 One, and welcome to our week two webcast tutorial on activities and resources. And very soon, I'm going to be passing over to Helen, who's going to talk to you a little bit about the past week. So I'm going to stop sharing my screen. You'll see a blank screen for a few seconds. And welcome to Helen. I'm going to pass over to Helen now. Hi, welcome, everybody. I'm very glad you can join us. I'm just going to share my little presentation now. Hope you can all see some week one statistics. How have we been getting on? Well, first of all, nearly 8,000 people signed up and enrolled in the course. And those forums, the question and answer forum, the Introduce Yourself, and the other forum. Useful, helpful posts has been really busy. Over 6,000 forum posts there. And over 2,000 badges awarded. If you've not yet got a Learn Moodle participant badge, it's very easy. Just post in any of the forums, and you'll get the badge pretty simultaneously. Over 300 blog posts, not sure of the exact number in our site blogs. Not some people blogging elsewhere on the internet. And we've had 1,500 practice courses requested. If you've not yet requested a course to practice, then you should look out on the course page for that block with a nice little lady. I think Mary chose it to look like her, straight hair. And click that Request Now button. So in the first week, we had a choice activity. And we asked you, how would you describe your previous experience with Moodle? And we had a great response. Over 50% of you said you're either new to Moodle and have used Moodle a little. That's great. We hope you're learning a lot from the course. Also, what was great was 31% of you said, I'm an advanced moodler here to help others. And we really appreciate all the help that's been provided in the forums. So just to finish my bit with a little quote Martin mentioned last week, all of us are potential teachers as well as learners. And in a true collaborative environment, we are both. OK, over to you, Mary. OK, thank you, Helen. That was really interesting. I'm going to now share my screen and talk to you about this week's learning activities. So if you bear with me while I share my screen, OK? And there's always a little bit of blank while we're waiting for the slide to come up. And then I'm going to talk for about 15 minutes also about week two, which is called Getting Involved. And as I'm talking, I'm hoping to answer the following questions. First of all, obviously, what do we do in week two? What are the week two tasks to make them absolutely clear? Then we want to look at what your teaching style is and how you can get Moodle to help you deliver your learning materials using your preferred teaching styles, although obviously you'd want a blend of styles, I think, because your learners would probably have a mix of learning styles. Then to the most important thing, how do you actually add your materials, your learning content? And then we're going to have some questions and answers at the end. So if we start with what do I do in week two? I'm going to move on to the next slide. As Helen was saying, most of us are learners and teachers. And in this MOOC, we have you in two roles. We have you in the student role in our teaching with Moodle course. And as a student, we'd like you to join in the tasks in the week two section. Just try them out. They're there for you to experience Moodle activities and resources. However, you might have to check back later in the middle of the week because we do have a group activity that won't appear until a little bit later on. So that's what you do as a student, as a learner. But then as a teacher, you should have requested a practice course. And we'd like you in there to make at least three different Moodle activities or resources. And I'm going to explain what an activity or resources shortly. Now, we say at least three because I think three would give you a good experience of testing out Moodle's features. But we don't want to overwhelm you by expecting that you do every single one. But of course, you can do more if you want to. And to help you create these and understand what they do, there is a book in the week two section. I'm moving the slide on. And here's my big red arrows pointing to it. I like big arrows pointing. How can I help my learners learn? In there, you will have some instructions either text or video to take you through some of these materials. So if we move on to my next questions, as I move on to my next slide, I'm going to join these together. How do I want to teach? Many of us have different ways in which we like to teach different styles. And our learners have different ways in which they prefer to learn. And how can Moodle, how can the Moodle's features help us do that? Well, let's look at them together, first of all. And if we start with examples of ways of teaching, many people who are moving from face to face classes to putting on materials online, often the first thing they want to do, the simplest thing, is to put online presentations or word process documents that they've actually done or given out in a face to face class. And that's fine. And we'll look at how you can do that in Moodle. Or because it is online, they might want to have some multimedia. Get the students watching videos or listening to podcasts. We can do that, too. And these courses would be mainly reading. The student would be reading information as they move on. And another very useful thing that I found this myself when I first began with Moodle is to give them easy links to useful websites rather than them having to go and Google and find it themselves. Now, if this is the kind of thing you're looking to do, then Moodle calls all of these resources. And resources are just static materials that the student would look at, read, watch, or listen to. Now, some other ways of teaching, if I move on, you might be very much interested in group work, getting your students to discuss things and collaborate