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Edna Moodle

To Navigate this page, Click on the desired Logo to move. For further information on each area of moodle

simply click on it's header logo.

Moodle is a course management system (CMS) - a free, Open Source software package designed using sound pedagogical principles, to help educators create effective online learning communities.

You can download and use it on any computer you have handy (including webhosts), yet it can scale from a single-teacher site to a University with 200,000 students.

To Download Moodle for yourself click here for more information

A thorough look at Moodle as a universal tool for teaching

EdNA Groups is based upon the Moodle open source learning management system. EdNA Groups provides free collaborative workspaces to support teaching, learning and research for all sectors of education and training.

Each Group receives a space in which you can choose from a range of tools to facilitate communication and collaboration. For example, you can set up web forums and live chats; share web-links, files and images; create web pages and wikis; poll or survey members, and add RSS newsfeeds from EdNA Online. Groups can be public (open to all) or private (invitation only).

The EdNA Groups service is available to organisations that are part of the education and training community, not-for-profit and non-commercial groups and Registered Training Organisations (RTOs). School students are not eligible to use the service.

A brief visual display of edna groups.

OZ projects is a kids friendly site which uses Moodle to have a number of online projects for students of all ages

Teachers can set up their own projects or use projects set up by the team at EDNA with Oz Projects.

Above is a short Ozprojects Movie by Edna

Edna is a network of the education and training community. It includes government and non-government schooling systems, early childhood, vocational and technical education, adult and community education and higher education.
EDNA is partly funded by the Federal government, State governments and Ausaid
Find resources for teaching, learning and research
Search lists of resources from Australian and international collections.
Browse resources organised by category
Discover links saved by your peers on me.edu.au
Join edna's growing community of educators
Make an online profile on me.edu.au
Subscribe to email lists
Collaborate with colleagues in edna Groups, eg, wikis, blogs, podcasts and other utilities.
Participate in a workshop.

Anyone who is an educator can have a space
Every DECS school has access to a moodle
Can switch activities on or off so you can make sure the students are focusing on what you want them to
Allows for quick feedback from students and teachers
Relatively easy to add resources and Web 2.0 activities
Activities like forums allow for special guests to answer questions from students without having to get them to come to the school
Training is easily accessible from the team at Education.edu.au
Easy to add activities just before the lesson starts

Initially it can be daunting and a little intimidating for first time users
First time users may need training and assistance
Users tend to add resources but neglect to add Web 2.0 activities
Need specialist technical support or skills to host your own moodle
TIME!

http://www.moodleman.net - The Moodleman Blog
http://moodle.org/ - The official site of the Web 2.0 tool
http://human.edublogs.org/ - The Moodle Guru
http://www.moodletutorials.org - A great site with heaps of tutorials on using moodle
http://edna.edu.au - The team at Edna are always happy to answer any questions you have

Viewers are actively encouraged to assist the reader by editing this page to improve the overall content

and make this page more informative for those looking to use edna.groups.edu.au.

Comments:

From tsweeney - 11/10/08 1:48 PM

This page provides valuable links to both EdNA Groups and Oz Projects. Both of these are free to educators, well supported by EdNA and based on the open source Moodle tool. Moodle is an excellent tool that has been of great interest to many schools especially when used as a hybrid tool to support face to face teaching and online learning. What better way to learn and use Moodle than to use EdNA Groups and Oz Projects!

Your page with all of the icons at the top may be a bit confusing to new readers and they probably would like to know that EdNA Groups is often blocked in schools and that if you want to establish your own school Moodle, a server is required. Fortunately EdNA provides this hosting service free of charge. Whilst students can't use EdNA Groups, the EdNA team are very supportive of great ideas for collaborative projects which is the best way to use Moodle to communicate with others beyond the classroom. I know you have learnt a great deal from creating this page and the supporting presentation

From will0895 - 11/3/08 11:47 AM

From cwright - 16/10/08 11:14

Hi Graeme and Gareth. It was good to meet with you today and hear about the work you are doing at uni. I just found this website of Moodle tutorials and thought it might be useful.

http://www.moodletutorials.org/

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