Resource Guide for Teaching Online and Distance Learning

To Access your Moodle course

• Navigate to CentreNet (don't login.)
• Click on the Moodle icon in the Launchpad. 
• Login using your Centre credentials.
• You will see a list of the courses you are teaching in your Dashboard.

To Edit your Moodle Course

• Click on the Settings wheel in the upper-right corner of the course page.
• Click Turn Editing On.
• A series of Add an Activity or Resource and Edit links will appear in the center of the page. This is where you can begin adding content.

What do I add to my Course?

• With Editing on, you can drag and drop documents, images, or URLs directly into any of the topics. (You may wish to add PDFs or Word docs of assigned readings for students, a syllabus, an image, a link to a YouTube video or website, etc.)

• To engage students in conversation, you can add a Forum. This allows students to carry on an online discussion in a series of topics, organized by topic or date. To view more about this feature and how to set it up, view this documentation. https://sites.centre.edu/moodleknowledgebase/course-activities/forums/ 
• To create a dropbox for students to submit homework online, create an Assignment. This allows students to electronically submit documents, images, videos, papers, etc., all of which can be graded directly through the Moodle interface using the PDF annotator. For more information on the Assignment module and the PDF annotator, view this documentation. https://sites.centre.edu/moodleknowledgebase/course-activities/assignments/
• Use Poodll to allow students to submit audio or video submissions. With this module, students can record their voice or a video and upload it directly into the Moodle platform. You also have the ability as an instructor to provide audio or video feedback on both written or audio/video submissions. To learn more about this module, view this documentation. https://sites.centre.edu/moodleknowledgebase/course-activities/poodll-audio-recording/
• Create links to Zoom sessions (setup outside of Moodle - see Zoom Setup) for online office hours or virtual, synchronous class sessions. This can give students the sense of being a part of the office hour or classroom environment despite the lack of physical presence on campus. To add a link, choose URL from the list and follow the steps outlined in this documentation. https://sites.centre.edu/moodleknowledgebase/course-resourses/linking-to-a-website/

For other activities and resources you can use in your Moodle course, refer to the Centre Moodle Knowledgebase.

To Create a OneDrive Folder

• Navigate to CentreNet and click on the Office365/OneDrive icon in the LaunchPad.
• Click +New along the top Navigation and click Folder, then name the folder and click Create.
• Click into that folder and add documents to that folder, either from within existing OneDrive structures, or by dragging and dropping files from your computer.

To Share the OneDrive Folder

• Click the Share icon along the top Navigation
• Here you have several options (the default is Anyone with the link can edit)
• To change the settings, click on the Anyone with the link can edit text.
• If you only want specific people (your students) to have access to the files, click the option that says Specific People. Also important to note, uncheck allow editing if you don't want them to have editing permissions for files in that folder! Keep in mind that OneDrive DOES allow excellent collaborative work, so you may wish to allow editing on specific documents, but not the entire folder.
• When you click Apply, you'll have the option to type in the names or email addresses of each of your students. Because OneDrive is tied to the Centre login, you should be able to just type in the student name to select them.
• Continue selecting students until you have your class list.
• You can either click Send from this screen or click the Copy Link button at the bottom of the screen and paste the link directly in an email to those students.
• Now your class and you have a shared location on OneDrive to view documents.