Welcome to ISUComm Moodle Tutorials! These video tutorials have been designed by the ISUComm Program for instructors of all courses with an “ENGL” designation and of other courses with a significant ISUComm emphasis. The tutorials are divided into five major categories: Getting Started With Moodle, Managing a Moodle Course, Creating and Adding Content in Moodle, Using Activity Modules in Moodle, and Feedback and Assessment.

All video tutorials are relatively short, with the length varying from two to seven minutes. To watch a tutorial, simply click on the link and the video will start playing on a new page. To go back to the list of tutorials, click on the “ISUComm Moodle Tutorials” link in the upper left corner of the page.

If you are a Moodle novice with little understanding of course management systems, or if you prefer a short text tutorial, you can get a quick overview of the ISUComm Moodle site by reading the Getting Started With Moodle 1.9.

This section contains several tutorials on the basics of using Moodle. Specifically, these tutorials explain what Moodle is, how to set up a Moodle account and create a course on the ISUComm Moodle site, and how to enroll students in your Moodle course. In addition, you can also learn about the basic structure, navigation, and settings of a Moodle course.

Tutorials in this section provide information about structuring your course material and maintaining it across terms. Here you can learn how to use the “Groups” function to set up one Moodle course for two sections of the same class that you teach, how to backup your course data and to import materials from the courses that you have previously taught in Moodle, and how to view the logs describing your students’ activity in your Moodle course.

In this section, you can learn how to create and add content to your Moodle course. This section provides a detailed overview of resources available in the “Add a resource…” dropdown menu. The tutorials explain how to upload files to your Moodle course, create text and web pages, add week summaries to the main course page, and link files and external websites to your Moodle course. In addition, you can also learn how to use the Moodle HTML editor and, for example, how to insert audio and video files, images, YouTube videos, or Google Maps into labels.

The ISUComm Moodle site provides instructors with many options for creating activities in Moodle. This section is dedicated to a detailed overview of modules available in the “Add an activity…” dropdown menu. The tutorials in this section explain, for instance, how to create various types of assignments, set up forums, collect data, communicate with students and engage them in collaborative activities in Moodle, etc.

Moodle has a great potential for evaluating students’ work and collecting feedback. The tutorials included in this section describe how you can obtain feedback from your students using the Choice, Questionnaire, and Survey modules. You will also learn how to create quizzes, set up a gradebook, and grade students’ activities inside your Moodle course.