Glossary of Terminology

The text editor allows you to enter text into Moodle, it provides the usual controls you'd expect to see when entering text, like Bold, Underline, and various different heading styles. Moodle has two different text editors built in, the main one, (and default) is the Atto editor. It is likely that you use it every time you add text into Moodle. For further help using this please contact your faculty Online Course Developers.

A style of education in which students learn via electronic and online media as well as traditional face-to-face teaching.

A pedagogical approach in which the conventional notion of classroom-based learning is inverted: students are introduced to the learning material before class with classroom time then being used to deepen understanding through discussion with peers and problem-solving activities facilitated by teachers. (Advance HE, 2019).

One of the UoP Workstreams set up to prepare for the 2020/21 academic year. This one, focused on the key area of learning and teaching, is led by Harriet Dunbar-Morris. Learn more about the Learning and Teaching workstream here.

In this context module refers to the online Moodle page, or Moodle presence of your teaching module.

A scaffold, or series of predetermined sections that you can fill in with your own learning content. We also have provided a variety of styles/headings which you can remix and reuse to suit your own content.

The Moodle Baseline is a series of best practice and guidance aiming to introduce a level of consistency across Moodle modules. More information about this can be found at the Moodle Baseline website.

The Moodle Baseline tabbed block is a module layout element introduced with the Moodle Baseline to show a welcome message, module overview, learning outcomes, assessment summary and reading list information in an easy to access way. More information about this can be found at the Moodle Baseline website.

A built-in guided tour to help you learn how to use Moodle.

The process by which your new module site for 2020–21 academic year is created. Please contact your faculty Online Course Developers for more information on this.

A block in your course module site into which you can insert content such as activities and resources.

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The UoP Moodle Template Tool will enable you to preview and select a new format for your modules and courses in Moodle. Two formats are for modules are available and one format for courses.

Please note that to select one of the templates you will need to have had your module rolled over. If your module has not yet been rolled over please contact your faculty Online Course Developers to discuss the rollover of your module. Templates are available automatically for newly created courses or by contacting your faculty Online Course Developers for existing courses.

The course module is organised week-by-week, with each section having a date heading.