Unit-3 - E-Content Creation Using MOODLE

CBSE-i Secondary/Class IX/ICT/Unit3 Page 1
Class IX (UNIT 3)
Subject: e-Content Creation using MOODLE

Introduction

Teachers handout describing an interactive and creative plan to impart the knowledge about e-content
creation using MOODLE, an open source software freely available. It can be downloaded from the
website http://moodle.org/downloads/

Teachers Notes

Introduce the students to the concept of e-content, its usage and the relevant content creation using
MOODLE. Use the conceptual framework of MOODLE to create e-content for various class activities,
worksheets and audio-video demonstration.

General Objectives

- Impart the importance of e-Content for collaboration and co-operation.
- Introduce students to MOODLE, a freely available e-Content creation tool modeled for
classroom activities and setups.
- Explore available features in MOODLE for documents and file sharing create a forum for online
discussions and sharing the academic thoughts.
- Creative ways to prepare collaborative assignments on the web.

Specific Objectives

- Download and install MOODLE and create an account.
- Create and upload e-content, files, documents in a collaborative setup where all this e-content
can be shared among the students.
- Create a forum with provisions for feedbacks, comments and assessment.
- Introduction to m-learning features.


Mapping of Course Outcomes with skills and intelligence attributes
TOPIC
Skills Attributes
Intelligence
Attributes
S
1
S
2
S
3
S
4
S
5
S
6
S
7 I1 I2 I3 I4 I5 I6
MOODLE Introduction: self register,Log-in,
Log-out etc.
Create and Upload Multimodal e-Content
and Files
Create a Forum, Glossaries and Assessment
Report Generation
Add m-learning features

Strongly Contributing
Weekly Contributing
Not Contributing

DESIRABLE ATTRIBUTES
Skills Attributes Intelligence Attributes
S1 Cognitive Skill
S2 Creative/Aesthetic Skill
S3 Problem Solving Skill
S4 Team/Collaboration Skill
S5 Communication Skill
S6 Critical Thinking Skill
S7 Ethical Skill
I1 Spatial Visualization Intelligence
I2 Logical Reasoning Intelligence
I3 Interpersonal Intelligence
I4 Linguistic Intelligence
I5 Naturalistic Intelligence
l6 Kinesthetic


TOPICS: ACTIVITIES, SKILLS AND INTELLIGENCE ATTRIBUTES

Topic:(a) MOODLE Introduction: self register,Log-in, Log-
out etc.
Duration: 4 Periods
Skills
(related to the subject)
Activity and Aim Multiple Intelligences
Incorporated
Cognitive Skill

Critical thinking Skill

Activity1: Demonstrate the PPT of introduction
of Moodle to students
http://www.slideshare.net/cmcculloch/moodle-
tutorials
Aim: To understand what is MOODLE and Why
we use it.

Activity 2: The teachers need to share the idea
with students about the knowledge sharing over
the web and its importance in a classroom
setup. Students need to share their creative
ideas, views, observations in a collective way
using the internet.
-MOODLE software will be used for these
activities, which is freely available and is tailor
made for the students and teachers who can
share assignments, lesson plans and lessons
over it. It gives flexibility of creating forums and
sharing knowledge among students. It can also
be used for sharing files, documents and for
preparing presentations.
Aim: Learn the importance of e-content in a
-Spatial Visualization
Intelligence
.

Logical Reasoning
Intelligence


Team/Collaboration
Skill

collaborative, shared learning platform.

Activity 3: The teacher needs to create an
administrator login on the MOODLE and then
students need to create individual client logins.
As shown in the worksheet at the end, students
will be divided in 4 groups according to their
house and will then be asked to create a
common login and password for each group, so
that student in each group has a common login
password which is different from other groups.
Aim: create an account on MOODLE and log-
in/log-out from the page.

Interpersonal Intelligence

Learning Outcomes The students will develop the ability to:
- appreciate the importance of knowledge sharing over the web.
- Start using MOODLE as a tool for e-content creation.
-Login and Log-out of the MOODLE setup.
-add a user and self register.