and contribute together. Moodle can help you do that. And likewise, you might want to give your class a sense of control over what's going to happen next in terms of what subject, what topic, or module you're going to learn. So if you'd like some feedback from them on where they want to take their learning or for them to feel they're empowered to direct it, again, we'll look at how Moodle can do that. The third one, reflecting on progress, is absolutely essential. And we've asked you, as a student in the teaching with Moodle course, to reflect on your progress during these four weeks by using the blog. And as Helen said, a lot of people have done that. And that's really encouraging. So that is actually one way that you could get your students to reflect on their progress. But we'll look at some others also. And then equally essential is grading. So if you want to use Moodle for setting examinations, assignments, graded activities, how do you do that? How can Moodle help you do that? I'm just going to cover that briefly. So if we move on to the next slide, these are Moodle's activities. So the difference between a resource and an activity is a resource is static material where the students are just looking at it or taking it in. Whereas an activity, they are actually actively involved. They are typing on their keyboard or swiping on their iPad. And they feel they're doing something rather than just sitting looking at a screen. And so we're going to look at both of these and how you can add them to your course. So we're moving on to our fourth question. How do I add learning content? And whether you're going to add a resource or an activity, the first thing that you have to do in your course, and I'm sure you've already discovered this, is you need to turn on the editing. You can do this either by clicking at the button top right or in the administration block, there's a link. And both of these will then allow you to start adding content. So if we take the simplest one first of all, how could you get that presentation that you did that's so good that you want your students to access outside of your class? How could you get that into your Moodle course? Well, if you turn on the editing, and then if we move on to the next slide, once you've turned it on, if you see at the top of your screen a message, drag and drop files onto course sections, then this means that all you have to do to add your presentation or other documents is simply, and I'm going to show you, is simply to have it ready on your desktop or in your documents. Click on it and hold it and then drag it in to the section where you'd like it to appear. Don't worry if you put the wrong section because as you would have learned from last week, you can use the move icon to move it up and down. This works with most browsers, although I think earlier versions of Internet Explorer, it doesn't. So if you don't get that message, but you still want to upload your presentations, or if you want to look at a different method, here is another way. So I'm going to move on. With the editing turned on, in each section, you should see a link, add an activity or resource. So this is where you'd go to add activities as well as resources. So if we just wanted to add our presentation again, we click this link and then this takes us to what Moodle Note calls the activity chooser. We're going to learn some Moodle terms in this tutorial and one of your activities in the teaching with Moodle course this week is to add items to a glossary. So it would be great if some of these new terms that we're looking at, you could add to the glossary to help other people. The activity chooser has a list down the left of activities, they come first, and then, as we scroll down, resources that the administrator has made available to teachers in their courses. And what is useful is that if you click the radio button next to a particular resource, so if we click next to file, because that's what we want, our presentation is a file, it would give us some information over the right, helping us with some ideas as to how to use it in our teaching. And then we simply click the add button at the bottom to bring up the screen to add it. But once you're used to that and you don't want to see the information on the right, you just need to click the radio button twice and it'll take us straight there. So if we were adding our presentation this way, we'd click the add button and then we'd have to give it a name and maybe a description and then we'd come here where, again, we could still drag and drop it if we wanted to, but there is an add link. And so if you think in terms of, I want to add my presentation, so I click the add button, this takes us to another new term of Moodle, the file picker, and this is where you would go to bring in from the outside of Moodle, documents, word process documents, presentations, any kind of file that you want to display for your learners. However, do remember that if you're going to give them an Excel 2010 file, for instance, they need to have the right software to be able to view it. You can upload anything you want, but it's only going to work if your learners have the software to be able to access it. So we would choose the link on the left that said upload a file and then we'd get our presentation from our computer, for example. But if you take a look at those links, which Moodle calls repositories, each of these is a place you can go to to go and find files that you want to display as resources. You see that you could, if your administrator has enabled it, get a presentation from Google Drive or Dropbox, or you could get an image from Flickr. The ones at the top are specific to Moodle and server files would take you to other courses where you're a teacher in. So if you had a presentation in a different course and you wanted to add it to this one, you could get it from there. Recent files shows you the last few files that you've uploaded. It