I finally found time to start setting up my Moodle course.  My family moved last week, so there have been a number of related activities demanding my time (completing renos, packing, showing tenants, moving.) but this week I’ve been able to get things back on track with this course and my other one too.  Enough of the excuses, and on with the reflection…

I’ve spent a little time with Moodle in the past, so there wasn’t much surprising me once I was correctly logged in.  It turns out that I was logging in with the wrong credentials for a long time and thus not an author of the site.  Following the directions to create a splash page were straight forward and I put up a shell that will have to be populated later.  Similarly, it wasn’t any trouble to create an icebreaker.  I even found one that relates to the course I’ll be creating anyway, at least as I envision it now.

What surprised me was the depth of options to setup and potentially screw-up.  I don’t have enough experience with Moodle to have seen anything more than the basics in use, so I’m curious to explore and see what can be done, and what the options do.  I suspect that will come with time.

Here’s the link to the icebreaker I used.