Documentation

This documentation will serve as a general introduction for the STREIT Program Moodle Learning Management System (LMS).The topics covered include, login in and accessing the LMS, course design, accessing courses and course contents, and general how-tos.

What is Moodle

Moodle is a popular learning management system (LMS) used worldwide by various educational and non educational institutions. A Learning Management Systems (LMS) is a software that is designed specifically to create, distribute, and manage the delivery of educational content. The LMS performs several functions that enables course administrators to upload learning content, deliver lessons to students, serving notifications, and share data with authorized users/learners. LMSs have been adopted for eLearning and blended learning for effective delivery of content to learners.

Moodle Mobile App

Apart from accessing the Moodle Learning Management System via the browser, we have also enabled access to the LMS via the Moodle mobile application. The Moodle mobile app facilitates efficient access to Moodle learning platforms on handheld devices.

Moodle app allows you to easily access course content - browse the content of your courses, even when offline·

Installing the Moodle Mobile App on Android Devices

These Instructions provide a step-by-step walk through of how to download the Moodle Mobile App on Android devices that have access to the Google Play Store. This process will involve downloading one app, and using your device's web browser to log into Moodle once during setup. Once you are logged in on the app, you will not have to log in again until your password is changed.

1. Step 1: Google Play Store and Downloading Moodle Mobile.

   First, locate and launch your Google Play Store app. Next, Search for the "Moodle" app.

   

   

   On the Moodle app page, Tap the green "INSTALL" button to download and install Moodle.

   Once the app is finished installing, tap the green "OPEN" button to launch the app.

   

   

2. Step 2: Login Into the Moodle Mobile App

   On first launch, the App will request the web address to our Moodle site. type "https://pnguotdtc.edu.pg" and then press the "CONNECT!" button below.

   Once you press connect, as long as the website address was typed in correctly, your screen should pop up a white box requesting you to log in to the site in a browser window. Press "OK".

   Once you press OK, it should automatically change apps to the web browser on your device, and take you to the Moodle website.

   

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   Now that we are on the Moodle website in the browser on your device, we must log in. Click on the large blue "Click to Login" button.

   Next, type the same username and password you would use to log into Moodle on the computer. This is the same username and password to access the Web Portal.

   If your credentials are correct, pressing the "Sign In" button should automatically transfer you back to the Moodle Mobile app within a few seconds.

   

3. Step 3: Successfully logged in.

   After being transferred back to the Moodle Mobile App, you should now see your courses listed if successfully logged in.

   Congratulations, you are now ready to use Moodle on the go!

   

Moodle Mobile Features

Student Module

Creating your student/learner account

There are two methods that you can use to create your student/learner account:

Method 1

1. Open your browser (google chrome, Mozilla Firefox or Edge), type https://pnguotdtc.edu.pg in the address bar as shown below and hit the Enter button.
2. When the login page loads, click on the Login/Register link as shown below

3. In the pop up box, click on the Sign Up Link

4. Fill in your details in the Sign Up form and click on Create My New Account button to create your account


5. If you successfully create your account, you will recieve a confirmation message and instructions on how to complete your registration..

   

6. The Next step is to login to the email account that you used to register your account with and click on the confirmation link to activate your account as shown below.

   

Method 2: Creating account using your gmail account

1. Open your browser (google chrome, Mozilla Firefox or Edge), type https://pnguotdtc.edu.pg in the address bar as shown below and hit the Enter button.
2. When the login page loads, click on the Login/Register link as shown below

3. In the pop up box, Under login using your account, click on the google button


If you successfully create your account, you will recieve a confirmation message and instructions on how to complete your registration..



4. The Next step is to login to the email account that you used to register your account with and click on the confirmation link to activate your account as shown below.

   

Accessing and Login into the STREIT Moodle Learning Management Systems (LMS)

1. Open your browser (google chrome, Mozilla Firefox or Edge), type https://pnguotdtc.edu.pg in the address bar as shown below and hit the Enter button.
2. When the login page load, click on the login link/button as shown below

3. Enter your enter you username and password or click on the Google icon

Change Language

The default language is English.To change language from English to Tok Pisin

1. Login to your account
2. Click on the flag icon on the main menu on the far right hand side
3. Select the Tok Pisin language by clicking on the Tok Pisin Link in that drop down menu

Moving Backward and the Breadcrumb Trail

Once you are in your Moodle account, you can use your browser's navigation buttons (the forward and back arrows), but that practice may make you confused about where you are in the course. A better navigation method is to use the "breadcrumb trail" built into Moodle.

The breadcrumb trail shows the pages you have passed through to get to your current location. They are shown in the top left corner of the page and clicking on them will take you to that location in the course.

The image above shows that the page you are on at the moment is My private files. Clicking on My home would take you to your My home page. The same principle applies with each of the activity types, so if you were in a quiz you would have a link to a list of all quizzes in your course.

