Overview- Moodle 

Moodle is acronym for Modular Object Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment. Moodle is MassArt's Learning Management System (LMS), an online application for the administration, documentation, tracking, reporting and delivery of educational courses and learning and development programs. 

An LMS delivers and manages all types of content, including video, courses, and documents, and may include a variety of functionality and features such as rubrics, teacher and instructor facilitated learning, a discussion board, and online syllabus. 

Who can use Moodle?

• Students
• Faculty
• Staff

What can I do with Moodle?

Moodle course sites can be used to support both web-enhanced classroom courses and fully online courses. Many resources and activities are available but a course may need only a few of the simplest tools to be successful.

The following questions may be relevant if you are considering using Moodle in your class:

• What uses of web support for your course content and activities will most effectively enrich your students’ learning?
• How do you want your students to interact about the course content online with you and with each other?
• What information, files, links, and media should every student have access to? Would it be helpful to have your students use the course site to submit their work?

Faculty can use Moodle to provide students with access to classroom materials (typical documents, images, etc.), a syllabus, and provide additional collaboration capabilities, including user forums which are restricted to members of a class.

Moodle Advanced Forums support guided discussions on course content outside the classroom. Instructors post questions on issues related to the class session, and students respond with their thoughts during the week. It can also be use for peer review of essay drafts, works-in-progress, or final drafts, guidance on critical reading, student group work, 

This is one of the best uses of a course site since it enhances student engagement in the course content outside of class.

Students say that reading each other's work and seeing each other's critiques of each other's work helps them to be more thoughtful and self-critical when they write their own final drafts.

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