Activity Modules
Moodle contains a wide range of activity modules that can be used to
build up any type of course.
Adobe Connect
The Adobe Connect Pro activity module provides the officially sponsored integration
method between Moodle and Adobe Connect Pro. It was developed in conjunction with the Remote-Learner
development team and Adobe Inc. It is designed to simplify the use of synchronous events within Moodle.
It provides a single sign on between the two systems with easy event creation and management.
Please see the Adobe Connect Pro Module page for more
details on this project.
Choices
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.
Flash Card Set
This module provide students a way of fast memoizing list of "things". This is a typical
indexing exercise, where a map of coupled things should be learned and retained. We say "thing"
because either key or value could be any related pair of text, images or sounds.
This module implements a full Leitner system to mechanically support the memoization process
of the relationships. The couples to be learned are first attached to a deck of cards. These are
initially considered as difficult to learn. The teacher can choose a learning curve using 2, 3 or 4 decks.
4 decks should be used for large set of definitions. When the student fails answering a card, he will
tell it and let the card stay in the same deck. If he has the correct answer, he will ask for passing the
card to the second deck, so considered as less difficult to learn. The process is repeated for all decks
till the last one where card will remain. The decks are triggered so the student knows which he should
review. Difficult cards will trigger more often thant trivial cards. Trigger delays are adjustable.
When a student do not apply for reviewing decks, cards may downgrade automatically to an higher difficulty
deck.
The module allows also a free use of the cards, enabled by module configuration. The module is
customisable graphically using a teacher defined CSS and image set.
Forums
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.
Labels
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.
Journals
This module is a very important reflective activity. The teacher
asks the student to reflect on a particular topic, and the student can
edit and refine their answer over time. This answer is private and
can only be seen by the teacher, who can offer feedback and a grade
on each journal entry. It's usually a good idea to have about one
Journal activity per week.
Surveys
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.
Lesson
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.
Glossary
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.
Resources
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.
Quizzes
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.
Hot Potatoes
This module, the "HotPot" module, allows teachers to administer
Hot Potatoes quizzes via Moodle.
The quizzes are created on the teacher's computer and then uploaded to the Moodle course.
After students have attempted the quizzes, a number of reports are available which show how
individual questions were answered and some statistical trends in the scores.
Assignments
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.