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Moodle Course Design Best Practices

By : Susan Smith Nash, Michelle Moore
Book Image

Moodle Course Design Best Practices

By: Susan Smith Nash, Michelle Moore

Overview of this book

<p>Moodle Course Design Best Practices is a practical guide that will teach you how to use the tools available in Moodle to develop unique courses for many kinds of organizations.</p> <p>You will be able to utilize the themes that have been contributed by developers. You can incorporate many different types of course materials and interactive assessments. You will also learn how to modify the structure and presentation of resources, activities, and assessments to create courses for individual use, cohorts, and Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). The use of the various multimedia features to enhance your Moodle courses is also explained in this book.</p>
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Moodle Course Design Best Practices
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Types of assessment


Moodle provides a wide array of options as you determine the best way to let your students demonstrate that they have achieved the knowledge, skills, and abilities that the learning outcomes have defined.

If you've kept in mind the key questions "What do I want my students to do?" and "How will they show their skills, knowledge, attitudes, and abilities"?, you will find that it will be much easier to develop the appropriate assessment strategy. The following are a few guidelines:

  • Make sure that each topic's assessment ties directly to the learning outcome for that particular topic. Your assessment should be of sufficient complexity to allow your students to demonstrate that they have achieved the learning outcome.

  • Each of your resources and activities needs to connect both to the learning outcomes as well as the assessment.

  • You should give students an opportunity to practice the assessment and they should be able to obtain feedback when they make errors or need guidance.

  • If...