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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

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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

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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

Summary

Moodle offers several options for the student-to-student and student-to-teacher interaction. When deciding which social activities to use, consider the level of structure and the level of student-to-student/student-to-teacher interaction you want. For example, chats and wikis are naturally unstructured with a lot of opportunities for the student-to-student interaction. These are good ways of relinquishing some control of the class to students. A forum offers more structure because entries are segregated to topics. It can be moderated by the teacher, making it even more structured.

You may want to introduce a chat and/or forum at the beginning of a course to build esprit de corps among several students and then move on to a collaborative wiki (such as a group writing project).

In the next chapter, we will see how to encourage collaboration among students using wikis and glossaries.

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