Topic:(b) Create and Upload Multimodal e-Content and
Files
Duration: 6 Periods
Skills
(related to the
subject)
Incorporated

Cognitive Skill

Cognitive Skill

Creative/Aesthetic Skill,
Team/Collaborative
Skill

Team/Collaborative
Activity 4: Each group needs to create a detailed
project on the topic of Environment and Green
Initiatives, which are shared and discussed about
in the forums on MOODLE.
Aim: e-content creation using MOODLE

Activity 5: Demonstrate the video about the
options available in MOODLE for content creation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Aomv1GZcRs
Teacher needs to explain the blocks in the
MOODLE setup, their usage and how various
documents, files, logos, pictures can be uploaded
on the MOODLE site on.
Aim: Explore various features of eContent creation
in MOODLE

Activity 6: Each group needs to create an e-
content on the topic of environment and the
initiatives required to make the development
sustainable. Students are encouraged to use logos,
pictures, write-ups, creative thoughts, document
files etc. describing the current state of
environment around us, various ways to improve
it and long term solutions for sustainable
development, all in MOODLE setup.
Aim: Organize data, documents and files in
MOODLE

Activity 7: Students will create a subject lesson. As
a first step they will add a label to the subject:
Environment and Green Initiatives (EGI) in groups
of four. Then they will upload a multi-media file
Naturalistic Intelligence

Spatial visualization
Intelligence

.

Naturalistic Intelligence,
Interpersonal
Intelligence


Skill showing the concerns in terms of environment
degradation on the MOODLE. The steps required
are shown in the worksheets at the end.
Aim: Upload file in MOODLE
Interpersonal
Intelligence

- Understand the various blocks of MOODLE
- Create e-content on the MOODLE
-Upload various documents, files, e-content on MOODLE.

Topic:(c) Create a Forum, Glossaries and Assessment Duration: 5 Periods
Skills
Incorporated
Cognitive Skill,
Team/Collaboration Skill

Problem Solving Skill,
Activity 8: Continuing the exercise on
Environment and Green Initiatives, each of
the four groups of students will create
glossaries for their respective lessons. These
glossaries will then be used to create different
forums. The forums will be open to all the 4
groups. The students can then look at the
topics and project details of other group and
then discuss them in detail on the respective
forums.
Aim: To create glossaries for the topic being
created above.
-To create a forum for discussion on a specific
topic.

Activity 9: Students will learn to reply on the
Interpersonal Intelligence,
Naturalistic Intelligence

Naturalistic Intelligence,

Team/Collaborative Skill

Problem Solving Skill,
Communication Skill
topics being discussed, suggesting new ideas,
creative new ways and add-ons for the
projects belonging to the other groups.
Aim: To reply on specific forum posts.

Activity10: Teacher will create a multiple
choice quiz as shown in the worksheets at the
end based on the topics created by the 4
groups of students. Each student need to
answer that quiz and the teacher will make an
assessment based on the answers provided
and display the on the MOODLE.
Aim: To generate assessment and reviews for
topics from other groups.

Logical Reasoning
Intelligence, Interpersonal
Intelligence

Logical Reasoning
Intelligence, Interpersonal
Intelligence
- Create an online forum on MOODLE.
-Create glossaries of the topic.
-Discuss about the issues onto the forum to share the ideas and thoughts.
-Participate in online quiz.

Topic:(d) Report Generation Duration: 2 Periods
Skills
Incorporated
Cognitive Skill, Problem
Solving Skill
Activity 11: Based on the quiz results, students
will analyze the performance of each house
individually. Students will generate graphs and
tables to look into the trends. Evaluation of
grades in quiz. Manual grading is also possible
in MOODLES.
Logical Reasoning
Intelligence, Spatial
Visualization Skill

Aim: Evaluation in tabular and graphical form
using MOODLE, Statistical analysis using tables
and find the terms.
Learning Outcomes The students will be able to:
- Evaluate the Grades for all the four groups and can do Manual Grading.
-Generate Graphs and Tables using MOODLES.
-Explore several types of evaluation.

