Title: Introduction to the Moodle Tool Guide
Course: Stage 2: Course Design and Technology > Section: 3. Moodle Tools, Course Characteristics / Features

What are the affordances of various Moodle tools? We will examine a chart of suggestions of tools appropriate for particular pedagogical purposes including information transfer, assessment and communication.

On the chart:

- the green blocks indicate a good fit of tool to purpose
- the red blocks indicate that the tool is unsuitable for the purpose, and
- the orange blocks indicate that you could use it by crafting your activity carefully to achieve your purpose.

Image source: Henrick (2012) Moodle 2 Tool Guide for Teachers

Comment: This chart is brilliant for new Moodlers!

- It was originally developed in the Moodle 1.x days by Joyce Seitzinger and later extended by Gavin Henrick for Moodle 2.x
- More recently it has been adapted for Moodle 3.x by Nicolas Martignoni.
- This is the strength of publishing your resources openly - see more on CC licencing in Stage 4.
- If you have A3 or larger colour printing facilities, we recommend this chart gets printed out and placed in a lab or on your office wall where you have ready access to it.