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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

Course-level configuration


Now that you've configured the course at the site level, you will need to configure the elements at the course level and make sure that they are ideal for self-paced independent study. So, go to the Course administration menu.

Course settings

Let's take a look at the course settings. We'll want to make sure that the course is arranged in an "any time / any place / any pace" way. The following are the ideal course settings:

  1. In the ADMINISTRATION block, go to Course administration.

  2. Click on Edit settings.

  3. Select the course format as Topics format and as you do so, add at least two more topics (in addition to those that will be units in your course). You'll use one of the topics for the instructional material that you'll be using throughout the entire course. The other topic will include practice tests/exams/quizzes.

  4. In the Appearance section, select Yes for Show gradebook to students.

  5. In the Completion tracking section, Enable completion tracking should be set to Yes.

  6. In...