Topic:(e) Add m-learning features Duration: 3 Periods
Skills
(related to the
subject)
Activity and Aim Multiple
Intelligences
Incorporated
Cognitive Skill

Communication
Skill, Critical thinking
Skill

Activity 12: Introduction to m-learning by showing
videos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGaEbQsKWY&fea
ture=plcp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzZlD5BAGCc&feat
ure=plcp
Aim: To understand the concepts of m-learning.

Activity 13: Introduce students to some mLearning
content like Visual lessons, multiple choice quizzes,
graphical interfaces etc. Flash card trainers, images,
audio-video files on mobile can be shown to make the
course interesting.
Aim: Students will be exposed to understand the mobile
learning application on MOODLE.

Spatial Visualization
Intelligence

Spatial Visualization
Intelligence,
Interpersonal
Intelligence.
Learning Outcomes The students will be able to:
- appreciate the concepts of mLearning where the learning content is delivered
over the mobile phone.
-go through some courses developed in MOODLE mLearning platform.


Material Required
-Computer system with internet connection.
-MOODLE Setup on computers.
-Over Head Projector.
-Printer

Transdisciplinary Activities
Subject Activity
Environment Studies Students need to look closer at the environment around us. What are
the issues being faced, how the environment is getting degraded? What
are the possible solutions to make the environment a better and
healthier place for us and for future generations?
Mathematics and Statistics A bit of mathematics and statistics will be used for the evaluation of
results. Students need to evaluate the averages, prepare graphs and
charts and check if those are correct using the mathematical knowledge.

Critical Thinking:
-Create awareness about the issues and possible practical solutions.
-e-Learning as a platform for sharing and collaborating on creative ideas.
-Appreciate the importance of mobile learning in the fast paced world.

Life Skills/SEWA
-One of the prominent learning from the content creation on Environment and Green Initiatives will be
to increase the green cover in our surroundings. Each student will plant a tree in his/her neighborhood
park and will encourage people in the surrounding to do the same. Discuss these initiatives on the
Forum created in MOODLE.


Lesson Plan
Lesson Plan a
Topic:
-MOODLE introduction: Log-in, logout, self-register etc.
Duration:
4 Periods
Brief Description:
The topic introduces the students about the introduction to MOODLE, creation of an account on
MOODLE and log-in /log-out from the page. Importance of e-learning platform like MOODLE in a
classroom/school.
Learning Objectives:
-Introduction to MOODLE as a platform for web based content sharing.
- create an account on MOODLE and log-in/log-out from the page.
Material Required:
-Printer
Teacher Activity:
- Demonstrate the PPT of MOODLE introduction to students . The link for PPT is given below.
http://www.slideshare.net/cmcculloch/moodle-tutorials
Prepare the MOODLE templates for following as mentioned in worksheets at the end:
- Teachers need to introduce students to the concept of web based knowledge sharing using MOODLE
platform.
-Teachers need to explain the installation guidelines to students. Also they need to prepare students to
the basic aspects of MOODLE.
-A template for login page is given at the end.

Student Activity:
-Students need to discuss about the present day environment and environmental issues faced by all of
us. They need to prepare lessons on green initiatives which will make our environment better.

-User and Self-Registration in the MOODLE must be done.

Review:

-The activity sheets provided to students need to be reviewed.

-Have an interactive session with students and discuss about the importance of e-learning platforms,
sharing and collaboration over the internet.

Assessment: -Evaluate Worksheet 1. - The Teacher may encourage the students for self assessment by
thought sharing and collaboration.

Lesson Plan b
Topic:
-Create and upload multimodal e-Content and Files.
Duration:
6 Periods.
Brief Description:
The topic introduces the students to the concept of e-learning, The importance of e-content creation
over the web, sharing and collaborating on topics using MOODLE.
-Introduction to MOODLE as a platform for web based content sharing.
-Student will learn to organize data, documents and files in MOODLE
-Create a topic and add content, logos, documents for the topic.
Material Required:
-Printer

Teacher Activity:
-Teacher should group the students and then ask each group to prepare a lesson on the topic of
Environment and Green Initiatives.
-Download the video to show the basic features of Content Creation.