isn't recent in terms of type, but recent in terms of number. And Moodle's very clever because if you click to upload an image, it'll only show you image files. If you click to upload a video, it'll only show you sound or video files. And private files enables you to get from your private files repository, file documents that you might have uploaded earlier on, neatly organized, and now you're ready to display them. All of these are explained in the book How Can I Help My Learners Learn in Week 2. And the way that displayed is very helpful too. If we look at recent files as an example, if I wanted to choose a file from my recent files, then I can either look at them as neat graphics, as you can see here. If you like that sort of thing, identifying them, there's my hold down the thinker over on the right. Or if I go to the next way of displaying them, here I can see the type of file they are, how large they are, and when they were uploaded, modified, and you can sort them also. And then finally, in a kind of a tree display here, so there's different ways of looking at your files in the repositories according to your preference. Okay, I'm not going to focus much more on files now because what I would like to do is to move on to activities. And again, to add activities, we click the add an activity or resource link, where we want it to. And we get back to the activity chooser. The activities come first in the activity chooser. Here's a list of all of them. I think that's because we'd like to encourage people to think of trying activities more than resources because the students feel a bit more engaged when they're actually doing stuff rather than statically, passively reading it. The ones in yellow are the standard activities that you'll have on a Moodle site, but your administrator can add extra ones too. We've given you big blue button as a present, for example, there that you can try some web conferencing, but it's not standard. Now this week, we're going to explore some, but not all of these. Some of them, like lesson and workshop, you'll be able to experience in week four, but I wouldn't suggest trying them if you're a brand new Moodle because they are quite advanced. So let's go back to those teaching styles and see how Moodle's activities can help you teach this way. If you'd like your class to work and learn together, in other words, collaborate, then you might like to investigate chats, database, forum, glossary, or wiki. We have a wiki where we'd like you to complete the story or continue a story of different ways that a teacher's day might proceed. So that's an example. Each one of these would get your students working together, building together terms in a glossary, for example, or a database. If we move on to the next one that we thought of, directing and feedback on the learning, again, we have forum because you see forum appears in several of these because it is such a versatile and easy to use activity. Choice is a simple poll and you've already been asked one choice, which is to do with how experienced you are in Moodle and there are other ways that you could use that choice, that voting to get your class to choose where they'd like it to go next. In fact, we're going to give you another choice activity this coming up week that will enable you to direct this tutorial, but more of that later. And feedback, this is basically a questionnaire or a survey by another name and we have an example of that at the end of week one where we asked you to tell us how it went so we can improve. Reflecting, well, you've been doing the blocks but again, you can use these as a forum choice, feedback survey, these also are very good for getting your students to reflect on their progress. Choice is a quick one, how well do you think you're progressing? Very well, okay, not very well at all and you can use the results to enable you, the teacher to give extra practice or extension more challenging work accordingly. And the survey is a very useful module also if you've had a look at that in week one and we also have one in week two coming up. Now the final one, which I'm going to talk about now, assessing and grading, two which we will look at, quiz and assignment. I'm actually going to focus on in week three. Week three is just about making the grade and grading activities. So if you're going to start exploring this week, then I wouldn't possibly look at quiz or assignment until next week's tutorial and we'll focus more on them there. But as you can see, there are many different activities which would tie in with the ways that you would like to teach or present your teaching materials. So just to recap then, in week two, as a student, we'd like you to join in the tasks, bearing in mind you might have to come back a little bit later on, and we'd like you to try at least three different activities or resources as I've gone through them using the book to help you. So that's the book, How Can I Help My Learners Learn? And that will show you the different elements that we've just looked at. So if we get back to our questions to make sure we've gone through it systematically, we've looked at what to do in week two, how Moodle's activities and resources can help you in the way you want to teach and how to add them. So it's now time to ask some questions and I'm going to stop sharing my screen and what I'm going to do now is I'm going to pass on to X, Y who's got her Twitter screen and then Helen and I are going to look at some of the questions that hopefully will have arisen on Twitter and talk about them and passing on to X, Y. Thank you very much, Mary, that was great. Whilst X, Y is getting Twitter feed up, I've seen some questions that I'm just going to try and answer. One on Twitter from Phil. He says, I'm just about to publish my own blog post reflecting on the first week of Learn Moodle and should I share this with others and how? Well, Phil, if you look in the Teaching with Moodle course, there's a page