Moodle is an open-source LMS (Learning Management System) for managing online courses, distributed in more than 200 countries. It is a platform in constant evolution thanks to a very active worldwide community. Adopted by UniTrento in 2007, it is now fully integrated with the University's authentication systems; students dynamically access various courses based on the activities included in their academic record and the policies decided by the lecturer.
The University is a member of AIUM (Italian Association of Moodle Users), which organizes the Italian Moodlemoot conferences aimed at promoting the exchange of best practices and collaborative discussion among platform users.
Online courses related to teaching activities in the educational offering can be created directly by the lecturer through the Course Management page (GeCo).
Once logged in with their UniTrento credentials, next to the course title, the lecturer will find the CREATE button. By clicking the button and following the guided procedure, a course is created on the Moodle platform.
Moodle 4.1 tutorials for lecturers
The UniTrento Moodle instances are updated to Moodle version 4.1.
Below is a brief list of some available activities/resources:
- File | Allows you to insert files among the course resources.
- Folder | Allows you to display a set of related files in a single folder, reducing the size of the course home page.
- Forum | Allows asynchronous discussions among participants.
- Glossary | Allows you to create and manage lists of entries, such as a dictionary or a collection of resources and information.
- Attendance | Allows you to record participant attendance.
- Quiz | Allows you to create self-assessment and evaluation tests with different types of questions.
- Choice | Allows you to formulate a question by offering a series of alternatives (for example, expressing preferences for a date, an activity, etc.).
- Feedback | Allows you to create customized surveys useful for collecting feedback from participants.
- Assignment | Allows you to assess student learning by assigning work. Students can submit any type of digital content, such as text documents, images, audio clips, and video clips. Grades are stored in the gradebook.
- Appointment scheduler | Helps manage appointments with students.
- Book | Allows you to create multi-page resources by organizing them into chapters and paragraphs.
- Lesson | Allows you to create adaptive content (pages to be used in sequence or with different paths and options, with texts, images, videos, short quizzes with questions that must be answered before proceeding).
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