The Virtual Classroom

Objective

At the end of this lesson, students should be able to:

Structure an online course in Moodle using topics and lessons by adding discussion forums, chat, adding assignments, flash video, presentations and quizes
Create an interactive training scenario using Adobe Captivate

Lecture:

Presentation: Intro to Learning Management Systems Moodle
Turning your Course into a Virtual Classroom using Moodle
- Adding activities on Moodle'
- Useing Email on Moodle
- Adding discussion forums and guiding discussion activities
- Using chat
- Managing your virutal classroom
- Having students upload assignments
- Creating a short quiz in Moodle
Adobe Captivate - Review of creating interactive training scenarios

Lab

Class/Group Activity - Create your lesson plan for your final project that will be hosted on Moodle. Use at least 5 topics. Use handouts and knowledge you've learned through-out the course

Homework:

Work on Final Project Online Class Structure
- Incorporate your exisiting course Introduction, Course Description, Objectives and midterm objective to:
- Create a course that contains at least 5 topics incorporating all the instructional design techniques you have learned. Each topic must contain the 7 components of a topic as follows:
  - Title
  - Objective
  - Introduction
  - Summary
  - Activities (Absorb, Do and Connect)
  - Assessment (Quiz)
  - Links
- Your Course must be saveed as a SWF file and hosted on the Class Moodle Site in the Topic Format and contain
  - Discussion Forums
  - A Chat Room
  - A Content Page per Topic
  - A Q&A Forum
  - A Final Quiz
- Your course must also contain all the techniques you have been introduced to in Adobe Captivate as follows:
  - Audio (background music or your voice)
  - A simulation (demo)
  - Graphics and Animation techniques
  - Interactivity and good navigation. (i.e. Click Areas, Rollover images, highlight boxes, rollover slidelets and rollover captions to encourage interaction with the learner
Read Chapter 9 - Designing for the virtual classroom
Set up your course structure for hosting on Moodle. Your objective must be interactive (i.e. user prompted to enter information or response.)