Student Activity:
-Students need to discuss about the present day environment and environmental issues faced by all of
us. They need to prepare lessons on green initiatives which will make our environment better. For this
they will use the MOODLE platform as it entails easy access, sharing and collaboration of ideas among

the groups. They need to upload the multi-media files, logos etc. for the subject on MOODLE.

Review:
-Have an interactive session with students and discuss about environment and explore how to create e-
content in MOODLE .
Assessment:
-Evaluate Worksheet 2. The Teacher should encourage the students for self assessment of the
assignments and make comments for improvement based on his/her assessment.

Lesson Plan c
Topic:
-Create Forums, Glossaries and Assessment
Duration:
5 Periods
Brief Description:
Introduces student to create glossaries for the topic being created above, forum, assessment and
reviews.
-Learn to create forums and engage others in creative discussions.
-To generate assessment and reviews for topics from other groups.
Material Required:
-Printer

Teacher Activity:
-Explain the creation of groups, forums etc.
-Prepare a quiz based on the content being created by the students.

Student Activity:
-Students need to create forums and discussion groups which will be used for online sharing and
exchange of creative ideas on the subject.
- Participate in online quiz.

Review:
-Have an interactive session with students and discuss about the importance of discussion forums and
how the mobile learning platforms can be effectively used to spread the reach of e-learning.

Assessment:
Evaluate worksheet 3 and 4. The Teacher may encourage the students for self or peer assessment to
generate assessment for topics from other group.

Lesson Plan d
Topic: -Report Generation
Duration:
2 Periods
Brief Description:
The topic introduces the students to the concept of Report Generation of activities in MOODLE
-Report generation on MOODLE.
-Evaluation in tabular and graphical form using MOODLE.
-Statistical analysis using tables.
Material Required:
-Printer
Teacher Activity:
-Quiz and other activities will be evaluated by teachers
Student Activity:
- The statistics, graphs, report will be generated by the students.

-The evaluated quiz needs to be statistically analyzed by the students for each group.

Review:


-Have an interactive session with students and discuss and analyze generated report.

Assessment: Evaluate worksheet 5 and self assessment should be done by students after generating
report.

Lesson Plan e
Topic:
-Add mLearning Features
Duration:
3 periods
Brief Description:
Students will be introduced to the concept of learning on the go, It also discusses about the aspect of
mobile based learning using mLearning module on MOODLE.
-e-Learning using mobiles.
-Learn the concepts of MOODLE mLearning platform.
-Expose the emerging mobile learning.
Material Required:
-Printer

Teacher Activity:

-Download and discuss the concept of mlearning by showing these videos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGaEbQsKWY&feature=plcp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzZlD5BAGCc&feature=plcp
-Teacher needs to introduce mLearning feature of MOODLE which enables e-learning platform on
mobile phones.

Student Activity:
Discuss on what kind of contents can be created and distributed for mLearning which will be beneficial.
Review:
-Have an interactive session with students and discuss about the mobile learning platforms can be
effectively used to spread the reach of e-learning. Students are asked to list out the activities that can be

done in mlearning.
Assessment:
-Self evaluation should be encouraged by the teachers and give comments and ideas for improvement in
performance.

