https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZA8fWZWlCq1DGSd11eixWoiHEZ1L1xwwPso0gJFxqAU/edit

Final Storyboard (subject to modifications during production):

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SHOT: intro titles
SHOT: animated or talking head or both

Moodle is a course management system. Moodle runs on a web server, and by customising it you can make it into the perfect private place for your educators and students to collaborate.

SHOT: Pan across categories structure showing typical school departments
SHOT: Pan across a participant listing in a course, including use of the roles menu

A Moodle site mostly consists of courses, which can be organised into categories … and users, who can be given roles within the courses and categories, such as teacher, or student.

SHOT: Show an admin changing categories
SHOT: Show roles list, and an admin adding new role for “Supervisor”.

A Moodle administrator can create and modify roles and categories to any structure they like, to adapt it for all kinds of educational situations.

SHOT: Pan across some different course formats, including contrib plugins like Grid
SHOT: Show some adding of blocks and moving them around at a sped-up speed

As a teacher in my private Moodle course, I can choose the course format that suits my learners, organised by week, by topic, or all kinds of other layouts that the Moodle community has created. I can further customise my pages with blocks that show different information.

SHOT: Show a student self-enrolling into a course
SHOT: Pan across screen with a variety of enrolment methods
SHOT: Show a person being manually enrolled as a Guest

I can decide how people will enrol in my course. They can sign up themselves; I can enrol them manually or have them automatically added to my course. I can decide what roles and permissions they will have in my course, allowing me to bring in a colleague just to look, if I want to.

SHOT: Show Group enrolment screen with two groups already created and a 3rd being added

I can also put them into groups, allowing them to work together, or separately if I want them to.

SHOT: Click add menu, show add dialog, pan across the list.

My course content consists of resources and activities, arranged in a sequence.

SHOT: Pan across plain course page with activities and resources
SHOT: Morph to same activities list but with conditions set on them all.

I can choose to enforce that sequence or let students navigate as they wish,

SHOT: Show a file being dragged in from desktop
SHOT: Show instructions being typed into Atto editor

Resources are the basic information I want my students to see. I can drag files in from my desktop, or create them in Moodle using a text editor.

SHOT: Show filepicker, fully configured, pan down repository list.
SHOT: Show a nice Wikipedia page embedded in a resource page.

I can also access a wide range of internet repositories (eg Google Drive, Dropbox, or many others) or use a link to bring any web page into my course.

SHOT: Dragging a SCORM zip into the course
SHOT: Show a good SCORM activity in its player, with flash etc.

Moodle also has full support for standard SCORM and IMS packages, meaning that I can bring in content packages from other places if I need to.

SHOT: Pan down the “Add activity” dialog contents.

Activities are Moodle’s main strength - it has a huge range of activities that encourage students to learn by collaborating with each other or creating things in a number of ways.

SHOT: Show close up of a useful forum thread with someone clicking to rate

Forums allow learners to discuss issues and share resources. I can rate their posts or let them rate each other.

SHOT: Show a student pdf being annotated
SHOT: Show a rubric in use

Assignments allow me to grade texts and files that the students send to me. I can grade them online, adding comments and feedback if I wish, perhaps using rubrics or a marking guide.

SHOT: Show an interesting question being answered with feedback
SHOT: Show/Scroll down selected responses and feedback in a quiz (including CBM score?)

The quiz gives very powerful formative or summative assessment. I can give feedback every step of the way and even have grades altered according to how confident my learners are of their responses.

SHOT: Show a wiki page being edited with a link being added.
SHOT: Show click on the link to a new page
SHOT: Show the history page

With a wiki, I can have my learners building a document collaboratively with every edit recorded. Or I can let them have their own pages for personal use.

SHOT: Show a good example of a glossary with lots of jargon being defined
SHOT: Someone clicking on the approve link
SHOT: A forum post with highlighted terms in it, and the a click on one to show the popup

A glossary can contain key terms and definitions which everyone can contribute to. I can moderate the entries and allow comments. These words become hyperlinks throughout my course.

SHOT: Show a good example of a database with pictures, geolocations etc

A database lets your students create a bank of information in any format you can imagine.

SHOT: Student making a choice (with a good example choice), with anonymous results being shown to the student.
SHOT: Pan across detailed survey results showing each user

If I want to take a quick poll I use the Choice activity, while learners’ responses in a Survey gives me valuable detailed feedback on how the course is going from their point of view.

SHOT: Show couple of steps in a lesson with content pages containing video/images, eg health & safety scenario

With the lesson module, I can develop personalised, self-paced pathways for students to explore.

SHOT: Moving from one stage to another in workshop set up screen
SHOT: Show student being prompted to review a submission, and then getting a form to fill in.
SHOT: Pan down the results grid.

The innovative workshop tool allows all my students to assess their peers in a structured way, helping with their learning but also providing grades that I can trust to be part of their final grades for my course.

SHOT: Plugins directory

And lots lots more. The Moodle community has created hundreds of different activities, all for free, that I can add to my Moodle if I want to.

SHOT: The new Restrict access interface, adding some conditions.

I generally let my students access these activities and resources any time they like, but if I want to I have powerful conditional activity controls so that they only see some things once they have completed other things in certain ways.

SHOT: Panning across detailed gradebook, groups, categories etc, different reports

Any grades that are generated by activities end up in the gradebook. Here I can always add or edit grades manually if needed. I can also organise my grades and do full calculations on them if I need to. If I have grades outside of Moodle, I can import them.. and I can export my Moodle grades out into a spreadsheet. Students can also track their own grades.

SHOT: Pan across Logs/course participation/Activity completion
SHOT: Badges screen showing awarded badges (need some good badges)

At any time I can see detailed reports on their participation, activity and progress and I can reward them with badges or certificates (manually or automatically!)

SHOT: Show same page on a desktop, on a tablet, and on a phone (including the devices being held in hands).

Moodle’s responsive design works great for me and my students on browsers on all my devices,

SHOT: Show a Moodle Mobile notification of a message popping up on a tablet with an appropriate default “ding” noise.

There is also a Moodle Mobile app with features for offline content and message notifications.

SHOT: Quickly flashing through a lot of screenshots like frames in a movie reel …
SHOT: Recording some audio in the File picker interface as an upload

There’s more in Moodle than I need, but it’s good to know that when I need it, it’s already there.

SHOT: A teacher smiling and doing something on a computer, mixed with
SHOT: Moodle graphics and end stuff

Moodle - open source software for collaborative learning, built for you so that you can build the ideal learning space for your students.