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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

The syllabus


Including a link to the course syllabus from Topic 0 is almost obvious. We suggest two refinements to your syllabus.

Printer-friendly for letter and A4 sizes

First, make the syllabus printer-friendly. Even though we live in "the computer age", many people still prefer to have a hardcopy of their schedules and tasks. Providing the syllabus in .PDF format makes it easier for the student to generate a printout.

If you have students in both North America and the rest of the world, you will want the printout to be formatted so that it prints well on both Letter- and A4-sized paper. Letter-sized paper is shorter than A4, at 11 inches (279.4 mm). A4-sized paper is narrower than Letter, at 8.27 inches (210 mm). Ensure that content doesn't go outside the printable area of the paper, by using margins of .5 inches to keep the material inside that area. This will take care of the top, left, and right margins for students who are using both A4 and Letter paper.

As A4 is .7 inch (18 mm...