Moodlerooms Training

Faculty who have completed Blackboard LMS training Basics 1 and 2 are not required to be trained in Moodlerooms. However, training is highly recommended.

Register for MR Basics Online Training - Series 1 on the POD site.

Sign up for all Workshops through the POD Activity Calendar

To use Moodlerooms with their classes, faculty not previously Bb approved must do the following:

1. Faculty must be Mt. SAC LMS approved by taking MR1 and MR2 Basics training via online or on-campus workshops.
2. Faculty must read the OLSC Learning Management Use at Mt. SAC (See document “Moodlerooms at Mt. SAC”)
3. Faculty must sign the acknowledgment forum to be turned in to Carol Webster. (See document “Acknowledgment of Moodlerooms at Mt. SAC”)

Basics Training 1

This is part one of a two-part training (* both parts are required of all faculty who wish to use Moodlerooms (MR) in their traditional or Distance Learning Courses). Faculty learn how MR will work at Mt. SAC and how to build and modify MR courses. After completion, each trained faculty member will have access to Moodlerooms course development sandboxes.

Basics Training 2

This is part two of a two-part training (* both parts are required of all faculty who wish to use Moodlerooms (MR) in their traditional or Distance Learning Courses). Faculty learn how MR will work at Mt. SAC and how to build and modify MR courses. After completion, each trained faculty member will have access to Moodlerooms course development sandboxes.

MR Basics Online Training

MR Basics Online Training is an online self-paced version of the workshops Moodlerooms Basics parts 1 and 2. This online course is designed for faculty and course builders who are new to Moodle/joule and may also require Mt. SAC Learning Management System approval to teach their courses using Moodlerooms.In this course, the participant will learn from the vantage point of a student. You will be analyzing the course through the lens of an instructor, and modeling your own course content built from the tools and resources provided. We will be with you every step of the way, and have a plethora of support materials to make sure you feel confident as a course designer.

MR3 Communications

Explore various communication tools available in LMS: Moodlerooms, including creating announcements, chat, forums, integrating activities and due dates in the calendar, and using other MR methods to interact with students.

 MR4 Creating Assessments through Commonly Used Activities

Activities are interactive components of your course that require student engagement and are typically graded. Learn about creating and grading various types of Assignments, Forum and Glossary activities, and quizzes. Best practices and time saving tips will also be covered.

MR5 Gradebook

This workshop is designed for faculty who have completed LMS: Moodlerooms Basics training and wish to learn more about configuring the Gradebook and grading student activities.

 
Advanced Gradebook

Participants will come prepared to work on setting up the categories, items and aggregation in their courses' Gradebooks. 

Pre-requisite - Participation in MR 5.

PLD Personalized Learning Designer

The Personalized Learning Designer (PLD) offers instructors the ability to create and modify one or more "rules" within a course. Rules designate triggering events in the course, upon which joule automatically performs specific actions.

Instructors can create numerous rules to work as an agent on their behalf. For example, a rule can watch for "at risk" grades, sending messages to key figures in the student's life. Or a rule can encourage students for improvement by watching for the completion of activities. Numerous possibilities exist as instructors combine different events, conditions and actions within the course into rules.

Pre-requisite: MR 1 - 5.

Rubrics

Rubrics allow for standardized scoring according to specified criteria, making grading simpler for teachers and more transparent to the student receiving the grade. Rubrics can be integrated in your Moodlerooms courses to be used for assignments and forums. Participants will learn and practice creating, and editing rubrics via the Advanced grading link in Moodlerooms. In addition, participants will learn and practice grading in the joule Grader using a rubrice they have created during the works