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Moodle E-Learning Course Development

By : William Rice, William Rice
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Moodle E-Learning Course Development

By: William Rice, William Rice

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Moodle E-Learning Course Development
William Rice | William Rice
Jun, 2015 | 404 pages
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Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Moodle E-Learning Course Development Third Edition
Moodle E-Learning Course Development Third Edition
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
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1
A Guided Tour of Moodle
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
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
Configuring Your Site
Preparing to experiment
Exploring the site administration menu
Summary
4
Creating Categories and Courses
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
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
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
Adding Assignments, Lessons, Feedback, and Choices
Definitions
Understanding assignments
Lesson
Feedback
Choices
Summary
8
Evaluating Students with Quizzes
Evaluating Students with Quizzes
Question banks
Summary
9
Getting Social with Chats and Forums
Getting Social with Chats and Forums
The chat module
Creating and running forums
Summary
10
Collaborating with Wikis and Glossaries
Collaborating with Wikis and Glossaries
Glossary
Wiki
Summary
11
Running a Workshop
Running a Workshop
Workshop strategies
The four phases
Summary
12
Groups and Cohorts
Groups and Cohorts
Groups versus cohorts
Cohorts
Managing students with groups
Summary
13
Extending Your Course by Adding Blocks
Extending Your Course by Adding Blocks
Configuring where a block appears
Standard blocks
Summary
14
Features for Teachers
Features for Teachers
Logs and reports
Summary
Index
Index

Chapter 6. Adding Resources

Resources are course materials that students read but don't interact with, such as presentations, graphics, and PDFs. This chapter teaches you how to add those resources to a course, and how to make the best use of them.

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