Communication Tools - Davidson County Community College

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Getting Started
What is the WYSIWYG editing tool?
Quickmail v 2.5
Messaging
Course Announcements
eMail list
Getting Started Always Step One
It is recommended the use of Mozilla Firefox as your browser in order to have access
to the Moodle editing and formatting tools.
DCCC link: http://www.davidsonccc.edu/currentstudents/mymoodle.htm
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Moodle enables you to edit your content
using a number of different tools, most
notably the Moodle editor toolbar and the
editing icons. If your browser allows you to
use the HTML editor’s WYSIWYG editing tools,
you have at your disposal all the features
you’re use to with your word processing
software, including capabilities to toggle
between HTML source modes. The previous
figure shows the editor toolbar with all the
tools you can use within Moodle.
The Quickmail block adds a link to a tool that
has a checkbox list of all students in the
course, and a mail composition text area. You
can check the students you like, and email
those and only those. This enhances the
existing communications systems of
messaging (one user) and subscribed forums
(all subscribers) by allowing teachers to select
a specific subset of students.
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This feature is very
similar to the
messaging feature in
Blackboard.
Once you click on the
“Compose Email”
link in Moodlerooms,
it takes you to this
area to add the
students you would
like to notify.
You can also remove
them just as easy
from the list as well.
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“Role Filter” helps you
to choose whether
students or teachers
will appear on the list
of Recipients
Attachments are
sent the same way
you would upload
and send an
attachment through
Bb.
Fill in the “Subject”
area as normal.
The “Message”
area has displayed
above its text box
the WYSIWYG
editing tool in order
to conveniently
format your
message.
Send your
message!
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Moodlerooms Messaging is a great way to
send another user a private message in realtime (synchronous).
Each user has a message button at the
bottom of their profile page. You can access
this by clicking on the person’s name you
want to send the message to, then scroll
down to click on this button.
The next slide will help you see what
the Message box looks like once you’re in.
The Message block allows the
user to send messages to their
students in the form of a CHAT
box. Similar chats are seen on
famous profile pages such as
Facebook, MySpace or AOL.
The profile picture of the
recipient is seen in the upper left
hand corner of the chat box. All
you need to do is type and send
the message.
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Note: If you have a browser
set with a pop-up blocker
there can be difficulties in
receiving a message. Make
sure to fix your settings
before you start using the
Message block.
As soon as the message is sent, the recipient
will see a letter icon in their Messages block.
Tip: It might be a good idea to have both your
Online Users block close to your Messages.
This way you can send a message once you
see the person is available within your
Moodlerooms course if and when is needed.
Note: Example shown uses a test student’s view
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Once you click on the
icon, you will see the
contact. You must add
them if it is the first
time you have received
a message from them.
Click on the Add
contact icon to add
them to your list.
Note: Example shown uses a test student’s view
As soon as you add them to
your messenger list, then
you can see the messages
sent to you by clicking on
the person’s name. A
window will open up for you
to reply to the sender.
Remove contact &
Block contact should not
be used within the course.
Please communicate this
with your students for if they
do remove a contact from
their list, they would have to
add them again to see any
messages.
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The Course Announcement Forum is the only
forum where your students cannot reply. This
is set up as a default forum at the top of your
course. We encourage you to use this option
to send out mass email announcements
within your course to all of your students.
Moodlerooms sends each announcement to
all of your learners’ email accounts,
eliminating the probability of excuses that
they did not receive your notification.
Whether you click on Turn Editing on or not,
Moodlerooms gives you the ability to click Course
Announcement and add your notification.
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Once you have clicked in the Course Announcements area, you
can click on Add a new topic and start your announcement.
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In Subscription you decide whether or not you want to
send your email account a notice about the post.
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Add an Attachment if you wish and click on Mail now to send to all recipients
the post, including other teachers, supervisors and non-editing teachers within
your course. Post to forum when done.
When you post, it will take you to the main window for the announcements. You can
see the title in the Discussion column, the user in the Started by column, how
many replies and when the user last posted to the announcement.
In a shared course, any one of the teachers that are in it can post an announcement
unless they are a non-editing teacher.
Add a new topic will just take you through the previous process all over again. To
delete an announcement, click on the title and then hit the Delete option below the
announcement.
This is another way to email your students.
Although eMail List notifies your student,
they would still have to go directly into
Moodlerooms to access their messages. As an
instructor, your eMail List organizes your
courses mail in folders viewed to the left
hand side of your course.
Students can use it to email you and others
within the course as well.
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The eMail list block doesn’t appear
in the course. This means you will
need to add it to your course using
the Add a block tool
The eMail list has an Inbox and a
Compose icon within the block.
It also lets you know if you have any messages and how many
are pending. This is a great option if you want your messages
to be organized within one location
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The image displays what your eMail list will look like once you click on Inbox. Most
of your tools are very similar to those you would find in your private email Inbox.
Identifies the
folder you
are in
Sort by
DATE
Folders
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Emails
Your course folders are displayed at the bottom left corner.
These are only active when adding eMail list to all your courses
If you do not have the eMail list block active within all of your
courses, and accidentally click on an inactive course folder, you
will get an ERROR message from Moodlerooms. Click Continue
and go to your Profile by clicking on your name at the top.
To fix this problem, go to the course your having trouble with and
ADD the eMail list block. You should no longer see this message
and your course will be ready to use the eMail list tool.
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To compose an email,
click on Compose on your
eMail list block. Then,
click on Contacts
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You will see a window that allows
you to either look the name up
alphabetically or hit the To, Cc or
Bcc next to the name located by
pages to send it within that area.
Another feature is the Current role.
This allows you to choose the group
of contacts narrowed down by role:
Teacher or Student
Clicking on To all will select them
all within that page only. All users
in course is an easy way to select
everyone at one time. By clicking
Remove all, you de-select
everyone in your list
After selecting the
recipients, close the
window. There are no
additional buttons to use.
Once the window is
closed you will see the
contacts’ names. Create
your message and send
or save as usual.
For more information please contact:
Dori Stanfield
Coordinator, Distance Learning and Instructional
Technology
School of Foundational Studies and Academic Support
Office: LRC 203A
Office ext 6264
Elizabeth Irizarry (Liz)
Instructional Designer
School of Foundational Studies and Academic Support
Davidson County Community College
297 DCCC Rd
Thomasville, NC 27360
Office: LRC 203A
Contact by email
[email protected]