Center for Teaching and Learning - Moodle

What is moodle?

Moodle is the online course management system used for all Augsburg courses. A Moodle website is automatically created for all courses offered by Augsburg. Faculty and students are automatically added to courses based on information from Agresso, our student and financial management system.

Quick facts about moodle

If a student adds your course after the initial registration period or after the start of the term, they will automatically be added to your Moodle course site after 3:00 a.m. the day following their completed registration for your course.

Students who drop your course are also automatically removed.

Moodle can be accessed at any time from on and off campus by you and your students at http://inside.augsburg.edu .

Content and activities you create for your courses this year can be migrated into the Moodle sites for subsequent offerings of the course.

If you are teaching multiple sections of the same course or if your course is cross-listed by department or day and evening, the Moodle sites for the courses can be combined into one course. This allows you to contact your students and provide resources from a single location. Contact your Liaison for Computing if you need courses combined.

Eight things you can do with the Moodle site for your course (there are many more than eight but this should get you started)

Post your course syllabus
Provide links to important websites for your students
Link to YouTube videos
Email all of your students from one location
Create an online forum (or discussion)
Upload course notes, presentations and audio files
See your students pictures and begin to learn their names via AugNet Picture Roster. (Note: not all students choose to make their picture available)
Provide online access to journal articles for your course. See your library liaison for details and assistance.

For additional information about Moodle please contact your Liaison for Computing (LFC) to schedule an overview and answer your specific questions. Online video tutorials from Atomic Learning are also available from on-campus. See the following link for additional information: http://www.augsburg.edu/it/atomic_learning.html

Faculty may also wish to explore the Faculty Demo Course 1.9 which is available from the main Moodle webpage. The link can be found on the right side of the main Moodle site under: 'Welcome to moodle for the 2008-2009 Academic Year.'