 Good morning everyone. We are supposed to discuss spend about half an hour discussing Moodle. So, what I thought we could do is to get started with your experience first. I believe it is Moodle is used in many places and I need volunteers who can come and tell what they have done briefly about maximum 5 minutes. Are there volunteers? Who are the people who have used Moodle? So, Amruta, where did you come? One of you. Good morning everyone. I am Praveena from Amrita Viswathya Bidam, Amrita Puri campus. We have been using Moodle for our course management system. Actually, all our teachers have been enrolled into the site. It is installed in one of the servers and it is available even on the internet. What we normally do is the faculty can enter the attendance of the students. That is one of the best features that we have been using. The attendance, daily attendance is taken per subject. We have an 80% attendance is cumbersome for all the subjects. So, this has been entered every day per subject by every faculty member and finally the overall percentage and the daily attendance report will be generated. It is one of the features we have been using and it is mainly used for online quizzes. We have a quiz bank, question bank which is generated and saved on the server and any time it can be downloaded in XML format and it can be uploaded by another faculty member and can be used later on. That is another feature and another important feature what we have been using is the discussion forum which is quite interesting and it is very interesting and very useful for the students. What we do is we initiate some challenging questions. The faculty can pose some questions and we can initiate a discussion among the students and everyone can respond to the question. For example, the first student will be giving his response and his opinion about that particular problem. He can solve the problem and he can share it with his friends and other can have a different opinion and they can also post a different solution and different opinion about the same concept and it really trigger interest in subject. For example, we have been using it for CC++ and other subjects and really some very challenging questions and very challenging concepts which normally come even from the student side which we may not have thought about at all. This is another feature we have been using and another use first for posting the assignments. Normally what we do is we create assignments and post it on our model page and the assignment deadline can be set including the date and time. For example, I can set it as today evening before 5 o'clock every student have to submit it. So up to 5 it will be closed. So students will be very careful about it and they can upload their assignments on our page and the faculty can directly open it and grade it there itself so that every marks and every grades will be stored on the database and later on we can download it as a report and we can use it. Another feature what we were using is for uploading our lecture notes, it is available on the server and any time the students can go, even if they go home since it is available on the internet, they can open it and read all our PPT materials and other lecture notes and e-books, everything can be uploaded on the server and it was well appreciated and accepted by the student and faculty community. Thank you. So you used model to? Just for conducting the quiz. Just for conducting the quiz. Okay. After that we are not installed. Now we have a server in, we bought the domain from outside so we cannot able to install. In future we plan a server, it should be in our college. Maybe in that time we will install in the model. Okay. Anybody else? You have raised your hand. You want to say something? Just before 15 days back we have implemented it. So I have just uploaded two, three files for the students reference so I am not knowing detail the uses of this model in depth. Just we have started. Okay. So who are the other people? Anybody else? Okay. So I think there is going to be a session in the afternoon on model. Is it today? Tomorrow? When is it? On Thursday. On third. Okay. So we have Nasir with us. Can you just raise your hand? Yeah. So Nasir is managing model for IIT Bombay. What I will do is I will briefly tell you some other things for which I have been using model. Okay. So in this semester I have been using model for teaching my course, digital control. Model is the official LMS for IIT Bombay. LMS stands for learning management system. It is official LMS for IIT Bombay. As a matter of fact it is linked to our academic registration system, academic system. So as soon as students complete registration, they go login. We use the same login for all our activities using our LDAP. So they use LDAP, they login. They will see all the courses that they are enrolled in. For example, this page I have logged in as Kannan Mughalya you can see here. And then it shows the courses that I am teaching. It says this is the course, of course this shows my previous courses also. Okay. This is the course, process control course that I taught last semester. This is some lab that I taught last semester. And this is the same digital control course that I taught one year ago. So I have this. So what do I have in this? So let me click this, select digital control course that I am teaching now. So when I login, I see the participants who are enrolled in the course. I can look at all the people. For example, there are 53 participants. And these have been arranged, the information has been arranged week wise. For example, here it starts on 13th July, 20th July, 27th July and so on for a whole week. So