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These tutorials require the most recent Macromedia Flash player.  To download and install it, please click on the FLASH PLAYER image with the orange "f."

The handouts are printable versions of the tutorials.

  Click on the buttons below:
Online Course Activity
  • Tour the Moodle learning environment
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  • Learn the Moodle editing icons
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  • Create your instructor contact information (profile) 
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  • Customize your course Settings
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  • Set up the main course block:

             Add your course name and course number
             Post your syllabus and related documents
             Add a link to the publisher's website
             Add an "Introduce Yourself" forum
             Add a "Class Questions and Answers" forum

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  • Set up a Week 1 course section block:

          Add a link to a Week 1 lecture notes file
          Add a Week 1 reading assignment as a label
          Add a Week 1 topic forum
          Add a Week 1 essay assignment
                      (students upload a file)
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           Create a Week 1 quiz 

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  • Set your Gradebook preferences
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  • Learn how to send a Welcome announcement to all of your students:

            before the first day of class 
            - using the Class email tool

            on or after the first day of class 
            - using the News Forum tool

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  • Make the course website available to your students
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Coming Fall07: For in-depth self-paced training, enroll in "Teaching a Quality Online Course", a six-module online training that carries up to 10 hours of Professional Development credit.