Preface

Moodle is a leading open source e-learning management system. With Moodle, teachers and professors can easily construct richly textured web-based courses. A course can consist of a number of lessons. Each lesson consists of reading materials; activities such as quizzes, tests, surveys, and projects; and social elements that encourage interaction and group work among students.

This book shows you how to use Moodle as a tool to enhance your teaching. It will help you analyze your students' requirements and come to an understanding of what Moodle can do for them. After this, you'll see how to use every feature of Moodle to meet your course goals. Moodle is relatively easy to install and use, but the real challenge is to develop a learning process that leverages its power and maps effectively to the content-established learning situation. This book and e-book guides you to meet this challenge.

The latest edition of the ultimate introduction to Moodle will show you how to add static learning materials, interactive activities, and social features to your courses so that students reach their learning potential. Whether you want to support traditional class teaching or lecturing or provide complete online and distance e-learning courses, this book will prove to be a powerful resource throughout your use of Moodle.

This book is a complete guide to successful learning using Moodle. It is focused on course development and delivery using the best educational practices.

Screenshots of the courses in the Mount Orange School (http://school.demo.moodle.net) are attributed to https://moodle.net/, and copyrighted under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/). Many thanks for supplying this demonstration site to the Moodle community.