called Reflect on Your Learning which explains where you can post, you can use the site blogs or course blogs on the Learn Moodle site and as for whether you should share it, well, if you want, you can not share it but we'd really recommend that you share it as Martin mentioned in his presentation last week, we learn particularly well from the act of creating or expressing something for others to see. So if you do publish your blog post on the Learn Moodle site for everyone to see, then others can come along and add comments to it and help you with your learning. I'm not seeing the Twitter stream. X, Y, are you managing to share it or I could share my Twitter? Well, would you like to, oh, here we go. Okay, I'm going to pass the camera on to X, Y. Yes, thank you, X, Y. Okay. Another question that's come from Heather. She says, if there was a map showing the location of students, that would be nifty. I wonder if that's easily done in Moodle. Well, there's nothing in standard Moodle for showing a map of location of students but I do know there are websites on the internet that you can get that done where people can add their details and then this can be added to your Moodle course as a URL resource. Okay, I've seen a couple of questions also that X, Y has posted. Are there any plans for a single window with chat video and interaction icons if it's not there already? Well, again, not in standard but we've added for you to have a look at in your course big blue button which is an open source video conferencing feature which works well with Moodle and there you can have a video and you can have chat and you can share your presentations. It might be worth looking at that. And then secondly, Paul asks, I've set up a course, how do we go about joining others? Do you mean if you would like to be a student in other people's courses, which is great? Then you can either volunteer yourself in the forums or you can enroll by using the enrollment video which you've shown you in week one. You can enroll learners. It might be a little bit of a surprise if you go to your My Home page as I have done in fact and find that there are other courses that you've been enrolled in but that's simply because people would like you to test out their activities, particularly this week as students in their courses. So volunteer to be a student or you can enroll some and I hope they'll be happy to do that. Yeah, for those of you who've explored all their activities in their teaching with Moodle course you'll notice in week four there's a forum show us your Moodle course. So you can post in there about your own course and ask if anyone would like to be enrolled or maybe you can post asking to be enrolled in a course. Okay, I have a question from Juan Pablo. Would you explain a little further the difference between survey and feedback activities? Basically survey does not allow you to change the questions. It has two types of questions or it might be three, Collis and ATTLS. And these are already made surveys which give great feedback on the participating and learning styles of students. Feedback, which is what many of us would think of as a survey if we're talking semantics. Feedback allows you to change your own questions to choose your own questions, different question types to ask of your students. So if you want to decide what you want to ask them use a survey, but if you'd like some good results, some good analysis of the way that they learn and cooperate in a course, take a look at survey. And just before I pass on if Helen has anything. Also Juan says, are people making their courses public and sharing them on Moodle? There might be a forum poster type miss listing available courses. Well, again, you can share it already, but in week four, we've actually asked you there to share your course to get some feedback. Okay, Helen, do you have any others or? Well, I was gonna say thank you to everybody who's joined us in the Moodle chat. As I mentioned in the notice board forum post, we wanted to do an experiment to see how the Moodle chat would cope with a large number of people. I don't know how many people we've gotten the chat, but it's certainly a really long, long list. So we'll definitely have the be able to see when we finish the chat, how many people have been in. And it seems to be working really well. So a big thank you to our system administrator Matt, who's done a really great job with sorting out all the technical stuff behind the learn Moodle site. Okay. Any more questions? There was a question from David. Did you answer it, Mary? I'm not sure. When will you share how to personalize questions? Actually, I put the camera back onto me, but if you think we have plenty more, I'll put it back onto X, Y's Twitter feed. I wasn't quite sure what she meant, David, by personalize question. Maybe if you'd like to tweet your question again and explain, we're looking at quiz questions next week. Personalize questions. I'm not quite sure what you meant. Maybe Helen does. Yeah, sorry to interrupt. I was thinking personalize questions as in the survey activity. And then I think you answered it, Mary, explaining the difference between survey and feedback. So if you want to have personalize questions in a survey, then actually you want to use the feedback activity. And if I can jump in quick and answer a question before Mary has a chance. From in the chat, Kenji says, does anyone have a tip on how to deal with a vast number of forum posts? I kind of want to read through the 2000 plus posts but would struggle to find the time. Well, Kenji, you and me both. My tip is when you're in a forum, there's a forum search at the top. And what I would suggest is you use that forum search and search for things that you might be interested in. Maybe you have a question, say about profiles and you can search for profiles. Or I know I use the search quite a lot in the first forum because I live in Belgium and I wanted to know if there's any other