Jing audio script 2: Linking a document

[The following is a script from the Jing tutorial videos on Saint Martin's Instructional Design Moodle, it is designed to supplement the videos should anyone have any trouble interpreting the audio of the files. To visit the videos themselves, click on the title of this blog to navigate there and click on the respective title you wish to view.]




Hi this is a video tutorial series about how to add content to your classes on Moodle.



Today we are going to go over how to add a text file to Moodle. Again the first step is to navigate to moodle.stmartin.edu/ and login with your user name and password

First go to your class page and make sure that editing is turned on.

Select the drop down menu that says add a resource.

Then select link to a file or website.

Make sure that you have a title at the top, this is what students will see as a link to this document.

Then scroll down and select chose or upload a file.

Next select the folder you wish to put the file in, now click browse.

Find the file that you want to upload to your Moosle and click upload this file

That file should now appear on Moodle in your files.

Select the option that says choose under the action column on the right

Now click save and return to course, and there is the docment on the page.

You can change its location on the page by selecting the two black arrows icon to the right of the link when editing features are turned on.

Next you can select any of the spaces marked with empty outlined boxes to move your item to, click on one to move the document to it's new location.

It is important to understand that what you have just made today is a link to a document. The document on your Moodle, is similar to an email attachment; if you make any changes to the original document, that you want to make to your Moodle link, you will need to reload the document.

So that's how you link a text file on to your Moodle.

Thanks for watching!

[Please stay tuned in for more Jing scripts and Moodle and Jing related posts coming soon.]

Jing audio script 1: Adding a label

[The following is the scripts from the jing tutorial videos which are posted on Moodle intended to supplement the videos should anyone have any difficulty interpreting the audio. Please feel free to click on the title of this blog to navigate to Saint Martin's Instructional Design Moodle page to watch the videos.]




Hi this is a video-tutorial series about how to add content to your classes on Moodle.

First of all you go the Saint Martin's Moodle page, which is moodle.stmartin.edu/

And log in with your user name and password from your email account

Your main page should pull up a list of your classes. Your active classes will be orange, classes that are turned off will be gray links.

So when you select a non-active class page it will probably look something like this.

So let's start out with adding a label first. Since we are borrowing a Biology page, how about, "Welcome to Biology"

Select the menu that says add a resource, and click on insert a label.

Type a message, so in this case, "Welcome to Biology"

You can change the font, size or color if you want to suit your needs

Now scroll down and click on save and return to course.

If you want to see the page as your students will see it, return to the upper right-hand side of your screen and switch your role to "student"

And there it is, "Welcome to Biology".

So that's how you add a label to your class page on Moodle.

Thanks for watching!


[Keep watching for other scripts, and more posts about Jing and Moodle to be updated soon!]

Moodle and Jing

Welcome back! Delighted to see that you have once again navigated through the wide world of cyber-space back to my page. It has been awhile since I last posted something, now I have several posts for you I am going to be putting up in quick succession. The basic gist of them is that they will all have to do with the two new programs I am familiarizing myself with, those programs being Moodle and Jing.
Moodle, for those of you who are not familar with the program is, is an online course management system. Instructors can use Moodle to set up a web page for their class, that can supplement their traditional classroom teaching with features such as quizzes with instant grades and responses (excepting essay and short answer responses), upload documents, such as their course sylabus, etc. Be sure to visit Irina Gendelman's blog page "Curious" for more information about Moodle, or visit Saint Martin's Moodle and explore.
I also mentioned Jing. Jing is, for the time being, free for download, and a wonderful resource available for both Macs and PCs. Jing simplifies the process of explaining to someone that you cannot be in psychical contact with how to accomplish any given task on the computer. Where once we would have relied on emails full of step-by-step directions and pray the recipients understood our terminology, or perhaps the more technical may have included several screen-shots, Jing alows you to send videos. Jing is easy to use, and the site you upload it from offers help and tutorials on how to use it. You can easily record any actions that you do on your own computer screen, and use a microphone to record your instructions verbally. You can save your videos as a file, upload them to the site provided by Jing, or email them directly to your colleagues.
These past two weeks I have diligently writing scripts and recording Jing videos about how to add content to class pages on Moodle in an effort to help those who are not familiar with the program. To view some of the videos use the link to orient to SMU's Instructional Design page on Moodle where you can watch the videos or just browse the page for other resources to help you learn more about using Moodle. You can log in as a guest if you do not have a Saint Martin's log in. I will very soon be adding the full scripts as individual blogs to supplement the Jing videos.

More to follow, so stay tuned!