Moodle

By Mike Johnson • October 25th, 2012

How much time do you spend grading quizzes and tests? Many teachers spend class time giving quizzes and then spend even more time outside of class grading them all.  Moodle’s quiz system can save you from all of this.
Moodle quizzes make it easy to use educationally sound assessment strategies that would be too difficult to [...]

With the growing availability of digital resources it’s easy to get overwhelmed and not know where to start when planning a lesson. And if you’re overwhelmed it’s also likely that your students can be overwhelmed by all of the available resources, too.
Teachers now have access to Discovery Streaming, istation, YouTube, icurio (high school only), digital textbooks, [...]

Moodle gives teachers a quick and easy way to post resources and activities online for students. With the expansion of the Digital Renaissance, now is the time to start using Moodle with your students.
You can access Moodle by going to learn.bcbe.org.
After logging in, these are the first things you’ll do to start using Moodle:

Request a [...]

One of the new innovations we are seeing in instructional technology is the trend towards flipped instruction. The basic concept of flipped instruction is students do what we now consider classwork at home. When they return to school, they do what is traditionally considered homework. The big question that runs through everyone’s mind is “How [...]

As part of the Digital Renaissance, we’ve recently upgraded our learning management system to the latest version of Moodle. This new version of Moodle offers many advantages:

Faster, more reliable access – The old Moodle server has become slow as many more teachers and students are using it every day. The new service is hosted in [...]

Many Baldwin County teachers use Moodle to create activities that allow students to collaborate on projects and share ideas anytime and anywhere Internet access is available.  These same tools can help your group build an online professional learning community that’s available any time, any place.
What can you do with an online PLC?
Discussion Forums – Forums [...]

One of the main ideas we have been working on here in IT Services is how can we do more training that fits the time schedule of our customers (teachers)? We still use the face to face method as well as online classes and virtual meetings.  These all work great but they don’t hit everyone we need [...]

Registration for the fall online PD coursese is now open.  The sessions being offered are:
Session 1 – Begins Sept 15

Creating a Class Website with School Insites – IT-TEA-129
United Streaming – IT-TEA-128
Promethean Basics- IT-TEA-144
SMARTboard Basics – IT-TEA-142
Using Moodle 1 – IT-TEA-130
Using Moodle 2 – IT-TEA-136
Using Moodle 3 – IT-TEA-137
Graphic Organizers – IT-TEA-140

Session 2 – Begins Oct [...]

A Moodle work session has been scheduled at IT Services to help teachers prepare their Moodle courses for the new school year.  During this session, you’ll work on your existing Moodle course to clear out old student data and get your course ready to be used with your new students.  We’ll also have a variety [...]

With Google Docs you can easily create an online form that automatically submits the data into a Google Docs Spreadsheet where you can analyze and graph it.
Once you’ve created the form, you can embed it in your Moodle course so students can submit it easily.  Students can also create their own forms and post them [...]