Editing your Student Profile

Moodle provides you with a personal profile that applies to all the Moodle subjects you are enrolled in. You can edit your profile information at any time. You can choose to hide or display your email address, include a photo or an avatar, or add a link to your website.

• Login to your account, click My profile link on left hand side menu then Edit profile
• Scroll down to User picture and select ‘Add’. A file picker window will appear. Select and press the button to locate and upload an image. Scroll down to the bottom of the screen and press ‘Update profile’ to finish updating your profile.

Self enrollment into a course

To access any course content, you will be required to enroll to the course.To self enroll, follow the procedure below:

1. Login in to your account
2. Click on All courses Link on the main Menu
3. Click on the Training Center to list all available course
4. Click on the course you wish to enroll into.
5. Click on the "enroll me" button to complete the enrollment. '
6. After enrolling, you should now be able to access all the course content of the enrolled course as explained in the next section.

Accessing your courses and course content

After you log in, your courses will appear under My Courses link on the MAIN MENU as show in the image below.

If your courses are missing, you will be required to navigate to the all course menu, find the course of your choice, and self enroll to the course as explained in the previouse section.

NB: To access any course on system, you need to be enrolled into the course. You may be enrolled by your instructor/ or yourself as explained in the previous section.

Course Content

1. Click on the My Course Menu Link on the Main Menu to access your enrolled courses as described in the previous section.
2. Click on the course image as shown in the image below to access the course content
3. Course content will be organized in a Weekly or Topic/Per Module format. Click on small arrow next to each Week or Topic to access the weekly or Topic content as shown below.

Instructor Module

Accessing and Login into the system

1. Open your browser (google chrome, Mozilla Firefox or Edge), type https://pnguotdtc.edu.pg/ in the address bar as shown below and hit the Enter button.
2. When the login page load, click on the login link/button as shown below

3. Enter you enter you username and password or click on the social media icons (facebook or google to login with either of the two)

Change Language

The default language is English.To change language from English to Tok Pisin

1. Login to your account
2. Click on the flag icon on the main menu on the far right hand side
3. Select the Tok Pisin language by clicking on the Tok Pisin Link in that drop down menu

Editing your Profile

Moodle provides you with a personal profile that applies to all the Moodle subjects you are enrolled in. You can edit your profile information at any time. You can choose to hide or display your email address, include a photo or an avatar, or add a link to your website.

• Login to your account, click My profile link on left hand side menu then Edit profile
• Scroll down to User picture and select ‘Add’. A file picker window will appear. Select and press the button to locate and upload an image. Scroll down to the bottom of the screen and press ‘Update profile’ to finish updating your profile.

Live Customizer

Edumy theme(theme used in the LMS) ships with the exclusive Cocoon Live Customizer.

Cocoon Live Customizer allows you to build content-rich pages using drag-and-drop real-time editing.

Not all custom blocks support Live Customizer, and these can be configured using the standard method.

To enable Live Customizer:

1. First, turn editing on, either via the "Page Settings" button on the frontpage (in the bottom left corner), or click "Blocks Editing On" from the Site administration page.
2. Next, click "+Add a Block" from the Edumy user settings and navigation dropdown menu, beside the profile picture in the main menu bar.
3. Search for "Live Customizer" in the block search form, and you will find a list of blocks that currently support Cocoon Live Customizer.
4. Click the block you wish to add, and click "Select" to add it to the page.
5. You can now enter Live Customizer using the green button beside the new block.

Creating Course Categories and Courses

Creating Course Categories (For Course Managers and Course Creators)

1. Go to site administration.

   

2. Click on the Courses button. You can create a course category either from:

   • Manage course and category
   • or Add a category

3. Creating a new course

   From the Site administration link, click Courses
4. Select “add a new course”
5. Select Manage courses and categories.
6. Click on the category where you want your course to be.

7. Click the "New course"

   

8. Enter the course settings, including course name, short Course summary/description start date and then choose either to "Save and return" to go back to your course, or "Save and display" to go to the next screen.

   

   Now You can start building your course

9. Creating the Course Overview and Course learning outcomes

   1. On course page, Turn Edit Mode On by clicking on the Edit Mode swite at the center bottom of the page.

      

   2. Click on the gear icon located on the right hand side of the main menu

      

   3. Click on the Add block link and select the Course Overview Block

         

   4. A new course overview block will be added on top of the page with sample data

      To edit the sample data, click on the LIVE CUSTOMIZE button to take you to the Editing page

      

      Delete the sample data and add you course overview and course learning outcomes and click on the save button to save.

10. Creating and adding Course introductory content

    1. Posting a welcoming message and course instructions

       • Go to your new course which you wish to add the welcome message.
       • Select “Turn editing on” on the top right.
       • select Announcements, which is always located on the top of the course page.
       • Edit the title from “announcements” to “welcome all” or something similar by clicking on the pen icon then press enter.
       • Click on “welcome all”
       • Choose to Add a new topic

Course Participants and Enrollment Methods

When you have finished adding and updating course content, you are ready to enable student enrolment.

