Course Overview

This online course is part of the Course Makeover that will help you transform your online teaching into more interactive, captivating and interesting experience. I know most of you have had an experience in using Moodle basic features but have been wondering what else Moodle can do for you. It is my most sincere hope that we will together work through this course and make Moodle do more for us.

This online course focuses on using advanced Moodle features for designing online activities. It is therefore intended for lecturers who have used Moodle basic features and are familiar with the platform. The course gives a quick overview of Moodle advanced tools/features and demonstrate some of the several tool features so you can appreciate how Moodle tools can transform your teaching experience.

Purpose: The purpose of this course is to:

• develop Knowledge and understanding of Moodle advanced tools helping participants identify and integrate tools for specific content and design learning accordingly
• develop Cognitive skills that will help the participants to analyse and assess usability and affordances of the Moodle tools - influencing their choice, attitudes, values and interaction with such tools;
• develop practical and professional skills to empower the participants with best practices and use of chosen tools to design, build , evaluate and test online activities;
• Transferable skills that encourage application in different, real-life situations in participants' career as educators.

On completion of the course, you should be able to:

• Design and adapt short online activities using a whole range of Moodle advanced tools appropriately.
• Demonstrate knowledge of Moodle features and their affordances for online learning

Specific course outcomes will be given as we move from topic to topic. You are encouraged to contact your facilitators on the following address uchipunza@buse.ac.zw if you have any problems/queries regarding the course content and course activities. You can also post your questions on the discussion forums in this course.

As we prepare for the course, please take the "Tell-it-Yourself" precourse activity.