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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

Students' consent


You can use a choice activity to confirm the students' understanding of an agreement or to record their consent. For example, if you're teaching a filmmaking class, and you anticipate entering the resulting film into student competitions, you could use a choice to record the students' consent to have their work submitted to the competition. Or you could write the course syllabus and schedule as the text of the choice, and have the student confirm that he/she has read the syllabus. This is shown in the following screenshot:

In this case, you might want the choice to have only one response, indicating the student's agreement. If you have a response indicating the student's disagreement, enable them to change their response and decide how you will handle the disagreement.

You can also use a choice to survey the class about their readiness to proceed with an activity. This is especially useful if the class needs to coordinate their efforts. For example, if you're using one...