General forums

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Help Desk and General Support

Please use this forum to ask questions and add comments. 

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Announcements
General news and announcements
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Learning forums

Topic Forum Description Discussions
Week 1 (January 9-15) Support Forum

Please use this support forum to ask questions, add comments and to make suggestions. 

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Introductions with VOKI (add link)

Please introduce yourself with a Voki avatar (log in with m4t for the user and password) and tell us about your experiences as a face-to-face and online teacher. Share the link of your Voki introduction in the message area below. Start with "add  new topic" .

This is how you create a speaking Voki...

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Teaching Perspectives Inventory
Take the Teaching Perspectives Inventory (TPI) http://www.teachingperspectives.com/tpi/ and share the results of the inventory. How do the results compare with how you view yourself as a teacher? Are there any perspectives you'd like to develop? If so, why? If not, why not?
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Student Engagement (discussion forum)

Answer the following questions:

  1. What is student engagement? 
  2. How do you engage your students? 
  3. How did your teachers engage you?

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Layout of the Course (Required Task)

Create a video tutorial showcasing the layout of this Moodle course. Do not go beyond the course parameters. Refer to the following areas:

  • Center 
  • Right block

Choose one of the following screen recorders to create your video. 

LOOM 

Edpuzzle

Screencast-o-matic

Screen Recorder

Vimeo

Flipgrid

Awesome Screen ...

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Audio and Video Recordings from the Editor Video Tutorial (Required Task)

Create a video tutorial demonstrating how you can speak using audio and video straight from the editor. Notice the editor has more than one recorder. In order to see the full editor click on the arrow pointing down. It's on the top left hand side of the editor. 

Here's an image of the editor and ...

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Profile on Moodle (Required Task)

Create a video tutorial showcasing everything about the profile (top right) on Moodle. What information is there? 

Choose one of the following screen recorders to create your video. 

LOOM 

Edpuzzle

Screencast-o-matic

Screen Recorder

Vimeo

Flipgrid

Awesome Screen Recorder 

Screen Capture

ScreenPal

Knovio

Tech...

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Forum for video tutorials that need improvements

All the videos are graded out of 100. Videos that didn't have the required information will be moved to this forum. 

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Week 2 (Jan 16 - 22) Support Forum

Please use this support forum to ask questions, add comments and to make suggestions. 

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Video Tutorials of Resources Available in your Moodle course on Online Courses for Free (Submission)

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Video Tutorials of Activities Available in your Moodle course on Online Courses for Free (Submission)

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Video Tutorial Showing Section Topics

  • Create a video tutorial using screen recorders to demonstrate how you named your section topics. 
  • Upload the video to Youtube or Vimeo (make it public)
  • Share the link of the Youtube or Vimeo video.

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Videos for Improvements (Your video will be moved to this discussion forum if it needs improvement)

This is a support forum for videos that need improvements. If you find your video tutorials here, please note that they need improvements. 

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Week 3 (Jan 23-29) Support Forum

Please use this support forum to ask questions, add comments and to make suggestions. 

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Video Tutorials of Blocks as a Manager (Submission) (remember to also reply to one other person)
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Roles in Moodle

  • What roles are available in a Moodle site?
  • What roles are available in a Moodle course?
  • What roles can managers of a Moodle course switch to?


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Course Syllabus Layout - Share Link

The courses will be for learners of English as a foreign or second language to improve their English language skills. The audience of the course is very young, young, young adults, or adults of all ages. The audience of the course is very young, young, young adults, or adults of all ages at all ...
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Course Settings

Explore the course settings and create a video showcasing the features available in the course settings and elaborate on the choices you made in how you set it up. 

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User Settings and Enrollment Methods

In this section, participants will explore the user settings. They will create a video showcasing the features available in the user settings, enrollment methods, how they add the class participants as students to their courses, and elaborate on their enrollment method. 

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Videos for Improvements 0
Week 4 (January 30 - Feb 5) Support for Week 4

Please use this support forum to ask questions, add comments, and/or make suggestions pertaining to the Course Practice Area (CPA). 

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Video Tutorial Showing How to Add Discussions with Ratings

  • Add support forums for each section.
  • Add discussions with grades using ratings for the activity completion.  
  • Create a video tutorial using screen recorders to demonstrate how you created the discussion forums with the ratings and activity completion. 
  • Upload the video to Youtube or Vimeo (make it ...
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Video Tutorial Showing How to Create a Progress Bar Block of the Graded Activities

  • Add a progress bar block of all the graded activities. 
  • Create a video tutorial using screen recorders to demonstrate how you created the progress bar block. 
  • Upload the video to Youtube or Vimeo (make it public)
  • Share the link of the Youtube or Vimeo video.

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Grade Forums by Whole Forum Grading

Explore the activity completion items for forums in your course. Set up the forum activity completion to show to grade by whole forum grading, and demonstrate and reflect on the process. Use a screen recorder as you showcase how you go about it, publish the video, and share the link. 


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Course Completion Setup

Explore the course completion items under course settings . Set up your course completion, and demonstrate and reflect on the items you choose. 

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Week 5 (Feb 6-12) Support Forum

Please use this support forum to ask questions, add comments and to make suggestions. 

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Showcase the Gradebook

After you set up activity completion for the discussions with a grade (rating)  and other activities, you will be able to take a look at the gradebook and see what's there. There's no need to do anything but document and showcase what's there.

Use a screen recorder to capture your demo and publish...

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Videos Documenting the Process of Setting up your Online Course (submit for grading)
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Reflect on the Process of Developing and Designing the Online Course with a Voki Avatar

Sign up for or sign in to a Voki account and use the avatar with your voice (in real time or upload an MP3) or by text to speech that is there to reflect on the process of developing and designing a course collaboratively. 

Share the challenges and benefits of the 5-week EVO session and share the ...

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Certificate of Participation Support for Certificates 1