Winding down my Moodle Site
Aug 1st, 2009 by Michele Brannon-Hamilton
Putting together my Moodle course was an interesting experience. I have created a course in Moodle so I felt comfortable moving around the site. Some of the activities were challenging but most were easy to figure out. For example, I struggled with creating my splash page because I couldn’t get the photos to upload properly. When I took web design courses, I learned to keep my website files in the same folder as my photos so they would upload properly. In Moodle, I had to upload the files to their site and then bring them into the splash page. When I was finished, another student pointed out that my photos didn’t display so she shrunk them for me and when I reattached them to the splash page they worked fine. What a wonderful learning community we have with students helping each other.
Other tools were easy to use but time consuming like the quiz. I was able to create a database of questions but it took time to write each one and then upload them to the quiz. I will definitely use Moodle again in the literacy classroom because it is free, easy to use and suits the visual, auditory and kinaesthetic needs of my learners.