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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

Backing up and reusing activities


Once you've built content and a delivery system, it's a good idea to reuse the course or parts of the course. You can reuse activities in a number of ways. Moodle offers you the ability to reuse your course, or part of the course within the same Moodle system or another Moodle, by using the Backup/Restore function.

The following are the steps to reuse activities and parts of activities:

  1. In the ADMINISTRATION block, click on Assignment administration.

  2. From the options, select Backup.

  3. Check the boxes next to the types of items to backup.

  4. Click on Next on the screen and rename the file if desired.

  5. Download the file and save it to a location where you can retrieve it easily at a later date.

To back up a single activity from your course, follow the same procedure. If you want to reuse content within the same Moodle site, you may simply restore them. If you want to use them on a different Moodle site, download them and save them locally.