Activity Modules

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.

Assignments allow the teacher to specify a task that requires students to prepare digital content (any format) and submit it by uploading it to the server. Typical assignments include essays, projects, reports and so on. This module includes grading facilities.

The Database module allows the teacher and/or students to build, display and search a bank of record entries about any conceivable topic. The format and structure of these entries can be almost unlimited, including images, files, URLs, numbers and text amongst other things. You may be familiar with similar technology from building Microsoft Access or Filemaker databases.

The Dimdim Web Meeting module allows Moodle participants to have a meeting via the web. With Dimdim, you can show Presentation, Application and Desktop to any other Moodle users. You can chat, show your webcam and talk with others in the meeting.

Teacher's Perspective:

Enter/Select the following fields and Click on "Save Changes" button.

General:

1. Web Meeting Name: Name of the Dimdim meeting you are starting.
2. Start Time: The time at which this meeting should be started.

AV, Chat and Recording:

1. Private Chat: Enable / Disable Private Chat will turn on or turn of the feature for this Dimdim Web meeting.
2. Public Chat: Enable / Disable Public Chat will turn on or turn of the feature for this Dimdim Web meeting.
3. Audio - Video: Type of the audio-video option that the presenter wants to start for this Dimdim web meeting.
4. Recording: Enable / Disable Recording will turn on or turn of the feature from Dimdim Web meeting.

Synchro live Resources:

1. Screencast: Enable / Disable Screencast will turn on or turn of the Desktop sharing feature for this Dimdim Web meeting.
2. Document Sharing: Enable / Disable Document Sharing will turn on or turn of the Document Sharing feature for this Dimdim Web meeting.
3. Whiteboard: Enable / Disable Whiteboard will turn on or turn of the Whiteboard feature for this Dimdim Web meeting.
4. Cobrowsing: Enable / Disable Cobrowsing will turn on or turn of the Cobrowsing feature for this Dimdim Web meeting.

Advanced:

1. Network: The type of the network you are using.
2. Allow Presenters to Invite: Enable / Disable of this option will allow or not allow the presenter to invite other attendees to this meeting.
3. Assign Mike to attendee on Join: Enable / Disable this option will assign mike to the attendees who join for the first time. If we enable this option, presenter need not explicitly assign mikes to the attendees.
4. Hands Free on Start: Enable / Disable this option will make the presenter audio broadcaster's hands free option selected or deselected.
5. Assistant Enabled: Enable / Disable assistant enabled will turn on or turn off the assistant enabled link for this Dimdim Web meeting.
6. Participant List: Enable / Disable this feature will either show or do not show the participant list for all the attendees of this Dimdim Web meeting.
7. Meeting Duration in Hours: Maximum duration of this meeting.

Security:

1. Waiting Area: Enable / Disable waiting area will make the attendees to wait in lobby. If enabled, the attendee has to be approved by presenter.

If all the above-mentioned details are valid, the link to start the meeting will be provided after click of "Save Changes" button. The start of the meeting depends on the start time configured for the meeting.

1. If scheduled time of the meeting is in the past, "This meeting occurred in the past and has finished" message will be displayed.
2. If scheduled time of the meeting is in the future (more than 2 hours before the start of the meeting), a different message will be displayed. For example, "This meeting has not started yet. This meeting is scheduled to start after 6 Days, 23 Hours, 57 Minutes and 23 Seconds, "Admin User" will start the meeting".
3. The link to start the meeting will be displayed in case of two scenarios:
   1. The meeting is scheduled to start in 15 minutes or less from current time.
   2. The meeting was scheduled to start 2 hours or less than the current time.

Student's Perspective:

Once the teacher has scheduled the Dimdim Web Meeting activity, the student will be able to see the event as he/she views any other moodle activity (until the teacher starts the meeting, student will not be able to join the meeting).

On click of the Dimdim Web Meeting activity by the student, the link to join the meeting should come. Display of this link will start 15 minutes before the scheduled start time of the meeting. Before this time, instead of the link, a message stating that the scheduled start time of the Dimdim Web Meeting is in future will be displayed. The display of the link will continue till 2 hours after the scheduled start time of the Dimdim Web Meeting. After this, instead of the link, a message stating that this conference was scheduled and completed in the past will be displayed.

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.

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.

This activity allows participants to create and maintain a list of definitions, like a dictionary.

The entries can be searched or browsed in many different formats.

The glossary also allows teachers to export entries from one glossary to another (the main one) within the same course.

Finally, it is possible to automatically create links to these entries from throughout the course.

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.

This file contains the main description of the customlogin module. Usually, it's used to explain the main features of the activity, with a natural language. Also, the overall process of the activity is detailed here with its pedagogical foundation.

