Business Foundations

Weekly outline

• Welcome to the Business Foundations Course
  

  Welcome to the Business Foundations Course

  This is not how you should lay out a real course, we are organising by Activity type here just to help you find examples of different features.

  • Announcements Forum
  • News forum
• Assignments
  

  Assignments

  • Assignments enable teachers to grade and give comments on uploaded files and assignments created on and off line.
  • Upload a single file Assignment
  • Advanced uploading of files Assignment
  • Online text Assignment
  • Offline activity Assignment
  • Assignment module documentation URL
• Chats
  

  Chats

  • The chat module allows participants to have a real-time synchronous discussion via the web.
  • A repeating chat
  • An open chat
  • Chat module documentation URL
• Choices
  

  Choices

  • Here a teacher asks a question and specifies a choice of multiple responses.
  • A choice with anonymous results
  • A choice with non-anonymous results
  • Choice module documentation URL
• Databases
  

  Databases

  • The database module enables participants to create, maintain and search a bank of record entries.
  • Image gallery Database
  • A database of web links
  • Database module documentation URL
• Forums
  

  Forums

  • Forums provide the opportunity for asynchronous discussions.
  • A standard forum for general use
  • Each person posts one discussion Forum
  • A single discussion Forum
  • Forum module documentation URL
• Glossaries
  

  Glossaries

  • The glossary module enables participants to create and maintain a list of definitions, like a dictionary.
  • A dictionary-style glossary
  • An FAQ-style glossary
  • Glossary module documentation URL
• Lessons
  

  Lessons

  • Lesson activities can deliver content in interesting and flexible ways. It consists of a number of pages. Each page generally ends with a question and a number of possible answers, and leads to another page based on the student's choice.
  • Lesson 1 - Basic parts
  • Lesson 2 - Question types
  • Lesson module documentation URL
• Quizzes
  

  Quizzes

  • This module allows the teacher to design and set quiz tests, consisting of multiple choice, true-false, and short answer questions and more. Each attempt is automatically marked, and the teacher can choose whether to give feedback and/or to show correct answers.
  • A listening quiz
  • A quiz with a password
  • Quiz module documentation URL
• Resources
  

  Resources

  • Teachers can provide course resources in various formats - pages edited in Moodle, uploaded files or web links.
  • A web page
  • An image File
  • An MP3 file
  • Resources documentation URL
• SCORM packages
  

  SCORM packages

  • SCORM is a collection of specifications that enable interoperability, accessibility and reusability of web-based learning content.
  • eXe SCORM package
  • SCORM module documentation URL
• Surveys
  

  Surveys

  • Teachers can use surveys to gather data from their students that will help them learn about their class and reflect on their own teaching.
  • Critical Incidents survey
  • Constructivist On-line Learning Environment Survey (COLLES)
  • Attitudes to Thinking and Learning Survey (ATTLS)
  • Survey module documentation URL
• Wikis
  

  Wikis

  • A wiki is a collection of web pages that anyone can add to or edit.
  • Course summary wiki
  • Wiki module documentation URL
• Workshops
  

  Workshops

  • The workshop module enables peer assessment

  • Limericks Workshop
  • Worshop module documentation URL