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The University of Zambia

QUALITY ASSURANCE
DIRECTORATE

USING MOODLE AT UNZA

DR. EDWARD LUSAMBO


DIRECTOR, QUALITY ASSURANCE
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Preamble

Moodle is an open-source learning management system which allows staff to create online and
blended learning and teaching environments for course delivery. Some of the features of Moodle
include:
 Flexibility: Moodle offers the flexibility required to fulfill UNZA’s range of learning and
teaching needs, to meet demands for a higher quality of the teaching and learning experience.
Moodle allows for the inclusion of plugins that deliver additional pedagogical functionality
and multimedia within online courses.
 Easy to use: Moodle's interface is easy to use, is efficient at administering course activities
and assessment. It also helps lecturers improve learning and teaching based on a learner-
focused pedagogical model and a variety of system generated analytical information.
 Delivery of pedagogical change: Moodle supports active learning rather than just passive
learning and improves student engagement by allowing student to be contributors and
knowledge builders, which frees the lecturer to facilitate the engagement while providing
students with feedback much earlier in the course.

Objectives
At the end of the training programme, participants should be able to:
1. Setup their Moodle environment with course blocks (activities, resources, calendar,
recent updates and enrolled students), so that all of your unit folders and materials are
now online.
2. Organize their course materials – The goal is to get all of the course materials in one
place on the computer, separated into units. Once they are in one place, they may be
organised by giving them recognizable names that correspond to the sequence in which
the course is taught.
3. Create resource links by focusing on providing links to the course sectionst and
supporting materials. The goal is to have all of your materials online in some form.
4. Provide online activities that give students the opportunity to actively engage in their
learning and to expand and apply their knowledge
5. Record assessment progress by using the tracking mechanisms for students’ outputs.

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Contents

INTRODUCTION TO MOODLE Section 1


1.0 MOODLE AS A LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
1.1 Learning Management Systems
1.2 The Web-based Learning Environment
1.3 The Moodle Interface
1.4 Logging In
1.5 Editing Your User Profile
MANAGING COURSES Section 2
2.0 ARRANGEMENT OF COURSES IN MOODLE
2.1 The Dashboard
2.2 Managing the Course
2.3 Course Settings
2.4 Course Formats
2.5 Enrolling Students in the Course
2.6 Assigning Roles
2.7 Removing Students
2.8 Temporarily Suspending a User Account
2.9 Reports
2.10 Backing up a Course
2.11 Restoring a Course
MANAGING CONTENT IN COURSES Section 3
3.0 ADDING AND EDITING CONTENT
3.1 Background
3.2 Editing Mode
3.3 Adding a News Forum
3.4 Adding Resources
3.5 Adding Activities
3.6 Editing and Updating Resources and Activities
ASSIGNMENTS Section 4
4.0 ASSIGNMENTS
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Assignment Types
4.3 Adding an Assignment Activity
4.4 Configuration Options
4.5 Managing Assignment Submissions
4.6 Grading Assignment Submissions
4.7 View of Grades and Comments by Students
4.8 Effective assignment practices

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QUIZZES Section 5
5.0 QUIZZES
5.1 Background
5.2 Standard Question Types
5.3 Creative Quiz Strategies
5.4 Creating a Quiz
5.5 Managing Quizzes
5.6 Quiz Capabilities
GRADING Section 6
6.0 GRADES
6.1 Grades Interface
6.2 Viewing Grades
6.3 Editing
6.4 Setting Preferences
6.5 Grade Categories
6.6 Aggregating and Assigning Weights to Grade Categories
6.7 Grade Calculations
6.8 Letter Grades
6.9 Student Grade View
6.10 Exporting Grades
6.11 Importing Grades
FEEDBACK Section 7
7.0 FEEDBACK
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Creating Feedback
7.3 Building Feedback
7.4 Managing Feedback
7.5 Feedback Templates

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