Moodle
Moodle is a free and open-source learning platform designed to provide educators, administrators and learners with a single robust, secure and integrated system to create personalized learning environments.
Where is the tool used?
Moodle is used for blended learning, distance education, flipped classrooms and other online learning projects in schools, universities, workplaces and other sectors.
How to use the tool?
Moodle is a platform for online learning that enables you to create online courses, add assignments, and keep an eye on your students’ progress. It also allows you to communicate with the students and encourage communication between them in forums and discussions. In short, the platform is multi-faceted and flexible, so it’s easy to get confused when learning your way around for the first time.
Specifics for SEL contexts
Moodle can be used for SEL training by:
o Customizing Your Teacher Profile
o Creating an eLearning course
o Adding Activities and Resources
o Managing Learners
Learning activities
o Manage the courses: distribute the material to the users of the course so that they can study and practice.
o Manage users: add, modify and remove different users to create classes according to your needs.
o Verify knowledge: provides methods for examining the knowledge acquired during the course through different tools.
o Manage the class: monitoring the participants with different features such as the calendar, which allows you to better manage the group.
o Create content: most of the teaching material can be created externally and then uploaded but there is some content, such as tests, that can be created internally.
o Collaborate with users: through social media, forums, chats and many other tools you can collaborate with all users enrolled in the course to facilitate learning.
o Take advantage of social tools: it offers different possibilities for users to collaborate, communicate and exchange opinions, just as if it were a social media.
o Issuing certifications: many of the users of the LMS platforms, primarily companies, need to issue the students with certifications that can be used in the world of work.
o Working with gamification: to make learning more interactive and engaging, prizes, rankings, badges and other incentives are provided for users.
o Implement integrations: To customize the course even more, third-party integrations are available to implement to increase the functions.
Accessibility and technical specifics
Type of tool:
- Free and Open-source
Materials needed:
- Internet
- Videocamera
- Microphone
Accessibility:
The application is accessible online on the Moodle platform in standard and extended mode. It is also available on Mobile mode. It provides clear instructions, FAQs, and tutorials for users who may need more support when first using the app.
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