Moodle is a learning management service (LMS) that several districts use to help them organize their classrooms online. To access Moodle you'll go to moodle.remc1.net and log in with your Google account information, i.e., your email address and password.
After logging in it will direct you to the homepage which is shown below. My Home will bring you to a list of your courses (courses that you administrate or are a student of), Calendar will take you to a calendar where your assignments will be listed on their due dates, Badges will display all the badges you have earned, and Courses will take you to a list of all the courses in the districts. There are several ways to get to your courses. You can click My Home and then follow the link there, you can click on the My Courses button on the top menu bar to get a drop-down list of your courses or you can find the My Courses sidebar on the right and get to your course from there.
To create a course you'll have to submit a ticket to REMC1. We create the courses on the server but we don't set them up, administer them, or monitor them for you. Once you have a course created you'll want to fill it with the things that you need to teach your class. We are going to be looking at REMC1-101 which is the course we use to help train new Interns. Clicking on the link to REMC1 - 101 in the right sidebar brings us to the course page.
This is basically what the course will look like. This course is obviously filled in and isn't new, but this is what your course will look like after you've set it up. Moodle has sections that you can use to organize your class and you have the ability to lock certain sections until the students have progressed and completed other sections if you'd like. This way you can set the flow of your course and prevent students from skipping around. You can see that is the case for this course as the later sections in the navigation sidebar are grayed out. To edit the course you'll want to turn editing on by clicking that green Edit On button on the right.
Once you've turned editing on you can start to add sections and populate your course. You can add a number of different "activities", as Moodle calls them, to a section. These activities include Assignments, Quizzes, Chats, Wikis, as well as many others. Once you add more sections you'll be able to move them around and arrange them how you see fit. You can indent activities and resources within a section to give the section more of a hierarchy and organization within the section.
There are many options in the administration panel as well. you can choose to view the course as a different "role" such as Non-Editing Teacher or Student. A Non-Editing Teacher is a teacher who can grade and teach the class but can't edit the activities or modify the class structure. A Student is a student of the class. They can't grade activities or assignments or modify the class.
To add a section to the course scroll all the way to the bottom of the course (sections are automatically added to the bottom of the course but can be moved around once they are created) and hit the Add section button.
