Moodle is a learning platform and course collaboration system, facilitating:
- publish course content in a weekly breakdown
- place and collect assigments: you do not have to search for submitted essays scattered in your mailbox. Students can upload them to Moodle and you can check, grade and comment on them in one place (submitted papers are not visible for other students). If you enable Turnitin, an originality report will be created for all upload submissions as well.
- Upload readings/videos/presentations/materials
- Send message to class: If you post a discussion to a Main Course forum - send message to class, all participants of the course will receive the message in email. This forum is automatically created for each course. By default, it is placed in the top of the middle section and NEW* all course participants can add posts or reply to posts. Students and professors receive an email automatically with the message. You can contact with one other user (student) with messaging - like an sms. (Participants link in the People block - Send message button on each user's page). It is not that convenient to find archive messages, so this method is not recommended for important messages. Emails are sent to offline users only - and of course, you will not get your own messages in email.
- The forum activity provides a place for asynchronous discussions for students and give the ability to share files with others in the course. The groups feature allows you to easily separate students in your course, allowing them to work together closely.
- The choice and feedback activity allow to create quick polls and to gather (anonym) information from students
Manual is available here.