if you see here, I post the slides that I used. For example, if you look at this, this one says first 01 introduction, try to whether I can make it bigger. It is getting bigger. You should be able to see it. So you can see this here. Now if I press this, it is the, it is the slide that I have created for that day. And I post them there. The way I have been teaching this course, although this has nothing to do with the way Moodle is run, is slightly different from the way we normally teach in IIT. I have already taught this course. You have seen that. Last year I taught this course. And it was also video recorded. I put all the videos on our video and demand service within the campus. So I tell them, I have given a schedule for each class. Today this is the lecture that will be covered. The students go through that lecture before coming to the class because it is already available on BOD. And not only that, on the previous night they should post a question. I have, for example, today I have a class. This is called internal model control. It is, it is supposed to be taught today. But the slides I have already given to the students, the video also they have already gone through. Now they are supposed to post a question. And you can see here I have created a forum called IMC doubts. It has a heading called IMC doubts. If I click this, so I have said that post your doubts here. So for example, this is something I posted yesterday, Wednesday 30th September 2009. At 9.10 last night I said post your doubts. Each person is supposed to post one question. And they can see other people's question only after they post one. So it is known as Q&A forum that comes with model. You can see lots of questions. This question for example, Damley Ashwin Mohan has asked some question. So he says that some questions. He has actually asked three questions. Could you please explain reciprocal polynomials in IMC design? Then he says this is an aside. How do you come up with a strategy as in slide 17? He is referring to the slide that I have posted. He has asked three questions. Each one has to ask one question. But in that question they have asked more than one. So this morning what I do is in the morning of the class, normally I sit for about an hour or so and answer all these questions. So this is my answer. Today I gave the answer at 7.29 a.m. And then I talk about where some other information is there and then some paper I have attached and so on. So this is the answer that I have given. And then second student has asked this question and then I have replied. So in this way, so this is one way. Of course, the moment they post one question, they can answer other people's questions. They will be able to see all other questions. Until you post yours, you cannot see others. The moment you post it, you can see all of it. You can also respond to their questions. You can see some of them. This person, Manikandan has answered more than one, asked more than the third one. And I am trying to see if some students have answered others questions. Maybe not today. But I can show you, maybe on the previous day, for example, let me take this. This is something on pole placement. Now look at this. So here is the question that a student by name Aparav Dekha has asked, what is the effect of gamma on my controller? This is 9th September at 11.04 p.m. And Baldy Prasad has replied Thursday midnight 1.03 a.m. In order to get our response to this, whatever, this gamma will be used. So this is his answer. And I have given my answer on the next day at 9 a.m. 8.56. So you can see that the students can answer each other's question, as Praveena mentioned just now. The other thing that I do is, of course, I have something called news forum. So in the news forum, these are just announcements. General news and announcements. So I have lots of things. Project discussions, mid-semester exam, dubbing competition, book has arrived, Sylab class tomorrow, whatever general announcements I put, and the people start discussing. And of course these are available. I can create forum in every place. What I have to do is I have to say turn editing on. The moment I turn the editing on, you see it is downloading. Now I can add, do lots of things. For example, I can add a resource, insert a label, compose a text page, compose a web page, link to a file or website. By the way, this PDF file that I have created, I uploaded and created a link to that. So that is how, that is where this is used. Display directory and so on. And then I add an activity. Here it gives lot of things. Can you see this? The one, the other one that I talked about is a forum. Discussion forum. This forum has lots of things. If I click this, so here for example it says what is a forum type? Single, simple discussion or each person posts one discussion, Q and A forum. Just now I talked about the Q and A forum. A person posts one question. Only then they can see others. That is the Q and A forum. Standard forum for general uses, what I had posted in the beginning, that everybody replies and so on. You will see more of this. I think when you go to this Moodle class on third. You will discuss some of these, because we actually do not have time. The time when I started, the time was already over. Let me cancel this. The other thing that I have also created here is what this is called individual student groups. This is used to set up a channel of communication between each student separately. Other people cannot see it. It is a private channel between me and the student. Sometimes the student do not want to ask some questions. They feel delicate about asking something. I have difficulty in the way you are