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  • Moodle is one of the most popular learning management systems (LMS) used by educators and trainers worldwide. 

    In Moodle, a course refers to the learning space created to deliver text-based content, multimedia files, interactive activities, and assessments. These are organized into sections or modules, which learners can navigate at their own pace. 

    Moodle courses can be used for various educational and training purposes, such as academic courses, online tests, corporate training, professional development, or personal interest topics. 

    • Text and Media area (resource)

      Moodle offers a wide range of tools and activities that you can use to your advantage.

      This includes organizing resources such as files, links, and multimedia content

      and developing activities such as quizzes, forums, and assignments.

       

      You can create your text in any Word processor such as the MS-Word and then copy/paste it in your Moodle section/course.

    • A teacher can also add various activities in a section

      An activity is a general name for a group of features in a in a Moodle course. Usually an activity is something that a student will do that interacts with other students and or the teacher.

      In Moodle terminology, an Activity, such as Forums or Quizzes, properly means something students can contribute to directly, and is often contrasted to a Resource such as a File or Page, which is presented by the teacher to them. However, the term activity is sometimes for convenience also used to refer to both Activities and Resources as a group.

      There are 15 different types of activities in the standard Moodle that can be found when the editing is turned on and the link 'Add an activity or resource' is clicked.

      Assignments
      Enable teachers to grade and give comments on uploaded files and assignments created on and off line
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      Run live video conferencing sessions within Moodle
      Chat
      Allows participants to have a real-time synchronous discussion
      Choice
      A teacher asks a question and specifies a choice of multiple responses
      Database
      Enables participants to create, maintain and search a bank of record entries
      Feedback
      For creating and conducting surveys to collect feedback.
      Forum
      Allows participants to have asynchronous discussions
      Glossary
      Enables participants to create and maintain a list of definitions, like a dictionary
      H5P activity
      Enables H5P content created in the Content bank or on h5p.com or with the lumi App to be easily added to a course as an activity.

    • Example of a LESSON activity

      This is a sample Lesson activity