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Moodle E-Learning Course Development - Third Edition: RAW

Moodle E-Learning Course Development - Third Edition: RAW

By : Susan Smith Nash, William Rice
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Moodle E-Learning Course Development - Third Edition: RAW

Moodle E-Learning Course Development - Third Edition: RAW

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By: Susan Smith Nash, William Rice
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Overview of this book

This book is for anyone who wants to get the best out of Moodle. Experienced Moodle users will find powerful insights into developing successful educational courses.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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Reader feedback
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Customer support
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1. A Guided Tour of Moodle
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1. A Guided Tour of Moodle
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A plan to create your learning site
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Step-by-step instructions to use Moodle
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The Moodle experience
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The Moodle architecture
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Summary
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2. Installing Moodle
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2. Installing Moodle
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Installation step 1 – the web server
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Installation step 2 – subdomain or subdirectory?
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Installation step 3 – getting and unpacking Moodle
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Installation step 4 – the Moodle data directory
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Installation step 5 – creating the Moodle database and user
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Installation step 6 – the installer script
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Installation step 7 – create the administrative user
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Installation step 8 – front page settings
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Installation step 9 – success
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Summary
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3. Configuring Your Site
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3. Configuring Your Site
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Preparing to experiment
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Exploring the site administration menu
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Summary
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4. Creating Categories and Courses
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4. Creating Categories and Courses
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Using course categories and the user experience
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Creating courses
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Enrolling teachers and students
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Handling course requests
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5. Resources, Activities, and Conditional Access
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5. Resources, Activities, and Conditional Access
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Settings that are common to all resources and activities
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Adding a resource or activity
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Entering the name and description
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Showing and hiding a resource or an activity
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Setting the availability of a resource or an activity
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Rearrange/move items on the course home page
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6. Adding Resources
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6. Adding Resources
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Adding different kinds of resources
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Adding URLs
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Adding pages
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Adding files for your students to download
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Adding Media – Video and audio
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Organize your course
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7. Adding Assignments, Lessons, Feedback, and Choices
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7. Adding Assignments, Lessons, Feedback, and Choices
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Definitions
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Understanding assignments
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Lesson
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Feedback
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Choices
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8. Evaluating Students with Quizzes
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8. Evaluating Students with Quizzes
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Question banks
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9. Getting Social with Chats and Forums
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9. Getting Social with Chats and Forums
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The chat module
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Creating and running forums
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10. Collaborating with Wikis and Glossaries
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10. Collaborating with Wikis and Glossaries
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Glossary
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Wiki
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11. Running a Workshop
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11. Running a Workshop
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Workshop strategies
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The four phases
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12. Groups and Cohorts
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12. Groups and Cohorts
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Groups versus cohorts
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Cohorts
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Managing students with groups
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13. Extending Your Course by Adding Blocks
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13. Extending Your Course by Adding Blocks
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Configuring where a block appears
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Standard blocks
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14. Features for Teachers
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14. Features for Teachers
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Logs and reports
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Index
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Index

Chapter 13. Extending Your Course by Adding Blocks

Blocks add functionality to your site or your course. This chapter describes many of Moodle's blocks, helps you decide which ones will meet your goals, and tells you how to implement them.

A block usually displays information in a small area in one of the side columns. For example, a block can display a calendar, the latest news, or the students enrolled in a course. Think of a block as a small applet, or widget.

When configuring the site, you can choose to display, hide, and position blocks on the site's front page. When configuring a course, you can also show/hide/position blocks on the course's home page. The procedure is the same whether working on the site's front page or a course's home page. The site's front page is essentially a course. You can also give students permission to add blocks to their personal my home page and to their profile page.

Many blocks are available to you in a standard Moodle...

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