Moodle : e-learning platform

Moodle is a platform for learning (often called e-learning), to create learners around content and community educational activities.

In a system of collaborative website, Moodle adds educational or communicative functions to create a learning environment online: it is an application for creating, through the network of interactions between educators, learners and educational resources.




Such systems of e-learning devices are also called "open and distance learning" (ODL) or more academic way, "Mediated Learning Environments" 1.

Pascal SORE has implemented this tool for his high school. He used it to make available to its students BTS knowledge tests and automated skills. This allows them to test themselves and get correcting their errors immediately, to progress. This feature allows us to offer formative assessments. He also created forums to facilitate discussion.

Michael Eric CABARET structured part of the site to help track Personal Work Boxes of students first. Students thus have an electronic logbook, they can update outside of time spent by the teacher. Teachers in turn can easily check this log, with or without the time dedicated to small businesses, to see the approach taken by the group of students and make comments if necessary.

Here is what Pascale Le Guen-Blachier, professor of SVT in the same high school, which presents the use of this space dedicated to TPE: interests, benefits, limitations.

What is the "Moodle"?
Moodle is a collaborative platform accessible via the Internet, which allows working in a team,
dialogue, build several files on the "Wiki" mode (like Wikipedia)
It was designed by an Australian researcher with objective educational use
distance education.
Accommodation is on an external server and high school rents space there.
l What is the point?
Since there is a module designed as a wiki, that is to say that each member of a team
can simultaneously work on and build a shared folder, the interest in me seemed TPE
immediately obvious.
Each student in this space its own logbook, it can be made during TPE or home. may
drop a file reference to his record TPE or chat through a forum with his teammates or
ask questions of one or more professors.
The referring teacher can interact at any time with the teams, monitor the implementation of the book
board as well as the common folder.
There are more than logbook "paper", only the final file is printed.
l Will there any disadvantages?
Évidemment.car for successful communication the functional integrity of the school network
an obligation.
All the problems this year were related to the state of the network ...
It should also introduce students to this type of approach and force them to be compatible with the mel address
server Academy (avoid hotmail addresses for example).
It also requires that the teacher agrees to give his address (required for interactivity) and that
think to open the box frequently!
And finally, the biggest drawback is the cumbersome implementation if the particular skills
computer require using the same ATICE your school involved in the monitoring of accompanying
Students TPE ....
l So there he has advantages?
YES ... of course! It has no edge notebook paper to store, transport and aim, everything is done via
computer at school or at home. So I followed the more advanced students and teams and interactivity is very pleasant, I felt better "frame". In addition, logbooks
students were more complete.
the student side, here are some testimonials:
"You can get recommendations from teachers, guidance, instructions, it was always with us,
hand, one can make the synopsis from us and then we have more time during the session
TPE "; "It's better on Moodle because it allows not to take time on sessions TPE
pass very quickly and complete it at home quietly. The only drawbacks are loss
data (unrecorded sessions) and the problems of layout "