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Moodle 1.9 Teaching Techniques

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Moodle 1.9 Teaching Techniques

Overview of this book

Moodle is the world's most popular, free open-source Learning Management System (LMS). It is vast and has lots to offer. More and more colleges, universities, and training providers are using Moodle, which has helped revolutionize e-learning with its flexible, reusable platform and components. It works best when you feel confident that the tools you have at hand will allow you to create exactly what you need.This book brings together step-by-step, easy-to-follow instructions and learning theory to give you new tools and new power with Moodle. It will show you how to connect with your online students, and how and where they develop an enthusiastic, open, and trusting relationship with their fellow students and with you, their instructor. With this book, you'll learn to get the best from Moodle.This book helps you develop good, solid, dynamic courses that will last by making sure that your instructional design is robust, and that they are built around satisfying learning objectives and course outcomes. With this book, you'll have excellent support and step-by-step guidance for putting together courses that incorporate your choice of the many features that Moodle offers. You will also find the best way to create effective assessments, and how to create them for now and in the future. The book will also introduce you to many modules, which you can use to make your course unique and create an environment where your students will get maximum benefit. In addition, you will learn how you can save time and reuse your best ideas by taking advantage of Moodle's unique features.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Moodle 1.9 Teaching Techniques
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
Preface
Index

Choosing teams


You can use a choice activity to have students organize themselves into teams, as in the example that we've been using:

If you use a choice for this, there are some settings that will help your students. These are as follows:

  • First, you might want to use the Limit setting to set a limit on the number of students who choose each team. This ensures that each team contains the same number of students.

  • You will then probably want to set a time limit on the activity. Instruct the students that, if they don't choose a side within the given time, you will assign them one.

  • Finally, you may want to publish the results to the students. If you select Always show results to students, the students will be able to see if any team is short on members. By turning on the Allow choice to be updated setting, you can give the students the ability to spontaneously organize themselves into teams of approximately equal size.

Under Privacy of results, you can choose to show the students' names...