Being an effective, online facilitator requires a set of skills that is similar to those required in the face-to-face classroom. The online or blended learning facilitator must be able to build community while having little to no face-to-face contact, offer clear and informative feedback, communicate effectively in a medium that lacks body language and tone of voice, as well as use instructional strategies that are independent of time and space to support student learning. The added aspect of the required technologies, like Moodle, also comes into play.
This course will introduce you to the many facets of online facilitation as you build skills in four areas: technical, managerial, social, and pedagogical. Finally, to synthesize all you have learned, you will build a Facilitation Checklist to help guide your ongoing facilitation needs.
This self-paced course is designed for faculty and course builders who are new to Moodle 2 or Joule 2. It focuses on configuring the gradebook, how and when to add commonly used resources and activities to courses, best practices, and grading. This course is not facilitated.
Upon completion of this training, participants will be able to navigate through a Moodle and Joule course; setup and build courses using best practices in Moodle course design; setup and manage the gradebook for courses; communicate with students through Moodle; add labels, pages, books, files, and websites as course resources; add assignments, forums, glossaries, and quizzes to a course and grade them; import and export grades; backup and restore courses; and import and export IMS Common Cartridge files.
This self-paced course is designed for new Moodle users, or those who are migrating from another Learning Management System and want to understand the core features of Moodle. This course is not facilitated.