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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

Creating certificates


Certificates can be generated at the end of the course and can reflect participation and/or a passing or mastery grade. In the case of mastery learning, the certificate is generated upon completing quizzes with more than 80 percent. Students generally have unlimited attempts.

The Certificate module creates customizable certificates in PDF format for students in a course. You can customize them by adding borders, watermarks, seals, signatures, outcomes, grades, and custom text to a certificate.

You can download the Certificate module from the download plugins at https://moodle.org/plugins/ . If your administrator has already downloaded the Certificate modules, you'll find them in your Site Administration Plugin menu:

The certificate downloads should match the Moodle version that you are using. You can also use Badges, which they can then display in their social media.