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A course is essentially an empty shell meant to contain learning activities and resources. Once a course has been created, you need to add activities and resources as a second step.

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When reviewing assignments, teachers can leave feedback comments and upload files, such as marked-up student submissions, documents with comments or spoken audio feedback. Assignments can be graded using a numerical or custom scale or an advanced grading method such as a rubric. Final grades are recorded in the gradebook.

BigBlueButton

BigBlueButtonBN BigBlueButton lets you create from within Moodle the learning environment links to real-time on-line classrooms using BigBlueButton, an open source web conferencing system for distance education. Using BigBlueButtonBN BigBlueButton you can specify for the title, description, calendar entry (which gives a date range for joining the session), groups, and details about the recording of the on-line session.

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  • Regular meetings of students participating in online courses to enable them to share experiences with others in the same course but in a different location
  • A student temporarily unable to attend in person chatting with their teacher to catch up with work
  • Students out on work experience getting together to discuss their experiences with each other and their teacher
  • Younger children using chat at home in the evenings as a controlled (monitored) introduction to the world of social networking
  • A question and answer session with an invited speaker in a different location
  • Sessions to help students prepare for tests where the teacher, or other students, would pose sample questions

Checklist

The checklist module allows a teacher to create a checklist / todo list / task list for their students to work through.

Choice

The choice activity module enables a teacher to ask a single question and offer a selection of possible responses.

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