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Web-based teaching

UT uses e-learning environment Moodle which allow the teacher:

  • to post course materials, which may include text files, photographs, video and audio clips, animations, etc.;
  • to create opportunities for communication between teachers and learners by means of forums, e-mails and chat rooms;
  • to facilitate learning through the use of glossaries, self-testing, links to materials on the Web;
  • to evaluate learners progress (tests and assignments);
  • to administrate a course (learner and learning outcome management, compilation of statistical analyses regarding learners' work).

How to implement the Moodle learning environment for e-courses

1. For creating e-courses you can use the TU central Moodle at http://moodle.ut.ee. Entering  Moodle takes place by means of username and password of the University computer network.

2. Creating the blank Moodle courses

For subjects registered in SIS, lecturers can create blank Moodle courses from the respective curriculum. NB! For creating a blank Moodle course from SIS it is assumed that the curriculum for the respective subject is shown in SIS as partly or fully web-based. If curriculum is not partly or fully web-based it should be set up as one (Change course data).

Separate blank courses can be created for the same subject in full-time, Open University and continuing education programmes. For creating a blank Moodle course click the button „Manage Moodle links” at the curriculum in SIS and thereafter, in the opening window, click on the button  „Create a new Moodle course”.

NB! Based on SIS, you can create courses on your own on the blank slate only. If you wish to make a copy of an earlier Moodle course  or a blank course for a subject unregistered (as yet) in SIS then contact the e-mail address eope [ät] ut [dot] ee, informing about the title of the course to be created, the subject code and the name of the course when wishing to make a copy of it.

3. Design the course as you wish or need. The designing of a Moodle course means designing the course environment, adding necessary tools and materials to the course, and fixing the settings of the course. Should problems or questions arise, please turn to the educational technologist of your faculty.

4. In case you wish individual supervision with creating your Moodle course, please contact the educational technologist of your faculty/college.

5. Start managing your course. Managing of a course causes the manager (lecturer/faculty, a department) no financial expenses. Moodle can be implemented in teaching full-time and Open University degree courses as well as in offering continuing education, and as suitable environment for projects and workshops.

Adding learners to the course

Learners registered for a subject in SIS can be added to the wished Moodle course from the respective curriculum in SIS, creating first a relation in SIS between the particular curriculum and the course on Moodle. If earlier you had created a Moodle course on the blank slate from the SIS curriculum then the relation is automatically there already.  

NB! As precondition for creating a link is the fact that the respective subject curriculum should be marked in SIS as partly or fully web-based. If the curriculum is not partly web-based/web-based, it should be set up as such (Change course data).

In case there is no link, then in order to establish the link it is necessary at the subject curriculum in SIS to click on the button "Manage Moodle links" and in the opening window click on the button  "Link to the existing Moodle course". Further, you need to enter an abbreviated title of the wished Moodle course into the textbox. In order to add learners to a course on Moodle, it is first necessary to click the line Nightly transfer of learners’ data, then click on the link Start and thereafter on the button "Renew learners’ data on the Moodle course". If you do not press the last button, subsequent nightly run of learners’ data transfer will start automatically. Transfer of learners’ data from SIS to the course on Moodle can be stopped clicking on the link Stop on the line Nightly transfer of learners’ data.

Forgetting username and/or password of the University computer network

In case you have forgotten your username or password of the computer network of Tartu University, you can retrieve both username and password and get a reminder on the user guide  phone 737 5500 or e-mail address ak [dot] abi [ät] ut [dot] ee. You can change your password on your own at https://passwd.ut.ee.