ELISA Presentation of the elearning platform Giannikopoulou Vasiliki

ELISA Presentation of the e-learning platform Giannikopoulou Vasiliki GRNET Elisa Serbian Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11 -14/7/2006

Outline 1. Learning Management Platforms – A Brief Introduction 2. Advantages of Using a Learning Management Platform 3. Exemplary Use of the platform in SME's 4. The e-learning platform interface 5. Moodle Basics 6. Presentation of the available courses 5. Elisa Platform Tools – General Information, Possible Applications and How to's a. Forums b. Email c. Chat d. Skype e. Books f. Quizzes g. Calendar h. Choice i. Backup j. Restore ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11 -14/7/2006 2

Learning Management Platforms – A Brief Introduction A learning management platform is a software which allows - learning online without specific IT-knowledge - organizing and supporting internet-based learning and working processes A learning management platform provides the following functions: - presentation and distribution of learning materials (texts, graphics, sound, picture) - communication and collaboration (via email, discussion board, chat room) - tests and surveys - evaluation (of tests, surveys, log files) - administration (of classes, schedule, syllabus, users) ð Using a learning platform may complement face-to-face seminars with elements of online learning. ð Learning platforms constitute the basis of e-Learning. ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11 -14/7/2006 3

Advantages of Using a Learning Management Platform Benefits for Tutors - integrated testing and survey tools simplify testing of participants' previous knowledge - facilitated distribution of current learning materials - easy content update - no web space of one's own required - integrated communication and collaboration tools - no separate tools required - participants can be reached easily via automatically generated mailing lists - central location for collection and evaluation of tasks, reports, etc. - easy evaluation of the seminar as a whole Benefits for Participants - accessibility of materials irrespective of location or time - integrated communication and collaboration tools - quick and easy exchange of information and documents - opportunities for community building - individual support by the tutor ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11 -14/7/2006 4

Exemplary Use of the platform in SME's Seminar kick-off, getting to know each other, introduction to topic, video screening of case study, forming groups Online preparation and revision, self-directed exploration of content, group work, support via tele-tutor Seminar presentation of results, discussion with experts, new tasks Online trouble shooting, chat with experts, support via tele-tutor, building cross-seminar communities Seminar discussion, further explanation of best practices, trouble shooting To the participants in the seminar the tutor is a(n) contact trailblazer initiator advisor support top priorities: communction and collaboration ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11 -14/7/2006 5

The e-learning platform interface - When you first visit the Elisa e-learning platform, you will see the main screen with a short description of the project in the middle of the screen. On the lefthand side of the screen, you can see the main menu block and the block with the courses you are teaching or taking. - Blocks are useful for holding all kinds of tools and content ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11 -14/7/2006 6

Moodle Basics - Languages: On the upper right, you ‘ll see a dropdown menu with language options. This refers to the system labels. Any user-generated content remains in the language in which it was entered. - Moodle’s Help System: Throughout the platform, you will see a question mark in a yellow circle. This is a link to Moodle’s extensive help system. When you click the question mark icon, a new window pops up with the help entry for the item you are asking about. After you read the help entry, you can close the window with the “Close this window” or look at other help files by clicking on the “Index of all help files” link. You can then select any help item from anywhere in the help system. - Edit your user profile: Once you are logged in, if you click on your username, you will see your profile summary. Then click the Edit Profile button on the upper right hand side of the screen. You’ll see your username and a blank for your password. If you want to change it, do it here. Here you can share information about yourself with other people. ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11 -14/7/2006 7

Login to the Elisa e-Learning Platform - To access the e-learning platform of the ELISA project visit http: //www. elisaproject. net/elearningplatform - To login to the platform click on the icon shown below: ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11 -14/7/2006 8

Login to the Elisa e-Learning Platform - Type your account details (username, password) and enter the e-learning platform. ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11 -14/7/2006 9

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E-business training content for SMEs in English ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11 -14/7/2006 11

E-business training content for SMEs in English - The content (and therefore the topics of the course) is divided in three sections: - Section 1: Basic IT knowledge for businesses - Section 2: Introduction to e-business - Section 3: Entrepreneurship on the Internet - Each section is divided in a number of units according to their thematic content - Each unit contains several books - After each book there is a quiz so that SMEs can test their gained knowledge on the corresponding book - Later, we will analyze and discuss thoroughly books and quizzes ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11 -14/7/2006 12

