Welcome to Moodle, the online learning environment for OCU. Moodle provides instructors and students with an online home to interact in their courses. Course materials and resources may be stored and accessed here, and course activities, such as discussion forums, chats, blogs, quizzes, assignment submissions, and grading can take place here. Moodle can supplement a course that is also meeting in the classroom or can service as the platform for a course that is completely online.

There are several ways to get help with Moodle:

• instructors and students can always contact Dr. Morris Pelzel, OCU Moodle Administrator, at mpelzel@oak.edu or 812-749-1202 for assistance.
• We have created Moodle guides (pdf format) for instructors and students. These guides will be revised and updated as we receive feedback from users. We also plan to create accompanying video tutorials in the near future.
• Moodle Guide for OCU Instructors
  
• Moodle Guide for OCU Students
  
• If you need to have your account set up, please contact Dr. Pelzel. The standard username for students is last name followed by first name (no spaces); the standard student password is your OCU network password (first three letters of last name followed by last four digits of social security number--if you don't have a social security number, then use the last four digits of your student ID number).
  
• within the course pages there are small round yellow icons with a question mark (or "i" for information) next to certain features and at the bottom of each page; click on these for help with the particular feature or page.
• a comprehensive guide can be found at Using Moodle: Teaching With the Popular Open Source Course Management System (pdf)
• there are some helpful tutorials on the Moodle Documentation Site, such as "Getting Started for Teachers," and "Student Tutorials."

We welcome your comments and suggestions.

Please note that regular maintenance of the OCU Moodle site is done every Sunday from 6:00 AM to 12:00 PM and every Thursday from 4:00 AM to 7:00 AM Eastern time. During these hours the site may be unavailable. Please plan accordingly.