Title: Activity 3.1 LMS Tools - group activity
Course: Learning Design and Development > Section: Topic 3: Digital Learning Development

Aim: To understand the use of the LMS tools in relation to materials management and Interactive Teaching & Learning.

Motivation: Discover different tools in LMS, their usage and how powerful they are with respect to the teaching and learning practices.

Resource:

Perceptions and Use of a Learning  Management System:

https://ctools.umich.edu/access/content/group/research/papers/Survey_FinalPaper_AERA09.pdf

Who: This is a group activity

Task:

Upload a file with your name (within this assignment tool) in order to register to a group. This should be repeated by various members until a group attains 3 to 4 members in the Moodle system and work on the questions below (offline) as an assignment. Provide your group’s responses to these questions in this online assignment (assignment 3.1). Despite the fact that only one person in a group will click to submit the response, remember to record the names of all group members at the top of your submission.

1. Define the following tools found in the LMS:

- Announcements
- Assignments
- Chat
- Forums
- Gradebook
- Messages
- News
- Calendar
- Syllabus

2. Categorise each of the tools defined above in terms of whether they support materials management or  interactive teaching and learning

Duration:  45 minutes

Response/Assessment:

In conclusion, the contributions of each group will be shared and then discussed individually in the online discussion forum to come up with a common understanding of the definition for the tools and proper categorising with respect to whether they support materials management or interactive teaching and learning.

Event: Activity 3.1 LMS Tools - group activity