Tutors’ course in English - The first time you will try to enter this course an enrolment key will be asked by the platform (enrolment key : tutor) ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11 -14/7/2006 13

Tutors’ course in English - The structure of this course reflects the structure of the “e-business Training content for SMEs in English” - The course includes practical instructions on how to deliver the corresponding books to the SMEs. - This is all tutors’ (from every country) private area, where you can get to know each other, discuss issues that is of your concern, share thoughts and reflections regarding your experience with the SMEs, etc. ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11 -14/7/2006 14

ELISA platform Communication Tools - Overview Forums Email Skype Chat General tasks of the tutor - setting up means of communication in MOODLE and placing them at the participants' disposal - creating impulses for communication by opening discussions - moderating discussions ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11 -14/7/2006 15

ELISA platform forums – Possible Applications Forums are places where questions and answers can be posted and read independently of place and time. They can be used - to continue seminar discussions as a complaints box for participants as a collecting point for questions in the run-up to office hours in preparation of the seminar by - posting contributions to a particular topic - collecting opinions - to coordinate group work - to give feedback - on presentations - on the seminar in general (one-minute papers) - as a bulletin board for announcements such as - events - changes in the schedule ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11 -14/7/2006 16

ELISA platform Forums – General Information - Generally, forum postings may be edited up to 30 minutes after posting (or even deleted!). After the editing time has passed, your message will be emailed to all subscribers. - The postings can be viewed in a variety of formats and may include attachments. ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11 -14/7/2006 17

ELISA platform Forums – General Information - By subscribing to a forum, participants will receive copies of each new posting via email. - This makes it easy to keep track of what is happening in the forums without constantly logging in. - To determine how you want to receive copies of each new posting from forums to which you are subscribe: - go to your edit profile page and at the email digest type, select one of the three possible choices: - No digest (single email per forum post), - Complete (daily email with full posts) or - Subjects (daily email with subjects only). ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11 -14/7/2006 18

ELISA platform Forums – General Information - Because forums are asynchronous, participants can take their time composing a reply - Getting SMEs to participate in online forums can be a big challenge. - Keep in mind, that is your responsibility to encourage SMEs’ participation (engage with the forum yourself. For example, in your face to face meetings , bring up important postings and discussions from the forums) - It is well-known that forums and chats won’t run by themselves-at the very least, so you need to participate enough to let everyone know that you’re a mindful observer, there in the background, keeping an eye on everything. - You can create a forum in which students can ask questions about your course. So, this can be used as a FAQ. ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11 -14/7/2006 19

ELISA platform Forums – How to… … set up a forum in my course? 1. Switch to editing mode. 2. Depending on where you would like to add the forum, select "Forum" from the activity menu either in the topic or schedule section. 3. On the next page give the forum a descriptive name, select the forum type you want to use, write a descriptive summary and choose the options you want to use for your forum. It should look like this… ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11 -14/7/2006 20

ELISA platform Forums – How to… Note: You may receive help at any level by clicking on the symbol ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11 -14/7/2006 21

ELISA platform Forums – How to… … create a new topic? 1. Click on "Add a new discussion topic. . . " as shown below: 2. On the next page select a new discussion subject, choose formatting and subscription type. ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11 -14/7/2006 22

ELISA platform Forums – How to… … post an answer to a question? 1. Click on the name of the respective topic (in the example below called "What you - as a teacher or trainer - can do with moodle "): 2. Reply to the topic question by clicking on "Reply": Note: You have only 30 minutes to edit your post! ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11 -14/7/2006 23

Email - Possible Applications Using the e-mail function serves best in addressing individual or several participants to the seminar (e. g. a study group). - One-to-one communication: addressing individual participants - concerning discussions and group work - for individual support - in order to distribute learning material of concern only to them - on the grounds of specific organizational announcements that only pertain to them - One-to-many communication: addressing several participants - in order to distribute learning material of concern to a study group - on the grounds of specific organizational announcements that pertain to a study group - in order to distribute newsletters ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11 -14/7/2006 24

