COTROnline (Moodle) - Interpreting the Icons
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Accessibility - allows students and instructors to adjust their moodle course display for a variety of accessibility purposes.
Course Content Resources
File - a document, powerpoint or other content, typically MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.)
Folder - contains a selection of documents, including word, powerpoint PDF, and other content
URL - a website external to Moodle accessed by a hyperlink
PDF URL - will automatically open a URL link to a PDF file in a new browser window
Kaltura Video - a video resource within the course, created and uploaded by the instructor, such as a lecture or animation
Page - instructor-created content that includes text, images, video and activities in Moodle
Book - collection of pages related to one topic that can be navigated through chapters and subchapters
Lesson - an activity module that includes questions as checkpoints that unlock more lesson activities
Text and Media Area - inserts text and media content (i.e. images) directly into body of the homepage
H5P Interactive Content - inserts videos, question sets, drag and drop questions, multi-choice questions, presentations and more
Communication Resources
Chat - text-based, real-time discussion, that creates a log of the discussion for a period of time
Choice - a single question posed to enrolled students, where each response is recorded with username
Questionnaire - a series of questions to be filled out online, i.e. end-of-term instructor evaluation
Feedback - a customizable survey with various question-types, can be anonymous if desired
Open Forum - discussion threads not confined to participants enrolled in one course
Collaboration Resources
Forum - discussion threads designed for a specific topic, limited to students enrolled in a course
Glossary- collection of terms and phrases related to a course that are created and shared by students
Database- large collection of student-generated data that can be commented upon and rated for accuracy by student peers
Wiki- enables students to collaboratively, or individually, create and edit a collection of web pages
Assessment Resources
Assignment - a dropbox for documents and other media that needs to be submitted at a certain time and date
Quiz - the most common way to assess student from a short module quiz to final exam, timed to open a close at an exact hour
Workshop - a multistage project that encourages collaboration and even peer assessment as part of the assigned grade
Attendance - records attendance for selected course sessions
Kaltura media assignment - a submission area for a Kaltura video assignment for feedback
Other and Interactive Resources
Game - produces course-specific games for students including crosswords, hangman, hidden picture, sudoku, cryptex, and more
External Tool - links to an approved external LTI tool (i.e Wiley education resources), to enable learning resources from other websites and publishers
Virtual Programming Lab - allows students to edit source code and test programs in browser, for programming assignments
Scorm Package - opens a collective of files in various learning object formats
Course Activity View Navigation
Site Home - allows students to view details of current course page and click on other courses
Sections List - presents a dropdown menu or each section within a course, identifying current tasks with blue text and an open circle, and completed tasks with a darkened circle
Table of Contents - allows user to navigate within the sections of book with the option to Print book or Print this chapter
Other Buttons - presents a list of buttons in the navigation sidebar – clicking on each one will leave the current course page
Dashboard - quick access to student profile with contact information for instructors, latest announcements, grades, badges and competencies
My Courses - allows users to see and click on a list of courses, similar to the site menu dropdown but also allows students to view past and future courses
Calendar - events posted on the College of the Rockies website, including national holidays and college closures, generally not course specific info such as assignment due dates
Expand - lets the user focus on the course content while removing the navigation sidebar, when selected the button is replaced by its opposite...
Contract
Exit - returns the student to the course homepage
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