Assessment of Class Performance
Rubrics for the Unit 3: e-content creation using MOODLE
Expected Learning
Outcomes
Indicators of Students Performance
Beginning Developing Achieved Exemplary
The student will be
able to:
The student will be
able to:
The student will
be able to:
The student will be
able to:
MOODLE
introduction, login-
in, log-out, self-
register.
Identify and relate
the information
being required for
registering.
Log-in and Log-out
from the topic
page on MOODLE
Help out others in
accessing the topic
page on MOODLE
Look around the
tabs and other
options once they
login into the
MOODLE page.
Create and upload
multimodel e-
content and files.
Understand the
basic tabs used to
create a topic or
chapter on
MOODLE.
Create the project
heading and think
about the content
to be put onto the
MOODLE page.
Upload the
multimodal files as
e-content on the
page. Create
logos, insert
pictures to make
the page more
attractive. Create
appropriate labels.
Make the overall
page and the flow
of content very
logical and easy to
understand. Will
appreciate the
importance of
sharing and
collaborating the
knowledge over
web.
Create glossaries,
forums, discussions,
feedbacks.
Create glossaries
for the topic being
created on
MOODLE page.
Create an
appropriate forum
after short listing
the glossaries for
discussion.
Participate in the
group discussions,
share ideas, post
reply on the
discussions
sharing their
viewpoint.
Send create ideas
and practical
approaches to the
issues being
discussed in the
forum.
Report Generation
and Assessment:
Tabular and
Graphical format.
Participate in the
online quiz based
on multiple choice
questions.
Gather the
evaluated results
for online quiz. Will
be able to
understand the
evaluation tabs in
MOODLE.
Generate reports
for various groups
on MOODLE.
Compare the
results among the
different groups,
evaluate averages.
Prepare charts and
graphs for the
assessment results
to make the
outcomes easy to
understand.

Add mLearning
features.
Understand the
concept of e-
content delivery
on mobile phones.
Understand the
MOODLE tool used
for creation of e-
learning modules.
Create few
flashcards for e-
learning using
mLearning tool of
MOODLE e.g.
vocabulary
enhancement
flashcards.
Create newer e-
learning
applications for
mobile users using
the MOODLE
mLearning tool.

Teacher Resource Material
Material Required:
-Printer
Vocabulary to be taught ( related to the theme):
-e-Learning, MOODLE, file upload, discussion forums, mLearning, Reports, e-content, Glossaries.
Books:
Audio-Video:
http://www.slideshare.net/cmcculloch/moodle-tutorials
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGaEbQsKWY&feature=plcp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzZlD5BAGCc&feature=plcp
Websites for Reference:
MOODLE 2.3 Documentation
http://docs.moodle.org/23/en/Main_page

Answer Keys:


Study Material
Setting the authentication method(s)
An administrator can set the authentication method(s) for the site as follows:
1. Go to Settings > Site administration > Plugins > Authentication > Manage authentication
2. Click the eye icon to enable selected authentication plugins (closed eye = disabled, open eye =
enabled)
3. Click the settings link opposite the authentication plugin(s) you have chosen
4. Configure the required settings and click the "Save changes" button
5. Repeat until you have edited all the plugins you have enabled
More than one authentication plugin may be enabled. Any authentication plugin can be used to find a
username/password match. Once found, a user is logged in and alternative plugins are not used.
Therefore the plugin which handles the most logins should be moved to the top of the page in order that
less load is put on authentication servers.

Authentication common settings
Authentication common settings can be changed by an administrator in Settings > Site administration >
Plugins > Authentication > Manage authentication.

Self registration
If you wish users to be able to create their own user accounts, i.e. self-register, then select Email-based
self-registration (or any other enabled plugin that can support self registration, like LDAP) from the drop-
down menu. This will result in a "Is this your first time here?" instructions and a "Create new account"
button being displayed on the login page.
Warning: Enabling self registration results in the possibility of spammers creating accounts in order to use
forum posts, blog entries etc. for spam. This risk can be minimized by limiting self registration to
particular email domains with the allowed email domains setting (see below). Alternatively, self
registration may be enabled for a short period of time to allow users to create accounts, and then later
disabled.
Note: The Email-based self-registration authentication plugin must be enabled to allow users who
previously self-registered to login with that plugin. Selecting Email-based self-registration as the self
registration method allows potential users to self register.
Guest login button
You can hide or show the guest login button on the login page. Hiding the guest login button
disables guest access to the Moodle site, however logged-in users can still enter any courses which allow
guest access without being required to enrol.
Alternate login URL
This should be used with care, since a mistake in the URL or on the actual login page can lock you out of
your site. If you do mess it up, you can remove the entry from your database (table mdl_config) using,
e.g., phpmyadmin for mysql.


