Moodle 1.9 for Design and Technology

Support and Enhance Food Technology, Product Design, Resistant Materials, Construction, and the Built Environment using Moodle VLE

Key Features

• Customize your courses
• Create a course for each of the key areas of Design and Technology and add material to them
• Support and assess the progress of the students who are enrolled in the course
• Use Moodle's detailed and sophisticated gradebook to assess your students' learning progress in activities from assignments to offline activities
• Create Moodle resources for kinesthetic learners by using media-rich content such as videos and audio sequences

Book Description

What you will learn

• Help your students to set up and organize their own database for Materials research or a specific database for food technology using the standard database module in Moodle
• Display the progress of your students work and development with several Moodle components such as forums, blogs, galleries, wikis, and some third-party sources
• Allow students to store, organize, and share their work with each other by using Moodle Portfolios such as Exabis, MyStuff, and Mahara
• Design and create glossaries and add entries specifically for design and technology
• Allow students to map out their ideas using a basic interface to link and label items on the screen using an add-on called Mindmap
• Assess your students progress by designing quizzes that are conveniently linked to the students gradebook
• Design questionnaires and analyze their results and add feedback module and customize them to retain anonymity
• Give your students an opportunity to use Moodle to present their designs and ideas to a huge audience and gain invaluable feedback by using an interactive tool—DimDim
• Create a library of resources for students to interact with using applications such as myUdutu and add-ons such as Noodle
• Create a detailed framework with Moodle tools that allow you to chart students progress and offer them constructive feedback through reflective practice and achievable targets
• Create an electronic portfolio for Product design students that they can use to gather and organize their electronic materials

Who this book is for

If you are a Design ' Technology teacher, teaching assistant, head of department, SMT, or IT technician in school and would like to use Moodle to design, create, or administer a VLE for Design and Technology, this book is for you. You need to know the basics of Moodle for teaching and learning and should have some experience with Design and Technology.