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<H2>Teacher Manual</H2>
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<P>This page is a quick guide to creating online courses with Moodle. It outlines
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the main functions that are available, as well as some of the main decisions
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you'll need to make.</P>
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<P>Sections in this document:</P>
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<OL>
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<LI><A HREF="#started">Getting started</A></LI>
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<LI><A HREF="#settings">Course settings</A></LI>
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<LI><A HREF="#upload">Uploading files</A></LI>
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<LI><A HREF="#activities">Setting up activities</A></LI>
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<LI><A HREF="#course">Running the course</A></LI>
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<LI><A HREF="#further">Further information</A></LI>
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<H3><A NAME="started"></A>Getting started</H3>
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<blockquote>
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<p>This document assumes your site administrator has set up Moodle and given
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you new, blank course to start with. It also assumes you have logged in to
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your course using your teacher account.</p>
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<p>Here are three general tips that will help you get started.</p>
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<ol>
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<li><strong>Don't be afraid to experiment:</strong>
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<blockquote>feel free to poke around and change things. It's hard to break anything
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in a Moodle course, and even if you do it's usually easy to fix it.
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</blockquote>
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<li><strong>Notice and use these little icons</strong>:
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<blockquote>
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<p> <img src="../pix/i/edit.gif"> - the <strong>edit icon</strong>
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lets you edit whatever it is next to.</p>
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<p><img src="../pix/help.gif" width="22" height="17"> - the <strong>help
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icon</strong> will provide you with a popup help window </p>
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</li>
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<li><strong>Use the navigation bar at the top of each page</strong>
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<blockquote>this
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should help remind you where you are and prevent getting lost.
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</blockquote></li>
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</ol>
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</blockquote>
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<h3><A NAME="settings"></A>Course settings</h3>
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<p>The first thing you should do is look under the "Administration"
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on your course home page and click on "<strong>Settings...</strong>"
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(Note that this link, and in fact the whole Administration section is only
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available to you (and the site administrator). Students will not even see
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these links).</p>
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<p>On the Settings page you can change a number of settings about your course,
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ranging from its name to what day it starts. I won't talk here about all these,
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as they all have a help icon next to them which explains them all in detail.
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However, I will talk about the most important of these - the <strong>course
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format</strong>.</p>
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<p>The course format that you choose will decide the basic layout of your course,
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like a template. Moodle version 1.0 has three formats - in future there will
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probably be many more (please send new ideas to <a href="mailto:martin@moodle.com">martin@moodle.com</a>!)</p>
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<p>Here are some screenshots of three sample courses in each of these three
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formats (ignore the different colours, which are set for a whole site by the
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site administrator):</p>
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<p align="center"><strong>Weekly format:</strong></p>
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<p align="center"><img src="pix/weekly.jpg" width="570" height="527"></p>
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<p align="center"> </p>
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<p align="center"><strong>Topics format:</strong></p>
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<p align="center"><img src="pix/topics.jpg" width="570" height="463"></p>
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<p align="center"> </p>
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<p align="center"><strong>Social format:</strong></p>
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<p align="center"><img src="pix/social.jpg" width="570" height="429"></p>
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<p> </p>
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<p>Note that the weekly and topics formats are very similar in structure. The
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main difference is that each box in the weekly format covers exactly one week,
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whereas in the topic format each box can cover whatever you like. The social
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format doesn't use much content at all and is based around just one forum
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- this is displayed on the main page.</p>
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<p>See the help buttons on the Course Settings page for more details.</p>
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<HR>
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</blockquote>
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<H3><A NAME="upload"></A>Uploading files</H3>
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<p>You may have existing content that you want to add to your course, such as
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web pages, audio files, video files, word documents, or flash animations.
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Any type of file that exists can be uploaded into your course and stored on
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the server. While your files are on the server you can move, rename, edit
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or delete them.</p>
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<p>All of this is achieved through the <strong>Files</strong> link in your Administration
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menu. The Files section looks like this:</p>
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<p align="center"><img src="pix/files.jpg" width="400" height="347"></p>
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<p> </p>
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<p>This interface is only available to teachers - it is not accessible by students.
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Individual files are made available to students later on (as "Readings"
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- see the next section).</p>
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<p>As you can see in the screenshot, files are listed alongside subdirectories.
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You can create any number of subdirectories to organise your files and move
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your files from one to the other.</p>
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<p>Uploading files via the web is currently restricted to one file at a time.
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If you want to upload a lot of files at once (for example a whole web site),
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it can be a lot easier to use a <strong>zip program</strong> to compress them
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into a single file, upload the zip file and then unzip them again on the server
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(you will see an "unzip" link next to zip archives).</p>
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<p>To preview any file you have uploaded just click on its name. Your web browser
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will take care of either displaying it or downloading it to your computer.</p>
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<p>HTML and text files can be edited in-place online. Other files will need
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to be edited on your local computer and uploaded again. if you upload a file
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with the same name as an existing file it will automatically be overwritten.</p>
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<p>A final note: if your content resides out on the web then you don't need
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to upload the files at all - you can link directly to them from inside the
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course (see the Readings module and the next section).</p>
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<HR>
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</blockquote>
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<H3><A NAME="activities"></A>Setting up activities</H3>
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<blockquote>
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<p>Building a course involves adding course activity modules to the main page
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in the order that students will be using them. You can shuffle the order any
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time you like.</p>
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<p>To turn on editing, click "Turn on editing" under Administration.
