There are 28 types of activities on
MIC's Moodle which can be added to your
page:
You can find information on
the 15 different types of
activities in a standard Moodle
site under the Activities
Documentation on
the MoodleDoc's
website.
These activities
include:
- Assignments - This activity acts as space where students may submit course work.
- Chat - This acts as a scheduled communication activity.
- Choice - Choice allows multiple choice questions be asked in a quick poll style fashion.
- Database - Databases allows for the creation of a collection of mixed media which can be searched.
- Feedback - You can create ungraded surveys with your own questions rather than pre-sets.
- Forum - Students and teachers post or comment in multiple conversations organised into 'threads'.
- Glossary - Participants make a list of keywords and definitions.
- H5P activity - Interactive multimedia platform.
- Lesson - Multi-step exercises and activities that reacts to student decisions.
- (LTI) External tool - Some websites can link to Moodle, and this tool allows for appropriate setup.
- Quiz - Multiple types of questions can be created and stored in the Question bank and used to populate your quizzes.
- SCORM - A type of interactive multimedia file for online classes.
- Survey - Survey can be used assess learning from the student perspective, Questions are pre-set.
- Wiki - An online student collaboration encyclopedia.
- Workshop - A peer assessment activity, which requires student submission of peer.
Additional activities available
on the MIC Moodle platform:
- Attendance - allows teachers to maintain a record of attendance, replacing or supplementing a paper-based attendance register. See How to add a Moodle Attendance activity to my course page for more details.
- BigBlueButton - is an open-source online conferencing tool within the Moodle platform.
- Boards - is a collaborative tool that facilitates post-it board activity for students within Moodle.
- Custom Certificate - enables the creation of dynamically generated certificates with complete customisation.
- Group Choice - allows students to enroll themselves in a group within a Moodle course.
- Interactive Content (H5P) - Create and add interactive content inside Moodle .
- Journal - Allows teachers to ask students to reflect on a particular topic. Students can edit and refine their answer over time.
- MIC Reading Lists - Enables a teacher to include a selection of citations from associated Leganto reading lists directly within the content of their course.
- Questionnaire - Custom survey creation.
- Reengagement - Allows timed release of content and emails users to remind them to complete course activity.
- Scheduler - An appointment scheduler for planning face-to-face meetings between teachers and students.
- Turnitin - An academic integrity solution designed to integrate with assignments. See What is Turnitin? for more details.
- YuJa -Video management system software integrated with Moodle wish allows users to create or upload media to Moodle, edit media and stream audio / video content to a Moodle course. See What is Yuja? for more details.