Feb 07 2010
Adventures with Moodle
I started the Moodle toolkit assignment last night. Actually, I logged into the Moodle site and created a course. Then this morning, I read the actual instructions (I had forgotten about the Moodle toolkit) and realized I hadn’t named my course properly. A little searching later, I managed to make the necessary changes.
I did the rest of the assignment, created a welcome page and a discussion forum. I even added a reply.
So far, I can contrast Moodle to Blackboard in that it has a lot more icons than Blackboard did when I was using it about 8 yrs ago. The WYSIWYG editor is more sophisticated by far. I don’t think Blackboard really had an editor. If we wanted coloured text, we had to create it in MSWord and copy and paste it into Blackboard.
Moodle has a complicated display page so far. Maybe once I’ve had a chance to create more content, it will start to look familiar. I like simplicity and an appearance that is intuitive. I want to explore how to insert slide shows, images and include a wiki next. So far, it took less than an hour to follow the assignment as described.