teaching this class. I come from the outside. I have some problem. There is something that is not of interest to everybody. They may not want to discuss this openly. They might say that it would be a lot better if you make your writing slightly better, if you speak clearer. There could be many things. I am sick. I will not come for two days. They do not have to tell everybody. They can put here. The reason, of course, they can do this through email also. But if you do it through email, you may actually forget. You may get buried with hundreds of mails that are coming every day. Here, you will not. You will have to say, supposing you say, I want to go and today I want to spend one hour, half an hour every day answering all questions related to the subject. It is all there. There can also be project ideas. If I look at this, let us take this. There is no reply has been put. Let us take this. I have to click here. This person by name Srivalli, she has posted here. Then to that, my TA, Indripreet Arora has replied. TAs can also answer. Students can reply. TAs can reply. Faculty members can reply. Of course, the students themselves start participating. This is a very powerful tool. I have also set up something called, another one called one wiki per student. Each student has to create a wiki and maintain it. I am not sure how many people have done this, but I have this group wiki for three. They have not done anything. I am not sure whether it is possible. I created one wiki per student. If you see here, I have created groups. It is possible to have groups of two, three people. In each group, you add students. What I have done is, I have created one wiki per student. My group is made up of just one person. Not sure whether anybody has created. This person, Kunal Salunke, has created certain things. Of course, it is not formatted properly, but you can see that he has actually created. Once he learns how to do this, it can be done. This is also something very nice. Of course, I have not used this for quiz. The quiz is for multiple type answer generally. By the way, I forgot to tell now that we are discussing about the way the course is done. As soon as the students come to my class, they have to answer a quiz. Every day, I conduct a quiz. There are 20 classes. There are 18 students. There will be 360 questions minimum for which answers are given in the semester. Plus 20 quiz. Every day, 20 minutes, so it is to make sure that they go through it. It is not enough if they just go through the slides. Slides, you can just look at it in 5 minutes finished. There are things that are told that are not in the slide, because slide is just used as a mnemonic that you remember things. And then the remaining one hour, I answer, discuss some of these things. I discuss the questions in the quiz paper or if certain things on top of it, of course the students have more doubts. The whole class is devoted to just discussion. I have converted this course into completely discussion based course using a recorded material. In fact, it is a great way to use some of the resources that we are creating under, for example, NPTEL or under IIT Bombay, whatever we are recording. If you think that there is a good match, you can just say, I want to use it. In fact, Professor Fartag, CS101 is going to be available. In case some of you would want to do that, at least the delivery part, lecturing part, you could do that. With this, I will stop the discussion on Moodle. And then I will move on to the next topic where I have to talk about CD. If you have quick questions, I can answer. If there are longer questions, we can discuss either during lunchtime or on Thursday when you have the Moodle session. You have any quick questions? Yeah. Sir, could you please explain how to conduct quizzes in the classes? How do you conduct quiz? No, I do not. The question is, how do you conduct quiz? I do not do quiz. It is a regular paper. It is a written paper. I give one sheet, one sheet of paper. I will show you a standard quiz for this. I do not need any other question. It is not a problem. Let me open the quiz that I gave in the last class. I am yet to set the paper for today's class. This is a question. This is a quiz I gave on 24 September 2009, which is last Thursday. What is the closed loop transfer function between R and Y in the following diagram? They just have to do some calculation and give. Next one. I have asked another question. It is a standard on paper. This is just to make sure that they go through the lecture. Every day, every class, there is a quiz. Immediately, I have my TES who are waiting. They will be waiting and they finish it. When the students leave, it is given to them. The grading is 0, 1, 2. 0 means they have not gone through the lecture. 2 means it is okay. They have done not so good 1. There is no question of 3 and a half marks, 4 and a half, nothing like that. They get only 0, 1, 2. I leave the thing to the TES. You do it during the lecture sessions. Sorry? This is during the lecture hour for 20 minutes. It includes evaluation also. Evaluation is done by the TES. I do not do it. After the class? No. They go outside in grade. 20 minutes later, I collect everything, give it to the TES, they go to grade. I conduct the class. You have some questions? I am Srinivas of SRM University. As such, though the university has a website, the IT department has a separate website, fully developed by the students and we are maintaining it, SRMIT.net. Probably, all these kind of things are there available, but I like to know the difference or the advantage of Moodle when compared to a website. So, we will discuss this later. I do not want to answer this.