Moodle Workshop for Staff

Moodle Workshops

Moodle Learning Management System (LMS) has been adopted as the University’s e-Learning platform. In order to enhance your skills and knowledge of Moodle, our Centre continues to offer a series of Moodle workshops for staff. Please click the links below for further details of the workshops and enrollment.

Moodle Workshops:

Moodle 4.0 Overview and New Features
Turnitin for Online Similarity Check and Feedback Studio
Using Discussion Forum in Moodle LMS and Text-mining
Using Quiz for Assessment in Moodle LMS
Course Reports to Track Student Engagement
Moodle Gradebook for Marking and Releasing Feedback to Students
Overview of Online Assessments: Support from Moodle and Turnitin
Workshops by request

Moodle 4.0 Overview and New Features

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In the new academic year 2023/24, embark on an exciting teaching journey with the new version of Moodle! In this workshop, you can gain an overview of Moodle 4.0 and learn new and enhanced features to unlock new possibilities for your Moodle courses, such as PDF annotation assignments, timed assignments, declaration of AI-generated content on Turnitin, quiz question bank management, course content backup and more. Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your teaching methods.

Schedule:

Cantonese

calendar_today	24 or 28 August or 1 September 2023
schedule	12:30-1:00 pm
location_on	Online via Zoom

English

calendar_today	30 August 2023
schedule	12:30-1:00 pm
location_on	Online via Zoom

English/Putonghua

calendar_today	4 September 2023
schedule	12:30-1:00 pm
location_on	Online via Zoom

Turnitin for Online Similarity Check and Feedback Studio

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To promote academic integrity, the use of Turnitin in Moodle for online assignment submission was implemented in 2015/16. Recently, an enhanced feature, Feedback Studio (formerly known as GradeMark), was embedded in Turnitin, which allows teachers to evaluate students’ work online via mobile devices easily. In this workshop, you can have hands-on practice in setting up Turnitin assignments, viewing similarity reports submitted by students and giving comments online.

Schedule:

Cantonese

calendar_today	5 September 2023
schedule	1:00-1:30 pm
location_on	Online via Zoom

English

calendar_today	6 September 2023
schedule	1:00-1:30 pm
location_on	Online via Zoom

Using Discussion Forum in Moodle LMS and Text-mining

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The discussion forum in Moodle enables teachers and students to communicate online to enrich blended learning. Teachers can set up and configure online forums for students to engage in pre-class tasks and post-class discussions. In addition, you can have an introduction of a bilingual text-mining platform which helps you understand students’ learning status in pre-teaching, post-teaching or during the teaching process from their forum postings.

Schedule:

Cantonese

calendar_today	11 September 2023
schedule	12:30-1:00 pm
location_on	Online via Zoom

English

calendar_today	14 September 2023
schedule	12:30-1:00 pm
location_on	Online via Zoom

Using Quiz for Assessment in Moodle LMS

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Moodle quiz accommodates many question types, including multiple choices, true-false, matching and essay. Questions are saved in the question bank and can be re-used in other Moodle courses. In this workshop, you can have an introduction to using Quizzes to conduct assessments, demonstrate grading, give written comments and release the grade in the gradebook. With hands-on practice, you can learn how to create questions and quiz papers, manage the results and re-use the questions.

Schedule:

Cantonese

calendar_today	10 October 2023
schedule	12:00-1:00 pm
location_on	Online via Zoom

English

calendar_today	20 October 2023
schedule	12:00-1:00 pm
location_on	Online via Zoom

Course Reports to Track Student Engagement

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Moodle LMS has a variety of course reports, such as course participation reports, activity completion reports and logs. Teachers can adjust multiple parameters, and filter different data by course activity, by students, by a designated time period, in order to fit their needs in tracking students’ engagement in different stages of the course. This workshop will demonstrate how to generate the course reports to track the student engagement.

Schedule:

Cantonese

calendar_today	26 October 2023
schedule	12:00-1:00 pm
location_on	Online via Zoom

English

calendar_today	31 October 2023
schedule	12:00-1:00 pm
location_on	Online via Zoom

Moodle Gradebook for Marking and Releasing Feedback to Students

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Moodle Gradebook automatically aggregates grades and feedback from activities, assignments and quizzes from the Moodle course. Colleagues can decide to hide the gradebook entries or release grades and feedback to students. In this workshop, you can learn how to organize Moodle gradebook, manage grades, release grades and feedback, choose aggregation type, display letter grades based on percentage using grading scale, and export/import the grades/feedback to Moodle course.

Schedule:

English/Cantonese

calendar_today	2 November 2023
schedule	12:00-12:30 pm
location_on	Online via Zoom

Overview of Online Assessments: Support from Moodle and Turnitin

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Online assessments provide quick reports and immediate feedback to enhance student learning. In the Moodle LMS, you can create different course assessment activities based on their assessment plans. This workshop overviews various online assessment tools available in Moodle courses, including Turnitin Assignment, Moodle Quiz/Assignment, and Panopto Video Assignment. You can also learn the grade release mechanism.

Schedule:

English/Cantonese

calendar_today	10 November 2023
schedule	12:00-12:30 pm
location_on	Online via Zoom

Workshops by Request

Departments are also welcome to contact us directly to arrange additional Moodle workshops for your staff. Please send your requests to us at lttc@eduhk.hk, and state your needs, the venue *, preferred timeslots and the number of participants. We will do our best to accommodate your requests.

For individuals who are unable to attend the scheduled Moodle workshops, you may consider our one-to-one consultations, which can be arranged by emailing us at lttc@eduhk.hk, please also state your needs and problems.

* Departments are required to arrange the venue for the workshop (e.g. an OCIO computer laboratory or the Library e-learning studio).

If the above support services do not fit your needs, you are also welcome to email us, call us at 2948 7047 or come to our Centre in person (E-1/F-01).