Course: Online Learning Resources, Topic: Getting Started Using Moodle

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Getting Started Using Moodle
Listed below are the steps starting from logging into Moodle through creating a lecture video using BigBlueButton. Click on each of the steps to watch the video that explains how to implement the step in Moodle.
If you have any questions or comments please send them to moodle@lssu.edu.
- Getting started with using Moodle
- Logging into Moodle (1min 4 secs) Page
- A quick orientation to your Moodle course & Making your course visible to students (7 mins 13 secs) Page
- Customizing your Course Home Page (7 mins 20 secs)
- Viewing your student list (1 min 54 secs) Page
- Sending email messages to all students in the class - video to be uploaded shortly Page
- Recording Lectures
  Notify the students of lecture times and location of the BigBlueButton link that you have created.
  Recorded video will not display immediately.
  After you End the Meeting and Log out of your recordings, your recording will not display immediately. A 15 minute video took about 30 minutes to display on the Moodle page.
- Useful tips on using BigBlueButton - not a video Page
- Using BigBlueButton to record a Synchronous or an Asynchronous Lecture - (20 mins 54 secs) Page
- Adding Content to your Course Pages
- Adding your course resources such as Powerpoints, Word documents and pdfs (6 mins 29 secs) Page
- Adding a YouTube video to your course (3 mins 13 secs) Page
- Discussion Forum
- Setting up and grading a Discussion Forum (18 mins 14 secs) Page
- Assignments
- Creating an Assignment (5 mins 35 secs) Page
- Student's experience posting to an Assignment (3 mins 5 secs) Page
- Grading an Assignment (8 mins 2 secs) Page
- Student view of the grade and Faculty Feedback (2 mins 7 secs) Page
- Creating Tests/Exams/Quizzes
- Creating a Moodle Quiz Page
- Adding Questions to a Moodle Quiz Page
- Moodle Quiz Settings Page
- Grading a Moodle Quiz Page