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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

Badges


Badges are digital images that are small, compact, and can be displayed on the Moodle site and also in social media sites, such as Facebook, LinkedIn, or their blogs. They are a great way to demonstrate a skill set or competency, and they can motivate students to complete the course or a program in order to obtain the badge.

The Mozilla Open Badges program (at http://openbadges.org/ ) has a free Open Badges Backpack (at https://backpack.openbadges.org/backpack/login ), which allows individuals to store and display their badges.

To work with the badges, the administrator should go to AdministrationSite administrationBadgesBadges settings.

To create a new badge, simply click the link and then in the screen complete the details. Note that you can add a photograph to customize the appearance of your badge.

After you click Create badge, you'll see the screen that allows you to further customize the badge. Notice that the graphic that you uploaded appears in the Badge details section...