ELISA platform Quickmail– General Information Please feel free to explore the additional block "Quickmail" - Quickmail is a module that allows you to send emails with an optional attachment to other users in the same course. - Quickmail's settings allow teachers to configure student access and group mode. - Quickmail also records a history of all your sent emails for later reference. ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11 -14/7/2006 25

ELISA platform Email – How to… … add the Quickmail block to my course? Simply scroll down to "Quickmail" in the list of additional blocks in your course and click on it. This list is positioned at the bottom right of the course start page. Note: You have to switch to editing mode in order to see the blocks list. ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11 -14/7/2006 26

ELISA platform Email – How to… … send e-mails via the Quickmail feature? 1. Click on the “Compose Email" button within the Quickmail-Block. 2. On the following page choose the person/groups who are supposed to receive your message, fill out the subject field, type your message and if needed add an attachment. ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11 -14/7/2006 27

ELISA platform Email – How to… … change the Quickmail settings? 1. Click on the button "Settings" within the Quickmail-Block 2. On the following page choose the setting which you would like to change and save your changes. … view your Email history? In order to view you in- and outbox click on the button "Quickmail History" within the Quickmail-Block. ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11 -14/7/2006 28

ELISA platform Chat – General Information The chat module allows participants to have real-time synchronous discussions via the web even with a relatively slow internet connection. - chat with experts from various fields (economics, education…) - role plays (e. g. advocates vs. opponents) - online office hours - The Chat module contains a number of features for managing and reviewing chat discussions. - In order to use the chat function you do not need to install any additional browser plugins! ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11 -14/7/2006 29

ELISA platform Chat – How to… … add a chat to my course? 1. Switch to editing mode. 2. Depending on where you would like to add the chat, select "Chat" from the activity menu either in the topic or schedule section. 3. On the next page give the chat a descriptive name, select the group who may use the chat and settings such as chat history, chat duration, availability to students, etc. It should look like this: ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11 -14/7/2006 30

ELISA platform Chat – how to…? Note: You may receive help at any level by clicking on the symbol ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11 -14/7/2006 31

ELISA platform Chat – How to… … use the chat in order to communicate with other people? 1. Click on the chat (for example “Chat with others online" in the Tutors’ course. ) 2. Normally the chat field will appear as a small pop-up window. Note: Useful and often used symbols include: *2|8* too late *ic* I see *cu* see you *plz* please *g* grin *thx* thank you *lol* laughing out loud *imo* in my opinion *rotfl* rolling on the floor laughing *asap* as soon as possible *afaik* as far as I know : -) I am happy *fyi* : -( I am sad ; -) That was a joke for your information ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11 -14/7/2006 32

ELISA platform & Skype – General Information Skype allows for parallel communication via audio and video channels and thus facilitates - ad hoc consultation - consultation among group members who are located in different places - team meetings - presentation of group work - In order to set up an audio or video conference you need to have microphones/headset and/or a camera ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11 -14/7/2006 33

ELISA platform & Skype – General Information - The "Skype Presence Block" shows the Skype status of all teachers and students in a course. - Users must have a Skype ID in their profile, and must have at least Skype version 2. 0. 79 installed and configured correctly for this block to recognize them. - For additional information about installing Skype, please visit the Skype. Homepage on http: //www. skype. com. - Skype is a free software that lets you make free calls to anyone else on Skype, anywhere in the world. - Note: You have to use at least a broadband internet connection (such as ADSL). ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11 -14/7/2006 34

ELISA platform & Skype – How to… … add the "Skype Presence Block" to my course? Simply scroll down to "Who's on Skype" in the list of additional blocks on your course and click on it. This list will be positioned at the bottom right of the course start page. Note: You have to switch to editing mode in order to see the blocks list. ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11 -14/7/2006 35

ELISA platform & Skype – How to… … use Skype within the platform? 1. Click on "Call Me" within the Skype-Block to call this user. 2. Click on "Start a Chat" within the Skype. Block to start a chat with this user. 3. Click on "Add Contact" within the Skype. Block to add this user to your own contact list in Skype. 4. You can also start a Skype-Call by clicking on the Skype ID on a user's details page as shown below: ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11 -14/7/2006 36

