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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

Summary


In this chapter, we have seen how to use Moodle's Quiz module to create self-assessment and learning experiences. Some of the features we explored are:

  • Opening and closing quizzes at predetermined times

  • Scoring quizzes without including them in the students' final grade

  • Feedback for quizzes, questions, and individual responses to questions

  • Timed quizzes

  • Restricting access to a quiz, based on the student's location

There are several other features that you can use to make quizzes a good learning experience. For example, you can use the settings for Attempts allowed and Each attempt builds on the last to enable students to try a quiz several times. After each attempt, the student can retain the correct answers and work at the wrong answers. You can use Adaptive mode to create questions that allow multiple attempts immediately after the student has entered an answer and change their feedback according to the student's answer. I encourage you to explore these and other features. With the...