Estonian Aviation Academy (EAVA) uses e-learning environment Moodle which allow the teacher:
to post course materials,
to create opportunities for communication between teachers and learners,
to facilitate learning through interactive exercises,
to evaluate learners progress,
to administrate a course.
Courses in ELA Moodle must meet all essential requirements to be considered high-quality online courses.
Quality Requirements for ELA Moodle Course
Go to site https://moodle.eava.ee/. You can log in using an ID card, Mobile ID, or the Estonian Aviation Academy (EAVA) user account.
Go to the course you want to edit.
Click Turn editing on (at the top right of the page)
Recommended course format options in EAVA Moodle
Edwiser Course format (List Format, Card Format)
To add files such as documents or presentations, drag and drop from folder (your storage is limited)
Read more: File resource
Click the link Add an activity or resource and select either File or Folder from the activity chooser.
Read more: File resource
The URL resource allows teachers to make a direct link to a site or online file.
Click the link Add an activity or resource and select URL.
Watch video: Read more: File resource
Books allow teachers to create multi-page resources with a book-like format and table of contents. Multimedia may be embedded and books may be printed entirely or by chapter.
Read more: Book resource
The Text editor allows the page to display many different kinds of content such as plain text, images, audio, video, embedded code or a combination of all these.
Read more: Page resource
Tab Display is a resource module used to display course information such as notes, readings, biography or anything for that matter, in a tab structure per chapter/module within a course.
Read more: Tab display module
Label can be used to add text,images, multimedia or code in between other resources in the different sections.
Read more: Label
Assignments allow students to submit work to their teacher for grading. The work may be text typed online or uploaded files of any type the teacher's device can read. Grading may be by simple percentages or custom scales, or more complex rubrics may be used. Students may submit as individuals or in groups.
Read more Assignment activity
You can use quizzes in Moodle to evaluate student understanding of material. Moodle quizzes consist of a Quiz activity that contains one or more questions from your course's Question bank..
Read more Quiz activity
There are many ways in which you can use the Forum activity in Moodle, for example
A place where students can interact and get to know each other.
For discussing course content as well as reference material
As a course announcements medium by using a news forum with forced subscription.
QnA’s could be used to check the knowledge of the user.
Improve engagement between teachers and students etc
Read more Forum activity
Self enrolment - If you want participants can enrol themselves into a course, you first have to open Self enrolment method and second you have to add an enrolment key to a course.
Read more: Self enrolment, Enrolment key
Adding Learners via the Tahvel
To create a connection between a subject -faculty pair in Tahvel and a course in Moodle, the Moodle ID must be entered in the subject-faculty pair. It can be entered by the creator of the subject-faculty pair.
The Moodle course ID can be found in the URL bar.
Self-registration must be enabled!
If the connection is created, clicking on the declared number of students in the Subject-faculty pair view in Tahvel, the corresponding activities are now added.
Grading is an essential part of the teaching and learning process: it gives feedback to the teacher on the effectiveness of the teaching methods and study materials used, and to students about the level they have achieved.
Grading quick guide, read more Grades
The Completion Progress visually shows what activities/resources a student is supposed to interact with in a course.
It is colour-coded so students can quickly see what they have and have not completed/viewed.
The block relies on completion settings of activities/resources in the course and when they should be completed by.
Ordering can be based on expected completion times or on the ordering of activities in the course.
There is an Overview page allowing teachers to see the progress of all students in a course, which is helpful for finding students at risk.
Setting up a Completion Progress block in a course
Activity completion needs to be enabled in your course (Edit course settings - Completion tracking - Enable completion tracking). Read more Activity completion
You can use Completion Progress block in a course as follows.
Turn editing on
Create your activities/resources as normal
Set completion settings for each activity you want to appear in the bar
Add the Completion Progress block to your page (How to add a block)
Move your block into a suitable position
Choose in actions menu Configure Completion Progress Block, choose activities
Hidden items will not appear in the Completion Progress block until they are unhidden. This is useful for a scheduled release of activities.
Watch video Moodle ISU Tutorial - Completion Progress Block
