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Moodle Course Design Best Practices

By : Susan Smith Nash, Michelle Moore
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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

Managing types of content


Your Moodle course may be fairly simple with basic instructional materials, assessments, and tools for interaction. Even at its most basic, though, you'll have to be mindful of the following few key points:

  • To accommodate diverse learning styles and devices, it is best to offer your content in different formats, which includes a combination of presentations, text, audio, graphics, videos, and forums/messaging

  • To engage students and to give them chances to demonstrate their knowledge and skills, include a range of activities such as assignments and discussion forums

  • To assess what students are learning, offer a variety of assessments such as quizzes

  • To reduce filesystem overload on the on-premises server, you may wish to use cloud-based sites, such as YouTube, SlideShare, and so on, rather than uploading large files to the Moodle server

As we get started, let's keep in mind that for convenience, we're trying to start with a simple, straightforward approach. We can always...