An administrator or manager (or any other user with the capability moodle/user:create) can create new
user accounts in Settings > Site administration > Users > Accounts > Add a new user. (

Adding files
To add files or folders, a teacher needs to have the editing turned on in their course and then select
either File or Folder from the activity chooser (or "Add a resource" drop down menu).

Selecting a file or folder in the activity chooser

The "Add a resource" drop down menu
The screen for uploading and displaying a file (or folder of files) includes an "add" button. Clicking on
this button takes you to the File picker which is the name given to the file storage and access area
within Moodle. Find out more about the places you can upload or add files from in the File
picker page.

There is also a block (with an arrow) into which you can drag and drop a file straight from your
desktop into Moodle.

Area for dragging and dropping files into
Viewing uploaded files
Once uploaded, files appear as thumbnails in the file manager for easy recognition.
Files view can be easily toggled between icons view or a table view with sizes and dates, or a
hierarchical list view.

File picker icon view

File picker table view

File picker hierarchical list view
A single simple discussion
Students will see the text you have placed in the Forum introduction setting as the first post of the
discussion. Below you will find the replies that have been posted. In the example below, the student sees
that their reply was rated.

Student view of "A single simple discussion" forum type
Each person posts one discussion
The view will be basically the same as in the previous case, the only difference being the 'Add a new
discussion' option. Viewing a forum page, the student will see the text you have written at the 'Forum
introduction' space while creating the forum, and, if there are any, the discussions that have been started.

Student view of "Each person posts one discussion" forum type
Standard forum for general use

In this forum type, students will see the introduction text in a separate space above the discussion field, in
which you will see the information such as the title of the discussion (which means the forum's title), its
author, the number of replies and the date of the last post.

Student view of "Standard forum for general use" forum type
Question and Answer forum

Student view of "Question and Answer" forum type
Adding a glossary

Adding a glossary
To add a glossary:
1. With the editing turned on,in the section you wish to add your glossary, click the "Add an activity
or resource" link (or, if not present, the "Add an activity" drop down menu )and choose Glossary.
2. On the Adding a new glossary page, give your new glossary a descriptive name.
3. Describe the purpose of the glossary, provide instructions or background information, links etc. in
the Description area.
4. Select the general and grade options and the common module settings (see below).
5. Click the "Save changes" button at the bottom of the page.
Statistics
Main page Managing a Moodle course Tracking progress Course reports Statistics
Course reports
Logs
Activity report
Participation report
Statistics
If statistics are enabled for the site, graphs and tables of user activity may be generated.

The statistics graphs and tables show how many hits there have been on various parts of your site during
various time frames. They do not show how many distinct users there have been. They are processed daily
at a time you specify. You must enable statistics before you will see anything.


Worksheets

1. MOODLE Register and Login: Students will register and make an account for login on to the
MOODLE course page. The steps are shown below:


2. Environment and Green Initiatives: Students are divided in four groups according to their house.
Each house will prepare a lesson on MOODLE on the topic of Environment and Green
Initiatives. The steps to create a course on MOODLE are shown below. Students will then add
appropriate labels, add logos, pictures, files and content for the topic under considerations.


3. Creating Forums: Students will create glossaries for the topic on Environment and Green
Initiatives and then create a forum. The forum will be open to all the students including those
from other groups. The students will then discuss about each others projects, comment on the
salient points, put in create ideas and generate discussion on various topics of interest. The
steps to create a forum are shown below:



4. Creating a Quiz: Teacher need to create the quiz content for students taking into account the
project details of all the four teams. The steps to create a quiz are shown below:


5. Report Generation: Students will be able to see the evaluated quiz. They will then need to
create the reports, charts, graphs describing the performance of each of the 4 group, compare
the results and discuss about them. Which of the four teams has most innovative Green
Initiative idea?

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