'Activity' to a Moodle course
- log activity so that it appears in Moodle Recent Activity block and Moodle logs
- optionally can be made repurposable (configurable)
- optionally can store grades in the Moodle gradebook
- optionally can store answers and times taken to do a question
- diplay details to a user about their attempts at an activity
- optionally can allow teachers to export grades from the grade book
- cofiguration data, logs, answers and grades can be backed up and restored
- a preloader allows movies to use preloaded unicode fonts or portions of fonts as if they were embedded in the movies themselves
More information about how to author movies for use as Flash Activity modules may be found at http://jamiep.org
As the module stands now activities normally consists of multiple questions and can be attempted as many times as the learner wants.
FLV Player Activity Module
The FLV Player Activity Module is comprehensive wizard for deploying Flash video as activities in Moodle courses. It allows users to set all of the parameters supported by Jeroen Wijering's FLV Player.
FLV Player Activity Module Developed by Matt Bury - http://matbury.com/
FLV Player Developed By Jeroen Wijering - http://www.longtailvideo.com/
Help Files Index
Forums
This activity can be the most important - it is here that most discussion takes place.
Forums can be structured in different ways, and can include peer rating of each posting.
The postings can be viewed in a variety for formats, and can include attachments.
By subscribing to a forum, participants will receive copies of each new posting
in their email. A teacher can impose subscription on everyone if they want to.
Hot Potatoes
This module, the "HotPot" module, allows teachers to administer
Hot Potatoes quizzes via Moodle.
The quizzes are created on the teacher's computer and then uploaded to the Moodle course.
After students have attempted the quizzes, a number of reports are available which show how
individual questions were answered and some statistical trends in the scores.
Lesson
A lesson delivers content in an interesting and flexible way. It consists of a
number of pages. Each page normally ends with a question and a number of
possible answers. Depending on the student's choice of answer they either
progress to the next page or are taken back to a previous page. Navigation
through the lesson can be straight forward or complex, depending largely
on the structure of the material being presented.
Resources
Resources are content: information the teacher wants to bring into the
course. These can be prepared files uploaded to the course
server; pages edited directly in Moodle; or external web pages
made to appear part of this course.