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This toggle switch shows or hides the extra controls that allow you to manipulate
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your main course page. Note in the first screenshot above (of the Weekly format
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course) that the editing controls are turned on.</p>
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<p>To add a new activity, simply go to the week or topic or section of the screen
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where you want to add it, and select the type of activity from the popup menu.
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Here is a summary of all the standard activities in Moodle 1.0:</p>
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<dt><strong>Assignment</strong></dt>
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<dd>An assignment is where you set a task with a due date and a maximum grade.
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Students will be able to upload one file to satisify the requirements. The
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date they upload their file is recorded. Afterwards, you will have a single
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page on which ou can view each file (and how late or early it is), and then
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record a grade and a comment. Half an hour after you grade any particular
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student, Moodle will automatically email that student a notification. </dd><BR>
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<BR>
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<dt><strong>Choice</strong></dt>
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<dd>A choice activity is very simple - you ask a question and specify a choice
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of responses (currently only two). Students can make that choice, and you
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have a report screen where you can see the results. I use it to gather research
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consent from my students, but you could use it for quick polls or class
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votes.</dd>
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<BR>
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<BR>
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<dt><strong>Forum</strong></dt>
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<dd>This module is by far the most important - it is here that discussion
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takes place. When you add a new forum, yu will presented with a choice of
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different types - a simple single-topic discussion, a free-for-all general
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forum, or a one-discussion-thread-per-user.</dd>
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<BR>
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<BR>
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<dt><strong>Journal</strong></dt>
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<dd>Each journal activity is an entry in the whole course journal. For each
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one you can specify an open-ended question that guides what students write,
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as well as a window of time in which the journal is open (weekly course
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format only). Encourage students to write reflectively and critically in
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these journals, as they are only available to them and you. Afterwards,
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you will be able to grade and comment all the entries for that week or topic,
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and students will receive an automatic email informing them of your feedback.</dd>
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<BR>
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<dt><strong>Reading</strong></dt>
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<dd>Readings are the content of your course. Each reading can be any file
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you have uploaded or can point to using a URL. You can also maintain simple text-based pages by typing them
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directly into a form.</dd>
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<BR>
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<dt><strong>Survey</strong></dt>
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<dd>The survey module provides a number of predefined survey instruments that are useful in
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evaluating and understanding your class. Currently they include the COLLES and the ATTLS instruments.
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They can be given to students early in the course as a diagnostic tool and at the end of the
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course as an evaluation tool (I use one every week in my courses).</dd>
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</dl>
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<p>After adding your activities you can move them up and down in your course
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layout by clicking on the little arrow icons (<img src="../pix/t/up.gif" width="9" height="10">
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<img src="../pix/t/down.gif" width="9" height="10">) next to each one. You
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can also delete them using the cross icon <img src="../pix/t/delete.gif" width="10" height="10">,
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and re-edit them using the edit icon <img src="../pix/t/edit.gif" width="10" height="11">.</p>
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<H3><A NAME="course"></A>Running the course</H3>
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<p>I could write a thesis about this. Actually I <strong>am</strong> writing
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a thesis about this. <img src="../pix/s/biggrin.gif" width="16" height="16"></p>
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<p>Until then here are just a few quick pointers:</p>
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<li>Subscribe yourself to all the forums.</li>
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<li>Encourage all the students fill out their user profile (including photos)
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and read them all - this will help provide some context to their later writings.</li>
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<li>Keep notes to yourself in the private "<strong>Teacher's Forum</strong>"
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(under Administration). This is especially useful when team teaching.</li>
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<li>Use the "<strong>Logs</strong>" link (under Administration)
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to get access to complete, raw logs. In there you'll see a link to a popup
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window that updates every sixty seconds and shows the last hour of activity.
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This is useful to keep open on your desktop all day so you can feel in touch
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with what's going on in the course.</li>
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<li>Use the "<strong>Activity Reports</strong>" (next to each name
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in the list of all people, or from any user profile page). These provide
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a great way to see what any particular person has been up to in the course.</li>
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<li>Respond quickly to students. Don't leave it for later - do it right away.
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Not only is it easy to become overwhelmed with the volume that can be generated,
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but it's a crucial part of building and maintaining a community feel in
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your course.</li>
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</ol>
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<HR>
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</blockquote>
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<H3><A NAME="further"></A>Further information</H3>
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<blockquote>
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<p>If you have any particular problems with your site, you should contact your
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local site administrator.</p>
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<p>If you have some great ideas for improvements to Moodle, or even some good
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stories, come over to <a href="http://moodle.com/" target="_top">moodle.com</a> and join
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in the Teacher's forum on that site. We'd love to hear them, and you can help
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Moodle improve.</p>
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<p>If you want to contribute to coding new modules, or writing documentation,
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or papers, contact me: <a href="http://dougiamas.com/" target="_top">Martin
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Dougiamas</a> or browse the "bug tracker" site for Moodle, at <a href="http://bugs.moodle.com" target="_top">bugs.moodle.com</a></p>
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<p align="center">Thanks for using Moodle - good luck!</p>
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<HR>
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<p> </p>
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<P ALIGN="CENTER"><FONT SIZE="1"><A HREF="index.html" TARGET="_top">Moodle Documentation</A></FONT></P>
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