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User Management
- Goals are to reduce admin involvement to a minimum, while retaining high security.
- Supports a range of authentication mechanisms through plug-in authentication modules
- Students can create their own login accounts and online profile.
- Email addresses can be protected from display if required.
- Users can specify their time zone, and every date in Moodle is translated to that time zone
- Users can choose the language used for the Moodle interface (English, French, Spanish, etc).
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Enrolment
- Teachers can add an "enrolment key" to their courses to keep out non-students.
- Teachers can enroll and unroll students manually if desired.
- Students are automatically unenrolled after a certain period of inactivity (set by the admin).
- Any external database containing at least two fields can be used as external authentication source.
- Meta courses get their enrollment Information from 1 or more other courses.
- One account per person to access multiple courses.
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Roles
- Roles for specific participants can be defined for each course.
- Admin controls the creation of courses and creates teachers by assigning users to courses.
- Course creators can create courses, teach in them, and assign others to teacher roles.
- Teachers are a role in a specific course.
- Non-editing teacher roles are available for adjuncts, and part-time tutors.
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Course Management
- A full teacher has full control over all settings for a course, including restricting other teachers.
- Choice of course formats such as by week, by topic or a discussion-focused social format.
- Course Themes. A course can have its own theme of colors and layout.
- Flexible array of course activities - Forums, Quizzes, Glossaries, Resources, Choices, Surveys, Assignments, Chats, Workshops.
- Groups - teacher(s) and students can be placed in one or more groups.
- Recent changes to the course since the last login can be displayed on the course home page
- Most text entry areas can be edited using an embedded WYSIWYG HTML editor.
- All grades for Forums, Quizzes and Assignments can be viewed on one page and downloaded
- Full user logging and tracking - activity reports for each student are available with graphs and details about each module (last access, number of times read) as well as a detailed "story" of each student’s involvement including postings etc on one page.
- Mail integration - copies of forum posts, teacher feedback etc can be mailed in HTML or plain text.
- Custom scales - teachers can define their own scales to be used for grading forums and assignments.
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Assignment
- Assignments can be specified with a due date and a maximum grade.
- Students can upload their assignments (any file format) to the server - they are date-stamped.
- Late assignments are allowed, but the amount of lateness is shown clearly to the teacher.
- For an assignment, the whole class can be assessed (grade and comment) on one page in one form.
- Teacher feedback is appended to the assignment page and notification is mailed out to student.
- The teacher can choose to allow resubmission of assignments after grading (for re-grading)
- Advanced assignments can allow multiple files to be uploaded. This could keep together pre planning maps, outlines, research papers and presentations
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Chat
- Allows smooth, synchronous text interaction with profile pictures in chat window.
- Supports URLs, smilies, embedded HTML, images etc
- All sessions are logged for later viewing, and these can also be made available to students.
- Real-time Chat
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Quiz
- Teachers can define a database of questions for re-use in different quizzes.
- Questions can be stored in categories for easy access, and these categories can be "published" to make them accessible from any course on the site.
- Quizzes are automatically graded, and can be re-graded if questions are modified.
- Quizzes can have a limited time window outside of which they are not available.
- At the teacher's option, quizzes can be attempted multiple times, and can show feedback and/or correct answers. Attempts can be cumulative, if desired, and finished over several sessions.
- Quiz questions and quiz answers can be shuffled (randomized) to reduce cheating.
- Questions allow HTML and images.
- Questions can be imported from external text files.
- Supports multiple-choice questions with single or multiple answers, short answer questions (words or phrases), true-false questions, matching questions, random questions, numerical questions (with allowable ranges), embedded-answer questions (close style) with answers within passages of text and embedded descriptive text and graphic
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Forum
- Different types of forums such as teacher-only, course news, open-to-all, and one-thread-per-user.
- All postings have the author’s photo attached.
- Discussions can be viewed nested, flat or threaded, oldest or newest first.
- Individual forums can be subscribed to by each person so that copies are forwarded via email, or the teacher can force subscription for all.
- The teacher can choose not to allow replies (e.g. for an announcements-only forum).
- Discussion threads can be easily moved between forums by the teacher.
- Attached images are shown inline.
- If forum ratings are being used, these can be restricted to a range of dates.
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Lesson
- A lesson is a series of pages which can be presented in a linear fashion, like a slide show, or in a non-linear, branching manner, or in a combination of the two.
- Navigation through the lesson can be straight forward or complex, logical or random.
- Pages have a content area for questions or explanations, with an HTML set of tools.
- Pages can allow students to make choices by their answers to questions or by selecting a button with a description.
- Each choice can be associated with jumps that link to other lesson pages and can be scored.
- Offers different scoring and grading potentials.
- Interfaces with Grade and Glossary modules.
- Lessons can build upon each other through conditional dependencies upon one another.
- Questions include multi-choice, multi-answer, T/F, numeric, short answer and essay types.
- Pages can be created one at a time or imported in variety of formats.
- Student attempts, time limits, minimum score and retakes can be set.
- Students may see progress bars, running score, reinforcement to student questions.
- Password, start and end times, and other restrictions can be placed on students.
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Resource
- Supports content in Word, PowerPoint, Flash, Video, Sounds etc. formats stored locally, or remotely.
- Files can be uploaded and managed (zipped, unzipped, renamed, moved, etc...) on the server
- Folders can be created and managed on the server and linked.
- Internal web pages (html formatted) can be created with WYSIWYG editor and linked.
- Internal text pages (no formatting) can be created and linked.
- External content on the web can be linked to or seamlessly included within the course interface.
- External web applications can be linked to with data passed to them.
- Linked MP3 audio files will display with elegant flash player.
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Survey
- Built-in surveys as instruments for analyzing online classes.
- Online survey reports always available abd Data is downloadable as an Excel or CSV formats.
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