COTROnline: Icon Reference

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Accessibility - allows students and instructors to adjust their moodle course display for a variety of accessibility purposes.

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

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

H5P Interactive Content - inserts videos, question sets, drag and drop questions, multi-choice questions, presentations and more

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

Open Forum - discussion threads not confined to participants enrolled in one course

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

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

Kaltura media assignment - a submission area for a Kaltura video assignment for feedback

Virtual Programming Lab - allows students to edit source code and test programs in browser, for programming assignments

Game - produces course-specific games for students including crosswords, hangman, hidden picture, sudoku, cryptex, and more

Attendance - records attendance for selected course sessions

Signup Sheet - allows faculty to organize sign-up sessions where students opt in to times and dates.

Scorm Package - opens a collective of files in various learning object formats

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