moodlers in Belgium, so I searched for Belgium and came up with loads of posts from people in Belgium. So my little tip for how to deal with a vast number of forum posts is to search. Okay, I just got a couple more. To upload an LMS package, what's the megabyte limit? Well, on our site, it's 32. On your own site, it's as much as your administrator and your web hosts will allow. So I hope that answers that. I've also seen from the Twitter stream about could we have some answers from the chat room? We will also be back in the chat and looking on Twitter after this tutorial to try and answer as many questions that we've missed out as possible. And don't forget, there's always the question and answers forum in the course. That's a great way of getting your questions answered by a lot of different people. And one thing to mention, someone was asking whether we were staying up really late in Australia. Well, as I mentioned, I'm actually in Belgium and Mary's in the UK. So we're quite lucky that it's not too bad a time for us. The time was actually chosen to try and fit in with as many different locations as possible. But we have had feedback from a lot of you saying that Sunday is not such a good day. And you like to spend it with your family or doing other things. So we decided to have a choice activity which you'll find in week two where you can vote for your preferred day to have the next few video tutorials, live tutorials. So you can choose between whether you want them Friday, Saturday or Sunday at this time. So please participate and let us know so we can decide when we're gonna be meeting next week. Okay, Helen, do you think we should look for some more questions or shall we end the broadcast and go on and answer some more in the chat on Twitter? I'm just having a look through X, Ys now. I can see a question on Twitter from Martina asking how long is this course available? Well, that's a very good question, Martina. And we were just asking Martina, hasn't yet been confirmed exactly how long the site will stay open for. But when it has been decided, we'll definitely let you know. Yes, and I've also seen someone asking permission to use the videos in a session in Mumbai, I think, with that knowledgement. Yes, that's absolutely fine. Martina's also asking how many German people in the course, but you could do a search for Germany or something like that in the forums. We do have some statistics where people come from and we'll look to try and publish them in some form or another. And also a question on Twitter from, I don't know how to say your name. Anyway, you say, is it possible to type mathematical equations and functions using Moodle? There are various methods. There's a filter that you can use, a text filter. The best thing that I'd suggest is to check in the documentation or perhaps Mary or I will post the link in Twitter to GoodPet Place in the Docs. There's also a Moodle.org forum where people talk about how to write mathematics in Moodle. Any more questions? The chat in the course is still going great. So I think we've shown we can cope with large numbers and we'll... Yeah, that's excellent, yes. Yeah, we'll be using it next week. We have had a question about why not run the weekly video as a Google Plus hangout on air so that chat and video are in the same place. I think it's to do with numbers really and I think we can reach more people this way and also we did want to try the chat and it's the chat in Moodle and it's come out brilliantly. Yeah, I think if we have a Google hangout on air, we can only have 10, really, actually participating. OK, well, we're going to have one last look at some questions and then we shall probably, because it's just after half-pass the hour, we shall probably stop here, but we aren't going away because we're going to go and make sure we haven't missed any essential questions in Twitter and in the chat. And again, don't forget the Q&A forum for your basic questions. In the chat, Lael is asking, can some of my tutors start the course in the coming week? Yes, certainly. Please encourage them to sign up as soon as possible. Mary, did you want to mention about the special forum that's coming in week two? Or did I mention that? The group forum. Yeah. Well, yes, I have kind of given you a taster or a teaser, if you like, that if you're going to work your way as a student through the week two activities, there is one that we're opening up on Wednesday, where we're going to ask you to work in groups. This is so that you get an experience of group work. I've been talking about that for you with your students, so you can try that out. So if you could come sometime after Wednesday, there'll be an activity where you are going to be the teacher and you aren't going to be working in a smaller group, because one of the things is there are so many people on this course. It would be nice to get to know some individuals in a group situation and see how Moodle handles that. So that's coming up in the middle of the week. Philip is asking in the chat, where is the survey? It's going to be a choice, actually, to vote for future course days. I guess you mean for the live tutorials. And we'll be making that visible very, very soon. In fact, maybe I'll do it now. OK, OK. Well, I hope everyone is clear as to the activities for week two. And again, where this video will be posted in week two, I'll also post again a list of the tasks that you have to do. OK, Mary, I guess we're ready to wrap up. Well, I think so, yes. It's been really good. Thank you to everyone who's watched and especially thank you to everyone who's tweeted and joined in the chat and asked us questions. Because we don't want to just sit here and teach you. We want you to join us by asking. So we'll see you again next week. Not quite sure when, but definitely next week. And we'll see you back in the middle course. I want to end this broadcast now. Thank you to Helen and X, Y. And have a nice day. Thank you, Mary.