Moodle
The course will use the Moodle course management program. All courses in the program will follow the same Moodle template in an effort to decrease student confusion and misinformation. All courses will have the option of delivering quizzes via Moodle. However, these quizzes are meant as study aids and study incentives rather than for major exams. The total worth of Moodle (or other computer driven) quizzes will not exceed 10% of the course.
Moodle will allow the student to:
- check their course progress in the mark section (students will only be able to view their own marks)
- check for announcements from the instructor and consult the course calendar
- view the course objectives and course outline
- be reminded of where you should be in the course at what time
- be able to send messages and ask questions of your instructor and classmates
- have supplemental educational materials sent to you such as pictures, video and audio clips, website links etc.
- participate in discussion assignments
Hardware Required to Operate Moodle:
Window Users must have:
- Pentium IV or higher microprocessor, or equivalent
- Minimum 512 MB of RAM (memory)
- Windows 2000 or XP
- Dial-up 56 K, cable modem, or high speed connection to the Internet
Macintosh users must have:
- G4 or higher
- Minimum 512 MB of Ram (memory)
- Mac OS X or higher
- Dial-up 56 K, cable modem, or high speed connection to the Internet
Software Required to Operate Moodle:
- Word-processing program - compatibility with Office 2007 or XP
- Email account that supports file attachments
- Any current JAVA-enabled web browser, eg. the latest version of *Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome or Safari
* Internet Explorer 9.0 not recommended at this time - you may experience minor problems using it with Moodle
- Adobe Acrobat Reader (current version)
- Course is very rich in video so you will need "sound enabled"
How to access Moodle
Go to the Moodle link
Your Moodle ID is your student number (student number only, for example 971110).
Your Password has been set to your birthdate, now 6 characters long. (if you were born on June 9th, 1980 your password will be 800609).