16. Activity Chooser in Moodle 3.3 Video Lecture | Moodle: Create Personalized Online Class - Professional Skills

What is the activity chooser?
To add
learning content to a Moodle course page
you use Moodle's activity chooser which
you can access by turning on the editing
from the gear menu top right and then in
the section where you want to have your
learning content, you click Add an
activity or resource.
This will bring up
the activity chooser.
If you don't see
this link but instead you see two
separate drop-down menus, check with your
administrator.
Let's click this link to
take a look at the activity chooser and
what it does.
On the left is a list of
activities and if we scroll down we see that
underneath is a list of resources.
A
resource in Moodle is static content
which students would just read or look
at or listen to, so for instance if
you're uploading documents and
presentations, you'd use File or Folder.
To present information directly use a
Page or you can use URL if you had a
link to a website or an online file,
whereas activities require students to
interact with Moodle: they might submit
work using an Assignment or they might
contribute to a Forum discussion.
The list can also include resources and
activities which are not standard but
which your Moodle admin has added as
extras.
The Learn Moodle site for
instance has Big Blue Button for web
conferencing which isn't standard but
which has been added.
In order to find out about what each of
these does you click the radio button
next to it.
Information then appears on the right
telling you what it is, how to use it and
useful teaching ideas, and if you click
the More help link, this takes you to
Moodle's documentation with further
information.
You add an activity or
resource by clicking the button and then
clicking the Add button at the bottom or
if you don't need to read the
information you can simply click twice
on the button and that will take you to
the setup screen.