From a developer perspective, this "help" directory will contain simple html files like this that you will be able to link from customlogin code when any sort of explanation is necessary (it's easier to add those links automatically, both from the formslib stuff (see mod_form.php) and from everywhere else (see the helpbutton() function).

Also, don't forget to add one link to this help file from the customlogin/help "index.html" file, it will allow Moodle to show all the existing help files related to the module when the complete list of available help files is requested.

Please, replace me with the real information about the customlogin!

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.

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.

A choice activity is very simple - the teacher asks a question and specifies a choice of multiple responses. It can be useful as a quick poll to stimulate thinking about a topic; to allow the class to vote on a direction for the course; or to gather research consent.

A package is a bundle of web content packaged in a way that follows the SCORM or the AICC standard for learning objects. These packages can include web pages, graphics, Javascript programs, Flash presentations and anything else that works in web browsers. The Package module allows you to easily upload any standard SCORM or AICC package and make it part of your course.

The Survey module provides a number of verified survey instruments that have been found useful in assessing and stimulating learning in online environments. Teachers can use these to gather data from their students that will help them learn about their class and reflect on their own teaching.

This file contains the main description of the customfields module. Usually, it's used to explain the main features of the activity, with a natural language. Also, the overall process of the activity is detailed here with its pedagogical foundation.

From a developer perspective, this "help" directory will contain simple html files like this that you will be able to link from customfields code when any sort of explanation is necessary (it's easier to add those links automatically, both from the formslib stuff (see mod_form.php) and from everywhere else (see the helpbutton() function).

Also, don't forget to add one link to this help file from the customfields/help "index.html" file, it will allow Moodle to show all the existing help files related to the module when the complete list of available help files is requested.

Please, replace me with the real information about the customfields!

This file contains the main description of the newmodule module. Usually, it's used to explain the main features of the activity, with a natural language. Also, the overall process of the activity is detailed here with its pedagogical foundation.

From a developer perspective, this "help" directory will contain simple html files like this that you will be able to link from newmodule code when any sort of explanation is necessary (it's easier to add those links automatically, both from the formslib stuff (see mod_form.php) and from everywhere else (see the helpbutton() function).

Also, don't forget to add one link to this help file from the newmodule/help "index.html" file, it will allow Moodle to show all the existing help files related to the module when the complete list of available help files is requested.

Please, replace me with the real information about the newmodule!

This file contains the main description of the newmodule module. Usually, it's used to explain the main features of the activity, with a natural language. Also, the overall process of the activity is detailed here with its pedagogical foundation.

From a developer perspective, this "help" directory will contain simple html files like this that you will be able to link from newmodule code when any sort of explanation is necessary (it's easier to add those links automatically, both from the formslib stuff (see mod_form.php) and from everywhere else (see the helpbutton() function).

Also, don't forget to add one link to this help file from the newmodule/help "index.html" file, it will allow Moodle to show all the existing help files related to the module when the complete list of available help files is requested.

Please, replace me with the real information about the newmodule!

This file contains the main description of the triocoursestatus module. Usually, it's used to explain the main features of the activity, with a natural language. Also, the overall process of the activity is detailed here with its pedagogical foundation.

From a developer perspective, this "help" directory will contain simple html files like this that you will be able to link from triocoursestatus code when any sort of explanation is necessary (it's easier to add those links automatically, both from the formslib stuff (see mod_form.php) and from everywhere else (see the helpbutton() function).

Also, don't forget to add one link to this help file from the triocoursestatus/help "index.html" file, it will allow Moodle to show all the existing help files related to the module when the complete list of available help files is requested.

Please, replace me with the real information about the triocoursestatus!

This file contains the main description of the triowlg module. Usually, it's used to explain the main features of the activity, with a natural language. Also, the overall process of the activity is detailed here with its pedagogical foundation.

From a developer perspective, this "help" directory will contain simple html files like this that you will be able to link from triowlg code when any sort of explanation is necessary (it's easier to add those links automatically, both from the formslib stuff (see mod_form.php) and from everywhere else (see the helpbutton() function).

Also, don't forget to add one link to this help file from the triowlg/help "index.html" file, it will allow Moodle to show all the existing help files related to the module when the complete list of available help files is requested.

Please, replace me with the real information about the triowlg!

A Wiki enables documents to be authored collectively in a simple markup language using a web browser.

"Wiki wiki" means "super fast" in the Hawaiian language, and it is the speed of creating and updating pages that is one of the defining aspects of wiki technology. Generally, there is no prior review before modifications are accepted, and most wikis are open to the general public or at least to all persons who also have access to the wiki server.

The Moodle Wiki module enables participants to work together on web pages to add, expand and change the content. Old versions are never deleted and can be restored.

This module is based on Erfurt Wiki.