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Moodle 3.x Teaching Techniques - Third Edition

By : Susan Smith Nash
Book Image

Moodle 3.x Teaching Techniques - Third Edition

By: Susan Smith Nash

Overview of this book

Moodle, the world's most popular, free open-source Learning Management System (LMS) has released several new features and enhancements in its latest 3.0 release. More and more colleges, universities, and training providers are using Moodle, which has helped revolutionize e-learning with its flexible, reusable platform and components. This book brings together step-by-step, easy-to-follow instructions to leverage the full power of Moodle 3 to build highly interactive and engaging courses that run on a wide range of platforms including mobile and cloud. Beginning with developing an effective online course, you will write learning outcomes that align with Bloom's taxonomy and list the kinds of instructional materials that will work given one's goal. You will gradually move on to setting up different types of forums for discussions and incorporating multi-media from cloud-base sources. You will then focus on developing effective timed tests, self-scoring quizzes while organizing the content, building different lessons, and incorporating assessments. Lastly, you will dive into more advanced topics such as creating interactive templates for a full course by focussing on creating each element and create workshops and portfolios which encourage engagement and collaboration
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Moodle 3.x Teaching Techniques Third Edition
Credits
About the Author
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Step-by-step example - submissions


Understanding how to create submissions is a critical part of the process, and it is one where you are likely to receive questions. Let's start by going back to a Workshop we've created and editing it.

Setting up a task

Here is an example of how you can set up a task. It could be an assignment for a class in photography. We'll start with the goal of the assignment. You can enter the goals and the instructions in the description box.

Here is an example of the text you can place in the description box:

In this assignment, you will explore the limitations of your lens' depth of field. You will take two pictures of a close-up subject. One picture will have a second subject in the medium background, six to eight feet from the lens. The other picture will have a second subject in the far background, over thirty feet from the lens. You will see the limitations in your lens's ability to simultaneously focus on a close-up subject and background subject. Before taking...