ELISA platform – Books General Information ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11 -14/7/2006 37

ELISA platform – Books General Information - The BOOK module is an easy way to create multi-page recourses with a booklike format - In the left-hand side of the screen there is the Table of Contents from where we can be directed anywhere inside the book - In addition to the links in the table of contents, you may move through the book using the arrows located to the top-left and bottom-left of the content. - Finally, you have the option to print either the whole book or the current chapter. ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11 -14/7/2006 38

ELISA platform – Books – How to… …. create a new book? 1. Switch to editing mode 2. Select Book from the activity menu in the Topic or Schedule section where you would like to add the book. 3. On the resulting page, give your book a descriptive name (have in mind that the name you give your book will become the text for the link on your main course page – this stands for all the activities you create) ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11 -14/7/2006 39

ELISA platform – Books – How to… 4. Indicate how you want your chapters to be numbered (none, numbers, bullets, indented) 5. Enable or disable printing 6. Allow or disallow custom titles ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11 -14/7/2006 40

ELISA platform – Books – How to… …. add a chapter in my book? Click on the red cross icon at the end of each chapter title within To. C depending after which chapter you want to enter the new one …. edit a chapter in my book? Click on the hand icon that is at the end of the chapter you want to edit …. delete a chapter in my book? Click on the X icon at the end of the chapter you want to delete …. hide a chapter in my book? Click on the eye icon at the end of the chapter you want to be invisible to your students ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11 -14/7/2006 41

ELISA platform – Books – How to… …. add a subchapter in my book? Click in the red cross icon in the Table of Contents to add a chapter and at the Editing Chapter Page check the subchapter box. ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11 -14/7/2006 42

ELISA platform Quizzes – General information - Feedback on performance is a critical part of a learning environment and assessment is one of the most important activities in education - The Quiz module allows the teacher to design and set quizzes consisting of a large variety of Question types : - Multiple choice - True/False - Short answer - Numerical - Calculated - Matching - Description - Random short-answer matching - Embedded answers ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11 -14/7/2006 43

ELISA platform Quizzes – General information - Clicking on a given quiz, you will see the quiz Info tab with the quiz name and description, its availability date and the information concerning the number of students who have attempted the quiz - You can modify the quiz by clicking Update the quiz (the top right side). Enabling block editing allows teachers the option of adding HTML and/or quiz results blocks. ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11 -14/7/2006 44

ELISA platform Quizzes – General information - Quizzes have two major components: -the quiz body and -the question pools. Think of the quiz bodies as a container for various types of questions pulled from the question pools. The body is what students see when they take the assessment. It also defines how the students interact with the quiz. The questions in a quiz body can be of any type, chosen manually or at random, and displayed in a set order or a random order. The question pools can contain questions arranged in a manner that makes sense to you. For example, we have created pools based on the contents of the books. ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11 -14/7/2006 45

ELISA platform Quizzes – How to… …. create the quiz body? 1. Turn editing on 2. Select Quiz from the add menu in the content section where you want to place the link to a quiz. 3. In the Quiz editing page, give the quiz a descriptive name. 4. Write an introduction for the quiz. 5. Choose opening and closing dates for the quiz. 6. Choose the options you want to use for your quiz 7. Click the Save Changes button. Then you will be directed to the second editing screen where you will write and select questions to include in the quiz body. It will look like this: ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11 -14/7/2006 46

ELISA platform Quizzes – How to… ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11 -14/7/2006 47

ELISA platform Quizzes – How to… …. create questions for a quiz? 1. From the “Editing Quiz” page, select the question type you want to create from the “Create new question” option. 2. Fill in the form for the question type you are creating. 3. Click Save Changes at the bottom of the form. Notice: Each question type has its own form and options. ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11 -14/7/2006 48

ELISA platform Quizzes – How to… …. add questions to a quiz? Once you’ve created your questions, you’ll need to add them to the quiz. The buttons shown before each question are used to add questions to the quiz. You can select individual questions using the checkboxes on the left of the question list. Select the individual questions and click the “Add to quiz” button at the bottom of the list. ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11 -14/7/2006 49

