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Moodle 3 E-Learning Course Development - Fourth Edition

By : Susan Smith Nash, William Rice
Book Image

Moodle 3 E-Learning Course Development - Fourth Edition

By: Susan Smith Nash, William Rice

Overview of this book

Moodle is a learning platform or Course Management System (CMS) that is easy to install and use, but the real challenge is in developing a learning process that leverages its power and maps the learning objectives to content and assessments for an integrated and effective course. Moodle 3 E-Learning Course Development guides you through meeting that challenge in a practical way. This latest edition will show you how to add static learning material, assessments, and social features such as forum-based instructional strategy, a chat module, and forums 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. You’ll learn how to create and integrate third-party plugins and widgets in your Moodle app, implement site permissions and user accounts, and ensure the security of content and test papers. Further on, you’ll implement PHP scripts that will help you create customized UIs for your app. You’ll also understand how to create your first Moodle VR e-learning app using the latest VR learning experience that Moodle 3 has to offer. By the end of this book, you will have explored the decisions, design considerations, and thought processes that go into developing a successful course.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Title Page
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Chapter 5. Resources, Activities, and Conditional Access

As you develop your courses and curriculum in Moodle, it is important to plan well so that there is a level of consistency in the organization and presentation. Not only will you standardize your curriculum, you will also standardize your courses. At the heart of your organizing principles are the learning objectives. After that, you will include course material.

On Moodle, the course material is either a resource or an activity. A resource is an item that the student views, listens to, reads, or downloads. They can include web pages, links, files, videos, audio, and embedded social media. 

An activity is an item that the student interacts with, or one that enables the student to interact with the teacher or other students. Examples include quizzes, assignments, wikis, forums, and more. 

Usually, resources are ungraded, while activities are graded. Further, if you are developing a course curriculum for a certificate or degree program...