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Moodle terms that will help you when you get stuck. Please add any that you would like.

*Tip* If you ever get to a page in Moodle and are confused and want to learn more about the specific page look on the bottom of the page for the "Moodle Docs for this Page" link. It will open up a new window and take you to the main Moodle.org documents.


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B

Bread crumb trail

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Path that shows where you are at in a program. Ex. Look under title of this Moodle course to see the path or "bread crumb trail" of your current location.
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C

Chat

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This is a featured provided by Moodle where students can collaborate with each other in real time using a computer with an internet connection.

Choice Activity

:
The ability to ask a mulitple choice question.

Course

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A page for which you want to share information

D

digital native

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A digital native is the current group of teenagers that have grown up with technology. 

F

forum

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meeting for the discussion of questions

G

glossary

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A place where students can define terms in their own words

Guest

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A person that can view limited information on a Moodle page.

H

hyperlink

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A clickable link in text or graphics on a Web page that takes you to another place on the same page, another page, or whole other site.
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M

Moodle Groups

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I'm still trying to figure out all the different possibilities for Moodle Groups. But I can't wait to use them in differentiated instruction settings.

See this documentation page in Moodle:

http://docs.moodle.org/en/Groups#Groups_in_Moodle_1.9

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R

Roles

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Moodle allows users to be a course creator, teacher, student, guest, or some combination of those roles.

T

terms

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parents - don't confuse this term with parents of students - in Moodle used as a term to show the owner of the course.

Thumbnail

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A small version of a picture or photo

U

Upload

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Upload - the act or process of posting material (video, audio, pictures, documents) to any part of the moodle page (chat, blog, wiki, or assignment)

W

Wiki

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A web space where information,ideas, thoughts, topics, links can be shared and changed by users of the web.