ELISA platform Quizzes – Reports - The - quiz Reports tab includes three sub tabs, one for each report: Overview (list of quiz attempts ) Re-grade attempts (recalculate the quiz grades ) Item analysis (processed quiz data in a way suitable for analyzing and judging the performance of each question for the function of assessment). ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11 -14/7/2006 50

ELISA platform Quizzes – Reports Item Analysis: - Facility Index (% Correct) This is a measure of how easy or difficult is a question for quiz-takers. This parameter coincides with the percentage of users that answer the question correctly. - Standard Deviation (SD) - This parameter measures the spread of answers in the response population. If all users answers the same, then SD=0. SD is calculated as the statistical stadard deviation for the sample of fractional scores (achieved/maximum) at each particular question. - Discrimination Index (DI) - This provides a rough indicator of the performance of each item to separate proficient vs. less-proficient users. This parameter is calculated by first dividing learners into thirds based on the overall score in the quiz. Then the average score at the analyzed item is calculated for the groups of top and bottom performers, and the average scored substracted. - Discrimination Coefficient (DC) - This is another measure of the separating power of the item to distinguish proficient from weak learners. The discrimination coefficient is a correlation coefficient between scores at the item and at the whole quiz. Again, this parameter can take values between +1 and -1. Positive values indicate items that do discriminate proficient learners, whereas negative indices mark items that are answered best by those with lowest grades. - For further information, please visit: http: //docs. moodle. org/en/Quiz_reports#Regrade ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11 -14/7/2006 51

ELISA platform Quizzes – How to… …. attempt quizzes? Click on the quiz you want to attempt. In the resulting page click “Attempt the quiz now”. You will be directed inside the quiz where you can: a. Select your answer by clicking in the circle next to it b. Click Next to answer the next question ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11 -14/7/2006 52

ELISA platform Quizzes – How to… c. Once you have answered all of the questions, you can: i. Click on “Save without submitting” which saves the answers without submitting them ii. Click on “Submit page” to submit only a given quiz page iii. Click on “Submit all and finish” to close this quiz. This means that you will no longer be able to change your answers. If you choose that you will be directed to a page with the review of your attempt. It will look like this: ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11 -14/7/2006 53

ELISA platform Quizzes – How to… ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11 -14/7/2006 54

Elisa platform Calendar – General information - The Calendar block displays the following events: Site (event viewable in all courses - created by admin users) Course (event viewable only to course members - created by teachers) Groups (event viewable only by members of a group - created by teachers) User (viewable only by the user - personal event a student user can create) ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11 -14/7/2006 55

Elisa platform Calendar – How to… …. add a new event? - Click month on Calendar to get an expanded month view - In Calendar view click the New Event button - On a New Event page select the type of event - Set the event properties - Click Save changes ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11 -14/7/2006 56

Elisa platform Choice - You can use choices as small web polls, to get feedback from your students about any topic you wish. - To create a choice: - Turn editing on Select choice from the activity menu Give your question a name, set the options you want and click “Save changes” ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11 -14/7/2006 57

Backup - In the courses that you are teachers (and therefore have authorization to modify them), it is important to keep backups before any major changes and especially when deleting files (or even in regular basis). - To make a backup: - Click backup on the administration block of your course - Select what you want to save (normally everything) and - Click continue at the bottom of the page - On the resulting page you will see your backup details and the name of the backup file (. zip) - Click continue at the bottom of the page - The next screen will report the results of the backup. Also, you will receive a message that your backup complete successfully (or not… ) - Click continue and you will be directed to the folder where all backups are saved. ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11 -14/7/2006 58

Restore - You can use a backup to restore a course or to create a copy of it. - To restore a backup: - If the backup zip file is not in the files area for your course, upload the archive file from your desktop. - Click the Restore option next to the file you want to back up. - Click Yes under “Do you want to continue? ” - The next screen will detail everything in the backup you have selected. Click Continue. - On the next screen, first select whether you want to delete the data in the target course before you copy the backup or simply add the data in the backup to the target. - Select if you want to restore the backup in a new or an existing course - Click “Restore this course now!” ELISA Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11 -14/7/2006 59

THANK YOU For questions please contact vasilg@grnet. gr Elisa Tutors’ Tele-seminar, Athens 11 -14/7/2006