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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

Student-created class directory


You can use a glossary for your class directory. Instruct the students to create a glossary entry for themselves. There are several things you can do to make this exercise easier for the students:

  • First, create a web page that the students can use as a template with placeholders for the information you want them to include. Also, on this page, state the limitations for how personal the information will be.

  • Tell the students if this glossary will be global or visible only to the class. They should know if you intend to reveal their information to all of the other people who use your site.

  • Consider leaving the Edit always function set to Yes. If a student wants to update his/her entry, or has second thoughts about some information he/she has included, the student should be able to easily edit the entry.

  • If you ask students to include a picture in their glossary entry, give them directions for uploading and including pictures on a page. Although including a picture...