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|ICT Competency
 
|ICT Competency
|Moodle is a learning platform designed to provide educators, administrators and learners with a '''single robust, secure and integrated system''' to create personalised learning environments.
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|Moodle is a learning management system (LMS) designed to provide educators, administrators and learners with a '''robust, secure and integrated system''' to create personalised learning environments.
 
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|Educational application and relevance
 
|Educational application and relevance
|It is an collaborative learning environments that empower both teaching and learning.
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|Moodle provides and on-line platform for collaborative learning. It empower teachers to set-up courses, provide the learning resources and activities for the course and assess learners.
 
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|Version
 
|Version
|currently using 3.4
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|Currently using 3.4
 
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|Other similar applications
 
|Other similar applications
|TalentLMS,
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|TalentLMS  
 
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|The application on mobiles and tablets
 
|The application on mobiles and tablets
|It is a web based software installing in the web server.  
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|It is a web based application, and can be accessed through a browser on any device supporting browsing.  
 
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|Development and community help
 
|Development and community help
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=== Working with Moodle ===
 
=== Working with Moodle ===
A course is a space on a Moodle site where teachers can add learning materials for their students. A teacher may have more than one course and a course may include more than one teacher and more than one group of learners
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A course is a space on a Moodle site where teachers can add learning materials and activities for their students. A teacher may have more than one course and a course may include more than one teacher and more than one group of learners. Both teachers and students have to be 'registered' for a course (as 'teacher' or as 'student'), this role configuration is done by the Moodle administrator.
    
==== Logging into Moodle course page ====
 
==== Logging into Moodle course page ====
Click on your Moodle course link and click on the login to view or edit the course content. [https://karnatakaeducation.org.in/lms/ click here] to use our Moodle.
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Click on your Moodle course link and click on the login to view or edit the course content. [https://karnatakaeducation.org.in/lms/ click here] to use a Moodle installation managed by Centre for Education and Technology, IT for Change.
 
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<gallery mode="packed" heights="200px" caption="Moodle - Login to the course">
 
File:1. Moodle login page.png|Moodle login screen
 
File:1. Moodle login page.png|Moodle login screen
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Once you login, you can see the course content and on the top right corner if you are seeing your login name, then your looged in with your user name and password.
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Once you login, you can see the course content and you will see your login name  on the top right corner of the screen.
    
==== Editing sections ====
 
==== Editing sections ====
Once you have a new blank course, you can start work on it by turning on the editing, either with the button top right.
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Once you have a new blank course, you can start work on it by '<nowiki/>'''Turning on'<nowiki/>''' the editing, by clicking the '''Turn editing on''<nowiki/>' button on the top of the screen. Only faculty will have rights to edit the course contents. This is not available for students.
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With the editing turned on, each item on your course homepage and each section/block will have edit options next to it which all perform different functions such as edit/move/copy/delete/hide. '''Note:''' ''your theme may have different'' icons''.''
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When the 'editing' option is turned 'on', each item on your course homepage and each section/block will display 'edit' option, which will enable you to perform different functions such as edit/move/copy/delete/hide. '''Note:''' In ''your theme the'' icons ''may be  ''different''. However the functionality is the same for different themes of Moodle.''
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Once you click on edit - edit topics, it will take us to edit page (see the below screenshots).
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Once you click on edit - edit topics, it will take us to edit page (see the below screen shots).
    
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File:Moodle - edit option 1.png|Click edit topics option to start editing section
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File:Moodle - edit option 1.png|Click 'edit topics' option to start editing section
File:Moodle - edit option 2.png|Uncheck "Use default section name" for custom title name
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File:Moodle - edit option 2.png|Uncheck 'Use default section name' for custom title name
 
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You can embed your local files like images or videos by drag and drop it on the summary section and adjust the size of the file.
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You can embed your files like images or videos by dragging and dropping the file to the summary section. You can also adjust the size of the file.
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Un-check "Use default section name" to give your custom heading for your section. Start adding section summary under the summary box (you can copy paste from text documents also). Use the top basic formatting toolbar to format your text.
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Un-check "Use default section name" to give your custom heading for your section.  
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Under the restrict section, you can restrict the page to access as in the below screenshot.
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Start adding section summary under the summary box (you can copy paste from an existing text document also). Use the top 'basic formatting' toolbar to format your text, you can '''bold''' or ''italicise'' your text and perform basic text editing functions.
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Under the restrict section, you can restrict the page to access as in the below screen shot.
    
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File:moodle add or remove sections.png|To add or remove sections
 
File:moodle add or remove sections.png|To add or remove sections
 
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Once you done all this click on "save changes" button to save your content under that section.   
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Once you have completed your editing and added the text, images, videos in the section, you should on click on "save changes" button to save your content under that section.   
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Scroll to the bottom of the curse main page and, below the last section, look for the small '''+''' and '''-''' icons (at right). Click the '''plus''' ('''+''')/'''minus(-)''' to add/remove an sections.
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Scroll to the bottom of the course main page and, below the last section, look for the small '''+''' and '''-''' icons (at right). Click the '''plus''' ('''+''')/'''minus(-)''' to add and remove sections.
    
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