Moodle for English

Teachers

Specialization Course
Lic. Martín Ulises Aparicio
November 2009
Moodle and ESL/EFL
• Moodle is a free online course management system
(CMS) also known as a Learning Management
System (LMS) or a Virtual Learning Environment
(VLE) which is especially good for language teaching.
With its many useful and friendly tools, it can
integrate all our online functionality in a single
application. Since 2002, Moodle has been developed
on a socio-constructivist approach to learning.

• The word Moodle was originally an acronym for

Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning
Environment, which is mostly useful to programmers
and education theorists. It's also a verb that
describes the process of lazily meandering through
something, doing things as it occurs to you to do
them, an enjoyable tinkering that often leads to
insight and creativity.
• Without any web editing skill, teachers can
present our online material to be a coherent
whole and simplify the way students access
it by Moodle interface.
• Moodle can run without modification on
Unix, Linux, Windows, Mac OS , Netware
and any other system that supports PHP,
including most webhost providers.
• Moodle is available in 40 languages, and it
is Open Source software, which means you
are free to download it, use it, modify it and
even distribute it (under the terms of the
GNU General Public License).
• Moodle can be used in a large deployments
and hundreds of thousands of students.
• Many institutions use it as their platform to
conduct fully online courses, while some use it
simply to augment face-to-face courses (known
as blended learning).

• Many of our users love to use the many activity

modules (such as Forums, Wikis, Databases
and so on) to build richly collaborative
communities of learning around their subject
matter (in the social constructionist tradition),
while others prefer to use Moodle as a way to
deliver content to students (such as standard
SCORM packages) and assess learning using
assignments or quizzes.
• Moodle and Language Learning
List of Participants
A participant’s profile
A discussion content under a topic
Picture and MP3 in Moodle course
 Basic Modules
• The “People” Box: Participants, Profile, Activity
reports
• Administering Your Class: Settings, Teachers,
Students, Backup, Restore, Scales, Grades, Logs,
Files, Help, Teacher Forum
• Adding Content:
• Adding a Resource: Compose a text page,
Compose a web page, Link to a file or web site,
Display a directory, Insert a label
• Adding an Activity: Assignment, Chat, Choice,
Forum, Glossary, Hot Potatoes Quiz, Journal,
Lesson, Quiz, SCROM, Survey, Wiki, Workshop
• http://www.opensource.idv.tw/moodle/course/view.php?id=16
A course to learn how to install moodle in your
computer, step by step.
• How to design a moodle course: the storyboard
exercise
http://www.slideshare.net/pvdhyden/how-to-design-a-moodle-cour

• Open Source for Educator

http://www.opensource.idv.tw/moodle/