There are two options for enrolling students on courses:

1. Self-enrolment: This involves setting an enrolment key, which must be given to the students. Students will then search for your course and, when prompted, enter the enrolment key. This is the best enrolment method to use with large classes.
2. Manual enrolment: This requires you to search for the student’s name in the Moodle user list. It is a useful method for enrolling a small number of students on a course.

The video below show how to enroll students to your course

Grade-book setup and Configuration

Moodle's gradebook is a powerful tool for allocating, sharing, calculating grades and a feedback device for students. It is very convenient to include your assessment plans in advance.

To configure your gradebook, click and watch the video below describing how to SETUP GRADEBOOK

Reports

Reports in Moodle are very powerful and will tell you what your students have been doing in a module and when. You can use reports to provide you with information on how students are interacting with content and activities on your module.

Reports can help in identifyig which content might need improved signposting to encourage students to engage with it. You can also make a decision to remove content that has been under-utilised by students or consider presenting it in a more meaningful way.

Moodle Reports provide:

• A log of activity in your module.
• A course activity report, showing the number of views for each activity and resource.
• A participation report for a particular activity.
• Graphs and tables of user activity.

Screencast: Use Reports

Moodle have produced a really helpful screencast on using logs in Moodle to support student engagement.

When to use Reports

Reports tell you what your students have been doing in your Moodle module. You can generate Reports when you need to know which pages students are accessing, the times at which they access and the activities they perform within modules. You can also use Reports to help you investigate issues. For example, if a student is marked as late in submitting an online assignment, you can review the Reports to investigate when the student accessed the module and the assignment activity.

The benefits of using Reports

When you know what your students have been doing in your Moodle module, you can adjust the module to suit their viewing habits. You can also alert students (or make navigation clearer) to module material they're neglecting, to make sure that they take full advantage of all the online resources you're providing.

Generate Reports

1. Open the relevant Moodle module.
2. Select Reports from the contextual navigation menu.
3. A list of available reports will display. 
4. Select the report you require. In the next section we present the types of reports available.

Once you have opened a report, you can navigate between different reports using the drop-down menu at the top left of the page.

Report types

Accessibility report

The Accessibility report provides an accessibility summary for the entire module. It provides a systematic way to fix accessibility issues.

Logs

Generate specific activity reports from your module.

You can filter the report by:

• All or Individual users i.e. students
• All days or specific days
• All content or specific activities
• All actions or specific actions

You can decide to view all the information on a page within Moodle or download it as a CSV or Excel file.

After selecting the Log report use the drop- down menus to filter as required:

• Under All participants, select a specific student if required.
• Under All days, you can see all activity since the module started) or a specific day.
• Under All activities, select a specify activity (these are arranged by topic).
• Under All Actions you can view everything users have done or search for a specific action such as view.
• Under All events, you have three options:
  1. Teaching which will generally return actions that lecturers have undertaken that affect the student learning on the module such as grading an assignment or adding a new file.
  2. Participating generally returns actions that relate to the students' learning on a module such as posting to a Forum.
  3. Other relates to events carried out by users other than lecturers/instructors and students

Select Get these logs. A page will then display with all the relevant data. You may need to scroll to the bottom of the page to move between pages if required.

Scroll to the bottom of the page. Select a file type (.csv, Excel, HTML table, .json, ods) from the Download table data drop-down menu and select Download.

Live logs

Shows all activity within the module for the past hour. This can be useful if you are planning on making a change to an activity as you can check if it will impact on any users who are on the module and interacting with the activity.

Activity report

Shows views for individual resources in the module, and when they were last accessed, sorted by topic.

Individual activity reports

If activity reports are enabled for a course in the course settings, each course participant can access reports of their contributions, such as forum posts or assignment submissions, logs and a statistics report.

Select each topic to view the relevant activity.

Module participation

Find out who has and who has not been participating in particular module activities. You can:

• Search back by days, week or months
• Filter by role i.e. student
• Filter by type of participation i.e. view or post

Once you apply the filters, the report lists who has and who has not undertaken an activity. You can then contact these students to check-in and encourage engagement.

Activity completion

The Activity completion report enables Lecturers and Programme Administrators to review students' progress on a module. From the Activity completion report, staff can also mark activities as complete for students. The activity completion report can be filtered by activity type and order in the module.The report can be filtered by group if the separate group mode is enabled in the module settings.

Statistics

The statistics graphs and tables show how many hits there have been on various parts of your site during various time frames. They do not show how many distinct users there have been.

Last access to course

To get an overview of data about when a student/s last accessed a module/s. You might then want to contact students who have never accessed the module a few weeks into start of term.

1. Select Participants from contextual navigation menu above the module name.
2. Set the Select drop-down to Roles and select Student. Select Apply filters.
3. Select Last access to course to sort when students last accessed the module.

   

4. Check the box alongside the students you want to contact.
5. From the With selected users drop-down menu, select Send a message.