Sign In Start Free Trial

Book Overview & Buying
Table Of Contents

Moodle E-Learning Course Development - Third Edition: RAW

By : Susan Smith Nash, William Rice

4.4 (5)

Moodle E-Learning Course Development - Third Edition: RAW

4.4 (5)

By: Susan Smith Nash, William Rice

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.

Preface

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Free Chapter

1. A Guided Tour of Moodle

1. A Guided Tour of Moodle

A plan to create your learning site

Step-by-step instructions to use Moodle

The Moodle experience

The Moodle architecture

Summary

2. Installing Moodle

2. Installing Moodle

Installation step 1 – the web server

Installation step 2 – subdomain or subdirectory?

Installation step 3 – getting and unpacking Moodle

Installation step 4 – the Moodle data directory

Installation step 5 – creating the Moodle database and user

Installation step 6 – the installer script

Installation step 7 – create the administrative user

Installation step 8 – front page settings

Installation step 9 – success

Summary

3. Configuring Your Site

3. Configuring Your Site

Preparing to experiment

Exploring the site administration menu

Summary

4. Creating Categories and Courses

4. Creating Categories and Courses

Using course categories and the user experience

Creating courses

Enrolling teachers and students

Handling course requests

Summary

5. Resources, Activities, and Conditional Access

5. Resources, Activities, and Conditional Access

Settings that are common to all resources and activities

Adding a resource or activity

Entering the name and description

Showing and hiding a resource or an activity

Setting the availability of a resource or an activity

Rearrange/move items on the course home page

Summary

6. Adding Resources

6. Adding Resources

Adding different kinds of resources

Adding URLs

Adding pages

Adding files for your students to download

Adding Media – Video and audio

Organize your course

Summary

7. Adding Assignments, Lessons, Feedback, and Choices

7. Adding Assignments, Lessons, Feedback, and Choices

Definitions

Understanding assignments

Lesson

Feedback

Choices

Summary

8. Evaluating Students with Quizzes

8. Evaluating Students with Quizzes

Question banks

Summary

9. Getting Social with Chats and Forums

9. Getting Social with Chats and Forums

The chat module

Creating and running forums

Summary

10. Collaborating with Wikis and Glossaries

10. Collaborating with Wikis and Glossaries

Glossary

Wiki

Summary

11. Running a Workshop

11. Running a Workshop

Workshop strategies

The four phases

Summary

12. Groups and Cohorts

12. Groups and Cohorts

Groups versus cohorts

Cohorts

Managing students with groups

Summary

13. Extending Your Course by Adding Blocks

13. Extending Your Course by Adding Blocks

Configuring where a block appears

Standard blocks

Summary

14. Features for Teachers

14. Features for Teachers

Logs and reports

Summary

Index

Index

Chapter 3. Configuring Your Site

Many settings that are made after the installation process affect the student and teacher experience in Moodle, when they use the site. The focus of this chapter is on helping you create the user experience that you want, by choosing the right settings.

Many of the choices in settings that you make will be easy to decide. For example, will you allow your users to select their own time zone? Other choices are not so obvious. You could spend a lot of time trying different settings to see how they affect the user experience. These are the settings that we will focus on in this chapter. The goal is to save you time by showing you the effects that key settings will have on your site.

Tip

If your system administrator or webmaster has installed Moodle for you, you might be tempted to just accept the default configuration and skip this chapter. Don't!

Even if you did not install Moodle, we encourage you to read the configuration sections in this chapter...

Visually different images

CONTINUE READING

83

Tech Concepts

36

Programming languages

73

Tech Tools

Unlimited access to the largest independent learning library in tech of over 8,000 expert-authored tech books and videos.

Innovative learning tools, including AI book assistants, code context explainers, and text-to-speech.

50+ new titles added per month and exclusive early access to books as they are being written.

Moodle E-Learning Course Development - Third Edition: RAW

Search

Your notes and bookmarks